Posts filed under “Business/The Software Industry”
“When you have enough data, sometimes, you don’t have to be too clever”
Peter Norvig, famed AI researcher and one of the creators of the Stanford AI online class: Past, Present, Future Vision of AI – Google and AAAI 2011 “And it was fun looking at the comments, because you’d see things like ‘well, I’m throwing in this naive Bayes now, but I’m gonna come back and fix [...]
Even if it’s a product, sell it like a service
(Unfinished) Which would you rather have: An app that, based on preferences you enter about cuisine, price, experience, etc., comes up with a list of restaurants in your neighborhood that fit your criteria? A friend who’s been to every single restaurant in town that you can always count on to come up with a great [...]
Exceptions
The scenario: A simple prototype in JavaScript, so I could test play an MVP of my new game. The problem: Why is this d_mn thing taking so long? Ever since I started working on my own, I’ve spend far more time figuring out how to motivate myself. Because I’m working in a startup, I [...]
The Importance of Morning Routine (Morning Routine 2.0)
Note: This is very much a work in progress. Comments welcome! So you’ve decided to strike out on your own, by freelancing or start a company. The first day you get up, you realize you’re free. No office, no working hours, no one staring over your shoulder, no constant pressure to have your butt in [...]