Product / AI / ML. I once spent a week living in 1955, but you don't see ME bragging about it. (Written by Ajay Kalia.)
For the past few months, my side project has been building an interactive AI designed for group chats. I’m interested in figuring out how the AI/UX for this use case should behave, and exploring how the nature of a group chat evolves as people grow accustomed to hanging out with an AI. Since February I’ve … Continue reading Building a Better AI for Group Chats: Part 3 →
For the past few months, my side project has been building an interactive AI designed for group chats. I’m interested in figuring out how the AI/UX for this use case should behave, and exploring how the nature of a group chat evolves as people grow accustomed to hanging out with an AI. Since February I’ve … Continue reading Building a Better AI for Group Chats: Part 2 →
For the past 1.5 decades, a major focus of tech advancements was getting consumers to passively flip through recs, on their phone, in single-player mode. What I’m most excited about in the recent explosion of human-like AI and LLM, is the chance for these technologies to expand connections with the actual people you care about … Continue reading Building a Better AI for Group Chats →
After sixty years of research, it’s conventional wisdom: as people get older, they stop keeping up with popular music. Whether the demands of parenthood and careers mean devoting less time to pop culture, or just because they’ve succumbed to good old-fashioned taste freeze, music fans beyond a certain age seem to reach a point where … Continue reading “Music was better back then”: When do we stop…
“Just win, baby.” – Al Davis, Owner & GM, Oakland Raiders Maybe for you, the realization that your fantasy football season was circling the drain came slowly. A few bad breaks. A concussion that took your star QB out for a game; an opponent that picked up a free agent running back the same week … Continue reading Why your lousy fantasy football season isn’t your fault →
With the development of low-cost / low-power / Internet-enabled sensors that can live inside physical objects, there’s an interesting opportunity to rethink what a “button” might look like. As a recent hack, I wired up a wine bottle to act as a “thematic button” for our office’s communal music player. Here’s how it works… A … Continue reading The Music App of Things with XBee and Arduino →
Feeling like I’d burned through my standard sources for movie recommendations, I recently decided to turn to box office failures. I was seeking out an automated way to explore the world of such movies and find “overlooked” films that are actually very good, but were ignored in theaters and dismissed by critics. Using Nathan Rabin’s … Continue reading How machines can help us discover overlooked…
Growing up, I enjoyed writing code and messing around with technology, but my first love was always pop culture — books, film, tv, movies. So I always thought tech would be a hobby, while my career would involve trying to climb the ladder in the television, or music, or movie industry. Fortunately for me, I happened to … Continue reading Pilot season →