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A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI eBook : Bennett, Max: Amazon.co.uk: Books
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI eBook : Bennett, Max: Amazon.co.uk: Books
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AI-First Products Will Win
Maybe not today, maybe you have some lock-in for now. But in a taste test the focused product will win, and eventually that is going to matter.
Russ Brown
Show Your Work
A weird thing has happened in software design. We seem to have largely decided that showing the exhaustive process of design is impressive.
Russ Brown
Notes
Craft is what we are expected to know; art is the unexpected use of our craft.
The reason that big companies almost always fail when they try to enter new markets is their willingness to compromise. They figure that because they are big and powerful, they can settle, do less, stop improving something before it is truly remarkable. They compromise to avoid offending other divisions or to minimize their exposure. So they fail. They fail because they don’t know when to quit and when to refuse to settle.
Art forgery is a strange phenomenon. “You might think that the pleasure you get from a painting depends on its color and its shape and its pattern,” says psychology professor Paul Bloom. “And if that’s right, it shouldn’t matter whether it’s an original or a forgery.” But our brains don’t work that way. “When shown an object, or given a food, or shown a face, people’s assessment of it—how much they like it, how valuable it is—is deeply affected by what you tell them about it.”
Jigs are the custom tools that craftspeople create to enable them to do great work. In woodworking it’s often used to help make cuts with optimal precision. But, really, it can be used for anything. Jigs are what allow craftspeople to deliver quality predictably and faster.
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