timing your technology reflection

The Verges 2012 article on VR took a historical look back at the many failed past efforts, and whats striking is that VR was clearly foreseen back in the 1950s, before so many other things like the Internet, more than half a century before the computing power or monitors were remotely close to what we now know was needed for truly usable VR. It's frustrating to desire somethinga solution, position, experience, relationship, or possessionbut sense the Lord saying "no" or "not now.". From pg48, A System of Invention, Lesch2006: Hrleins attitude was based not simply, or even primarily, on the situation of any particular area of research considered in isolation, but on his comprehensive overview of advance in areas in which chemistry and biomedicine intersected. Modern genomics strikes me as a bit like this. There were huge initiatives while there was nothing happening in the US. Such an attitude is similar to the DARPA paradigm in fostering AI & computing, a rational process of connecting the dots between here and there intended to orchestrate the advancement of an entire suite of technologies, with responsibilities split between multiple project managers each given considerable autonomy for several years. This is a very firms, technology is one of the main forces powerful tool for the assessment of technol- important question of strat- which operates in the business arena. Stehfest, H.: Numerical Inversion of Laplace Transforms,, Wagner, P.B., Economides, M.J., and Ehlig-Economides, C.A. How often did I read in the 90s and early 00s about how amazing Japanese cellphones were and how amazing a good smartphone would be, even though year after year the phones were jokes and used pretty much solely for voice? By the time I left Venezuela, the oil price was on its way up, but the dip in oil price had certainly put a damper on plans for expanding the group. Perhaps had Kelleher known intimately of all the challenges of entering the airline business, he would have run screaming from the challenge versus deciding to take on the full set of risks. Jr.: An Investigation of Wellbore Storage and Skin Effect in Unsteady Liquid Flow: I. Analytical Treatment,, Horner, D.R. Late reflections are those that arrive after about 60 ms following the reception of the direct signal. Reindex into what, another doomed firm?). Indeed, the U. S. Department of Transportation estimates that V2V technology may eliminate or reduce the impact of up to 80 percent of crashes involving unimpaired drivers. So you dont know the timing well enough to reliably launch. This presents a conflict between personal and social incentives. and err Dude, dont you remember CueCat at all? Ehlig-Economides, C.A., Mowat, G.R., and Corbett, C.: Techniques for Multibranch Well Trajectory Design in the Context of a Three-Dimensional Reservoir Model, paper SPE 35505 presented at the European 3D Reservoir Modeling Conference in Stavanger, 1617 April 1996. Excerpts from The First Miracle Drugs: How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine, John Lesch2006. and simple to express: When a participant crosses the finish line, the RFID tag is read by an RFID reader which transmits the tag's ID to the timing software. Youve seen the curves Gordon Moore discovered. Lets imagine a different scenario, where instead you were confident that home robotics were about to experience a huge growth spurt. List all technologies that you use every hour, and state your purpose of using this technology. If we think about multi-level optimization systems & population-based training, and optimization of evolution like strong amplifiers (which resemble small but networked communities: Pavlogiannis et al 2018), that would suggest we should have a bias against both large and small groups/institutes/granters, because small ones are buffeted by random noise/drift and cant afford well-powered experiments, but large ones are too narrow-minded.30 But a network of medium ones can both explore well and then efficiently replicate the best findings across the network to exploit them. Home robotics will have increased just as you believedkeikaku doori!yet your index fund gone bankrupt (reindex when one of the robotics companies collapses? Why would anyone think that the future of smartphones would be won by a has-been 1980s PC maker and an obscure search engine? Cell phones, computers, radios, watches, and many other devices rely for their success on an electronic oscillator that produces an output with a precise frequency to generate timing pulses and synchronize events. And will she walk through walls when the going gets toughwhich it inevitably will in nearly all startupsand simply refuse to even consider quitting? The small groups simply polluted the genetic literature with false positives, which are still gradually being debunked and purged. The first Kafka of Betrachtung is less a precursor of the Kafka of the gloomy myths and terrifying institutions than is Browning or Lord Dunsany. During that time, I became interested in the notion that petroleum engineers might be better educated with a broader scope, what I would call energy engineering. Can you at least profit from your knowledge of the outcome? Richard Hamming describes ripe time as finally enabling attacks on consequential problems22 Edward Boyden describes the development of both optogenetics & expansion microscopy as failure rebooting, revisiting (failed) past ideas which may now be workable in the light of progress in other areas23. neural net, Bitcoin, economics, history, insight porn, sociology/tech, decision theory, [For support of website features (tablesorting, collapsible sections, image zooming, link annotation popups/popins & transclusions, sidenotes), please enable JavaScript.]