"Can an average engineer learn to use AI with just hours of training?" – this question and many insights on the state of #AI today in China vs. Silicon Valley, from the always excellent Knowledge at Wharton podcast knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/ai-chi…. Episode guest is Kai-Fu Lee.

Huge financial commitment by century-old South African media company Naspers to support South African startups in 2019. For reference, Naspers owns 30% of Tencent. techcrunch.com/2018/10/29/nas… #EmergingMarkets

3 types of innovation: (1) incremental on existing products, (2) new tech to enter new markets, (3) revolutionary moonshots. An interesting take by Knowledge at Wharton on the topic with #Apple as the main subject, and examples from #Google, #Tesla and #Amazon. knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/apple-…

GitHub just crossed 100 million repositories from 31 million developers. Exciting to see growth on #TensorFlow and #Kubernetes. Just as thrilling to see emerging countries among fastest growing, in particular Egypt and Nigeria. (h/t Salim Abid سليم عبيد) blog.github.com/2018-11-08-100…

When building machine learning models, the first thing you need is labeled data to train them on e.g. {words, sender's address, etc.; spam/not spam} for spam filtering. It's tedious but critical. See how China's data factories are fueling its AI ambitions nytimes.com/2018/11/25/bus…

Excuses. I make them, even when playing basketball. And when I don't, I take misplaced pride from a false sense of superiority. What kind of excuses do you find yourself making all too easily? Article: seb247.com/stories/excuse…

Things I changed my mind about: – procrastination is useful under one condition – intelligence isn’t academic only – electric cars are mostly not worth it financially today What's something you changed your mind about? Article: seb247.com/stories/change…

Suspended dreams. The story of an 18-year-old asylum seeker, loosely based on true facts. Writing acts as a form of therapy and as an outlet of creativity, when confronted with events out of our control. Story: seb247.com/stories/suspen…

Partee ended in first place at #GeoGuessr's Winter Season competitive series. He's also suggesting for GeoGuessr to host a world cup in Gothenburg: what do you think? Check his interview → bit.ly/parteeinterview

Read Getting Real. Many good tips : prioritise, communicate bad news, always hire good writers, etc. http://gettingreal.37signals.com

What's the best domain name for website on travel risks per country ? HolidayRisks.com, RiskOrAdventure.com, RiskAdventure.com ?

Got an idea of automatically suggesting words as you type in Docs, à-la-Google Suggest. Will submit it internally, see how people react.