Author: Andy Wibbels

  • Social Networking’s Sunset

    Fascinating piece from Axios on the implications of Meta redesigning Facebook and Instagram to be more like TikTok: The era in which social networking served as most users’ primary experience of the internet is moving behind us. That holds for Twitter, Facebook’s chief surviving Western rival, as well… Instead of the focus on what your […]

  • Wired Magazine 1997: The Long Boom

    Wired Magazine 1997: The Long Boom

    Twitter user Hiermonyus Burps linked to Peter Schwart and Peter Leyden’s July 1997 cover story for Wired magazine, “The Long Boom.” The cover of the magazine had a bright yellow happy face declaring a 25 year boom of prosperity, freedom, and a better environment and saying, “You got a problem with that?” To whit: We […]

  • Explainer Video: Neural Information Retrieval Search

    Explainer Video: Neural Information Retrieval Search

    How neural information retrieval search works and why it’s the future of search and data applications.

  • Explainer Video: Learning to Rank

    Explainer Video: Learning to Rank

    The second episode of our second season of explainer videos is up at work. In this epsisode we look at the popular machine learning technique Learning to Rank and how it uses user behavior and signals to refine search results: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2NEum-tG6o You can binge-watch all of season two of Lucid Thoughts or jump on back to watch season […]

  • How Toyota Does R&D

    “Another thing about Toyota R&D, they have regional design houses, with the aim to ‘localized’ parts design as much as possible”

  • Does AI on Mobile Even Matter Yet?

    Does AI on Mobile Even Matter Yet?

    “The difference of having a smartphone to an ‘artificially intelligent’ phone is like the difference of having a pet to a guide dog.”

  • Machine Learning Systems Replacing Legacy Infrastructure Systems

    Machine Learning Systems Replacing Legacy Infrastructure Systems

    From EBNOnline: “In the present scenario, revolutionized applications access multiple servers and databases, creating a flurry of machine-to-machine traffic like never before and altering conventional traffic patterns. Additionally, in an era of digital transformations, with ever changing network usage pattern, ML enables network administrators to deploy intelligent and adaptive network infrastructures. These self-learning networks are […]

  • Augmented Reality’s Rapidly Expanding into Industrial Applications

    Augmented Reality’s Rapidly Expanding into Industrial Applications

    “A critical tool in industry for maintenance, training and general production operations.”

  • How Apple’s ARKit and “World Tracking” Will Advance Augmented Reality

    How Apple’s ARKit and “World Tracking” Will Advance Augmented Reality

    Mapping the 3d world with the iPhone’s various sensors: “Tech-wise, Apple is basically using an advanced system of sensors and process to map digital objects into 3D space. It’s more than just a 2D camera overlay, but rather a complex network of new tech that measures everything from room dimensions to lighting effects in order to […]

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook: Quality Augmented Reality Impossible with Current Technology

    Apple CEO Tim Cook: Quality Augmented Reality Impossible with Current Technology

    From TweakTown: Apple is indeed interested in the Augmented Reality (AR) market, but Apple CEO Tim Cook recently delivered a bold affirmation that the technology to spin the illusion of high-end AR just isn’t here yet. Until that technology hurdle is solved, Apple will likely be out of the AR race, and Mr. Cook affirms […]