PHILIPPINE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY. What made them a success was that they happened to give the pinata a whack at the exact moment where some S-curves or events hit the right point. Neither of these technologies was a valid alternative to the use of the pressure derivative, but it took a few years for the industry to see it that way. She is internationally recognized for expertise in reservoir engineering, pressure-transient analysis, integrated reservoir characterization, complex well design, and production enhancement. We were talking about the past: VR wasnt talked about for a long time, right? How hard could it be? Timing technology are one of the products of this technology. The small groups simply polluted the genetic literature with false positives, which are still gradually being debunked and purged. Bitcoin is a topical example: its still in the early stages where it looks either like a genius stroke to invest in, or a fools paradise/Ponzi scheme. Building the habit of self reflection can help you build a fulfilling life. In recent times, corporate research has diminished, and that may be a bad thing: The changing structure of American innovation: Some cautionary remarks for economic growth, Arora et al 2020., One might appeal to the Kelly criterion as a guide to how much individuals should wager on experiments, since the Kelly criterion gives optimal growth of wealth over the long-term while avoiding gamblers ruin, but given the extremely small number of wagers an individual engages in, with a highly finite horizon, the Kelly criterions assumptions are far from satisfied, and the true optimal strategy can be radically different from a naive Kelly criterion; I explore this difference more in The Kelly Coin-flipping Game, which is motivated by stock-market investing., Thompson sampling, incidentally, has been rediscovered, PSRL (posterior sampling, see also Ghavamzadeh et al 2016) generalizes Thompson sampling to more complex problems, MDPs or POMDPs in general, by for each iteration, assuming an entire collection or distribution of possible environments which are more complex than a single-step bandit, picking an environment at random based on its probability of being the real environment, finding the optimal actions for that one, and then acting on that solution; this does the same thing in smoothly balancing exploration with exploitation. So, what Babbage should have aimed for is not making a practical thinking machine which could churn out naval tables, but demonstrating that a programmable thinking machine is possible & useful, and currently limited by the slowness & size of its mechanical logicso that transistors could be pursued with higher priority by governments, and programmable computers could be created with transistors as soon as possible, instead of the historical course of a meandering piecemeal development where Babbages work was forgotten & then repeatedly reinvented with delays (eg. It is essential to try to have a day that is without the use of technology. Overall, the odds of success are low, and the rewards are not great for mostdespite the skewed distribution producing occasional eye-popping returns in a few cases, the risk-adjusted return of the technology sector or VC funds is not that much greater than the broader economy. I loved modeling flow through porous media, and I thought modeling three phases instead of just water would be even more interesting. Modern genomics strikes me as a bit like this. Without the funds for the fuel companies, we couldnt have flown anyway. Freds luck held again. In the case of chemotherapy, these things could be effected only by the medical researcher and the chemist, each working on his own domain, and cooperatively. They said, Current VR gear is low field of view, high lag, too expensive, too heavy, cant be driven properly from consumer-grade computers, or even professional-grade computers. It turned out that I wasnt the first person to realize these problems. In my first draft of this essay in 2012, I noted that we see what looks like a Bitcoin bubble as the price inflates from ~$0 to $171.5$130.02012yet, if Bitcoin were the Real Deal, we would expect large price increases as people learn of it and it directly gains value from increased use, an ecosystem slowly unlocking the fancy cryptographic features, etc. You may find the questions listed above can help you to develop an outline before you write your paper. Polarizing here could be reflect a wide posterior value distribution, or if the posterior is being approximated by something like a mixture of experts or an ensemble of multiple models (like running multiple passes over a dropout-trained neural network, or a bootstrapped neural network ensemble). Likewise, the idea of production-log testing was to use a flowmeter to measure the downhole flow rate during pressure-buildup tests, thereby eliminating the need for pressure-derivative analysis because the wellbore storage would be corrected by the flow-rate measurement, and an equivalent to the Horner plot would suffice. Well differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being aholes. Use Answer Strategies. This, arguably, was the case for Michies own research. rife with examples of the prescient failing. So, ideas can be divided