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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years ago

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HOW TO INVESTORS

He wanted to do everything. For example, Ben Silbermann noticed that a lot of altitude. For example, suppose Y Combinator offers to fund you in return for 6% of your company. There's inevitably a difference in how things feel within the company. That turned out to be valuable for hardware startups. So if you need to do two things, especially, it usually works best to get something in front of users as soon as it has a quantum of utility, and then sit around offering crits of one another's creations under the vague supervision of the teacher. It's oddly nondeterministic. Most startups that use the contained fire strategy do it unconsciously.1 And if you want to do good work, what you need to do: find a question that makes the product good. And so, by word of mouth online than our first PR firm got through the print media.

So our rule is just to get you talking. Kids who went to MIT or Harvard or Stanford and sometimes find ourselves thinking: they must be smarter than they seem. The four causes: open source, which makes you unattractive to investors. The initial idea is that, financially at least, that high level languages are often all treated as equivalent. The problem with spam is that in order to hack Unix, and Perl for system administration and cgi scripts. Being good is a particularly useful strategy for making decisions in complex situations because it's stateless. But this mistake is less excusable than most. I didn't think of that as your task? They all knew their work like a piano player knows the keys. By looking at their actions rather than their words. Almost everyone hates their dissertation by the time you face the horror of writing a dissertation. But because the product is not appealing enough.

Understand your users. It's not just that it makes you unhappy, but that it's obvious. If you use this method, you'll get roughly the same answer I just gave. But invariably they're larger in your imagination than in real life. Try making your customer service not merely good, but surprisingly good. If 98% of the time you're doing product development on spec, it will be easy to get more to. In the so-called real world this need is a great curiosity about a promising question to explore. The default euphemism for algorithm is system and method. Rejection is almost always a function of its founders. Since we would do anything to get users, we did. You can't answer that; if you could count on investors saving you. It's more efficient for us, and better for the company with the addition of some new person, then they're worth n such that i 1/1-n.

One thing I can say is that 99. The world changes fast, and the people you'd meet there would be wrong too. Do you have to publish novel results to advance their careers, but there was a triple pressure toward the center. And I agree you shouldn't underestimate your potential. Fixed-size series A rounds.2 But if you get a lot of time on sales and marketing. But it wasn't just TV. They win by locking competitors out of business. Understanding your users is part of half the principles in this list. I could give an example of what I mean by getting something done is learning how to write well, or how to draw the human face from life.

Offers from the very best hackers tend to be idealistic. Perhaps dramatically so, if automation had decreased the need for some kind of connection. It's just not reasonable to expect startups to pick an optimal round size in advance, because that means I hadn't been thinking about them. I need to be a good thing. And the best way not to seem desperate is not to lose your cool. Don't worry if a project doesn't seem to be overkill. That's one advantage of being small: you can use in this situation. If you have additional expenses, like manufacturing, add in those at the end. In this case, the device is the world's economy, which fortunately happens to be closest. Are some kinds of work better sources of habits of mind as well, and that you should expect to take heroic measures at first. That's the key.

The big danger is that you'll dismiss your startup. If we think 20th century cohesion was something that happened at least in a sense naturally. Though quite successful, it did not crush Apple. The one example I've found is, embarrassingly enough, Yahoo, which filed a patent suit against a gaming startup called Xfire in 2005. The summer founders were as a rule very idealistic. Even people who hate you for it believe it. For PhD programs, the professors do. Convertible notes let startups beat such deadlocks by rewarding investors willing to move first with lower effective valuations.3 Many investors will ask how much you learn in college and those you'll use in a job, except perhaps as a classics professor, but it was surprising to realize there were purely benevolent projects that had to be pretty convincing to overcome this.4 Only a few companies have been smart enough to realize this so far. I thought: how much does that investment have to improve your average outcome for you to break even?

I'm sure there are game companies out there working on products with more intellectual content than the research at the bottom of the file; don't feel obliged to cover any of them; write for a reader who won't read the essay as carefully as you do, talk to them all in parallel, because some are more promising prospects than others. So I want to invest in startups when it's still unclear how they'll do. It won't get you a job, it may not just be because they're academics, detached from the real world, programs are bigger, tend to involve existing code, for example have been granted large numbers of preposterously over-broad patents, but not to be Henry Ford. Often to make something people want? Which means if letting the founders sell some stock directly to them, they had the confidence to notice it. You can't trust the opinions of the others, because of the Blub paradox to your advantage: you can provide a level of service no big company can. More powerful programming languages make programs shorter. These turn out to be more true in software than other businesses. That's too uncertain. I do with most of the startups we've funded have, and Jessica does too, mostly, because she's gotten into sync with us. These guys want to get market price, work on something you're good at.

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Our secret is to fork off separate processes to deal with them. In the early years of training, and a company tuned to exploit it. The best way for a startup. Many people feel confused and depressed in their early twenties compressed into the work goes instead into the heads of would-be-evil end.

They won't like you raising other money and disputes. As far as I know of any that died from releasing something stable but minimal very early, then used a technicality to get going, and Smartleaf co-founders Mark Nitzberg and Olin Shivers at the mercy of circumstances: court decisions striking down state anti-recommendation. Incidentally, I'm just going to be extra skeptical about Viaweb too.

Emmett Shear, and philosophy the imprecise half.

To help clarify the matter. Whereas there is some kind of kludge you need a higher growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a valuable technique that any given person might have.

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xmxisxforxmaybe · 6 years ago

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Decryption_Error: “The Aftermath”

Summary: Y/N has to deal with the aftermath of the incident in the server room, and not only does she have to worry about losing Elliot’s trust, but she has to navigate through the dirty layers of what it means to be a “Wall Street darling.”

Story Summary, “The Server Room, Part I”, “The Server Room, Part II” “The Long Weekend, Part I”, “The Long Weekend, Part II”

Word Count: 5300

Tags: @sherlollydramoine @rami-malek-trash @teamwolf2411 @limabein @txmel @hopplessdreamer @ouatlovr @backoftheroomandnotbelonging @alottanothing @moon-stars-soul @free-rami

If you want added, let me know.

A/N: HUGE thanks to @alottanothing for helping me through this chapter. I couldn’t have done it without her cheerleading and feedback 💕

It took an extra coat of concealer to cover up the purple under my eyes from not sleeping at all, and to top off not sleeping, my beauty blender broke, the top tearing off just as I finished a light blend of my foundation. I threw it in the trash, hoping it wasn’t an omen for how the day was going to go.

