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10 years of fintech failure: 3 more ideas that failed to live up to the initial hype

TechCrunch

These ideas rolled out with hype and momentum, but they ultimately failed to change the way the average person manages their money. Rather, this piece will focus on fintech ideas that received some degree of initial hype and momentum, but ultimately failed to change the way the average person manages their money.

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5 questions designers should ask themselves before joining any startup

The Next Web

We need to be more diligent about not spending our scarce attention working on startups that go nowhere and learn how to pick ones that actually live up to all the hype. Is there essentially a waterfall method where the founders or engineers make all the key decisions and then want designers to make it “pretty?”.

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Humans and AI: Should You Disclose When You Are Using AI?

DataRobot

On the other hand, customers are frustrated when chatbots don’t know how to solve their problems. Research by NICE inContact shows that businesses tend to underestimate customers’ satisfaction with human-assisted methods of customer service and overestimate satisfaction when it comes to self-service methods like chatbots.

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Are you ‘AI literate’? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law

Fast Company Tech

The problem is pervasive: In one 2024 study , chatbots got basic academic citations wrong between 30% and 90% of the time, mangling paper titles, author names, and publication dates. “We’ve seen the hype cycles around massively open online courses that were going to transform education,” Waltzer says.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype In recent months you may have heard about something called the metaverse. Microsoft’s Minecraft gets less hype than Roblox these days, but it enables similar activities through modding. Didn’t we have a whole metaverse hype cycle around Second Life in the ‘00s?

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This is the Pixel 6

The Verge

This problem is a very difficult smartphone camera physics problem. We’re trying to turn those kinds of problems into data problems, where we can solve them with Tensor.”. I am not going to tell you to get hyped up for the Pixel 6. But I do think it’s very interesting that Google wants to start building up hype.

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1.5 Years of Spark Knowledge in 8 Tips

Towards Data Science

Examples of methods that invoke a collection include but are not limited to….collect() The single most common incorrect collection method is leveraging .count() After checking that the code is relatively efficient, just throw compute at the problem so you can 1) meet the SLA and, 2) gather statistics from the spark UI.