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- First, where context is critical to immediately determining how important something is — as is the case with news — human curators are, at least for now, superior to algorithms. Humans are also able to quickly identify that these forty stories are about the same event, and have the taste to decide which is the best option to present
from Curation and Algorithms by Ben Thompson
Mojo Vision, The Micro-LED Company
Wearables/iOT and AR/VR
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They bring an achievement mindset into an activity that has been engineered to produce delightful striving.
- “On an hourly basis, video games are still monetizing at fractions of what even standard television is on an hourly basis which makes very little sense when you compare the degree of immersion and focus and distractibility of the audience”
from Home | ColossusQuasar App by Patrick O'Shaughnessy
- But overprotection is just one part of a larger trend that we call problems of progress. This term refers to bad consequences produced by otherwise good social changes. It’s great that our economic system produces an abundance of food at low prices, but the flip side is an epidemic of obesity. It’s great that we can connect and communicate with peo... See more
from The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt
- I assume that Whoop’s business plan is to go after users that don’t require precision in their heart rate data. This could include people new to exercise, those whose activity is of low aerobic intensity (i.e. golf, yoga, etc), and those who only require a rough estimate of their output (i.e. team sports). If an average heart rate and a rough strai... See more
from Should Whoop change its name to Whoops? by Scott Semple
Inokyo
- NEW PROJECT — I made a "personal search engine" that lets me search all my blogs, tweets, journals, notes, contacts, & more at once 🚀 It's called Monocle, and features a full text search system written in Ink 👇 GitHub ⌨️ https://github.com/thesephist/monocle... See more