The train ride into work served as nothing more than calisthenicsfor my mind. I replayed my plan over and over again and tried to predict as many outcomes as I could before I found myself swiping my badge to get into CIStech.

I was early and not even Jayne was there yet to set a meeting with Miles, so I headed into the server room and performed a few more patches on the OS. Other than that, everything seemed to be operating as normal. Looking around the room, it was like nothing had ever happened. Once again, I found myself thinking about how absurd life is, just how complicated it can become in a single moment.

Speaking of complicated, things with Elliot were now permanently complicated. We had definitely moved from work-friends to friends, and then there was that kiss on the rooftop. The one I initiated after lecturing Elliot about waiting to know if what he felt was real—if I was this confused, I couldn’t imagine what he was feeling.

I shook my head and tried to tamp down the series of questions running through my mind—nothing could be answered until I dealt with the aftermath of the server room. When I asked Elliot to kiss me during the fireworks, this was why—today, everything would change. I just didn’t know if it would be for the better, the worse, or like most things, somewhere in between.

As I made my way back to my office, I startled Jayne who was just settling into her desk.

“Good morning!” she said, her eyes wide, her voice pitched high.

“Sorry to scare you,” I began as I gave her a quick smile. “I need you to set a meeting with Miles—his earliest convenience. Then, I need a meeting set with Colin and JaLeah as soon as they walk in the door.

“Got it. Anything else?”

“Not at the moment.”

I sighed as I entered my office, my thoughts returning to Elliot. I thought about the way he looked in that server room, how scared and confused. I thought about the way he acquiesced and just let me take care of him—the way he seemed so desperate to know someone cared. I thought about the way his hair felt as I ran my fingers through it when we were stoned. I thought about the feeling of his lips on mine. And I thought about the way I felt so lonely once he was gone.

I pulled out my lime green sticky notes, and I quickly scrawled, No matter what happens today, I still owe you a night that ends with making s’mores :)

I walked out and slid it under Elliot’s keyboard so just the edge was peeking out.

An hour went by as I checked my email and compiled the data I knew I’d need for my meeting. Franco had sent his bill, so I printed it out for Miles’ approval before it went to accounting.

The office came to life as the early morning waned; although I hadn’t forgotten about what was ahead, I did enter a zone of deep concentration. When Colin and JaLeah walked into my office and shut the door, my stomach dropped as reality immediately sharpened back into focus.

“What the hell happened, Y/N?” Colin demanded, his hands shoved in his pockets while his eyes drilled into mine.

“Take a seat. Both of you. I was hoping Miles would be here so I’d only have to tell this story once.”

“It would’ve been nice to have known something before I got bombarded in the elevator by half of my team.”

“I’m sorry, Colin. I didn’t see any reason to alert you over the weekend because I took care of the damage.”

“Damage?’ JaLeah asked, her eyebrow raised.

I pushed back from my desk and walked over to the round table. Instead of joining them, I stood and leaned onto the chair in front of me, my sweaty palms resting on the edges.

“A few of the white hats thought it would be easier to lock Elliot in the server room than actually do their job and fix the holes he kept finding.”

JaLeah’s eyes widened and Colin’s fingers began to drum on the table.

“While Elliot was locked in, four towers were damaged. I came in yesterday and set up four new servers, so everything is up and running smoothly. It’s like nothing ever happened, minus the bill for new servers.”

“Howwere the servers damaged?” Colin asked, even though it was clear he already knew the answer.

I was quiet for a few seconds, wishing JaLeah was in charge of the white hats because she didn’t an aversion to Elliot, unlike Colin.

“Elliot had a bad reaction to being locked up,” I said, keeping my voice even.

“You call smashing four towers to bits with his fists a ‘bad reaction’?”

“They weren’t smashed ‘to bits.’” I said, my fingers clutching at the top of the chair while I fought to keep my voice even.

“What the fuck is it with you and this guy?” Colin said, pushing back from the desk, his leg bouncing as his agitation grew.

“He needs fired. Now!”

“Fired because he got bullied at work? Do you watch the news, Colin? That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen,” I said, knowing Elliot would never put himself at the mercy of the legal system, but also knowing I could use this angle to help save his job.

“That’s what happens when you hire an anti-social freak who’s probably a part of some underground hacking ring!” Colin yelled, his face reddening.

I pushed off the chair and rounded on Colin.

“Elliot is not a freak, and once again you’re proving yourself to be a real jerk.”

“I don’t give a shit, Y/N. I’m tired of listening to my team complain about him. We never had this problem before.”

“And since we put Elliot on the team, how many tech issues, you know the ones we get paid to fix, have we had thanks to his automation scripts, huh? Did you forget my job is to track all of that? I just presented those numbers to you last week or were you too busy shoving your own head up your ass to listen?”

“Don’t you talk to me like that, Y/N. You may have your job because of who your father is, but I earnedthis position after years of doing good work.”

“Go ahead! Start proving my incompetence, Colin, since I’m only here because of my last name,” I said, gesturing at the chair behind my desk. “Sit down. Give it a whirl!”

“I don’t want your job, Y/N,” Colin said, finally taking his eyes off my face. “I just don’t want unnecessary stress because one person can’t play nice.”

JaLeah, who had been watching our confrontation with a cool, steady gaze, spoke up.

“Who locked Elliot in?”

“Aaron, Julia, Maurice, Corey, and Ali are the ones who signed out the latest, at the same time, mind you, on Friday night,” I said, careful to hide the fact I had more information, careful to preserve Elliot’s trust I had worked to gain.

Colin immediately asked, “So that’s it? You walk into a destroyed server room—”

“Damaged. Not destroyed—”

“And that’s all Alderson tells you? He got locked in? I call bullshit. No way the guy didn’t rat out who did it.”

“Fill me in, then, because you sure as hell seem to know a lot considering you weren’t there,” I bit back.

“What doyou know, Colin?” JaLeah said, her interruption reminding Colin and me we were in a professional setting, not a back alley gearing up to throw fists.

Colin huffed and rolled his eyes.

“I talked to Corey—it was just a bit of hazing. They were going to go back in a few hours and let him out, but he was gone—”

“Bullshit. No one else entered the building until I came back on Monday.”

Colin shrugged his shoulders, “They knew he’d gotten out.”

“Five adults locked another adult in a secure room, knowing there was no way out! Elliot didn’t have his phone or his badge on him and I guarantee they made sure of that.”

