Beware of Assumptions

Bob Herbold tells a good story about the danger of  assumptions for leaders.

There is a powerful lesson for leaders here:

Beware of Assumptions – Regularly isolate key assumptions that are being used, constantly probe the basis for those assumptions, and experiment appropriately.

Also, thank goodness the America’s Cup team had an out-spoken sceptic in the crew.  We all need those kinds of people on our team! .... "

Mistaken Assumptions for Blockchains?

 In MIT Technology Review: Chain Letter:

... Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton, argued in a widely-shared twitter thread last week that in 2018 “the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart” due to “mistaken assumptions.”: 

In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart. For example, a study of 43 use cases found a 0% success rate.  

Let's talk about some mistaken assumptions about decentralization that led to the blockchain hype, and what we can learn from them ... 

Operationalizing Machine Learning

Utimately one of the most important issues  of using AI.  Making it work in operational context.  And note too the discovery of wrong assumptions, a kind of confirmation bias, that is highlighted.   All models have assumptions, even the most sophisticated.  Rooting them out early in machine learning is too often not emphasized.

Keynote from O'Reilly Strata
Operationalizing machine learning  A short video. 

Dinesh Nirmal explains how real-world machine learning reveals assumptions embedded in business processes that cause expensive misunderstandings. ... "