. In the U.S., about one-third of the oil is used as a feedstock for a great many materials and products we could scarcely imagine doing without, and the remaining oil is used for transportation. I ended up doing more work in Japan than anything else because Japan in general is so tech-smitten and obsessed that they just love it [VR]. End of preview. (The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion). I have learned the basics of . Though, the right moment cannot be known exactly in advance, so attempts to forecast will typically be off by years or worse. VCs will literally escape through the bathroom to avoid talking to us., Stripe: Banks & online payment processors like PayPal are heavily-regulated inefficient monopolies which really suck; well make friends with some banks and run a payment processor which doesnt suck. And, consistent with the idea that there is a large ineradicable element of chance to it, surveys of startups suggest that while there are individual differences in odds of success (skill), any founder learning curve (learning-by-doing) is small & success probability remains low regardless of experience (Gompers et al 2006/Gompers2010, Parker2011, Gottschalk2014), and experienced entrepreneurs still have low odds of forecasting startups achieving commercialization at all, approaching random predictions in non-R&D-intensive sectors (eg. Her professional service includes Executive Editor of SPEs Formation Evaluation journal, 199596; SPE Distinguished Lecturer, 199798; and numerous posts as chairperson or member of SPE committees and task forces. previous similar startups failed). In hindsight the things that worked look like good ideas and the ones that failed look stupid, but sadly its not that obvious at the time. Indeed, its inherent in really transformative ideas that they look like bad ideasGoogle, Apple, Facebook and Amazon all did, sometimes several times over. If an hour of reflection seems like too much, try 10 minutes. Thiel uses the example of New France/the Louisiana Territory, in which the projections of John Law et al that it (and thus the Mississippi Company) would be as valuable as France itself turned out to be correctjust centuries later, with the benefits redounding to the British colonies. As a matter of fact, Smith was prosecutedfor something else entirely: Fred now revealed that a year earlier [also in 1973] he had forged documents indicating approval of a loan guarantee by the Enterprise Company without consent of the other board members, specifically his two sisters and Bobby Cox, the Enterprise secretary. Reflections on Technology In the modern world, big and better technologies have been invented. She is internationally recognized for expertise in reservoir engineering, pressure-transient analysis, integrated reservoir characterization, complex well design, and production enhancement. Ensemble methods like dropout or multi-agent optimization can follow this pattern as well. And you know what? They were correct, but many of them would be surprised & disappointed how long it took., #326, Part II. Be still. Building the habit of self reflection can help you build a fulfilling life. 30 years later, its the same headlines. : Pressure Build-Up in Wells,. o Activity Report: Technology and Past ( interviews with elders) o Nature's Longest Threads by Janaki. What if instead of threatening to sue them, we tried working with them?, Venmo: TextPayMe worked out well, right?, Patreon: Online micropayments & patronage schemes have failed hundreds of times and became a 90s punchline; might as well try again., Bitcoin: Every online-only currency from DigiCash to Flooz.com to e-gold to [too many to list] has either failed or been shut down by governments; so, well use proof of workits a hilariously expensive cryptographic thing we just made up which has zero theoretical support for actually ensuring decentralization & censorproofing, and was roundly mocked by almost every e-currency enthusiast who bothered to read the whitepaper., Seamless/Grubhub/Uber Eats/DoorDash/Slice (! Candidate-gene studies were done by every Tom, Dick, and Harry, but the methodology failed completely because sample sizes many orders of magnitude larger were necessary. 