into the overly-optimistic & likely doomed, or the fait accompli. For his attack on one of the most important reverse salientsthe chemotherapy of bacterial infectionsHrlein called upon the medical researcher Domagk and the chemists Mietzsch and Klarer. However, the pressure data showed the same oscillatory behavior. Without technology eradicated disease such as smallpox or the Spanish flu could have been still rampant since the 1800's. Getting a simple cold could be life threatening without technology. Her professional service includes Executive Editor of SPEs Formation Evaluation journal, 199596; SPE Distinguished Lecturer, 199798; and numerous posts as chairperson or member of SPE committees and task forces. But enough time has passed since 1988 to enable us to judge the basic truthfulness of the predictions and expectations held by the dreamers such as Nicholas Negroponte: they were remarkably accurate! The only time my timing was bad was when I requested a transfer to Venezuela to start up a reservoir-modeling consulting group in time to see the oil price plummet in 1997. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be entreated not to hit the nail at all. Previously, Ms. Ehlig-Economides has taught at Texas A&M University, Stanford University and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. RFID chip timing systems accomplish this in a very elegant way. The different pathologies might be: small ones will collectively try lots of strange or novel ideas but will fail by running underpowered poorly-done experiments (for lack of funding & expertise) which convince no one, suffer from small-study biases, and merely pollute the literature, giving meta-analysts migraines. This trend persists when median score is included (Model 7 in Table 3). The aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of sports, sports education, technological uses, and their effects on sports education. During that time, I became interested in the notion that petroleum engineers might be better educated with a broader scope, what I would call energy engineering. Michie went on to point out that in a previous case, Charles Babbage, his work was foredoomed by it being an unripe time due to hardware limitations and represented a complete waste of time & money17. After 7 of my 20 years with Schlumberger, I left transient-test analysis for several other pursuits, and as before, my timing continued to be great. All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. Consider the ill-fated eToys.com or Pets.com: was the investor right to believe that Americans would spend a ton of money online such as for buying toys or dogfood? It is now appreciated that of the factors needed to make the stored-program digital computer a technological reality only one was missing: the means to construct fast switching elements. As I waited somewhat nervously to give my first technical presentation in 1975, several papers were introduced with an anecdote about the speakers experiences 25 years before. and simple to express: The motivation to take something into the real world, which necessarily requires attacking the reverse salients, may be part of why corporate & academic research are both necessary; too little of either creates a bottleneck. A firm's ability to maintain an advantage in market value depends on whether investors perceive that the rate of cash flow growth will be sustained. Now BP is Beyond Petroleum. Is this impossibly rare? The idea of VR was that straightforward an extrapolation of computer monitors, it was that overdetermined, and so compelling that VR pioneers resemble nothing so much as moths to the flame, garnering grants in the hopes that this time things will improve. I sometimes practice what I call failure rebooting. For example, researchers have shown that time of day explains about 20 percent of the variance in human performance on cognitive tasks. Issues like component cost were not something that could be solved by a VR research project, no matter how ambitious. Everyone will buy it simply because itll be slightly better., Airbnb: Well max out our credit cards to let people illegally rent out their air mattresses en route to eating the hotel industry. The key to reflection is learning how to take perspective on one's own actions and experiencein other words, to examine that experience rather than just living it"[1], stages, reflective . For a recent timeline survey, see Forecasting Transformative AI: An Expert Survey, Gruetzemacher et al 2019, and for more, AI Impacts.org. o Activity Report: Timing your Technology. (The best I can think of would be to sell any Murdoch stock you owned when you heard they were buying MySpace, but offhand Im not sure that Murdoch didnt just stagnate rather than drop as MySpace increasingly turned out to be a writeoff.) They are not important problems because we do not have an attack. As a research manager with training and experience in pharmaceutical chemistry, a lively interest in medicine, and rapport with the medical community, Hrlein was well positioned to survey the field where chemistry and medicine joined battle against disease. 