âThere was a long period of time where the right thing for [Isaac] Newton to do was to read more math textbooks, and talk to professors and practice problems ... thatâs what our current models do,â said Altman, using an example a colleague had previously used.
But he added that Newton was never going to invent calculus by simply reading about... See more
There is no point to having a large backlog because the bigger the backlog, the higher the unvalidated assumptions, and the lower the chance that it creates any customer value. I have made too many mistakes assuming that something is valuable, when nobody cares about it. A large backlog should be looked at with an extremely high degree of... See more
If youâve read this far, then Iâll tell you the honest truth: we donât actually know what weâre doing. Artificial intelligence is a vast and complex topic, and Iâm very skeptical of anyone that claims theyâve got it all figured out. Indeed, Faraday felt the same way about electricityâhe wasnât even sure it was going to be of any import:
On its surface, the iPhone didnât have totally new killer apps when it launched. It had a mail client, a music player, a web browser, YouTube, etc. The multitouch paradigm didnât substantively transform what you could do with those apps; it was important because it made those apps possible on the tiny display. The first iPhone was important not... See more
Platforms only work for creators when you can limit the number of creators on it . The platforms don't care, of course, because they make money of the total revenue, so Facebook wants as many things as possible. But for individual creators, it's not a very good idea.
When the level of abundance gets too high, the solution, as hard as it may sound,... See more
Human lives in communities. We join them, we sometimes leave them. Social networks should only be an underlying infrastructure to support our communities. Social networks are not our communities. Social network dies. Communities migrate and flock to different destinations.