Monday, January 18, 2016

Google IoT: Brillo, Weave, Beacons

From the Google Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016: Brillo, Weave and Beacons
"Google has organized this week the Ubiquity Dev Summit 2016 with sessions on their IoT technologies - Brillo, Weave, Beacons – and other technologies for wearable, TVs and Auto.
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Weave is a device-to-device communication protocol developed by Nest, and later acquired by Google, which we covered in a previous post. Brillo is an embedded OS accompanied by core services and a development toolkit. It supports OTA updates which Google considers as mandatory to deal with eventual security issues and communicates with other devices over Weave. The Android HAL makes it run on various hardware. The basic architecture of Brillo is depicted in the following chart:"


"Beacons, representing smart devices placed indoors to provide semantic location information."

Beaconstac starter kit with iBeacon hardware, software and mobile app
iOS & Android SDKs, Beaconstac app for iOS & Android

book: "Make It Stick" ==


Make It Stick

Make It Stick by by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger & Mark McDaniel
- Brian Johnson's PhilosophersNotes

  1. Fluency (memorizing) vs Mastery (understanding)
  2. Active Retrieval (quiz yourself)
  3. Interleave (mix)
  4. Elaboration (write in your own words, "explain as I am 5 year old")
  5. Think you can ("mindset" growth vs fixed)

Make It Stick - The Book



Peter C. Brown: Make It Stick on Vimeo
3 big ideas, counter-intuitive:

  1. "retrieval practice": easier to learn by trying to get knowledge or skill it out of the brain (retrieve to apply) than to put in the brain (save, remember)
    it takes time for information to go from short term memory to long term memory
    consolidation, connection to what you already know
    to remember something, need to retrieve from memory periodically
    "every time you recall memory you change the memory" (it is re-consolidated)
  2. "desirable difficulties": certain difficulties (that can be overcome)
    slow learning down but make it better
    • spacing out practice (much more powerful than re-reading)
    • mixing up practice of multiple things in a random fashion
    • elaboration: take and idea, put it in your own words, visualize
    • "generation": try to solve problem before being thought how to solve problem, struggle, and then get shown the solution, then learn it better
  3. "mental effort builds mental ability"
    • 10000 hour rule: experts spend great deal of time studding with complex material in particular area 
    • mental effort builds connections in the brain ("mental models")


Interview: Make It Stick with Peter Brown - YouTube

  • learning happens when you getting info out, not getting it in
  • some difficulties make learning deeper and longer lasting
  • "mental effort builds mental abilities," "growth mindset" is highly motivating