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W.I.L.A

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Can I be so bold as to create my own business acronym? What an apropos way to start this, because the acronym I want to create applies to that very question. Let me re-start by, somewhat apologetically, confessing that I'm one of those distracting types who gets an idea, feels really passionate about it, thinks it will change the world and will offer it up for consideration. Over the years, I've learned to balance out the negative qualities that come with it: I try to focus on nuance, rather than chase novelty; I started keeping more ideas to myself and doing more to vet my own solutions before offering them. While I'm a work-in-progress, I will admit I do love sitting in a meeting where there all problems and no solutions. The gears that start spinning at full speed in my brain can cause such a strong buzzing that people will look at their phones, thinking they're getting a call. One danger I learned long ago about getting so passionate about a new idea is that it can ...

Task Failed Successfully

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It's always interesting to pit Gemini vs GPT using the same prompt and source data. There's never a clear winner - and it really points to how important the precision and quality of the prompt is.  Google's Gemini definitly wins on this one. It's really strong, but not great (zooming in, you can see the edges and there was overall quality loss) - however the speed of the update was impressve (<20 seconds!).

Micboard

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Will input change with AI? Speech detection with AI is remarkable and, in particular, the whisper-mode lets people speak comfortably in public. Folks are using it for everything from writing emails, creating presentations, and even writing code. But does that mean the death of my beloved keyboard? I like being as hands-free as the next driver (well, maybe not all drivers...) but right now it seems voice is meant to fill the gap when I can't use a keyboard, it's not the default.  There's the obvious social issue of talking outloud to a device. Whisper-mode and earbuds solves the privacy issue, but even then I've only found voice-input to be useful when I'm being conversational (researching, brainstorming, learning) or directional (send a short msg, asking for music to be played, requesting directions). It's a different story when I'm writing, editing, iterating, refining. It's hard to edit on the fly with spoken instructions. While reading is linear, writ...

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