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- December 4, 2015
Humane Artificial Intelligence?
An oxymoron or the holy grail of AI design? The tendency to anthropomorphise things we create is deeply embedded in human nature. However, to create robots which resemble and emphatise with us, we need to first define ‘human’. And that in itself is quite a tricky subject, it seems. For starters, if we want humane AI, […]
- November 29, 2015
Why We Can’t Solve Big Problems
A question that I have been mulling over: why are the biggest innovations in the past decade so pathetically meaningless? Is Facebook or Snapchat the best we can do? Peter Thiel says it best: “We wanted flying cars—instead we got 140 characters.” We are living in the best of times for innovation, at least theoretically: no […]
- November 26, 2015
Why Self-driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? In actual fact, it makes perfect sense. It is a classic case of choosing between two evils: should a self driving car drive into a group of school kids or ram into a wall (potentially killing the driver)? Would you buy a car that could potentially kill you? This reminds me […]
- August 28, 2014
Digital Physical Mashups
The example given by the author to illustrate the great divide between the digital and the physical worlds which some companies still struggle to bridge hits home for me. I have came across many such baffling instances myself. People experience disconnects like this one all the time. Here we are, a quarter century into the […]
- August 6, 2014
Smartphones and Journalism
If you were to assume that the dawn of the mobile era means people are giving up reading actual article and are just snacking instead, you’d be wrong. The Atlantic recently reported that a gorgeously illustrated 6,200-word story on BuzzFeed—which likewise gets about half its readers through mobile devices—not only received more than a million […]
- August 1, 2014
Tech’s Ugly Gender Problem
There has been many instances where people around (or even close to) me wave off the notorious ‘sexism in tech’ problem as ‘all in the woman’s head’. The worst thing is, these are intelligent people. They argue that talking about sexism won’t solve the problem, that we cannot avoid it from happening (and thus need […]
- July 11, 2014
Jerktech
The tech startup scene in Silicon Valley can be pretty fucked up. There is a term for it now: #JerkTech. Source They’re emblematic of a compassionless new wave of self-serving startups that exploit small businesses and public infrastructure to make a buck and aid the wealthy. Case in point: ReservationHop and Monkey Parking. The latter […]
- July 9, 2014
Back to Basics
At a certain point in the startup journey, a founder might pause and ask him/herself this question: “What a minute. Am I doing the right thing?” It is so easy to jump right into the process of building an MVP without properly validating the need for the solution. In the heat of the moment when […]
- July 6, 2014
Things I Learn from the Internet – 8
Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. RedPen: Feedback tool. Get your point across, click and comment on a visual image. SnapEngage: Live chat tool for enterprise to engage with customers LawBite: […]
- July 4, 2014
Unique Value Proposition
As mentioned in my first post, one of the main challenges we are facing with CodifyMe is to create our Unique Value Proposition (UVP). In other words, what makes CodifyMe different and worth getting attention? Ever since I found out there is a direct competitor to our product, I have been struggling with this question. […]
- June 30, 2014
The Journey Starts Here
I have decided to start blogging about my experience building CodifyMe. I am not sure where this road will lead to or how this journey will end. But I be damned if I don’t learn something from it. And the best way to learn is by documenting my thoughts and experience in real time when […]
- June 15, 2014
Turn Detroit into Drone Valley
Very interesting article by the ever so brilliant Mark Andreessen on how best to address the problem we have with cloning silicon valley. We’re either going top-down by focusing primarily on infrastructure—plunking down an office park next to a university—or bottom-up by focusing on just the networks. None of these efforts successfully pursue both paths […]