July 4, 2020 • #
AWS is making its entrance into the low-code app platform space.
Geoff Zeiss on combining satellite imagery and spatial analysis to identify tree encroachment in utilities:
Transmission line inspections are essential in ensuring grid reliability and resilience. They are generally performed by manned helicopters often together with a ground crew. There are serious safety issues when inspections are conducted by helicopter. Data may be collected with cameras and analyzed to detect...
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April 13, 2020 • #
I enabled a trial of Googleās Stadia gaming service yesterday to kick the tires. In Google fashion, their entry into the gaming market isnāt centered around consoles and hardware, but cloud-distributed streaming.
During the unveiling at GDC last year, it seemed impossible to believe that you could deliver a latency-free, 4K experience in high-end games.
15 years ago I was gaming a lot more, but in the last several Iāve done almost none outside of the random iPhone game. I still loosely follow the gaming industry, and often wish I could easily jump in and mess around in...
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August 31, 2019 • #
Honest postmortems are insightful to get the inside backstory on what happened behind the scenes with a company. In this one, Jason Crawford goes into what went wrong with Fieldbook before they shut it down and were acquired by Flexport a couple years ago:
Now, with a year to digest, I think this is true and was a core mistake. I vastly underestimated the resources it was going to takeāin time, effort and moneyāto build a launchable product...
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March 8, 2019 • #
Iāve been thinking and reading more about OKRs and how I might be able to implement them effectively ā both professionally and personally. The idea of having clearly defined goals over bounded timelines is something we could all use to better manage time, especially in abstract āknowledge workā where itās hard to see the actual work product of a day or a weekās activity.
This is an old workshop put on by GVās Rick Klau. He does a good job giving a birdās eye view of how to set OKRs and...
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April 13, 2017 • #
Google has built their own custom silicon dedicated to AI processing. The power efficiency gains with these dedicated chips is estimated to have saved them from building a dozen new datacenters.
But about six years ago, as the company embraced a new form of voice recognition on Android phones, its engineers worried that this network wasnāt nearly big enough. If each of the worldās Android phones used the new Google voice search for just three minutes a day, these engineers realized, the company would need twice as many data centers.