2. How do you time your startup? Timing Technology Overview Timers, counters, and clocks are a critical component in most embedded systems. Example: in retrospect, we know everyone wanted computers, OSes, social networksbut the history of them is strewn with flaming rubble. within the environment where learning is taking place). One theme I notice in many systems is that they follow a multi-level optimization structure where slow blackbox methods give rise to more efficient Bayesian inference. Polarizing here could be reflect a wide posterior value distribution, or if the posterior is being approximated by something like a mixture of experts or an ensemble of multiple models (like running multiple passes over a dropout-trained neural network, or a bootstrapped neural network ensemble). Most people have no idea that this is 35 years old. The origins of many startups are highly idiosyncratic & chancy; eg. The research manager had to be active in defining goals, in marshaling means and resources, and in assessing success or failure. He viewed the academic-industrial connection as crucial and mutually beneficial. In Schlumberger at that time, there were two alternative technologies competing with pressure-transient-test analysis using the derivative. If you knew for certain that Facebook would be as huge as it was, what stocks, exactly, could you have invested in, pre-IPO, to capture gains from its growth? Part of the explanation is survivorship bias causing hindsight bias. So, ideas can be divided into the overly-optimistic & likely doomed, or the fait accompli. January 19, 2020. These days you put some kind of camera on the head and look around in the room and it just calculates where you arethe headsets are self-sufficient instead of relying on an external reference infrastructure. The lesson of history is that for every lesson, there is an equal and opposite lesson. You should maintain a formal tone, but it is acceptable to write in the first person and to use personal pronouns. 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Cell phones, computers, radios, watches, and many other devices rely for their success on an electronic oscillator that produces an output with a precise frequency to generate timing pulses and synchronize events. The loan guarantee from General Dynamics raised our hopes and increased our spirits, but also increased the pressure to finalize the private placement. The tremendous development in technology and the diversity in this industry have drastically changed the lifestyle of people in society. Also, we have models for horizontal and hydraulically fractured wells, homogeneous and heterogeneous reservoirs, and a host of useful boundary geometries. However, technology affects ones thinking capacity and development of ideas. Before coming to Stanford, Ramey and two students at Texas A&M U., Ram Agarwal and Rafi Al-Hussainy, had developed type curves accounting for wellbore storage and skin that enabled well-test analysts to model the early-time transient response using type curves2 (Fig. rife with examples of the prescient failing. A further application of criterion 4 arises if theoretical infeasibility is demonstratedBut it is well to look on such negative proofs with caution. Soon after this experience, I decided to pursue a PhD degree in petroleum engineering. Smartphones are an even bigger example of this. Ummon addressed the assembly and said: I am not asking you about the days before the fifteenth of the month. However, they also brought us cyber warfare, hackers, identity theft, cyber stalking, and a host of other bad things. September 5, 2005 By Christine A. Ehlig-Economides The Way Ahead "All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. Tariq, Syed M., and Ramey, H.J. During a recession and a cleantech backlash. In this edition, we are reminded that rigorous technical work is one of the pillars of our industry. We know that a given animal with a mane is a horse, and that one with horns is a bull. A valuable outcome is a result that has practical importance for clinical or preventive medicine and, implicitly, commercial value for industry. Someone could have built the Rift in mid-to-late 2007 for a few thousand dollars, and they could have built it in mid-2008 for about $673.5$500.02008. Scott et al 2019, McKenzie&Sansone2019). The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. Thomas John Watson Sr., 18741956. After all, why would they say no? But it didnt., Almost Wikipedia: Eight Early Encyclopedia Projects and the Mechanisms of Collective Action, Hill2013; Almost-Wikipedias and innovation in free collaboration projects: why did 7 predecessors fail?., Finding out these tidbits is one reason I enjoyed reading Founders at Work: Stories of Startups Early Days (ed Livingston2009; Introduction), because the challenges are not always what you think they are. and err again Well start off renting people a doomed format in a way inferior to our established competitor Blockbuster (which will choose to commit suicide by ignoring both mail order & Internet all the way until bankruptcy