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UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

At local Walmart other day: thought about fact that every single item on the shelf was put there by hand.Got dizzy.https://t.co/kmnc6ymNoh https://t.co/HsQAgPI437

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3/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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I did that think you can do in meditation when you contemplate the life-path of an item, but considered the whole store. I had to leave.

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3/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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An interesting insight: realized that the average number of hands of all the people touching the items is actually < 2I started crying.

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3/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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... Many. Unfathomably many.https://t.co/mLvyIjV5KT

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Number of unique item *kinds* sold by walmardotcom is 16 million. Amazondotcom is 400 million. https://t.co/25WJCqkqYq

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Consider for a moment how many kinds of items are in your local grocery store. How many are on the shelf, and how often it gets restocked…

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3/22/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 8 years ago

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@ultimape the planet is one massive grocery store; any object around you was part of a tremendous process to get to you in its final form

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3/22/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 8 years ago

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@ultimape what often gets me – languages are massive 'grocery stores' too; every word you speak, read or think has a tremendous history

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3/22/2017

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 8 years ago

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@ultimape re-read your own tweets and contemplate the life-path of each word through millions of minds. (You can't really leave this store)

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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@visakanv there's 150+ words in English that contain the word 'corn' in it. https://t.co/VbmPef8bvc

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Look at one item. Perhaps something you eat. Like a Kernel of popcorn. Trace that item back from your kitchen shelf to when it was planted.

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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How many hands - robotic or otherwise - have touched that grain of corn? Dozens? Hundreds?Did it get shipped across the ocean?

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Even just timelapses of simplified video games about farming take 30+ minutes: https://t.co/007bBL0v7M

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"More than 6 million cargo containers enter U.S. seaports annually"https://t.co/xjyftWY41W

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"general rule, most moving companies estimate that a one − two bedroom apartment will fit into a 20-foot container." https://t.co/8AaKbvVDdr https://t.co/GsFbhWdBWR

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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"are more than 7000 drivers in Walmart's fleet." https://t.co/EV6NDi3pa5"Travel approximately 700 million miles" https://t.co/dsofBaLLoP

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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Ok, now that is just Walmart.The United States only has about 325,821,660 people.World pop clock is about to tick over to 7,492,460,000.

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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https://t.co/bh63vfc3DH

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

One grain of sand at a time.

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3/22/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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How do we scale this to every product?https://t.co/vQGhbZJuhs

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Blockchain is the easy part. Hard:"is setting up technology for farmers, field workers and others to collect data"https://t.co/c3amxbx5ep https://t.co/oVN2kABxwI

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5/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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With such a massively complex system, how can we bake in adaptive learning?https://t.co/6L2BSoK0Xu https://t.co/k8poVkIGN9

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5/12/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

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What would the future be like if these economic platforms were more open?https://t.co/0SrNQkNJaO

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5/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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...Many. Unfathomably many.https://t.co/pvEkQRHUNT

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7/25/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Like clockwork, we keep hearing about it: https://t.co/ONIkwB1n0P

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7/25/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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But what you don't realize, perhaps is that it's only been a matter of time: https://t.co/Tg6HHdNYng https://t.co/qL1kKrAGGb

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7/25/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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Reactive motion planning via database? This already existed for animation planning. It existed before deeplearning. It works for robots.

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7/25/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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"I have an important question: Why do humans not like me? Call me craphead?" https://t.co/Afn3oGbExI

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7/25/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

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The hard problem of tracking every item ever sold.Democratizing inventory management? Socializing the supply chain?https://t.co/asPd1zzXxU

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

It amazes me when others wonder why Amazon is moving to a grocery delivery? It's a growth market… They sell shovels.https://t.co/qDAUVSVwVU

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9/2/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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There's a reason why my version of Sisyphus involves a shopping cart.Also, Thread:https://t.co/2Imiqbd5gA

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9/14/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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The slow lonely march of progress: standing around. moving product on to shelves, or off of them like robots. https://t.co/8VUfjfBpPC https://t.co/lgG17VX5N9

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10/6/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Mgmt screaming "customer service!" as you're forced to smile to police criminals, er shoplifters, er I mean people.https://t.co/ocHcjNfZzu

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Would you like to apply for the Walmart credit card, criminal scum?I used to be without a card like you, then i took an arrow to the knee.

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10/6/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Chop wood, Carry Water. Stock Shelf, Carry Bags. Burn Gas, Watch roads.Just keep swimming. What the hell is water?https://t.co/qjIZLl0I1t

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10/6/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Meditating on the nature of Moloch.https://t.co/4XWHL55raP

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

What if I told you that perhaps culture itself is formed as a way to perpetuate prevailing production norms?https://t.co/yxIRlXQai4

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10/6/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Have a nice day! 🙂https://t.co/0dCinRWGZK

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10/6/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Why does no one bat an eye when the lowly car pusher's job is outmoded by technology?https://t.co/xiG4ghFSsn

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10/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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"I'd say about 50% of time this is how the fucking thing looks. It's funny cuz you can see how how people think..."https://t.co/h5jI75EMWc

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10/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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The amount of engineering that goes into your run-of-the-mill lowly shopping cart.https://t.co/FCFuk9uLqZ

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10/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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"People do not handle the product in the automated system..."https://t.co/jp1ioYtBi5

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10/7/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• over 7 years ago

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"Overall, Amazon is taking its growing logistics know-how to the next logical step, “which is the transport and delivery of the packages they are picking and packing,”"https://t.co/YFXC0K5H1U

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2/1/2018

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 8 years ago

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@ultimape https://t.co/ngqVlnNghB

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3/22/2017