TED talk – Data Science, Data Analytics and Machine Learning Consulting in Koblenz Germany https://www.rene-pickhardt.de Extract knowledge from your data and be ahead of your competition Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:12:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Please Google make an open system of the self driving car https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/please-google-make-an-open-system-of-the-self-driving-car/ https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/please-google-make-an-open-system-of-the-self-driving-car/#respond Thu, 29 May 2014 14:22:59 +0000 http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/?p=1848 This is a copy of an answer I left on Larry Page’s Google Plus profile after another announcement about the progress of the self driving car:
How come you have a patent for the self driving taxi company in the USA? I always thought of you as a creative role model who wanted to change the world towards a better place.
Why not leaving the competition open? I really loved Jonathan Rosenberg’s blog entry in which you ask for openness. This inspired me in my PhD program a lot to make everything open.
I was so keen when you announced the self driving car as it was my childhood dream to have self driving cars in the world. (Visiting the United states in 2001 I learnt programming in high school and in my book I drafted my own first class Schema for a self driving car.)
After you announced the self driving car I was keen to build up the taxi company. Contributing to the progress in transportation and logistics and helping the process of automation.
There is much criticism against Google but after your recent TED talk I thought “Larry is really the guy who doesn’t care for money but wants to make progress to the world!” Before I often wondered why you didn’t take part in Bill Gates giving pledge. But I realized that you needed your capital for building stuff like the car or glasses. I thought that this is also an amazing way to change the world towards a better place.

In the talk you mentioned shared economy and too many cars in LA. I thought “Great, this is exactly where the Taxi company comes in.” and I was happy to realize that you already seem to have the same ideas. I even expected Google to create a taxi company.
Anyway please give the self driving car to the world and don’t own all the applications of it. Please build open systems and give people the chance to contribute to the ecosystem around the self driving car.
Closed systems will slow down the progress as you say yourself in the above mentioned blog article.

]]> https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/please-google-make-an-open-system-of-the-self-driving-car/feed/ 0 "I have no idea how to do it!" – Tim Harford's TED talk: Trial & Error and the God Complex https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/i-have-no-idea-how-to-do-it-tim-harfords-ted-talk-trial-error-and-the-god-complex/ https://www.rene-pickhardt.de/i-have-no-idea-how-to-do-it-tim-harfords-ted-talk-trial-error-and-the-god-complex/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:17:01 +0000 http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/?p=686 Finally someone stood up and said what I was feeling all my live! Tim Harford is an expert on complex systems and realized that most of them evolve by trial and error and not by some authority saying we have to do it in this and that way. He points out that this seems to be obviouse but that he hasn’t yet met the politician running to be elected saying:

“I want to fix the health system. I want to fix our education system. I have no idea how to do it. I have half a dozen ideas. We try them out. They will probably all fail. Then we test some other ideas out. Will find some that work. We get rid of those that don’t“

Tim points out that not only he hasn’t met the politician yet but our behaviour is also not like this. He says:

“But more importantly when voters like you an me are willing to vote for that kind of a politian on that platform I will admit that it is obvious that trial and error works…“

The only thing that borders me about this talk is that it had to be an authority like Tim Harfords on an event with a lot of authority like TED to say these words and get heard. Anyway enjoy the following TED talk by Tim Harford

I think trial and error is a very important way to be creative and find smart solutions. I think especially in science as well as R&D a lot of results come from trial and error. Most people just don’t admit it. We should think about our perspective on trial and error and make this behaviour more acceptable within our society.
Tell me what great ideas did you get through trial and error?

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