in 2010)8; this will (somehow) let us pivot to streaming, where we will license all our content from our worst enemies, who will destroy us the instant we are too successful & already intend to run streaming services of their ownbut thats OK because well just convince Wall Street to wait decades while giving us hundreds of billions of dollars to replace Hollywood by making thousands of film & TV series ourselves (despite the fact that weve never done anything like that before and there is no reason to think we would be any better at it than they are)., Or Github: Well offer code hosting services like that of SourceForge or Google Code which requires developers to use one of the most user-hostile DVCSes, only to FLOSS developers who are notorious cheapskates, and charge them a few bucks for a private version., SpaceX: Orbital Sciences Corporation has a multi-decade headstart but are fat and lazy; well catch up by buying some spare Russian rockets while we invent our own futuristic reusable ones. The difficulty is in coping with failure: even good options may fail many times in a row, and bad options may succeed, so options cannot simply be ruled out after a failure or two, and if one is too hasty to write an option off, one may take a long time to realize that, losing out for many turns. I dont know what they can do to move faster but I suspect it has to do with placement (distribution) and with networks which both depend on (corrupt) entities.. Daily events can be hard to wrap your mind around in some cases. She recently became Director of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Transportation Innovation in the Crisman Inst. Jr.: Drawdown Behavior of a Well With Storage and Skin Effect Communicating With Layers of Different Radii and Other Characteristics, paper SPE 7453 presented at the 1978 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 13, Houston. Indeed, this would have around the Japanese boondoggle the Fifth Generation Project (note that despite Japans reputed prowess at robotics, it is not Japans robots who went into Fukushima / flying around the Middle East / revolutionizing agriculture and construction). Is this even nonpublic knowledge at all? Nicols Gmez Dvila, Nicols Gmez Davila: An Anthology (original: Escolios a un Texto Implcito: Seleccin, p.430). Only then could the new technology claim to have drawn level with Babbages design ideas of a hundred years earlier. Facebook is the biggest archive of photographs there has ever been, with truly colossal storage requirements; could it have succeeded in the 1990s? Informatio: The new language of science ( Hans Christian von Baeyer) 14-15 The speed of light imposes theoretical bounds on rates of information transfer, so that it was once reasonable to wonder whether these limits, in conjunction with physical limits to microminiaturization of switching and conducting elements, might give the biological system an irreducible advantage. There were 272 automobile companies in 1909. This last fact is what is most significant. I was still commuting to Connecticut on the weekends and really did not know what was going to transpire on my return. Ramadan is a time of spiritual reflection, devotion, and increased charity. Rather, this is how the process of invention and creation works. This has historically been less typical in the venture world, but, increasingly, as entrepreneurs take on more established industriesparticularly those that are regulatedbringing a view of the market that is unconstrained by previous professional experiences may in fact be a plus. Let me warn you, important problem must be phrased carefully. Underlying this view was his definition and differentiation of the relevant disciplines and his belief in their generally excellent condition in Germany. However, those are precisely the startups that crazy people will have done years before when they looked like bad ideas, avoiding the waste of delay. At Rice U.s Baker Inst., we find the Shell Center for Sustainability. While timing per se seems unrelated to performance, a timing-strategy alignment is. (Checking a few random entries in Wikipedia, as of 2012, maybe a fifth of the companies are publicly traded, and the private ones include the ones you mightve heard of like Boston Robotics or Kiva so that will be a small unrepresentative index.) There is no right or wrong answer. In this case, the flowmeter acquires data while the well is flowing, which is what it is intended to do. Its possible for entrepreneurs to create something with huge impact. File Management and Mapping. By and large, oil has only two purposes. Certainty is irrelevant, you still have problems making use of this knowledge. A un Texto Implcito: Seleccin, p.430 ) and in assessing success or failure can at. Ideas can be divided into the overly-optimistic & likely doomed, or the fait accompli the outcome our.! Finalize the private placement literature with false positives, which is what it is acceptable to in... 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