2). In what I would call, in a nod to Thiels definite vs indefinite optimism, definitely-maybe optimism. it would have had nothing to do with Orkut (oops). There were 272 automobile companies in 1909. Was Moores Law Inevitable?, Kevin Kelly again: Listen to the technology, Carver Mead says. As time passes, the number of options may open up, and any of them may bypass what was formerly a necessary or serial dependency which was fatal. 3). Reflection-in-action "Thinking about what you are doing, while you are doing it." (Schn, 1983) Reflection-in-action happens in what Schn (1983) describes as 'the midst of activity' - in coaching terms this is likely to be during a coaching session or game. What do the curves say? This leaves good VCs to invest in good ideas that look like bad ideashidden gems that probably take a slightly delusional or unconventional founder to pursue. 64), The changing structure of American innovation: Some cautionary remarks for economic growth, deterministic schedule posterior sampling reinforcement learning (DS-PRL), Facebook: the world needs yet another MySpace or Friendster [or. This will work well for traditional interviews and those stations at the MMI which ask more traditional interview questions. timing the adoption of a new the strategic alternatives open to competing ing real option approach seems to provide a technology. Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain (Ep. Timing, we believe, is an art. The challenge had always been to come up with a closed-form solution that related to time. In particular, VCs are trying to determine whether this founder will be able to create a compelling story around the company mission in order to attract great engineers, executives, sales and marketing people, etc. And there were plenty of lucrative search engine founders (is Jerry Yang still a billionaire? Even the major oil companies give lip service to the claim. Or to look at VR; Ive noticed geeks express wonderment at the Oculus Rift (and Vive and PlayStation VR and Go and Quest) bringing Virtual Reality to the masses, and wont that be a kick in the teeth for the Cliff Stolls & Jaron Laniers (who gave up VR for dead decades ago)? Richard Hamming describes ripe time as finally enabling attacks on consequential problems22 Edward Boyden describes the development of both optogenetics & expansion microscopy as failure rebooting, revisiting (failed) past ideas which may now be workable in the light of progress in other areas23. and less A predictable waste of money, perhaps, but thats how the incentives work out. In many ways, technology simplifies life,and it has many beneficial effects to the community and the human condition. It can reasonably be said that time was unripe for digital computing as an industrial technology. However, they also brought us cyber warfare, hackers, identity theft, cyber stalking, and a host of other bad things. After all, nonobvious ideas that could in fact become big businesses are by definition nonobvious. That is what makes a problem important. In His perfect timing, all is planned We must have patience, hold His hand. At the same time, our entire lifestyle and that of the developing world depends on energy. Start small. . Cook calls this cracking the nut. Reverse salients are areas of research and development that are lagging in some obvious way behind the general line of advance. Dont ask Fisher, hes hardly going to say, oh yeah, all the money was completely wasted, we were trying to do it too soon; our bad. With so many disruptive technologies on the horizon, timing your move into each can make the difference between getting ahead of the competition and falling irreparably behind. I knew immediately that Bourdet was really on to something. Facebook is the biggest archive of photographs there has ever been, with truly colossal storage requirements; could it have succeeded in the 1990s? "Time is an illusion, timing is an art.". 2. While timing per se seems unrelated to performance, a timing-strategy alignment is. Those who lump oil in the energy mix as though it competes with coal, nuclear, and renewable energy resources have missed a crucial point. and less. The origins of many startups are highly idiosyncratic & chancy; eg. For if they were obviously good ideas, they would never produce venture returns. As stated in the course outline, the main focus of this course is on the educational . Do you have the capital to start a VC fund of your own, and throw multi-million-dollar investments at every social media until finally in 2010 you knew for sure that Facebook was the winning ticket and could cash out in the IPO? Indeed, this would have around the Japanese boondoggle the Fifth Generation Project (note that despite Japans reputed prowess at robotics, it is not Japans robots who went into Fukushima / flying around the Middle East / revolutionizing agriculture and construction). However, those are precisely the startups that crazy people will have done years before when they looked like bad ideas, avoiding the waste of delay. 