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>I think it’s worth asking why anyone in their right mind should care about mid-century handwriting recognition algorithms in 2016.

Lots of people care, specially in Asia(Chinese and Japanese). It is just that the problem is incredible hard.

We put 5 very smart people working for a year on that, and it was totally impossible meeting people's expectations, specially people like doctors taking notes fast(and ugly).

We thought that the market was in creating mindmaps or something instead as people could write slower and better.

But people write a double u and expect the computer to see an "m". With deep learning is possible but extremely flimsy.

I have been doing that for years form me and for others(managing people) so they do not procrastinate with the team like they will do if alone. I do that without telling them I am doing that.

I will add some things I consider very important:

Use paper, write things down. Dividing a big task means nothing if you have no external memory you could trust to free the brain short term memory but you could recover it later. Paper today is the cheapest and more advanced external memory there is.

You could also use a tape recorder if you prefer audio memory.

After creating small sub task(tactics) from your general strategic thinking, put a checklist square near it. When you finish the task, check it.

Every hour of deep work, mark it on a calendar like a prisoner does with sticks. This provides visual feedback for your brain of your accomplishments, specially with hard tasks that takes months to complete.

The word for managing to do dread task is "reframing" into something that is important and positive for you.

Of course if you have money and power you could delegate most of the dreaded task, like googlers do with most of their domestic chores.

There are more things but the important thing is that you need practice, practice and practice until you get it. And like in anything else you will learn it much much faster if you personally know someone who "gets it" and learn from this person directly.

I have met some "naturals" of this processes in my life but I am not. I developed this skill over a long period of time, making me super productive compared to when I started.

Ohh, yeah!!

The value they add is called "money". They give you it every single time(you work with them), not sometimes.

If you expect them to babysitter you, mentor or friendship, from my point of view it is your expectations that are wrong.

You should find emotional support elsewhere. I recommend masterminds.

I am friend and colleague of old VCs of mine. But I did not expected from them in the past more than a professional relationship.

This is probably what makes a good friend or a lover , not being too much needy and dependent.

You could not compare apples and oranges.

In particular you could not compare injuries created by explosives in a war with advanced use on gunpowder with injuries made by stones, arrows and spears.

Gunpoder and canon shrapnel was extremely deadly because x-rays were not invented and doctors could not see were those fragments were in the body.

They were blind until Madame Curie started using X-rays in WWI and suddenly people started surviving. It took the Curies getting too much radiation though.

You don't need reason, you need fast reaction times slowing the car and avoiding obstacles.

The same happens with humans. Reason is extremely slow. Pilots are trained to act fast training the subconscious, not the logical mind.

If someone works for me 18 hours instead of 8 consistently I will fire him immediately.

We do not want overworked and burn out slaves, thank you very much.

Making more than 6 hours of real deep work every day is extremely challenging. Someone who tells me he is working 18...

We have some Indians that work for us, on similar terms than Europeans or Americans, living in Europe. Good workers and have earned their place, like the rest.

Remember that even the first serious cinematographers, like Lumiere brothers considered cinema just a "toy" with no practical applications.

From my perspective AR applications in the future will be huge in all areas as it means a new way to interface with 3d editing on real time.

But having said that, I do not believe Magic Leap will be the one who bring this to the table. I see magic Leap as the Altavista or pets.com of the Internet, burning investor money like crazy and trowing things to the wall expecting something to stick.

It was good while it lasted.

We will have to start migrating our software there into a more neutral platform.

I don't like the consolidation in Software in which there are only 5-6 huge players. It means politics and private interest of the conglomerate take precedence over everything else, like competence, and freedom.

Those oligopolies can just send their lawyers against competition or just buy them to stop the threat.

I have a high definition monitor and TVs. It looks gorgeous on them.

No, dogs only eat their own feces when they lack nutrients on their diet.

Concussions are accumulative and most of them are not macro evident. Lots of micro concussions could be worse than a single big one.

So I do not think your data means what you believe it means. There is a reason they call NFL "Not For Long".

I would not let my children play either American football or rugby, existing options like basketball or tennis. Luckily most of the world plays soccer.

Fighting fascism, supporting Stalinism.

Good thing that they were betrayed and a very good thing would have been all of them being killed in the war. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword.

Those guys that wanted revolution should have started it in their own house first.

I feel sorry for this man. He is a perfectionist.

He believes everything has to be perfect or if not he does not do it. Because of that at the end of the day we have nothing.

With a company you need to compromise. Probably you can no use glass, but you can use polyethylene and paper (tetrabrick).

Step by step you could do a lot. We take lots of technical debt, if we make something that is not a perfect solution but it is better than anything that exist on the world, we ship it. The world improves.

Yes, it is not perfect, but if the product success over time you could pay your technical debt and make it perfect. If not , it just means that people's pockets is not where their mouth is(which is common by the way).

I have devoted my professional live to manufacturing automation.

From my point of view, what Musk tries to do is very hard, but if someone could do it it is him.

There are differences between the 1880 and the 2018, in particular AI(artificial intelligence) today is "out of this world" tech compared to 1880s. Today you could solve things just by brute force AI that was simply impossible in the past. And Musk will probably do just that. If I had hundreds of millions of dollars I will do too.

The great thing about automation is that once you solve something, it works forever. It takes way more work, of course getting it to work in the first place.

Musk has as his best gift his total lack of doubt like young people that believe that nothing is impossible. It is very typical for this young people to crash over walls as they repeat the mistakes others have done. At the same time, it is young people who change the world when conditions change(and making the same mistakes do not yield the same output).

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

Today with chemical laboratory analysis you can get the ingredients of anything. So what Coca Cola uses is not that secret. Your point one is not valid.

The secret is making this product economically in enormous quantities. It is about providers, contracts, supply warrantees, dealing with those that bottle your concentrates, water supplies to mix your concentrates, and so on.

There are people that study illnesses data at least in Europe and USA, and there is a clear relationship between sugary carbonated drinks in general and lots of illnesses.

There is a clear relationship with diabetes an sugary drinks in particular.

In the past Coca Cola used Coca, and hence cocaine, but it does not anymore.