A growing number of toy companies are increasingly targeting family members rather than just parents due to intergenerational wealth inequality: millennials, the generation now having kids, hold just 3% of US wealth. Baby Boomers, in contrast, have 60% of US wealth. While millenials are today's new parents, grandparents have the disposable income.
I've been experimenting with feeding various models the first half of various essays I've enjoyed. It's striking how much worse the generated completions are. Will be a big moment if/when that flips.
The top reasons I see people say that productivity doesn't matter (or is actually bad) fall into one of three buckets: Working on the right thing is more important than working quickly. Speed at X doesn't matter because you don't spend much time doing X, Thinking about productivity is bad and you should "live life"
We are more excited by startups that go vertical. We think ML techniques are built to go vertical. The model needs to recognise a very specific set of signal data in a massive, noisy dataset. To get accuracy, you need the same type of data that is relevant to the problem you are trying to solve.
In a perfect world, every proposal that makes it to Token Governance has high engagement because it is that important to stakeholders. In other words, low engagement is a sign of excessive use of Token Governance.
If we accept that 68% of students are concerned about online learning (community interaction, reliable certificates or a great user experience), then the idea that new providers will have to transform previous parts of the education experience (what we’ve called human education components) and adapt it to a new set of media becomes really interesti... See more
this is from the 1960s and could easily read as a manifesto from designers working at Facebook. we think our critiques of society are unique to the modern age, but... history repeats itself.