Daniel C WanginDataDrivenInvestorHow far are we from a real AI game changer?Can we expect a non-trivial discontinuous improvement in AI just like we saw with search quality results before and after Google’s Page…Dec 10, 2018Dec 10, 2018
Daniel C WangThe Challenges of Building A Non-Killer Application!The fast majority of software developers have been obsessed with building the “killer apps”…Aug 11, 2018Aug 11, 2018
Daniel C WangAmazon and ToyotaI happen to be reading about the Toyota Production System and realized that many of the Amazon leadership principles have analogues in the…Dec 22, 2017Dec 22, 2017
Daniel C WangDonald Trump is Genius at Manipulating System 1I saw this post by Lawrence Lessig titled Is Trump a genius?. My conclusion is that the answer is clearly yes. But the question is what is…Jan 28, 20171Jan 28, 20171
Daniel C WangReferential Transparency Considered a Harmful ConceptI typically see a reference to Referential Transparency (RT) in some post at least once a month in my daily troll of programming language…Sep 10, 2016Sep 10, 2016
Daniel C WangWhat will I do with my new $9 computer, running Linux? Probably nothing.The C.H.I.P. computer that I backed about one year ago on Kickstarter has finally arrived this week.Jul 30, 2016Jul 30, 2016
Daniel C WangReal functional programmers don’t need functional languages!My first non-trivial program I was paid to write, was as a summer intern my sophomore year of college. It was a Zephyr client built using…Jul 25, 20161Jul 25, 20161
Daniel C WangAvailability NinesPerhaps not the most important innovation, but the simplest that had the “biggest bang for the buck” that I made in my last job working on…Jun 5, 2016Jun 5, 2016
Daniel C WangThe Economics between Testing and TypesI’ve seen several never ending debates on the effectiveness of testing vs types. I’m a bit surprised how often these end up in a false…May 8, 20161May 8, 20161