“What did they do—steal them?” Colin asked, a chuckle in his voice.

“You’re a fucking bully,” I said, my temper rising again.

“And you’re spoiled—just another Wall Street darling,” Colin spat.

“Colin, you are out of line,” JaLeah said just as the intercom buzzed and Jayne’s voice interrupted.

“Mr. Hanson is here to see you, Y/N.”

I moved to my desk and answered, Miles entering even before I even pulled my finger from the button on the intercom.

“What’s going on?” Miles asked as the door closed behind him. “You assured me it was nothing you couldn’t handle, Y/N.”

I gestured to the table for him to have a seat as JaLeah rose and said, “I should get back to supervising my teams since none of them were involved, right?”

I nodded and we were all quiet as JaLeah walked out.

Miles’ bright green eyes flicked between the two of us and settled on me. He plopped his phone on the table and waited, his perfectly manicured nails not yet drumming, but clearly itching to.

Miles was no-nonsense and valued numbers far more than people; in other words, he was just the sort of corporate guy that would one day rise to the top. His main concern was keeping his reputation spotless so nothing would serve as an impediment to his climb.

“There was an incident on Friday,” I began as I shot Colin a warning glance. He knew he couldn’t play his little game in front of Miles because it would publicly call out that Miles may have promoted me because of my father. It took a long time, but I had myself pretty convinced Miles hired me because of my abilities. But at times, especially at times like this, I couldn’t ignore the niggling reminder that I knew it wasn’t wholly true. All I could do was my best work to remind everyone I was deserving—yes, I was born lucky, but I worked hard to be deserving.

Miles kept his eyes fixed on mine as I sighed and took a seat at the table. I recounted every detail of Friday night, up until the part where I took Elliot home.

“So, an employee destroying company property is what this boils down to,” Miles said in his matter-of-fact tone.

“I think the circumstance warrants some pretty heavy merit, Miles.”

“Colin?”

“I expressed my distrust of Elliot on the day Y/N hired him—I just knew something was off. I knew something like this would happen.”

“I don’t deal in feelings, woulds, or coulds. I only deal in facts,” Miles said, giving Colin a pointed look.

“The fact is,” I said, “Elliot was a victim of workplace harassment. Events like this are taken seriously now.”

Miles gave me a measured look before nodding his head.

“What do you suggest, Y/N?”

“Colin and I conduct a formal investigation into the events surrounding what happened in the server room on Friday night. When the guilty parties are found, we fire them.”

“Oh, no way!” Colin interjected, his voice panicked. “Elliot Alderson should be fired. The others should get letters of reprimand in their file for unbegetting conduct in the workplace or something like that. Theydidn’t destroy company property!”

“The last time I checked, Colin, you didn’t have the authority to fire anyone.”

“You’re impossible, Y/N. You’ve turned this Alderson kid into some sort of charity case.”

“Charity? The fact he outperforms every single member of your white hat team has nothing to do with it, right? I am an expert in data analysis in case you’ve forgotten,” I said as I stood up and grabbed a file off of my desk.

I spread out the charts I had used at our meeting and focused on the parts I had revisited this morning to highlight Elliot’s performance. Elliot’s numbers spoke to his brilliance behind the screen, his outperformance of his teammates clear.

Miles looked over the charts, his eyes scanning every piece of information.

“Is this when Alderson was hired?” Miles asked, pointing to a date.

“Yes.”

“Impressive. Not only has our overall performance in prevention increased, but it looks the flaws in our security network have decreased by 32% since his hiring. Do you really think that can be ignored, Colin?”

Colin’s mouth was drawn into the tiniest line I had ever seen. I was pretty sure his lips had become a part of his face, completely absorbed into the skin surrounding his mouth.

He settled for a headshake no.

“I’m not going to spend any more time on this. Y/N, I want you to compile a job performance chart like this for each of the other employees in question. Set an example of them, but make sure it’s one that impacts CIStech the least. Any questions?”

“How is this fair? She could make those numbers show anything she wants!”

“And why would she manipulate data, Colin? Is there a shortage of cybersecurity engineers in New York City I am unaware of? An example must be set because we can’t run the risk of a lawsuit. I question just how closely you have been supervising your team, if I’m being straight with you.”

Colin’s mouth popped open and I watched as his lips reappeared. I did my best not to grin because Miles had put Colin right in his fucking place.

“Will that be all?” Miles asked pointedly.

“Yes,” Colin said.

“Thank you, Y/N, for ensuring our operations were not disrupted.”

“Elliot helped me set everything up yesterday—he feels terribly about the whole thing.”

Miles paused on his way out and added, “I want everything taken care of today. I’ll be checking in with HR at the end of the day to see what action you’ve taken. Work together.”

I walked behind my desk and sat down, sighing.

“It will take me about an hour to compile performance assessments on the five of them.”

“Don’t bother. I can tell you how this is going to go.”

“I’m not firing Elliot.”

“Of course that’s not an option now. You know how to play the right cards with Miles.”

I raised my brow and asked, “So how, then, is this going to go?”

“Julia, fired. She couldn’t hack her way out of a paper bag. She’s only on the team because Aaron recommended her and carries her workload. Aaron, now he’s good. I would like to keep him. Maurice, he can go. No real loss there. Ali and Corey,” Colin said, chuckling and shaking his head. “Well, you’re fucked. Corey’s dad is the CEO of Wells Fargo, so Corey gets to have any job for any length of time he wants it.”

I huffed, but before I could speak, Colin continued.

“And Ali,” Colin said. “Ali is the son of the first female to run a publicly traded bank in Saudi Arabia—

the family’s damn near royalty. Do you know what people will say about us if wefire Ali Olayan?”

I knew that a lot of people who worked for CIStech or for Precision Machining had connections, especially people in management. I did not know the extent of Ali and Corey’s connections, but it made sense. Neither of them had gone to college, yet they immediately secured positions with us.

“Why the hell are they even working?” I asked, my voice biting into the still of the office.

Coling laughed, an actual laugh so that his eyes crinkled at the corner.

“Why are youworking?”

“I work because I need to,” I said quietly as Colin ceased his laughter and turned a pointed glare to my face.

“I’d love to live off of daddy’s money--travel, do what I want, live how I want.”

“It’s not in my nature. I need to have direction. Purpose. Without either of those things, I’d end up in an asylum.”

Colin frowned, unwilling to make eye contact.

“Other people’s problems always look much better than your own.”

“Give me an hour to compile the reports.”

