I had a giant laundry list. Most of it got build. My one trick was to not build anything but dream up the next thing in stead. It is hilarious to compare notes to see if they got the details right. It usually gives me a feeling as if the collective mind used my idle brain cycles to run other peoples thoughts by. The entire thing may arrive with an unreasonable amount of detail and float away a few hours later only to return in completed form a few years later.
Also funny is to have an idea just complete enough to be able to find the patents.
Before Galileo "invented" the telescope 3 dutch people tried to patent it simultaniously. One also described (like tesla) that hé reverse engineered it from writings by the ancients.
Many inventions simply happen when the environment is ready for them, e.g. manufacturing techniques have advanced to the point where something is possible.
Not terribly surprising, since using focused light to start fires was known to the ancients. From there, it’s not a huge leap to optics (however crude).
As I understand it, the Vatican astronomers called Galileo out on his claim to have invented the telescope. It didn't stop them from buying a couple of his scopes.
An expert told me there are places to earn and places to spend in the world. In the cheap places to spend you might want a fun job with very little pay and few hours. You for example earn 400 and spend 600 per month. In the places to earn you should try not to live at all. Ideal is to work 84 hour weeks for 15-20 bucks, rent a bunk bed with a shared kitchen and bathroom and eat whatever cheap crap you can stomach. 50 for the bed 100 for food, save something like 1400. Every week not living like that buys 6-7 MONTHS in the afordable location. Two weeks is a year. Clearly you dont actually need to live. You do 2 to 12 weeks of pure work, enough to slightly burn out. This will make the 1 to 6 year vacation all the more enjoyable.
You also have money in the bank so if you feel the need to burn a few thousand on something you can. It will shorten the vacation but who needs 6 years seriously?
I once ran into a website about some french industrialist who made a hundred drawings of roads and rail mixed with vehicles that looked like they belonged in some epic cartoon. Im sure his version would be a very long passenger or cargo train (probably both) with the roof exactly the height of the road. Trucks would drive onto the roof and park all the way to the front. Then the train would dive deep into the grounds because gravity is free.
Rating systemen should really mature to exclude non customers and list the customers purchase history.
Weight by amount spend could be interesting.
Big vendors/companies should probably be required to have per product ratings rather than optional. Rating adobe or alibaba on general is probably not all that useful.
The EU almost requires it but google (for example) still didnt find a nice technical solution.
With averages: to have 5 stars you need a hudred 5 star ratings for each one star rating.
If one would normalize the ratings they could change without doing anything. A former customer may start giving good ratings elsewhere making yours worse or give poor ones inproving yours.
Maybe the relevance of old ratings should decline.
Is that actually bad? What happened is that we learned more about the customer's rating system. I might never have had Cuban food and love it the first time I try it on Miami but then keep eating it and it turns out the first restaurant was actually not as good as I thought, I just really like Cuban food.
This actually somewhat goes into another pet peeve of mine with rating systems. I'd like to see ratings for how much I will like it. An extreme but simple example might be that the ratings of a vegan customer of a steak house might be very relevant to other vegans but very irrelevant to non-vegans. More subtle versions are simply about shared preferences. I'd love to see ratings normalized and correlated to other users to create a personalized rating. I think Netflix used to do stuff like this back in the day and you could request your personal predicted score via API but now that's all hidden and I'm instead shown different covers off the same shows over and over
Sounds like a fun startup. Vegan restaurant rating. Could do quite a few variations of it for people who care about a specific thing.
Also, yes it matters that one in a hundred ratings leaves such a large mark on your business. I know one where they go out of their way to deliver quality. They get maybe two ratings per week. The competitor left only four fake ratings. It would take 200 weeks or 4 years to get back to 5 stars.
Then could let everyone start with 100 one star ratings. If they rate their first thing it counts as 1/101 vote. If they start with a one star rating it will be their highest ever.
Alternatively you could apply the same rating to the customer and display it next to their user name along with their own review counter.
What also seems a great option is to simply add up all the stars :) Then the grumpy people wont have to do anything.
I'm not arguing that consciousness is and illusion. I'm only arguing that it is possible that it could be an illusion. It's probably not, and if it were, it wouldn't matter. I'm just saying it's possible.
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