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In your view, is there a difference between micromanaging authorian culture compared to a consensus-driven culture where the employees all trust each other?

I've seen several different companies from the insidr, and each one has had vastly different cultures. Usually it is an implementation of the CEO/upper management's views of what "corporate culture" is. There's still usually a facade, but that facade is not necessarily disingenuous.

I thought I was the only one suffering with this!

I still think there's a need for standardized APIs in this situation. At some point, the context constraints mentioned in the blog post have to get translated into some action with parameters. I'm guessing that action will be API calls to other Google products behind the Duplex Google Assistant UX.

"Ok Google, can you reschedule my Dr. Appointment this Friday for next week? I have a conflict." -> calls the Dr and reschedules -> adapts result to rebooking action with partners (ie, an api call to your Google calendar) -> applies action and responds to you.

There is still quite a bit missing from this to be a useful AI product. It's getting really close though. I can't wait until this makes it into Google Assistant and it can call a restaurant to ask about gluten free options while I'm driving.

Yes! Voice/conversations leads to a fundamentally different UX.

This is truly amazing work! Congrats Google for achieving this :)

The field is changing so quickly, but fast.ai is always ahead of the curve teaching modern techniques! Hats off to them for being able to keep up, AND share that with others.

+1 for the area north of SD improving health!

Wow, thanks for those references.

But we are in the golden age of SparkFun! There are so many great project kits and microcontrollers that I wish I could've found as a kid at RadioShack.

Maybe it helps being rich, but just as a counter example, my grandfather was never rich. He was a clock-in/clock-out guy and still managed to spend a lot of time with me while I was growing up. He had a lot more patience than most of the "white collar" adults in my life ever did, and taught me lots of useful skills like how to fix a lot of electrical or mechanical things.

Thinking about it this way is interesting. It could be an issue with bias or unbalanced training data.

Even as CEO, accepting outside capital makes you an employee of the investors. If your new idea requires even more capital than your current, couldn't you end up in a similar situation, with even more strings attached?

I agree. Tesla is only worried about one thing right now: they are about to run out of money. If Elon has identified that contractors aren't providing the necessary ROI or at least traceability to the ROI, he's making a smart choice to let them go. Tesla is, in the view of some, on the brink of failure, where failure is defined as insolvency.

I worked with a developer who was 75 because he didn't know what else to do with his time. Sharp as a whip. He's still coding for a living and will turn 80 soon.

I am personally very impressed by this, and I suspect it is one of the less-mentioned reasons they were acquired by Facebook.

I remember reading this when it came out https://blog.whatsapp.com/196/1-million-is-so-2011