Hackathon
Bot framework, bot services, LUIS, and text sentiment
You can make a conversational chat bot in less than a week. It may not understand everything you say, but with some added intelligence, the bot can be very chappy!
Books
Some progress on Sapiens, and my reading list expanded
- The Speed of Sound by Thomas Dolby
- The Upstarts by Brad Stone
- Sometimes Brilliant by Larry Brilliant
programming blogs from a YC post
- Fluent {C++} (Excited for some of the books posted)
- Scott Hanselman
- Julia Evans
Podcasts
Julia Galen on how to argue better and change your mind more
(from: The Ezra Klein Show)
The first half of this podcast contained some thought provoking ideas on arguments and point of view. Biases can influence the way we view ourselves and learning about biases can make us more worse at fixing our our biases. It was discussed how paradoxes lead us to develop deeper labeling of people and ideas. For example, you say you are of one camp, but you fall into the other camp for certain things. The more you associate with the other camp, the more people will think of you as in that camp. I don’t think this is that bad, but we need to realize we are not so simple creatures. Black and white does not always tell the story.
Casey Neistat
(from: The Tim Ferriss Show)
Two of my three inspirational people on a podcast (throw in Ryan Holiday, and it would be quite the show)
Make it count. Always motivational, Neistat inspires me to write more, create more, do more.
The stupidest thing people can do with their money
(from: Freakonomics Radio)
I do not listen to Freakonomics much anymore, but this episode caught my eye. On the Marketplace Morning Report episode from this Tuesday, they talked about the risks of more people moving to passively invested, low cost index funds. I wanted to learn more about the downsides (as I am onboard with the upsides), and by chance, this week’s Freak podcast was all about the topic! Dubner interviewed John (“Jack”) Bogle, the 88 year old and founder of Vanguard. Definitely worth a listen or two. The contrast between Bogle and Buffett is both similar and remarkable.
Odds and Ends
- Went for a 10 mile run and made sure Strava was working this time before starting.
- Edited Iceland Day 2 for half a day. Final video coming soon! Watch Day 1 (which is really day 2)
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