Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Three More Shortables (by LZ)
Three T-Mobile Charts (by LZ)
Worst Product? A Billion Bucks!
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Humane AI Pin. It received hundreds of millions in funding and, within days of its release, was buried in horrible product reviews. Here’s a taste:
Crazy Train
One thing most folks don’t realize about artificial intelligence is that there isn’t going to be any intelligence without knowledge, and that knowledge is derived from a huge amount of raw information. For instance, when Tesla taught their cars to drive, their massive advantage was an ungodly amount of real-life driving data from actual customer videos. The infographic below illustrates the sheer cost of just the training data itself for some better-known models:
