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kmerroll commented on Walgreens says locking up products to prevent shoplifting hurts sales cbsnews.com/news/walgreen... · Posted by u/croes

Maxamillion96 · 8 months ago

Even if shoppifting tripled it would be minuscule in the overall scheme of things. Groceries pay 2 dollars per dozen eggs to farmers and have to toss out them out every few days, wastage-wise it’s basically a blip

kmerroll · 8 months ago

Ah, so considering the miniscule loss in the overall scheme of things, Walgreens locking up products in the stores is just to be annoying?

kmerroll commented on Walgreens says locking up products to prevent shoplifting hurts sales cbsnews.com/news/walgreen... · Posted by u/croes

kmerroll · 8 months ago

I think its worth noting that inconvenience aside, the high rate of theft and stock loss is correlated to item price increases overall -- even above inflation. Watched a man walk out of Safeway with two 12-packs under his arms makes me understand why eggs are $8 a dozen.

kmerroll commented on The EdTech Revolution Has Failed afterbabel.com/p/the-edte... · Posted by u/obscurette

unsupp0rted · 10 months ago

I've never seen a teacher that was comfortably capable with even 50% of whatever EdTech they're handed. How are they supposed to maximize the use of it?

I remember having to painfully sit through multi-hour presentations in which they'd explain how to use a hamburger menu to find the app settings, and half the participants furiously scribbled down notes so they wouldn't get lost later when they needed to find the settings without guidance, on their home computer.

This was only a decade ago and I doubt it's much better now. People who go into teaching aren't exactly the best & brightest most of the time. And the results speak for themselves.

kmerroll · 10 months ago

No doubt that there have been poor teaching experiences, but I would counter that my experience with EdTech teachers has been amazing and empowering. Really don't think we can tar all the teachers with the "EdTech sucks" brush.

kmerroll commented on Representing web applications as knowledge graphs arxiv.org/abs/2410.17258... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

kmerroll · 10 months ago

Aside from the Knowledge Graph buzzword, isn't this exactly the same idea as Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web back in 2001? - web of resources, not pages - ontology-based schema - RDF based encoding - URI (IRI) resource identifiers - Automated agents and reasoning (DL) support

Considering the ensuing reception and general avoidance of the semantic web outside academic papers, I guess no one wants to talk about it.

kmerroll commented on Turning the Crank: Design as a Mechanical Process karmanivero.us/blog/turni... · Posted by u/karmaniverous

kmerroll · a year ago

Very interesting article and helpful to visualize the layers and perspectives in and more comprehensive architecture diagram. I would add that the layers of abstraction could also be represented in a standard Semantic Web OWL ontology which would capture a lot more context and sematic detail related to hierarchies, concepts, classes, and object property relationships. Picture are great, but it's always a struggle to get them complete.

kmerroll commented on The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira ehandbook.com/the-slow-pa... · Posted by u/thecosas

MeetingsBrowser · a year ago

The agile manifesto is pretty short and describes basically the opposite of “Agile” used today.

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

> Working software over comprehensive documentation

> Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

> Responding to change over following a plan

I would read it, but I am running late for my daily standup and haven’t finished updating JIRA yet to document my progress since yesterday’s standup.

kmerroll · a year ago

I agree with you, but I read this as: > No process and tools > No / limited documentation > No RACI or alignment (yay, kumbaya) > No plan or managed dependencies

I'm not saying this is the outcome of an Agile approach, but sure seems common on the Scrum projects I work on.

kmerroll commented on Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/sien

kmerroll · a year ago

I would venture the implied discussion is about more than shipbuilding. Resources, labor, regulation, and other factors raised in the article are endemic across lots of areas and seems symptomatic of market forces and government policy. As a counter argument, I have to ask why the U.S. needs to build ships faster, larger, cheaper than other countries? The U.S. certainly seems to be able to build infrastructure and housing reasonably competitively.

kmerroll commented on Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk github.com/ociubotaru/tra... · Posted by u/gregzeng95

tgma · a year ago

Fuchsia is part of the problem not the solution. It was the retirement home to keep a bunch of smart people busy who didn't have any rush to ship anything real for as long as possible. Architecture astronaut porn to the max.

On the other hand there's zero desire at Google to try and build the best phone. They have conceded that to Apple a long time ago.

No desire to be number one in Cloud. They are fighting for number 3 spot.

They are the Xerox of AI with a full stack solution. If they had the drive they would be HYPING THE SHIT out of TPU and making it the best solution to run all the real workloads people have.

Guess what. On average a Googler even still today with low bar to entry is probably 10 IQ points higher than average Amazon or Microsoft or Apple. But no; no drive.

kmerroll · a year ago

I hadn't heard the term "architecture astronaut porn" before. Seems highly accurate in this context and wondered if you could point me to other resources on this term?

kmerroll commented on What Is a Knowledge Graph? neo4j.com/blog/what-is-kn... · Posted by u/Anon84

kmerroll · a year ago

Good article on the high level concepts of a knowledge graph, but some concerning mischaracterizations of core functions of ontologies supporting the class schema and continued disparaging of competing standards-based (RDF triple-store) solutions. That the author omits the updates for property annotations using RDF* is probably not an accident and glosses over the issues with their proprietary clunky query language.

While knowledge graphs are useful in many ways, personally I wouldn't use Neo4J to build a knowledge graph as it doesn't really play to any of their strengths.

Also, I would rather stab myself with a fork than try to use Cypher to query a concept graph when better standards-based options are available.

kmerroll commented on A CIO canceled a Microsoft AI deal businessinsider.com/pharm... · Posted by u/ludovicianul

kmerroll · a year ago

Paywalled, but not a huge surprise really. Sounds like part of the problem was the internal pharma team not having a plan for what to use CoPilot for and going for the "it's AI!" theme from Microsoft.

I am seeing great value in AI-based solutions related to knowledge assistants and for automation N(A). Neither of these seem like strong suites for CoPilot, but it's very early days.

That we're seeing much better results using self-hosted open source models (Llama 3.1, etc.) should be concerning for Microsoft as well.

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