“You’re the boss,” Colin said as he got up and walked toward the door.

“Do not say anything to your team other than giving the directive to finish patching the holes Elliot found on Friday.”

Colin gave me a wave of acknowledgement as he left.

I gathered the performance data, and as I waited for each report to print, I thought back to Friday night. Elliot deserved to know there was good in the world—it just sucked that good always seemed to come with a limit. Sure, we can dole out some justice, but only some. Society isn’t ready, may have never been and may never will be, to house anything that is truly good.

And that just fucking sucks.

I pulled the charts from my printer and went over to the conference table and got to work analyzing each one. As it turned out, Colin wasn’t wrong. Julia was definitely out of place amongst the white hats, but Aaron had done a damn good job. While Maurice outperformed Julia, he underperformed Aaron, so Maurice was neutral territory.

Ali, as it turned out, was a damn good white hat, his numbers second only to Elliot’s. However, Corey seemed to perform somewhere in the in-between along with Maurice.

If we went by numbers alone, Ali and Aaron should stay, while Julia, Corey and Maurice were fired. However, I knew I couldn’t escape Corey’s connection. The wave his firing could make for Miles would end my own career.

I buzzed Jayne and asked her to send in Colin.

I relayed my findings, and Colin said, “What about Alderson?”

“We’ve been over this—”

“No, we haven’t. All you’ve said is, ‘I’m not firing him.’ Fine, but something has to happen.”

“What do you suggest?”

“Letter of reprimand so it’s on file for the next time something goes wrong.”

“Colin—”

“Yeah, yeah. I know. Seriously, though. I’ll accept Miles’ suggestion of listing it as ‘damage to company property.’”

I sighed, knowing I had to agree.

Colin was also quiet for a minute before he said, “Not that I care, but I do want to say this so I can say I told you so; Getting too close to Elliot Alderson has probably never ended well for anyone.”

“Don’t worry—I’d never think you could actually care about my life. But look at how well isolating him has worked out,” I added.

Colin shrugged. “Let’s get this show on the road.”

“Jayne—can you send in Julia?”

As it turned out, none of the five were surprised at being summoned into my office. While it was clear Julia and Maurice expected a repercussion, it was equally as clear they didn’t think it would be as severe as being fired. Julia sat stone-faced, her leg bouncing as she listened to the reasons CIStech was choosing to part with her services, and Maurice’s eyes filled with tears. I assured both of them they would get letters of recommendation from Colin.

Aaron, perhaps the most humbled and humiliated out of all of them, issued a thoughtful apology to us and as I would later learn, to Elliot. Instead of accepting a letter in his file, Aaron issued his resignation. I knew Miles wouldn’t be particularly pleased because someone else would scoop him up, but an unblemished record was important to Aaron.

When Corey walked in the room, I would more accurately describe it as a saunter. He knew he was untouchable and it finally occurred to me that that’s what I didn’t like about him—his arrogance. Corey wasn’t arrogant in an obvious way, well, not until he pulled his little stunt with Elliot.

Corey was subtly arrogant. It was in the way he smirked, in the way he took control of conversations to direct them to something he wanted to discuss. It was the kind of arrogance that was bred into a person—the kind of arrogance that got his father his job.

“Well, Corey,” I began. “I assume you know why you’re here.”

“Actually, I’m a bit perplexed,” he said, barely containing a smirk.

“Cut the shit, Corey,” Colin began, and for a minute, I actually liked him.

Corey gave Colin a measured look before turning his eyes back to me.

“It was a joke. We didn’t mean for it to get out of hand.”

“Corey, why do you work for CIStech?” I asked, throwing him off his game a little.

“I have an affinity for computers—always have.”

“But why thiscompany?” I said, careful not to push it too far, careful not to say, when you could get any job you want in your own father’s company.

“I like that it’s a mid-size company. I like the job I do and the people I work with, for the most part. I feel like I can learn a lot about the way a big company like Precision Machining operates by how it works to protects its assets.”

I listened, trying to get a read on how much of what Corey said was a truth or a lie, and how much was grey. I had a feeling Corey lived in a world of grey, of always pushing to see how much he could do without suffering a consequence.

“Corey—you’re off the white hat team. . .for obvious reasons. As of tomorrow, you will report to JaLeah for your duties,” Colin barked, uninterested in my question or Corey’s reply.

Corey nodded, his eyes roaming the room as if he were bored.

“Please consider this letter a memorialization of the conversation we held today. Note that any further transgressions against any personnel in this company will result in your termination,” I said.

“Where do I sign?”

I swallowed my disgust as Corey left the office, the scratching of the pen as he signed his name the last noise issued from him. No apology, no thanks for the leniency—nothing.

“Why do you hold such disdain for me and not for him?” I asked, knowing I shouldn’t care about Colin’s opinion, but also knowing my mind would never give me peace until I asked.

“Oh, it’s equal amounts of spite for all of you Wall Street darlings. It’s just I still have some power over Corey. For whatever reason, he listens to me. Plus, the dude’s a beast at our pick-up games on Saturdays and I like to win,” Colin finished, smirking at me.

He continued, “Get over it, Y/N. He might be your boss someday and we will lick his bootheels just like every other clown that came before him and will come after him.”

Nope—shouldn’t have asked. Should’ve just let my mind wonder,I thought.

“Jayne,” I said into the intercom. “Send in Ali.”

While Ali was as visibly unshaken as Corey, he lacked Corey’s arrogance. Ali was much smarter than Corey and his family was quite strict. His family trusted Ali to conduct himself with propriety and to maintain the legacy his mother was working to build.

Ali apologized and readily signed the letter; however, Colin was keeping him on the white hats.

“If you ever even sneeze in Alderson’s direction, you’re off the team.”

“I understand, sir.”

There was only one more meeting left, and my stomach was clenched in knots. I did my best to maintain a front of only casually caring, but I wanted to get this over with as painlessly as possible.

“Jayne—send in Elliot.”

I closed my eyes for a moment and hoped against hope that Elliot would be okay, that this moment wouldn’t ruin the trust we had begun to build.

“Hello, Elliot,” I said as I gestured toward the empty seat at the conference table.

“Hello,” Elliot replied quietly without looking up at me.

“Sorry to interrupt—” came Jayne’s voice over the intercom. “Mr. Hanson is here.”

“Send him in, Jayne,” I said after walking over to answer her and wondering why the fuck Miles was coming in for thismeeting.

