Hi! Hope you have a great vacation. Working in a relatively quiet environment, or enjoying real vacation, or even a ‘workation’, it seems to be a thing becoming more popular as an overflow of the homeworking years…
My week was intense working on the startup I mentioned last week. Intense but rewarding, diving deep in fleshing out the language, applying it and thinking about the product.
For this week, the mix continues working on this and also writing further on the Web3 research document. The field labs are in vacation mode for this week. Events are also not on my planning, so let’s dive in the news of last week right away. Speaking of events, this one is new to me; not really a fit for my budget (and schedule), and I am not near Malmo, but if you are, the speaker’s program is quite nice. The Conference.
Most remarkable maybe the news Amazon is buying the data of your home via iRobot acquisition, leading to memes already on the nosy visitor proposing you should buy new stuff based on its scanning.
Another article praised a lot is a short fiction story by Matt Webb. Normally he does his post more as personal reflections, the fictional story is a nice way to introduce a phenomenon. I think the new form of interacting with our intelligent collaborators as we now start to get used to GTP-3 and Dall-E 2 is based on a ‘prompt-mode’. Conversational interfaces in reverse.
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