Ten from the weekend 10/20: A few interesting reads that I came across
Focus areas: Blockchain| ML-AI| Data science/Analytics applications |eSports| CRISPR| Design thinking
1. https://hbr.org/2019/09/dont-let-metrics-undermine-your-business
a. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/with-goals-fast-beats-smart/
2. Daniel Kahneman: Putting Your Intuition on Ice: Psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman reveals the actions we can take to overcome the biases that cripple our decision-making, damper our thinking, and limit our effectiveness. https://fs.blog/daniel-kahneman/
3. The fifth estate — a counter view -Platforms cant have all the power and call it fifth estate, will a different tech wave hopefully decentralize the power of the platform to the users? — https://avc.com/2019/10/the-fifth-estate/
4. How Costco gained a cult following — by breaking every rule of retail -https://thehustle.co/costco-membership-economics/
5. The brokerage wars have been interesting, one more this week — https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/17/the-latest-in-the-brokerage-wars-charles-schwab- will-allow-people-to-buy-fractions-of-stocks.html
6. Being an avid fan of gaming all my life — its interesting to see, that the next product which can command a billion users is not any platform but a game at this point in time: https://a16z.com/2019/10/16/trends-revolutionizing-games/- Next-generation games will be bigger than anything we’ve seen yet. While current multiplayer successes like Roblox tout 100 million monthly active users, new MMOs will strive for Facebook’s scale — 1 billion users. That’s because the way we develop, discover, and play games is rapidly evolving.
7. AMA with Marc Andreessen -Read this candid, wide-ranging discussion with one of the most influential Silicon Valley investors.- https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/ama-marc-andreessen
8. Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks | Szabo | Smart contracts combine protocols with user interfaces to formalize and secure relationships over computer networks. https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469
9. Solving Rubiks cube with robot hand — although there seems to be some wide amount of discourse and commentary expressing skepticism from a few other authors on the net — nevertheless a cool one from open AI: https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/
10. Billion-scale semi-supervised learning for state-of-the-art image and video classification: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/billion-scale-semi-supervised-learning/
