Andy H3 / is on Nostr

Scholar, investigator, coach, consultant, ethnographer, argonaut, socionaut, horticulturist, builder, open source enthusiast, fedizen, human cyborg, formerly known as TestCardTed.

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Quote:: *Getting to what Kant called universal unity of mankind is like the joke where a driver asks a passer-by how to get to Dublin. “If I wished to go to Dublin,” comes the reply, “I wouldn’t start from here.”*

— Zygmunt Bauman

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2024-09-08 13:18:17

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Yes indeed incotine pouches are a recent development.
Apparently in contrast to the traditional pouches that contain actual tobacco leaves, these have the advantage of not discolouring gum and teeth and don't significantly increase saliva production which makes them more socially acceptable.
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2024-08-13 00:59:53

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Yep. Hopefully there'll be another Emacs extension that you can use instead. 😲
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2024-08-12 03:35:23

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I watched another video by Phoebe Yu, this time on Japanese website design. I think here she got the overall issues of psychology and culture right and made an informative video.
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[url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vi8pyS076a8]Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why[/url]

2024-08-11 14:05:20

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Friend of mine took up a job in Shanghai and said, you can't get literally do anything without WeChat.
Not sure if that would be the case in Tokyo without LINE.

2024-08-11 13:11:06

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I'm using this as well for chatting with people in the office. But I've never used any payment functions in there, or connected it to an ID card.
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2024-08-11 07:11:44

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This is either highly contrived or totally ignorant!
Aesthetic questions about perceived clutter mashed up with the question of "super apps" that emerged in the socioeconomic realm of CCP control. Throw in some cultural studies term like Collectivism...
Ahh, so what about mobile apps in Japan?
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2024-05-21 16:16:29

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I agree @npub1ttd…tvc8 . It's rather ambiguous what these two PWC reports are saying. Since we don't get to see their methodology, it's not very meaningful.
What strikes me as very odd is the use of the term *productivity*. Assuming they are not using this casually as a figure of speech, but as a technical term that through calculation has a specific value.
AFAIK, operations and production managers usually calculate productivity as either Single Factor Productivity or Total/Multi-Factor Productivity (i.e. output over input). The former is often used to compare change in processes based on partial measures of input or output (e.g. an individual employee with AI vs without, thereby excluding the effects of other input variables in this case).
While single factor measures of productivity are probably very useful for minor changes to processes with a lot of known elements, it might be more problematic for obtaining reliable numerical results when dealing with more fundament changes. (BTW, we are not even talking about wider socio-technical, societal, communal, and work relation aspects. It's purely about calculating the totality of output over input).
One more point that seems confusing to me is the claim about the increases in speed when looking at the table on potential increase in operating profit margin ([Greenstein et al. 2024, p. 3](https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/technology/path-to-generative-ai-value.html )). Looking at the industry sectors with the highest potential increases (and yes also with the highest levels of uncertainty), they are not usually associated with a prime performance objective of speed. I think these sectors are usually more associated with prime performance objectives such as quality, flexibility or dependability.
So what can we make of these reports?

2024-05-21 16:16:29

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2024-05-21 08:44:33

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Yes, sounds like nonsense that "AI" increases productivity by five time!!
This recent report says generative AI may increase productivity by 20-50%.
[pwc.com/us/en/tech-effect/ai-a…](https://www.pwc.com/us/en/tech-effect/ai-analytics/generative-ai-takeaways-for-cios.html )
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