I don't understand the backlash here. The jist seemed to be traditional tools that are exact take a long time to process complex designs. Deep learning offers a statistical approach that can give a 'coarse' prediction and they're using this to reduce development time. That seems to make sense to me, especially in the earlier verification phases of the hardware design lifecycle.
To me this sounds like a good use-case of AI and Neural Nets. It doesn't appear to be looking to replace the traditional tools, just augment.
An example of where this paradigm shift works quite well is in the note management tool: Obsidian.md.
You can create notes within other notes with backlinks, you can tag notes and importantly, you can have dynamic blocks that access the note metadata like the outlinks and inlinks... Once I got comfortable with the dynamic blocks, I realised that I didn't need to tag my notes, I could just create links to topics and I found that approach to have some nice benefits. For instance, I started creating recipes and tagging them "Breakfast", "Quick", and I could then create a "Breakfast" note that displayed all the notes linked to it and had more control over what was being shown and write information around it.
The way I see it, Markdown is great for outputting simple text and readily used for that reason in the Wordpress blog space. Once you start needing more complex styling and formatting then i'd go for either Latex or HTML, both feature rich markup languages.
I use markdown for my everyday notes right now, and love it. The syntax is simple, fast to type either on mobile or desktop and pretty easy to read. Looking over the tag based syntax of Textile i'm not sure i'd have as easy a time using it for fast output... and if i'm wanting more style and moving to tags, I might as well use HTML... so what's the use case?
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens also gets touched upon in the HN discourse on Note taking apps.
One of the salient points made in the book is the idea that externalising thought is:
1. Helps us with our internal thinking
2. Is difficult to do
Personally as a user of Obsidian, i'm here for it. I want to take notes, they help me in numerous ways and i'm interested in the structure and approach in which I take notes.
I'd draw a parallel between note taking systems and efficiency systems in the workplace. It's good to apportion sometime to getting better at stuff and I feel often there's a discourse on what the proportion should be.
I'll be interested to read the article that actually addresses the title of this linked article.
I feel like comparing digital art to digital media like books and music is a bit apples to oranges. Additionally, the 2nd hand market for books and music is pretty bottomed out so I think it's a fair assumption that if a blockchain marketplace actually takes off over just pirating cracked copies, then the price of 2nd hand digital media would be begin to bottom out.
So, given that one can pirate an ebook fairly easily and there's still a market for ebooks, is a 2nd hand marketplace for digital nft media a valid concern?
The point is, there is no such thing as a "2nd hand digital asset".
2nd hand exists for physical items only, because they are subject to wear&tear, they degrade, and copying them means creating something new from scratch that didn't exist before...a copy of a wardrobe is a new wardrobe that happens to look the same as another one. And if someone sells me his old wardrobe, then he no longer has it.
The same isn't true for digital information. A file can be copied 10 times, 10000 times or 10E10 times, it doesn't matter...the original is not degraded in the process, and all copies are exactly the same and the same as the original. And if A sends the file to B, A can still have a copy of the file, indistinguishable from the one B now has.
Wear & Tear is a good point, along with the inconvenience of selling physical goods, and the burden of having too many physical goods.
As well as the applicability, the author raises another point which is when you're finished with your digital media, why hold onto it? Especially on the assumption you can just buy it back for what you sold it for or less.
I do wonder though whether all of this sits within a paradigm that needn't be the one that plays out.
I suppose my questions around the subject are... are we saying that a 2nd marketplace for digital media such as books, films and music shouldn't/won't exist because if it did, it would devastatingly disrupt digital capitalism? Could there be a paradigm where we can have a 2nd hand marketplace?
I'm particularly interested to observe how the digital fashion space evolves. Major fashion brands are engaging with NFTs and digital wardrobes. Which like digital art (and unlike books/films?) lend themselves well to being sold in limited runs, can be seasonal and could be useful... So I could see being a workable market for a digital 2nd hand market, outside the hyped up beanie-baby-esque investor marketplace that's dominating the nft landscape right now.
>Wear & Tear is a good point, along with the inconvenience of selling physical goods, and the burden of having too many physical goods.
These aren't inconveniences and burdens, it's part of our reality and we're wired to handle these things. We don't consider objects we value as burdens, for as long as their perceived value is considered "high", they're not burden/trash.
You can't forget that we use physical goods to help us define and signal who we are.
And some of that stuff works because of the properties of physical goods: wear & tear have stories attached to them. A scratched leather backpack has tales of backpacking traveling, just like a collection of MTG cards.
This isn't a property of digital assets. They are barren.