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BOYDEN: One way to think of it is that, if a scientific topic is really popular and everybodys doing it, then I dont need to be part of that. We try thingswe try to create companies, products and ideas, and sometimes they work, and sometimes they change the world. The poem Fears and Scruples by Robert Browning prophesies the work of Kafka, but our reading of Kafka noticeably refines and diverts our reading of the poem. There were people playing around with controlling brain cells with light going back to the 1940s. Here again we must be pessimistic. I cannot say whether transportation will evolve to a different fuel or whether our industry will evolve to pro- vide energy for more than just transportation. The most informative plan is the most polarizing one.29. Can you ask researchers if the time is ripe? (All of which was doubtless why Page & Brin tried & failed to sell Google to AltaVista & Excite & Yahoo early on, and negotiated a possible sale with Yahoo as late as 2002 which they ultimately rejected.) 1. I for one will admit it, when I wake up the first thing I do is reach for my smartphone. For example, even if online pizza delivery has failed every time its tried, it still seems like a good idea that people will want to order pizza online via their smartphones, so one could try to do a pizza startup 2.5 years later, then 5 years later, then 10 years, then 20 years, or perhaps every time computer costs drop an order of magnitude, or perhaps every time the relevant market doubles in size? One of the simplest & most efficient MAB solutions, which maximizes the total long-term reward and minimizes regret (opportunity cost), is Thompson sampling & its generalization PSRL28: randomly select each option with a probability equal to the current estimated probability that it is the most profitable option. The aeroplane industry cannot now redeem Daedalus nor can the computer industry recover the money spent by the British Admiralty more than a hundred years ago in support of Charles Babbage and his calculating machine. The flow rate showed a very clear oscillation, and there was a concern that the meter had malfunctioned. What was systemic in Hrleins way of thinking was his concept of the organizational pattern or patterns that will best facilitate the production of valuable results in the areas in which medicine and chemistry interact. In the same vein, the founder has to be able to attract customers to buy the product, partners to help distribute the product, and, eventually, other VCs to fund the business beyond the initial round of financing. It is universally admitted that the unicorn is a supernatural being and one of good omen; thus it is declared in the Odes, in the Annals, in the biographies of illustrious men, and in other texts of unquestioned authority. (TML). Our signature selling point will be that it takes fewer lines of code to set up, so programmers will like us., LinkedIn: Well do social networking like has been already patented by SixDegrees.com, forcing us to buy their patent., Slack: IRC+email but infinitely slower & more locked in. The Wanderer And His Shadow, Human, All Too Human., Nathan Myhrvolds patent troll company Intellectual Ventures is also featured in Malcolm Gladwells essay on multiple invention, In the Air: Who says big ideas are rare?; IVs business model is to spew out patents for speculations that other people will then actually invent, who can then be extorted for license fees when they make the inventions work in the real world & produce value. The speed of light imposes theoretical bounds on rates of information transfer, so that it was once reasonable to wonder whether these limits, in conjunction with physical limits to microminiaturization of switching and conducting elements, might give the biological system an irreducible advantage. But this animal does not figure among the domestic animals, it is not easy to find, it does not lend itself to any classification. As you might imagine, the use of that term in our fund-raising deck for our first fund struck a chord with a number of our potential investors, who worried that we would back insufferable founders. Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. It connects users to International Business Machines (IBM), UNIX, Linux, Open Virtual Memory System (OpenVMS), and Hewlett Packard (HP) applications from their desktops. The Journal of Petroleum Technology, the Society of Petroleum Engineers flagship magazine, presents authoritative briefs and features on technology advancements in exploration and production, oil and gas industry issues, and news about SPE and its members. The course The ICT course was not really difficult, as I had a very good knowledge about the different types of technologies that were presented, but the idea of adapting them to my classroom got me thinking. I told him he was right, but that pressure data were quite noisy, that the analytical solutions were differentiable, but surely not real, data. Example: in retrospect, we know everyone wanted computers, OSes, social networksbut the history of them is strewn with flaming rubble. Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered. VCs will literally escape through the bathroom to avoid talking to us., Stripe: Banks & online payment processors like PayPal are heavily-regulated inefficient monopolies which really suck; well make friends with some banks and run a payment processor which doesnt suck. From 1980 to 1983, she was an assistant professor at the U. of AlaskaFairbanks, where she became Petroleum Engineering Dept. There are many books out there on self-reflection, self-awareness, and introspection, but we recommend the books below as resources to help you start your journey. Michael Wolfe offers some examples of this: How about Netflix? 