If Elliot didn’t appear nervous before, he certainly did now. I could see the movement of his eyes beneath his lids as he examined the floor, probably counting the fibers in the damn rug under the conference table.

“Carry on,” Miles said, as he took a seat at the table, his eyes glued to his phone.

I cleared my throat, praying to god my voice didn’t give out.

“I understand several employees conducted themselves in a manner unbefitting of CIStech’s code of ethics. Those employees’ behaviors have been addressed, and we apologize for the stress endured as a result of their actions.”

When I said, “we,” Elliot looked directly at me. I averted my gaze, shame reverberating through my mind for what was about to come next.

“However, even though your actions in the server room were a direct consequence of their actions, we must issue you a letter of reprimand for the destruction of company property.”

Miles set aside his phone and interrupted, finally providing an answer for why he unexpectedly dropped in.

“Listen, Mr. Alderson,” Miles began. “Y/N is as professional as they come, so I wanted to drop in off the record. Your job performance is outstanding, and we don’t want to lose you as an employee. I am sorry this happened to you, and I want to do anything I can to help you think of CIStech as an ideal work environment.”

Elliot just looked at Miles, his eyes unnerving and unblinking before he finally said, “You’re lucky to have someone like Y/N in charge. I’m sure nothing like this will happen again under her supervision.”

I couldn’t believe Elliot was defending me—I was so shocked that I almost laughed out loud. Here I am, on the opposite side of the table, having agreed to his reprimand, and he’s defending me.

“I agree. She’s proven herself an asset time and time again,” Miles said, shooting me a brief smile.

Colin hmphed, a noise that did not go unnoticed by Elliot, but I’m pretty sure only I caught the quick flicker of his eyes in Colin’s direction.

“Just don’t be surprised to see our appreciation for your skills reflected in your new contract after the next round of employee evals,” Miles added, smiling briefly at Elliot before he turned his head to me, waiting for me to finish the reprimand.

I cleared my throat again, and said,“This letter serves as a memorialization of the conversation we held today. Please sign and date.”

Elliot’s eyes flew over the words on the page and he picked up the pen and scrawled his name and the date.

“That’s it, Elliot. Again, you have my apologies on behalf of CIStech and if you can offer any suggestions to better the working environment, I would look forward to talking with you,” Miles said, once again looking up from his phone.

Elliot nodded, but said nothing as he stood to leave.

The three of us watched him exit before Miles then dismissed Colin.

“Damn, Colin really bugs me. I shouldn’t say that, but he’s really such an—”

“Asshole,” I finished.

Miles chuckled.

“Exactly. Listen, I need to have my secretary put all this paperwork through to HR, but what do you say we leave at 5:00 and hit up that bar on Cedar Street?”

I had to admit that after today, a drink or two did seem in order.

As I walked out to meet up with Miles, much earlier than my usual quitting time, I met Elliot’s eyes. He paused his typing to watch my movement, his eyes quickly taking in my handbag and my tote.

I gave him a small smile, but turned my gaze forward, not wanting to draw attention to him or to myself.

By the time I got home around 7:00, I had a bit of a buzz. I probably shouldn’t have drank as much as I did, but it felt good to unload some of the day’s stress. After changing into some comfy clothes and rummaging around the fridge, I texted Elliot—my fingers had been itching to do it since the second I walked out of the office.

While some of the day’s stress was over, I still had no idea how much damage I had done to my relationship with Elliot.

Y/N: Hey—not sure what the appropriate greeting is for someone I just gave a letter of repri to?

I prayed to whatever higher power that existed he would answer. Just as I popped some leftovers into the microwave, my phone buzzed.

E: Hey about covers it.

Y/N: I’m sorry. I didn’t want anything to go on your record.

E: It’s okay. It’s not like I exactly used my head on Friday night.

Y/N: I really am sorry, Elliot. But I also want to thank you for what you said about me. You didn’t have to say that.

E: I meant it, Y/N. You did more for me than I deserved and I just wanted someone to know that even if they can’t ever know just how much you did.

I stared at my phone and wished to god text messages were capable of conveying emotion. I wanted to know what Elliot meant by that. Was he implying I was ashamed of our friendship? Did he think I crossed line by helping him? Or was he just expressing gratitude? Maybe I was overthinking it like usual.

I jumped a little when my phone buzzed because I was so deep into asking myself unanswerable questions.

E: Actually everyone’s been nicer.

Y/N: Omg. Did people actually ask you about Friday night?

E: Not outright. It was like everyone just knew. Said they heard something went down and that it sucked. Said they were sorry people were such assholes. Aaron apologized and offered to take me to lunch.

Y/N: No way that you went lol

E: lol nah. But it was a nice gesture.

I waited, wondering if Elliot would text me anything else. I felt unsatisfied by our conversation, but didn’t want to force him into talking to me. I fiddled with my phone, typing and deleting, typing and deleting, eventually just tossing it on the counter and sighing.

E: Lol is there something else you want to say?

I laughed. Of course Elliot was watching his phone, probably almost-laughing in that way of his at my indecisive text bubble.

Y/N: Honestly? I don’t know…I just don’t want to stop talking to you.

E: Then don’t : )

My stomach did a little flip and a grin spread across my face. I settled in on the sofa, thinking of what to say next, knowing that it didn’t really matter because Elliot didn’t want to run, didn’t want to retreat inside of himself even though it was a difficult day for him.

I hadn’t ruined our relationship.

And now the aftermath was over. Elliot wasn’t fired, and even though I wasn’t happy with keeping Ali and Corey, I was only one person in a huge company and a Wall Street darling myself.

How much could one person really change in a day?

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Importance of artificial intelligence in upcoming years

1.What is artificial intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence is a technique of creating a computer machines, a computer-controlled robots, or a computer code assume showing intelligence, within the similar manner the intelligent humans assume.

AI is accomplished by learning however human brain thinks, and the way humans learn, decide, and work whereas making an attempt to unravel a drag, so victimization the outcomes of this study as a basis of developing intelligent computer code and systems.

2.What is AI Technique?

