AI & Over Optimization

Artificial Intelligence is based on optimization. A measurable goal is set, and the system updates to better achieve that goal. This ALWAYS involves maximizing or minimizing a number.

We have gotten pretty clever with maximizing and minimizing numb...

How aligned hierarchies with good communication work

Human organizations are the most powerful force on the planet. How do we achieve this? With hierarchies. The hierarchy structure allows for specialization. It allows us to break down goals, solve problems, and push solutions forward on a massive sca...

The Loss of Jobs to Artificial Intelligence.

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Is a wave of robots coming for our jobs?

The rise of AI

AI has already made significant inroads in various industries, from customer service chat bots to robotic assembly lines. The investor class is turning to robots and AI. Companies are investin...

Your average person's debt

For most people, debt is a fact of life. Used responsibly, debt can be a useful financial tool that allows us to afford big purchases like cars, homes, and education. Loans and credit provide access to money we don't currently have, but allow us to p...

Unaligned B2B strategies

#1: Overpromise and underdeliver to win contracts

Sales teams exaggerate the capabilities, timelines, or resources of their company to win B2B contracts. When the company fails to deliver on these inflated promises, it strains the client relationship and damages the company's reputation.

#2: Exploit loopholes in contracts to cut corners

Account man...

The Housing Market

“Housing is always a safe stable investment” my parents used to say this to me. You can forgive them. While there are exceptions (cough, cough, 2008) this statement is generally true. The population is always rising, but the amount of land stays the ...

What’s in the box?! – Towards interpretability by distinguishing niches of value within neural networks.

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Mathematical models can describe neural network architectures and training environments, however the learned representations that emerge have remained difficult to model. Here we build a new theoretical model of internal representations. We ...

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Taking on the Camino for Ovarian Cancer

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  • Follow Ingrid Clancy’s progress step by step, on her picture blog at http://bit.ly/IngridClancy2024 (please “Follow” and “Comment” there to give her ...

How to make companies smarter

With scale comes communication problems. On-boarding while critical becomes messy. Processes while crucial become fragile. Goals and decisions become misunderst...

AI Prompting collaborative notes

Everyone and their grandma is a prompt engineer apparently. Everyone has that one cool trick to get the AI to produce better prompts.

Social media is full of gu...

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