phantasilide

I just quit recently. After a few years in big tech the only thing I have to show for it is a fat bank account. I don’t remember the last time I’ve learned something new or had any kind of responsibility.

I’ll be joining a startup in a few months to hopefully find the joy in my profession again with a fresh start and more skin in the game.

Does anyone have further references to pieces that examine this property? I read the linked paper from Strogatz which showed a similar geometry for the basins of coupled oscillators. Though it was interesting it did not provide more insight.

Here’s my take as someone who worked there in the last two years.

1. You absolutely have the choice to make a separate iCloud account for work, you just can’t make it with an @apple.com email. 2. It’s true that you should not wipe your device when you quit. 3. We were instructed to avoid using iCloud for anything work related. They recommended turning everything iCloud related off on your work computer except for FindMy. 4. None of the claims in the tweet sound familiar to me, but Apple is a big org.

My impression is that they need you to have an iCloud account for tracking the location of the device with FindMy, but technical/legal limitations prevent that from happening through your work email.

I’ve worked at a startup providing a similar solution. Even for an ad piece, the article is wildly underestimating the difficulty in getting this to work and the problem is not lack of state of the art methods. Most customers don’t have the type of data to control these systems, even if they think they do. While industry 4.0 has taught companies to measure everything, there is rarely any notion of data integrity or quality in place, and even your smart new ML technique will not be able to control system with very low correlation between observations and controls. The reality for companies providing these ML solutions is that they end up spending all of their resources on fixing each clients’ data problems rendering their smart solution irrelevant.