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bahram_banisadron Amazon admits Alexa is laughing at people and is working on a fix

It's the beginning of the AI revolution

bahram_banisadron No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X

Apple's biggest asset has always been design. On a tehnical basis Apple products sometimes beat the competition and sometimes are outdone by the likes of Samsung, Thinkpad, etc. They have dominated the American consumer market because of fit and finish, attention to detail, and overall functional beauty in design. The flaws you're speaking of are a different sort from the, frankly weird looking, notch. While executed as well as possible, its a design compromise.

bahram_banisadron Allstate uses social media to check claims

Pretty much everything digital has metadata tagged on it including the time at which the event occurred. Its very easy to prove the timing of the photo in this hypothetical case.

Insurance is a good that adds to the overall wellbeing of society IF it can be properly priced - meaning both fraud as well as incorrect denials of claims damage the insurance companies to properly price coverage and provide protection for everyone.

Why would we dislike more complete information? Economic systems always work better with fully informed players.

bahram_banisadron Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning

Beautifully straightforward - going to be referring to this for quick refreshers

bahram_banisadron Announcing the General Availability of Azure Event Grid

Serverless compute needs serverless messaging to trigger functions; that's what we're aiming to build with grid.