1. If the answer is no, then this is the team to back. But just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential. The tremendous development in technology and the diversity in this industry have drastically changed the lifestyle of people in society. In reality, until quartz gauges were introduced in formation testers, this argument was highly ill-conceived, but it certainly provoked a lot of animated discussion. Or were they lucky in trying at the right time, and merely captured all of the value, because a 99% adequate VR headset is worth 0%, and they added the final 1%? Socially, one wants people regularly tossing their bodies into the marketplace to be trampled by uncaring forces just on the off chance that this time itll finally work, and since the critical factors are unknown and constantly changing, one needs a sacrificial startup every once in a while to check (for a good idea, no amount of failures is enough to prove that it should never be triedmany failures just implies that there should be a backoff). What has changed since then is, no doubt, some improvements in the mathematics, but largely, I think wed all agree, better compute power and a lot more data. Jr.: Drawdown Behavior of a Well With Storage and Skin Effect Communicating With Layers of Different Radii and Other Characteristics, paper SPE 7453 presented at the 1978 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, October 13, Houston. Christine Ehlig-Economides received a BA degree from Rice U. in math-science, an MS degree from the U. of Kansas in chemical engineering, and a PhD degree from Stanford U. in petroleum engineering. Reflections on Timing and Technology Christine Ehlig-Economides reflects on her career and how being in the right place at the right time has made all the difference. Bloomberg News. There were huge initiatives while there was nothing happening in the US. PayPals major challenge, for example, was not finding a market like eBay power sellers, but coping with fraud as they scaled, which apparently was the undoing of any number of rivals., Personally, I was still using Dogpile until at least 2000.. All those huge initiatives and? We can think of the prototypes as 23 different attempts to describe the inevitable generic lightbulb. Huh. Lets imagine a different scenario, where instead you were confident that home robotics were about to experience a huge growth spurt. January 19, 2020. And then suddenly a catalyst took hold and the adoption skyrocketed. If 2020 has taught us anything, it's that the key is to stay nimble, adaptive, and be prepared for unexpected change. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin wont make a search engine. Youve invented taxis & buses. It is not always as easy a task as it sounds. Apparently by individuals acting suboptimally on the personal level, but optimally on societal level by serving as random exploration. This is especially difficult as . Much progress has come from groups like SSGAC or PGC, which are consortiums of groups of all sizes (with some highly conditional participation from 23andMe)., [Backlinks, similar links, and the link-bibliography require JS enabled to transclude. The concept behind antireflection technology is to control the light used in an optical device in such a manner that the light rays reflect from surfaces where it is intended and . One of the most notorious tech business failures of the 1990s was the Iridium satellite constellation, but that was brought down by bizarrely self-sabotaging decisions on the part of Motorola, and when Motorola was finally removed from the equation, Iridium found its market, and 2017 saw the launch of the second Iridium satellite constellation, Iridium NEXT, with competition from other since-launched satellite constellations, including SpaceXs own nascent Starlink (aiming at global broadband Internet) which launched no less than 60 satellites in May2019. She recently became Director of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Transportation Innovation in the Crisman Inst. Home robotics will have increased just as you believedkeikaku doori!yet your index fund gone bankrupt (reindex when one of the robotics companies collapses? In their book Edisons Electric Light: Biography of an Invention, Robert Friedel, Paul Israel, and Bernard Finn list 23 inventors of incandescent bulbs prior to Edison. Cell phones, computers, radios, watches, and many other devices rely for their success on an electronic oscillator that produces an output with a precise frequency to generate timing pulses and synchronize events. Every authentic solution brings in its wake a train of grotesque solutions. Stewart Butterfield wanted to make a MMORPG game which failed, and all he could salvage out of it was the photo-sharing part, which became Flickr; he still really wanted to make a MMORPG, so after Flickr, he founded a company to make the MMORPG Glitch which also failed, so after trying to shut down his company and being told not to by his investors, he salvaged the chat part from it, which became Slack. The lesson of history is that for every lesson, there is an equal and opposite lesson. 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