The Wisdom Wall
5 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.
“I've been a little less concerned about that, because for computation, you can always be very efficient about your algorithms, and you can make trade-offs from the algorithms. The reason we're more concerned about the data is if you don't have the data, you don't have the data. There's just nothing you can do if you…”
“once you start to think of this as a distributed platform, not just a data collection device, this entire world of making use of the data at the edge and AI machine learning at the edge starts to get opened up.”
“Low-resolution data sent up to the service provider, made available, uh, later on, and look, there's some things you can do with that, but you just can't have a real-time, consumer-facing app, and then you can't see the grid in real-time from the edge either.”
“What we've learned since then is that same high-resolution data lets us see, ah, the grid from the edge, lets us see transformers arcing, lets us see vegetation hanging power lines in real-time. That only happens through high-resolution data.”
“There are just these three main topics that I've been talking about, which is getting access to the right data, so high-resolution waveform data. It's well known how to do that. It's mature technology, we know how to do that. Having enough computation so that you can run software in the meters, have it upgradable, and…”