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I have a foot in two worlds. "By day" I work in data science, currently as a data science manager at Uber, but previously in data science management roles at Quora and Facebook. Online, I write about data science and also about neuroscience from my time as a visiting scholar at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley where I worked on computational models of vision. I have also been an entrepreneur (founded two startups) and a technology consultant with a focus on scalable application architecture and collaboration systems.
Homepage: www.pking.org Quora: www.quora.com/profile/Paul-King-2 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/pdking
NeXT is definitely the mother of today's Apple. OSX is the NeXT operating system and application stack repackaged with the Mac look-and-feel. More importantly, Steve put the entire NeXT management team in all the VP…
NeXT's "success" is definitely owed to the Apple acquisition, which almost didn't happen. DBKit was basically discarded and redesigned as EOF, which did make it into the Mac. I'm not sure EOF made it into the iPhone,…
Trauma wasn't Steve's strategy; it was a side-effect of his strategy. His strategy was demanding an unreasonable level of excellence and being indifferent to how the people who worked for him might be impacted. Those…
The work environment at NeXT was amazing because of the colleagues. That particular weekend was demoralizing and disillusioned me about Steve Jobs, not because of the criticism, but because it was so out of touch with…
The demo for Steve was originally scheduled on a weekday the week previous, but kept getting rescheduled by Steve. Maybe it was a low priority for him and he thought he already knew what it was going to be. The preview…
I'm surprised a demo visibly failed. Steve almost always had a hidden backup computer and an engineer following along with the preplanned demo in lockstep. If the machine crashed, a switch could be through and the demo…
It was DBKit, the precursor to EOF. DBKit started life as a sales demo to show that the NeXT was useful enough to connect to a real corporate database. The demo was so popular that the field asked it to be integrated…
One of my managers in a former data science job reviewed a 15 slide deck and gave me feedback. On 4 slides he said "ok"; on the other 11, he said "so what?"
I'm a computational neuroscientist (and data scientist and software engineer and startup founder). The general principle in the brain is that the individual neurons (there are 25 billion in the cerebral cortex)…