Robotics failures

Power Point Eye Charts

The other day I was obliged to step in and give a couple of different presentations in front of technical audiences using Power Point decks assembled by other team members. The material was reasonably familiar (n-tier web architecture); but, nearly every slide was an impossible tangled eye chart. As engineers and architects we love to […]

Marketing genius

Gotta love the marketing genius… brand new home automation product that states: “Works with incandescent lighting and resistive loads (do NOT use with tube lights, motors, fans, or loads under 20 Watts).” Hate to tell you folks, but incandescent lights are all but GONE and most LED lights operate at under 20w). Doh!

Automated trading

A great example of how automated stock trading has become. . . https://gizmodo.com/hooters-whispers-blockchain-and-its-parent-company-s-1821706292