Turns out, this is a real difficulty – Finally, stationary objects turn out to be a real issue for automated systems. There are so many of them alongside and above the roadway that need to be ignored that it is harder than you’d think to know which ones to pay attention to. After spending the…
I suppose this is possible…. Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like “Alexa.” Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a “send message” request. At which point, Alexa said out loud “To whom?” At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customers contact list. Alexa…
I actually saw this service mentioned a few weeks ago by Chris Brogan and wanted to try it out, so I took some text from an old post on my Child Abuse Survivor blog and spent about 5 minutes creating this video to share on Instagram. Messing around a bit with a service called Lumen5….
I wonder if they separated the numbers for different workplace environments. Like, in an open office concept, is it even worse, or do people email and IM less, offsetting what would clearly be in person interruptions and distractions? Either way, we are terrible at multitasking and the new push to communicate more, is not helping…
Back in 2015, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about school shootings. He reached a conclusion that no one on any side of the debate about gun violence wants to reach, because frankly it’s depressing to think about. That they were actually tied together, a very long and drawn-out riot that was going to keep happening as long…
Recently, while meeting with a vendor doing a software demo, the sales rep for said vendor assured me that: “You’d have an assigned project manager, and you’ll have their cell phone number and can reach them anywhere, anytime, even if you have an issue come up at 2AM”. My biggest takeaway from that? There’s a…
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