Auchenberg’s reading list #3

May 2018

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Tech

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now
Microsoft’s next act. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/microsofts-next-act?_lrsc=d9b9fa1d-e23f-4cc9-9db4-a16b60353dce
To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM. https://hbr.org/2018/04/to-understand-the-future-of-tesla-look-to-the-history-of-gm
Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber. https://eng.uber.com/rethinking-gps/
Jeff Bezoss annual letter. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NjkyMDIyfENoaWxkSUQ9NDAyOTk0fFR5cGU9MQ==&t=1
Fake it till you make it: meet the wolves of Instagram. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/19/wolves-of-instagram-jordan-belmont-social-media-traders
Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Matc. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html
Hollywood is Wrong: Netflix is the Future of Film. https://futurism.com/netflix-future-film-industry/
“They think it’s over”: Zuckerberg’s former mentor says Facebook will get away with everything. https://qz.com/1263785/they-think-its-over-zuckerbergs-former-mentor-says-facebook-will-get-away-with-everything/
Are You Really the Product?. https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html
The future of programming, as indicated by Stack Overflow traffic from 2009–2018. https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/985790664464936960

Business

How Wharton Launched Warby Parker — and Dozens of Other Companies Just Like It. https://www.inc.com/magazine/201805/tom-foster/direct-consumer-brands-middleman-warby-parker.html

Nature

San Francisco’s Big Seismic Gamble. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/us/san-francisco-earthquake-seismic-gamble.html

Machine Learning

Hallucinogenic Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Python and Keras. https://medium.com/applied-data-science/how-to-build-your-own-world-model-using-python-and-keras-64fb388ba459

Food

An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/an-msg-convert-visits-the-high-church-of-umami

Cars

Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/experts-say-tesla-has-repeated-car-industry-mistakes-from-the-1980s/
Tesla’s Simultaneous Brilliance And Incompetence Revealed In Teardown Of Model 3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/04/25/teslas-brilliance-and-inexperience-revealed-in-benchmarking-study-of-model-3/#3552d9e367c3

Science

Mycelium, the underground root structure of mushrooms, to make an entirely new, leather-like material. https://boltthreads.com/technology/mylo/

Health

An Augmented Reality Microscope for Cancer Detection. https://research.googleblog.com/2018/04/an-augmented-reality-microscope.html
AI software that helps doctors diagnose like specialists is approved by FDA. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17224984/artificial-intelligence-idxdr-fda-eye-disease-diabetic-rethinopathy
After gene-editing, Crispr’s new frontier to detect diseases is closer to becoming a reality. https://qz.com/1264104/after-gene-editing-jennifer-doudnas-mammoth-biosciences-aims-to-use-crispr-for-disease-diagnosis/

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