Slightly controversial points of view #34:

GapJumpers
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

“Tell me something, that almost nobody agrees with you on”

Based on the famous Peter Thiel question and in line with our slightly evil podcastand slightly uncomfortable newsletter, we post things that had the same reaction: they forced us to stop and think about what we’d just read and the assumptions we held before we read it.

HUMAN<->MACHINE RELATIONSHIP EDITION

So many of these algorithms are doing the same thing. Their behaviour becomes like human group think

Giving subjects a role in the decision through the adjustment mechanism made them more likely to use the algorithm than those who simply had to accept its recommendation.

On this episode of the Apple Chat podcast, I sit down with Ken Kocienda, a programmer who spent 15 years at Apple during the Steve Jobs era. His new book, Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, chronicles his experiences working at the company and offers an inside look at the creative process that made the team successful.

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