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.
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:
(more…)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:
Hood Rats
I’ve been bullish on Robinhood (HOOD) for months, and it just looks better all the time, particularly considering the healthy pickup in volume.
Transports Bearish
The Dow 20 Transportation Index, represented below by way of the ETF symbol IYT, is in a terrific bearish pattern. Sadly, the volume on this thing stinks, and the options are even worse.