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Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo: A Global Pricing Mirage !
Apple loves to market the new MacBook Neo at $599, a number engineered to sound disruptive and "for everyone." But let's have a more thorough look at the numbers: 📍 The US gets a shiny $599 sticker. Sounds great, until you realize that's before tax. A buyer in New York actually pays $652 after sales tax. Still reasonable? Now let's fly across the Atlantic: 📍 🇨🇭 Switzerland: CHF 579 (~$731) | +22% | VAT 8.1% Europe's lowest VAT, most stable currency. Still $132 more than t

Federico Carrasco
2 days ago2 min read


AI skills' dominance, or AI Theocracy?
In a recent conversation, Jensen Huang clearly states to Lex Fridman's show that: 📢 "If I have a choice between a new college graduate with no clue what AI is and one that is expert in using AI, I would hire the one who's expert in using AI." This statement is hardly controversial, it reflects the direction the market is heading and a reasonable point: knowing the tools of the era matters. From the other side, let’s be cautious not to generalize it into something broader tha

Federico Carrasco
3 days ago2 min read


Negative "Sentiment" in 3 out of 4 YouTube AI-Related videos!
An impressive result after analyzing the top 100 most-viewed videos on YouTube, published after January 2023. In Graypes GmbH we recently...

Federico Carrasco
May 13, 20242 min read


4 top use cases of LLMs for text processing!
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on massive datasets of text, allowing them to understand and generate natural language,...

Cyclyst
Jan 25, 20242 min read


Something is rotten in the state of Denmark? ( ... and into the Energy Business?)
A peculiar (but not so unexpected) outcome popped up while evaluating the business model of an energy-related SaaS company. Denmark is...

Cyclyst
Feb 16, 20231 min read


How my 16yo daughter can cause the resignation of Google's CEO!
Google has the best business model ever invented in the history of capitalism. Still, sooner or later, competition becomes challenging....

Cyclyst
Feb 13, 20231 min read


The Beauty and the Beast
Who is the Beauty and who is the Beast? That question might sound like an excellent exercise for an AI Machine Vision robot, inspecting...

Cyclyst
Jan 16, 20231 min read


ChatGTP-3
ChatGPT is the latest sacred totem in our software industry. Its the latest optimized language bot, recently (November 30, 2022) released...

Cyclyst
Dec 5, 20221 min read


Energy in the verge of Disruption
"In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity." Albert Einstein This 2022 global energy crisis is a "Chronicle of a Death...

Cyclyst
Oct 27, 20221 min read


Productivity or Innovation
"If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Henry Ford (1863 – 1947), Founder of Ford Motor...

Cyclyst
Aug 2, 20222 min read


Top tools to create your SaaS
In our digital era there is a plethora of software tools, assisting innovators creating even for free, their SaaS prototype or SaaS product.

Cyclyst
Jul 18, 20226 min read


Innovation is in the Air
"Love is in the Air" is a 1977 disco song by Australian singer John Paul Young. It became a worldwide hit in 1978, peaking at No. 3 on...

Cyclyst
May 22, 20222 min read


Lessons from the Theranos fraud!
Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, has been found guilty on four of 11 charges of fraud, concluding a high-profile trial that...

Cyclyst
Jan 5, 20221 min read


Software is eating (and) Biology
68% of the businesses registered in Graypes, from January 2020 as of today, March 2021, under the technology sector of Medicine and...

Cyclyst
Apr 28, 20212 min read


Genesis 3.0: "Love in the Time of (encoding) Cholera"
Why writing a blog in English? Cherchez la femme!
A romantic story and the IT encoding/decoding never ending mess!

Cyclyst
Apr 1, 20213 min read


7 books for the end of a (globally) strange year (2020)
1. Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. 2. What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems,...

Cyclyst
Jan 7, 20211 min read


COVID comedy and the FUTURE!
... there are many troubles in the world and we need to solve them, but we also need things that make us excited to be alive...and be...

Cyclyst
Dec 10, 20201 min read


AI and challenges in biology
An artificial intelligence network developed by Google AI offshoot DeepMind has made a gargantuan leap in solving one of biology’s...

Cyclyst
Dec 8, 20201 min read


Top disruptive industry sectors
During a recent presentation, I shared the following list of the top disruptive industry sectors for the coming years. Real Estate is our...

Cyclyst
Nov 14, 20201 min read
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