12 Featured Technology Stories
Aug 5–13: Editor’s Recommendations:
In Math We Trust. Do You? Or Should You?
“A few days ago, one of my favorite artists, Carlos Cruz-Diez, passed away. He is considered one of the fathers of kinetic art, which plays with the viewer’s perspective to provide the illusion of movement. He had a scientific, almost mathematical, approach to art and did a lot of research on the physics and the physiology of color perception.”
- Founder, Airwave.io: Olivier de Jong — Trejo
Zen of Stochastic Gradient Descent Principle
“A good approach to avoid analysis paralysis.”
- Founder at Modelchimp; 9 years in data science: Samir Madhavan
What’s Next for Surveillance Capitalism and Social Domains?
“A psychologist’s perspective on why, how and when digital privacy violations irk us.”
- PhD, Social Psychology. Visiting Scholar at Stanford, CSO at ERA:
Amber Cazzell
About the Wright Brothers Journey to Accurate Wind Tunnel Data
“Sure, we all know the Wright brothers were the pioneers of controlled flight. However, do you know why two flight enthusiasts from Dayton, Ohio succeeded? This is the incredible story of two 20th century humans of data.”
- Head the Humans of Data publication at Atlan: Ayswarrya
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Once Upon a Time In the East — A Product Manager’s Story
“According to the Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule, states that 80% of results in a system come from 20% of the causes.A trivial change can lift up revenue or experience providing the optimum ROI.”
- Product Manager @Ketto,@Flyrobe, @Amazon: Kumar Shubham
How to EFFECTIVELY Manage Young Product Managers
“Do not try to make them like you.”
- Product Manager: Aahan Bhatt
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Future of Job Opportunity Sharing Economy: Human Decides. AI Supports. Blockchain Pays.
“Job boards still rely on 1990s ideas and technology.”
- Blockchain enthusiast; developer; writer: Kirill
How Artificial Intelligence Hype Keeps Us Stuck in “The Good Old Days”
“I’m a romantic, but AI algorithms have gone in the direction of an abusive relationship — minus the billionaire, the helicopter rides, and the safe word.”
- Founder @FrauenLoop.org: docstefflbauer
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How Will Gen Z Pay for The Content They Consume?
“With Gen Z, (those born after the mid-1990s and aged 18–24) set to make up 40% of consumers by 2020, should publishers be worried that their biggest audience has never known a world where you have to pay for the news?”
- Marfeel Content Editor: Jon
To Remote Work or Not to Remote Work? That is the Question 🤔
“Some juniors tend to get into rabbit holes, are afraid to ask questions, and need face-to-face guidance and reassurance from their peers/managers. In order to be a good remote worker, you need to be a 100% good communicator and used to this style of work first.”
- Technophile: Milica Maksimovic
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Going Phygital: How VR/AR Technology Shapes the eCommerce Today
“By allowing consumers to see how certain items fit their preferences, AR provides close-to-real product visualization, be it clothes or interior design items.”
- Content strategist at QA Madness: Yana
Startups: Pulse Surveys are Dumb.
“They’re not the solution to the employee engagement crisis. They’re part of the problem.”
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