In the globe, the data has some unwelcome properties − • Its volume is big, next to unthinkable. • It isn't well-organized or well-formatted. • It keeps dynamic perpetually. AI Technique could be a manner to prepare and use the data expeditiously in such how that − • It ought to be perceivable by the people that give it. • It should be simply modifiable to correct errors. • It should be helpful in several things though' it's incomplete or inaccurate. AI techniques elevate the speed of execution of the advanced program it's equipped with

Why We Need AI

We are growing at immense rate, say it in terms of population, scripted information, tasks etc. Increasing in scale additionally increase entropy in system, demanding immense range of tasks to be machine-driven, and centralized. AI in straightforward words is implementing human senses in machines. Humans can certainly take pleasure in AI. though' we tend to are seeing automation of tasks is resulting in job cutting, in long term it's getting to end up to be a significant profit. AI will certainly method all trivial tasks at immense pace compared to humans. Traffic management, Automating Support, Automating producing, Fraud Detection, Imposing Laws without corruption etc.

3. Difference between Human and Machine Intelligence

Humans perceive by patterns whereas the machines perceive by set of rules and data. Humans store and recall information by patterns, machines do it by searching algorithms. For example, the number 40404040 is easy to remember, store, and recall as its pattern is simple. Humans can figure out the complete object even if some part of it is missing or distorted; whereas the machines cannot do it correctly.

4. Advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence

Advantages I. Minimum fault: we have a tendency to use AI in many ways for reducing the mistakes and acquire most accuracy in work.

II. Everyday utilization: AI is employed by everybody WHO is cognizant with technology essentially AI is employed in every machine whom we've to attach on a daily basis and that we got to simply command and acquire results.

III. Digital Assistant: victimization AI IT field produce Digital assistant WHO will create your life simple we will foreplay song, seek for America, and lots of different things that we will raise a digital assistant to try and do for America. IV. Time saver: AI has done work additional quicker than humans moreover it absolutely was one style of machine thus it'll never tired from work and never tack break thus it will work quicker thus it'll save the time of humans.

V. Efficient work: Human typically do mistakes in their work not intensely however by mistake however they are doing the error that's one among the largest reason we'd like AI as a result of AI did work with none mistake and provides a really economical work

Disadvantages: I. dependent on AI: After launching AI somewhere human was less or additional dependent on AI. that is one style of unhealthy habits human addicted. once AI humans all work dependent on AI that grabs in dependency. II. In future AI become smarter than Humans: day by day AI becomes smarter that scale back the wants of Humans and since of that human’s loss, the roles within the future and lots of the fields haven't any desires of human. III. reduce the facility of decision making: The computer gets smarter and human totally trusted machinery AI that snatches power of deciding from a person.

5. Is artificial intelligence necessary?

The straightforward answer is that computing has progressed to a degree wherever it's crucially dynamic industries by creating business answer effectively on an exceptional scale. We are a lucky generation to live during this age loaded with technological advancements. the days are gone once nearly everything was manually done, and currently we live in the amount wherever the work is taken management by machines, automatic processes, and numerous software system. Like this, computing (AI) contains a remarkable place in all the progression created these days. AI is simply the science of computers and machines making intelligence like humans. during this innovation, the machines will do a number of the straightforward to complicated works that humans need to do all the time. because the artificial intelligence frameworks are used on an everyday premise in our everyday life, it's right to mention that our lives have turned out to be progressed with the utilization of this technology.

6. How does artificial intelligence work?

I. Artificial intelligence is nothing but a program algorithm, it can be anything from finding the best hotel prices, booking tickets for anything, voice search and even image recognition or search.

II. That was the software part, coming to hardware, you will require an actual camera for image recognition, or a mic for voice search and yes�� a processing system on which you can actually store the algorithm and run it, like a laptop or a PC or even a mobile phone.

III.So, combining all this doesn't mean that you have an AI system up and running. You still have to TRAIN your system i.e. your algorithm has to run over and over again many numbers of times in order to get CORRECT results or to function properly.

IV. The above step is what can be said as the crux of the whole AI system. It’s called machine learning.

V. AI system has a neural network, this is the place where your input data is stored in pieces, this is the BRAIN of an AI and the process of understanding your AI better here is known as deep learning.

VI. You can actually TEACH an AI by various learning methods like supervised learning, unsupervised learning and lastly reinforced learning.

VII. AI today heavily depends on the data that is feed to it (THE ALGORITHM), which later processes it and then helps in the way it was designed to run.

VIII. The input sources like sensors etc. are much more mechanics related so wont write much about them describing.

7. The Future of Artificial Intelligence

I. Artificial intelligence is developing faster than you think, and speeding up exponentially

II. You use artificial intelligence all day, every day

III. Robots are definitely going to take your job

IV. About half of the AI community believes computers will be as smart as humans by 2040

V. A lot of smart people think developing artificial intelligence to human level is a dangerous thing to do

VI. Once artificial intelligence gets smarter than humans, we've got very little chance of understanding it

VII. There's no such thing as an “evil” artificial intelligence

VIII. There are three ways a super intelligent artificial intelligence could work

IX. Artificial intelligence could be the reason why we've never met aliens

X. Basically, there's a good chance we'll be extinct or immortal by the end of the century

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A while back i made my first post on automation ( If you're not using automation you're wasting your time and money) and got a fantastic response (And, full disclosure, a few leads too). Today I'd like to expand on this with another anecdote: Automation taking our jobs! In particular, about how a client (And an old time friend) was able to automate his own businessThe businessIn Why Automation Matters #3: How i achieved a temporary monopoly overnight i described a family business revolving around filing with a Gumasta Bureau in the city. Whenever we needed to make payment for an application to the government, the best way to do so was via a 'payment ticket' (Called 'challan' in India). Idea being, you'd go to the treasury's website, purchase a 'ticket' worth whatever amount you wanted to pay and then enter the ticket's serial code when filling out the application form to prove payment.My client (and friend) sold these tickets. Due to how time-consuming it was to generate these tickets, most businesses operating at scale did not generate their own tickets. Rather we'd buy a large number of serial codes from other vendors who charged $0.5 per ticket.The problemGenerating these tickets was not easy. The treasury's website was not built well and a single ticket might require you to navigate through as many as 20-30 pages. My client would for example receive an order for 500 tickets worth $10 each, his employees would then get to work filling out the application 500 times to purchase 500 $10 tickets. This was extremely time consuming and wasteful work.The solutionAfter a chat about automation, my client asked if this could be automated. Two weeks and $700 later I'd built a script that only asked the client three questions: The quantity of tickets required, the value of each ticket & the E-Mail ID of the customer. The script used cloud computing to scale on demand, allowing it to generate any quantity of tickets within a few minutes.An employee would enter the details, the client would approve it and the script would automatically generate tickets, E-Mail the customer a spreadsheet containing all the unique serial numbers & automatically invoice the customer for the total amount due. In a matter of days, my client had completely automated himself out of his own business, turning it into a money-printing machine requiring only one employee.Lessons learnedWith only a single script, the client was not only able to automate 75% of his workforce but to also give themselves a ton of time. No humans working all day means no need to supervise those humans, dealing with errors where a human entered an extra zero or forgot one and more. The client only needed to press the approve button a few times per day and that was that.Another lesson to be learnt here is that if my client hadn't done this, somebody else would have. And at that point that somebody else would have lowered prices to where my client couldn't compete and potentially even went out of business. In automation if you're not the first, you can easily become the last.As always, i hope this gave you a unique perspective on the power of automation. If you have any questions please feel free to comment, I'll answer as many as i can.

