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I do think the Spotify DJ has been dumbed down a lot since its launch (“a’ight, I got you. Here’s some songs for your washing up session.” [proceeds to play the same 10 songs it always does]).

But for classical music: Apple Music Classical is where it’s at, it understands the relationship between composer, work and recording.

First, I'm sorry you're having problems finding a job -- that sucks.

Second: consider that sometimes, the cost-benefit of automation depends on perspective. An example that I like to give is Ocado's automated grocery warehouses in the UK: impressive technology, very efficient, but during the COVID-19 pandemic - when everybody wanted online groceries - Ocado had to stop accepting new customers. They didn't have the capacity, and adding a new warehouse took years. The regular supermarkets hired people and bought vans, they were able to scale up.

Automation is great, but it can't help businesses adapt to novel situations. Corporate life is about cycles: the pendulum swings one way, then the other - we've just swung hard over to the automation side for now. The best strategy: know the limits of AI tools, prove your agility and ability to do the things the tools cannot do.

Good suggestions, but you should also have some formal training on how to manage people on that list - every employer should offer it, and if they don't that's an _enormous_ flag.

It's a shame that Gemini Ultra is not out yet, it seems like a solid improvement on GPT-4. I wonder how it'll compare against GPT-5?

You almost certainly don't want to handle this at your scale. KYC involves handling a lot of personally identifying information and there are big consequences if it goes wrong. Have you considered using something like Stripe's Connect API? [1]

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/connect/identity-verification?locale...

I'm going to try and learn Rust (started and failed several times already), probably by building something with actix-web

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I have a Darden-signed copy - one of my proudest possessions!

It's great that the web is so durable and long-lived, but I wonder about the health of it - it's got so complicated that we're down to only three implementations (Firefox, Chromium, WebKit), no realistic possibility of a new engine emerging, and essentially one implementation defining the standard. I wonder where we'll be in another 30 years?

Yeah, this is why hosting user content scares me. AFAIK:

1. Yes - Google can safe-site ban the domain for hosting malicious content and it's difficult to get it unlisted once it happens.

2. Yes - it's always better to use a secondary domain, it just protects your brand.

3. There are cases where it's OK - e.g. when the majority of the site's content is private or substantially populated by an application (and therefore secured), or where you have a business or contractual relationship with the person hosting the content (and therefore can revoke their account on abuse).

What does Microsoft get out of this? They already have TTS and deep learning transcription, what technical capabilities does Nuance have that they don't have already (or can't develop for substantially less than $20B?)

I’ve also found the Microsoft API guidelines helpful (especially for error handling).

https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guide...

Link to the actual judgement: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2019-0029-judgme...

It’s interesting the level of control that Uber has (i.e. rejecting a driver application based on the make and model of car, renting smartphones to run the app).

I mentor school kids, trying to get them to build interesting stuff and choose engineering as a career. They haven’t been to school in basically a year, they’re stuck at home missing their friends, everything’s upside down, but despite that - they still want to go the extra mile, show up to their Zoom calls, and work together to build a cool robot. It’s rewarding to know that people don’t give up, despite such a difficult situation.

Free speech always requires qualifications: to foster a tolerant society you can't tolerate intolerance. Where the balance is, is hard to determine. Will Trump's supporters follow him to a new social network? Will more active moderation stem disinformation and restore civil, good-faith discourse? I don't know if platforms taking a more active role in shaping online discourse will be successful, but I know that it's essential to our society that we keep experimenting to find that balance.

It’s interesting that the kids with helicopter parents had reduced confidence, and reduced perception of their own skills - confidence does seem to be a necessary (but not sufficient) thing for leadership.

It's interesting that all the chips are branded as the M1 - I wonder if there are any clock, memory or cache differences between the devices?