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My Top Songs of 2020 (According to Spotify)
As I was deciding on my favorite songs of the year, the thought occurred to me, “Who would know my favorite songs better than Spotify?” So, after pulling up the “Your Top Songs 2020” playlist generated for me by Spotify according to, I think, simply the number of times I played each song, I have… Continue reading
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Josh Anderson’s Guide to Cryptocurrency YouTubers
There’s no shortage of pundits in the YouTube cryptocurrency scene. Some investigate ICOs, others agonize over financial graphs, and others put their own spin on the news of the day. But it’s not – how shall I say this – the most egalitarian landscape in terms of intelligence (or entertainment value), so allow me to… Continue reading
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Notes from ‘The Internet of Money: Five Years Later’ in Chicago
Photo credit Back in 2013/14, when I first started learning about bitcoin, my go-to source of new knowledge on the topic was neither YouTube nor the dregs of /biz/, but rather a podcast called Let’s Talk Bitcoin. I have memories of listening to one episode after another, heading further and further into the backlog, excited about my… Continue reading
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2018 IA Summit Recap and Notes
This year marked my first (and apparently last) trip to the annual IA Summit. Chicago hosted the event this time around, and with the city being an hour’s train ride away from my home suburb, I naturally couldn’t miss it. It’s hard to know where to begin with a recap of my experience at this… Continue reading
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Why I’ve Stopped Caring About Forgetting What I’ve Read
Is reading nonfiction only worthwhile if you retain the information? I mean, fiction is its own beast, right? With stories, we’re okay to get wrapped up in the plot and characters and enjoy the tale for its own sake. If visions of Middle-Earth fade from our mind’s eye as soon as we snap the covers… Continue reading
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“Microcontent Pipeline to Chatbots and Voice Assistants”
Use microcontent to put your team in the driver’s seat to the next level of content publishing for intelligent chatbots. By now reality has revealed that ChatGPT is not ready to write our product documentation for us. With no control over what the publicly-trained models scrape from our websites and blogs and how it assimilates our documentation with other less-authoritative sources, we’re left to wonder where we go next. If we want reliable bots, we’ll need to train our own models and deploy them to our staff and our customers. Let us show you what we’ve learned so far.
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