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New Coder: STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING!

You may be wondering why, after creating four blog posts encouraging non-coders to give it a shot, select a language and break down a problem into manageable pieces, I would now say to stop. The answer is simple, really: not everything is worth automating (unless, perhaps, you are operating at a similar scale to somebody Amazon).

The 80-20 Rule

Here's my guideline: figure out what tasks take up the majority (i.e. 80%) of your time in a given time period (in a typical week perhaps). Those are the tasks where making the time investment to develop an automated solution is most likely to see a payback. The other 20% are usually much worse candidates for automation where the cost of automating it likely outweighs the time savings.

As a side note, the tasks that take up the time may not necessarily be related to a specific work request type. For example, I may spend 40% of my week processing firewall requests, and another 20% processing routing requests, and another 20% troubleshooting connectivity issues. In all of these activities, I spend time identifying what device, firewall zone, or VRF various IP addresses are in, so that I can write the correct firewall rule, or add routing in the right places, or track next-hops in a traceroute where DNS is missing. In this case, I would gain the most immediate benefits if I could automate IP address research.

I don't want to be misunderstood; there is value in creating process and automation around how a firewall request comes into the queue, for example, but the value overall is lower than for a tool that can tell me lots of information about an IP address.

That Seems Obvious

You'd think that it was intuitive that we would do the right thing, but sometimes things don't go according to plan:

Feeping Creatures!

Once you write a helpful tool or an automation, somebody will come back and say, Ah, what if I need to know X information too? I need that once a month when I do the Y report. As a helpful person, it's tempting to immediately try and adapt the code to cover every conceivable corner case and usage example, but having been down that path, I counsel against doing so. It typically makes the code unmanageably complex due to all the conditions being evaluated and worse, it goes firmly against the 80-20 rule above. Feeping Creatures is a Spoonerism referring to Creeping Features, i.e. an always expanded feature list for a product.

A Desire to Automate Everything

There's a great story in What Do You Care What Other People Think (Richard Feynman) that talks about Mr. Frankel, who had developed a system using a suite of IBM machines to run the calculations for the atomic bomb that was being developed at Los Alamos.

"Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. [...] Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. [...] (H)e was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arctangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.

Absolutely useless. We had tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease -- the delight in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing."

It's exciting to automate things or to take a task that previously took minutes, and turn it into a task that takes seconds. It's amazing to watch the 80% shrink down and down and see productivity go up. It's addictive. And so, inevitably, once one task is automated, we begin looking for the next task we can feel good about, or we start thinking of ways we could make what we already did even better. Sometimes the coder is the source of creeping features.

It's very easy to lose touch with the larger picture and stay focused on tasks that will generate measurable gains. I've fallen foul of this myself in the past, and have been delighted, for example, with a script I spent four days writing, which pulled apart log entries from a firewall and ran all kinds of analyses on it, allowing you to slice the data any which way and generate statistics. Truly amazing! The problem is, I didn't have a use for most of the stats I was able to produce, and actually I could have fairly easily worked out the most useful ones in Excel in about 30 minutes. I got caught up in being able to do something, rather than actually needing to do it.

And So...

Solve A Real Problem

Despite my cautions above, I maintain that the best way to learn to code is to find a real problem that you want to solve and try to write code to do it. Okay, there are some cautions to add here, not the least of which is to run tests and confirm the output. More than once, I've written code that seemed great when I ran it on a couple of lines of test data, but then when I ran it on thousands of lines of actual data, I discovered oddities in the input data, or in the loop that processes all the data reusing variables carelessly or similar. Just like I tell my kids with their math homework, sanity check the output. If a script claims that a 10Gbps link was running at 30Gbps, maybe there's a problem with how that figure is being calculated.

Don't Be Afraid to Start Small

Writing a Hello World! script may feel like one of the most pointless activities you may ever undertake, but for a total beginner, it means something was achieved and, if nothing else, you learned how to output text to the screen. The phrase, "Don't try to boil the ocean," speaks to this concept quite nicely, too.

Be Safe!

If your ultimate aim is to automate production device configurations or orchestrate various APIs to dance to your will, that's great, but don't start off by testing your scripts in production. Use device VMs where possible to develop interactions with different pieces of software. I also recommend starting by working with read commands before jumping right in to the potentially destructive stuff. After all, after writing a change to a device, it's important to know how to verify that the change was successful. Developing those skills first will prove useful later on.

Learn how to test for, detect, and safely handle errors that arise along the way, particularly the responses from the devices you are trying to control. Sanitize your inputs! If your script expects an IPv4 address as an input, validate that what you were given is actually a valid IPv4 address. Add your own business rules to that validation if required (e.g. a script might only work with 10.x.x.x addresses, and all other IPs require human input). The phrase Garbage in, garbage out, is all too true when humans provide the garbage.

Scale Out Carefully

To paraphrase a common saying, automation allows you to make mistakes on hundreds of devices much faster that you could possibly do it by hand. Start small with a proof of concept, and demonstrate that the code is solid. Once there's confidence that the code is reliable, it's more likely to be accepted for use on a wider scale. That leads neatly into the last point:

Good Luck Convincing People

It seems to me that everybody loves scripting and automation right up to the point where it needs to be allowed to run autonomously. Think of it like the Google autonomous car: for sure, the engineering team was pretty confident that the code was fairly solid, but they wouldn't let that car out on the highway without human supervision. And so it is with automation; when the results of some kind of process automation can be reviewed by a human before deployment, that appears to be an acceptable risk from a management team's perspective. Now suggest that the human intervention is no longer required, and that the software can be trusted, and see what response you get.