Trying to enforce artificial scarcity in a medium that tends to propagate and proliferate whatever it touches is going backwards once again, like enforcing something like copyrighted digital material in the world of torrents.
Second hand digital goods makes no sense, it would be an artificial construct for the sake of itself.
We're at the point of making up problems to shove NFT as a solution for it - just like what we're seeing with art and collectibles, they're tending to be automated and mediocre.
When it comes to content, Scarcity and Internet shouldn't be in the same sentence.
Now, can weapons in games start to acquire long term wear & tear, to be more personalized to each player. Sure! Does it need to be an NFT? No.
My point was, when you no longer want a physical good, it is an inconvenience and that also factors into it's value outside of physical goods degrading.
The way I see it, Second-hand digital goods only doesn't make sense if you view it in the spirit of something digital being 2nd hand. It's re-selling. Which I believe can make sense.
I think that, despite the ability to acquire digital goods through piracy there is still a digital market, there is scope for a reseller market. Unless we're dismantling the idea of digital ownership at all.
NFT's are in a hype right now, but does that mean they solve no problems?
> Could there be a paradigm where we can have a 2nd hand marketplace?
For items that can be copied identically for basically nothing and never degrade? The only reason we even still have a first hand market for these things is that we want to compensate the producers of the work who still need to earn money to put food on the table. To do that we use the ridiculous concept of "intellectual property" to allow those producers to work within a system not designed for a post-scarcity space. I cannot conceive of a 'second hand' market ever making sense here without just piling on even more perverse concepts.
Thanks for your reply. If artificial scarcity is perverse, does that mean also mean things like limited art print runs are also perverse?
Because it seems to me an artist who has the potential to print there work unlimited times but chooses to set the price at X for N prints would fall into that. But then, either because it's been accepted as a thing or otherwise, it's a common practice and personally, i've not seen it as a negative.
> If artificial scarcity is perverse, does that mean also mean things like limited art print runs are also perverse?
Yes, especially if the prints are basically free to produce. Artificial scarcity is bullshit we only tolerate because our economic system is built on scarcity. It's a hack and I would rather not encourage it. What is the point in digital anything if we're just going to limit it like it were a physical good?
when you're finished with your digital media, why hold onto it?
Have you heard of this little site called Spotify? It streams music instead of selling it. It’s pretty obscure, but it’s got a few competitors. Something with the even more absurd name of Youtube Music? They run on a subscription basis, or just throw ads at you if you don’t wanna pay.
There’s a few sites like that for movies and TV shows, too.
I hear a common criticism of Notion is it can be quite slow.
Having both a knowledge base and project management tool combined is tricky.
Obsidian is a popular tool for Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and with the dataview and kanban plugins can be utilised for project management as well... while that would work functionally, it has a learning curve.
If you were interest in separate tools I might suggest Obsidian for PKM and something like Airtable for project management. Perhaps then letting some of the more technical teams dabble in the task management features of Obsidian.
There's lots of good advice here already but one thing I don't see suggested is whether this might be laying the groundwork to let you go... and that might not be related at all to your ability as an engineer/developer.
It's not uncommon for companies to use "Performance Improvement Plans" as a structure for this. You get set targets that are difficult to reach and when you don't reach them, they conclude you're not a good fit. They're awful.
My advice would be to look out for this. If it starts being mentioned, it's time to start looking for work elsewhere. Try not to buy into the idea you're no good, they never fostered the opportunity for you to be excellent.
I'm sorry to read your experience so far. You seem passionate and willing. While it'd be proactive of you to look at other projects it's a red flag to me your manager would be critical that you didn't think to do that... why would you? They should be setting the standard and it's pretty clear from their comms they're not.
I was on the path to a PIP at one company. They put me on the team of a manager that had recommended against hiring me. He gave me impossible tasks and actively subverted my success. It was pure hell.
When I finally got to the point where I was failing to meet the goals, I got dragged down into a recorded video chat with my boss and his boss. They pulled out a job description I’d never seen and outlined point by point how I was failing.
When I put on the PIP, I went straight to HR. I complained about how I had been completely screwed, was super pissed, and suggested they pay me to resign. I’d only been there about 5 months, so the best I could get was 30 days severance.
I left, interviewed like crazy, and has a job within 30 days that paid 25% more.
>When I put on the PIP, I went straight to HR. I complained about how I had been completely screwed, was super pissed, and suggested they pay me to resign.
You were lucky to get 30 days. Bear in mind HR works for the company, not you. In general, when you talk to HR expect them to act in a way to protect the company, not you, and keep HR's bosses happy, not you. Your complaint went right to the boss, and they conspired to use that as further motivation to see you out of the company in any way legally possible.
