Don’t Forget Your I’s

Don’t Forget Your I’s

The ultimate spam marker: the inability to use personal pronouns in communication. I got this one today: Noticed you spoke with us last year about leveraging ai and automation on your helpdesk. Is that still a thought? Shooting you this quick message to connect and...
OpenAI: Up & To The Right

OpenAI: Up & To The Right

This gem came in my inbox this morning from The Information: Still, OpenAI’s business dwarfs competitors like Cohere and Mistral. OpenAI is expecting to more than triple revenue this year, from $3.7 billion to $12.7 billion, we scooped Friday. OpenAI told...
Upwork Content Moderation Is Still Awful

Upwork Content Moderation Is Still Awful

Yes, I’m here to complain again in the hope that someday Google will rank these posts high enough someone at Upwork notices. Today I am hiring for copy-editing and fact checking an eBook. I’ve done extensive work on this already, but want another set of...
Moravec’s Paradox

Moravec’s Paradox

(I realized only when I was almost finished writing this post that all I had really done was to restate Moravec’s paradox: “it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or...
Order Plaud from Amazon

Order Plaud from Amazon

I made the mistake of ordering a Plaud device from Plaud’s website. A week and a half later, it isn’t here. It will be at least 12 days from purchase before it arrives. A friend ordered one off of Amazon the same day I ordered direct from Plaud. He had it...