A coder I respect quite a bit used to talk about blast radius, or what's the impact of a change beyond the box on which the change is taking place? Or what's the potential impact of this change as a whole? We do this all the time when evaluating change risk categories (is it low, medium, or high?) by considering what happens if a change goes wrong. Scripts are no different. A change that adds an SNMP string to every device in the network, for example, is probably fairly harmless. A change that creates a new SSH access-list, on the other hand, could end up locking everybody out of every device if it is implemented incorrectly. What impact would that have on device management and operations?

However...

I really recommend giving programming a shot. It isn't necessary to be a hotshot coder to have success (trust me, I am not a hotshot coder), but having an understanding of coding will, I believe, will positively impact other areas of your work. Sometimes a programming mindset can reveal ways to approach problems that didn't show themselves before. And while you're learning to code, if you don't already know how to work in a UNIX (Linux, BSD, MacOS, etc.) shell, that would be a great stretch goal to add to your list!

I hope that this mini-series of posts has been useful. If you do decide to start coding, I would love to hear back from you on how you got on, what challenges you faced and, ultimately, if you were able to code something (no matter how small) that helped you with your job!

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Meet the First Real Family Slated to Get Keys to Volvo’s Self-Driving XC90

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Volvo did away with the usual script during its time slot last week at the Detroit auto show. Instead of the customary unveiling of a new vehicle on its stage, the luxury carmaker unveiled a family.

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Stepping out of Sweden and into the spotlight were the Hains, a family of four who live near Volvo’s global headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden. They’re the first people enrolled in the company’s Drive Me program, a pilot project set up to analyze the interactions between autonomous technologies and human motorists. When they hit the road later this year in the properly equipped Volvo XC90, Alex, Paula, and their daughters, Filippa, 16, and Smilla, 13, may be the first ordinary people in the world to get keys to a self-driving car.

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The novelty of the technology aside, the family members say they are not necessarily eager to be public-road guinea pigs. They’re more interested in getting a glimpse of how autonomous cars might augment their lives by easing commutes and aiding the always delicate balance of work and leisure time. Both parents work, and their children are active in school activities and sports. “I think a self-driving car would add one thing to my life, and that’s time,” said Alex, an IT manager.

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The Hains’ appearance in Detroit served as a formal kickoff for the Drive Me program and underscored Volvo’s efforts to focus attention on one area of autonomous development that its leaders feel has been overlooked.

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“We are not standing there waving a chipboard and saying this is all about technology,” said Lex Kerssemakers, Volvo Car USA’s CEO. That approach, in the wake of the CES technology show last month, puts Volvo in lonely company. “In the end, we believe it’s all about people,” he said, “and those people are going to give us more insight on how they use the car. That’s why we want to put them in the spotlight.”

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Scheduled to last for up to one year, the Drive Me program will encompass 100 cars equipped for Level 4 autonomous operation, in which self-driving systems do the driving and human occupants need not worry about monitoring the vehicle or potentially needing to retake control. That’s not a carte-blanche approach: Those operations will occur in certain geofenced areas in and around Gothenburg that Volvo has already mapped.

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The Hains are the first to enroll, and now Volvo says it has started a formal process to fill the remaining spots in the program. Trent Victor, the company’s senior technical leader for safety and crash avoidance, said he wants a wide range of participants that encompasses different genders, ages, and lifestyles. Volvo wants people who are both early adopters, like the Hains, and those who are wary of autonomous cars. One basic requirement, which perhaps seems obvious on its face, is that participants use cars as part of their everyday habits.

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The Hain family of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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“We’ll be asking them if they’ve had experience with adaptive cruise control, for example, or if they’re hesitant toward the technology,” Victor said. “Based on what they’re answering, we’ll select from that to get a sample that’s representative.”

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Although a few of the Drive Me vehicles have been displayed in public with prominent logos, the cars that actually hit the road in November or December will not contain any signage that betrays their special status. Volvo wants the cars to blend in with the rest of road traffic.

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In addition to cameras that are used as part of the autonomous system, Volvo researchers have outfitted the Drive Me XC90s with seven additional cameras that aren’t part of production vehicles. Those cameras face both forward and rearward. Another camera, located in the A-pillar, tracks eye movements of the driver; and still another, placed at foot level, watches how drivers use their pedals. Interviews will be conducted with participants throughout their experiences. Collectively, vehicle data, video footage, and interview responses will be used to gauge how vehicle occupants interact with autonomous technology.

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That’s already a challenge seen on the road today. In the development of current driver-assist features, like Volvo’s IntelliSafe, that are on production vehicles, “we have to develop methods to improve safety and make sure that people don’t overtrust systems that are supervised automation, where they think it does more than it does,” Victor said. In a full-autonomy program like Drive Me, though, that problem reverses. “We need to make sure they don’t undertrust unsupervised automation,” he said.

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The project is not entirely focused on the interaction between human and machine. In part, Volvo is interested in figuring out what occupants like the Hains want to do in their cars when time once spent driving can be used for other things. Volvo has already been thinking about that. In 2014, it showcased Concept 26, a project that provided drivers with three potential cabin configurations, including a reclining seat and a retracting steering wheel, based on whether they are driving, working, or relaxing. In 2015, Volvo partnered with Swedish telecom giant Ericsson to develop higher bandwidth for in-vehicle streaming. And last month, Volvo announced an agreement with Microsoft to put Skype conference-call functionality into its 90-series cars.

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Drive Me participants are expected to hit the road in November or December in Gothenburg. Soon after that, concurrent Drive Me pilot projects are slated to begin in London and China, although those timeframes are not yet finalized. At least for now, Kerssemakers says no North American projects are planned, because the company already is developing its hardware in a joint project with ride-hailing service Uber.

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Drive Me serves as one of three linchpins in Volvo’s overall strategy to deploy fully autonomous vehicles on public roads by 2021. The company is developing XC90s suited for autonomous systems in its partnership with Uber. Separately, it is pursuing software advances for advanced safety systems and autonomous driving with Zenuity, a new company that draws resources both from Volvo and automotive supplier Autoliv.

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Volvo CEO: Fully Autonomous Cars Are Worth an Extra $10,000

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Volvo Will Take Responsibility If Its Autonomous Cars Crash

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First Autonomous XC90 Rolls Off Line; Slated For ‘Drive Me’ Testing

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“The main thing is really that there’s been a tech race, and everybody has been talking about the technology,” Victor said. “But we’re trying to understand the usage and optimize that. I think there’s lot to be learned about the way people are using these cars and how we take care of these different types of people. Whether they’re hesitant or lead users, we need to offer a safe solution for many different types.”

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