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cmaury

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    Comment #46571679

    Are you able to pull upcoming titles? All I want is a weekly/monthly list of books by authors I've ready which are coming out, and I've not been able to find it or to build it.

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    Comment #44650292

    I like it, though I'm sure we'll end up being stuck with "vibe ware"

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    Comment #44647318

    Thanks for sharing. This is exactly the type of utility that vibecoding is for. It takes 5 secons to ask GPT to write a scripr to do this tailored to your specific use case. It's w…

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    Comment #37917344

    Riffs need a downvote button. I'm not sure what the team's training/eval approach is, but you need a user signal for poor quality results, so you can improve over time. ex: https:/…

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    Comment #35012191

    But do you have a YouTube channel? (jk) Are you working remotely with this set up?

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    Comment #22935059

    Hey, I'm a legally blind engineering manager (stargardt's macular degeneration). The accessibility community was hugely welcoming when I started to lose my vision at about the same…

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    Is Alexa spawning companies in the same way that Slack/Facebook Messenger are?

    It seems like there has been an explosion of companies creating text bots for messaging platforms. Amazon's Alexa/Echo platform is similar in concept (Natural Language interface in…

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    Comment #12137516

    How do you see those two as being different? In my mind, products that make use of ML are using ML services as the back end. An example would be the recent wave of bot companies: m…

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    Comment #12137329

    While Google may be the leader in Machine Learning tools, they are way behind when it comes to Machine Learning services. They've only just now released a Natural Language Understa…

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    Comment #11214005

    You can check our SDK out at developer.conversantlabs.com. It's currently in a developer preview. Send me an email at chris@conversantlabs.com. It would be great to talk more. If o…

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    Comment #11213003

    This really wasn't my intent. I sincerely apologize for communicating otherwise. I identify as blind or low-viz and wouldn't want to take away from others who also identify as such…

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    Comment #11212917

    I definitely agree with you that the last thing I would want readers to take away from this article, is that they don't have to worry about accessibility or universal design. Until…

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    Comment #11212064

    There are a lot of professional developers who are blind. They use accessible IDEs paired with a Screen reader. Here is a good description: http://stackoverflow.com/a/453758/319013…

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    Comment #11211546

    Sorry for the let down. I feel her pain. We're working on it, and should have something for her soon. Email is definitely high on our list of tasks that need a conversational layer…

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    Comment #10240815

    You caught me :). It was great meeting you daughter! She seems to be doing great and taking things on with the right attitude. Feel free to email me anytime, if you ever need anyth…

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    Comment #10239843

    Absolutely right. We refer to this as the Scarlett Johanssonn problem. Any system that is smart enough to understand what we mean by the Scarlett Johanssonn problem, and the refere…

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    This has been commercialized. I'm not sure if it's based on the same research, but you can find it here: www.theaudeo.com (site currently down, but it was up a couple of weeks ago)…

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    > "Jobs that pay enough for them to afford the internet" A strong argument for getting the third world online is to help create more jobs. This sounds like a corporate sound bite, …

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    Comment #9688142

    Justified paragraphs are mostly useful for text laid out in columns (i.e. Newspapers and magazines). This way when you are reading the second and subsequent columns, the eye can ea…

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    Comment #9546695

    Another cost effective option is NVDA on PC. It's free and open source.