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Daniel E.

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Immersive training is becoming increasingly common. Using VR/AR headset technology in conjunction with Advanced Virtual Assistants can be an effective tool for onboarding and welcoming new employees to a company and can tailor training to focus on relevant skills development efficiently to quickly get people up to speed with a tailored approach.



Augmented Reality
Rather than blocking out the real world, augmented reality blends it with digital content. Digital assets can take many shapes and forms, so it can be flat and 2D, which is great for instructional information, or be more complex and ‘real’ in 3D. Content can be triggered by specific objects or geographical places. Mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets allow the learner to access content, making it easily accessible. Widely recognised examples include Pokémon Go and Snapchat filters.



“If you talk to me a decade from now, I think most of the chatbots will be generative,” said Jacobson. “And that’s because the experience is more human-like.”

For now, most chatbots are “structured”—every response is predetermined and triggered by if-then situations. Many also include a point-and-click experience: The chatbot may ask you about your mood, provide some options, then offer advice based on how you respond.

The hope is that generative chatbots will enable more dynamic, human-like conversation by comparison...

“The question that I’m thinking about when I do my work is not whether or not this can replace clinicians—which I think will never be the case,” Jacobson says. “But is it better than nothing? Yes. This is a highly accessible way of enhancing the scale and impact of evidence-based treatments.”
 
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Snap layouts​

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To optimize your screen space and your productivity, hover over a window's maximize button or select a window and press Win+Z, then choose a snap layout.


 
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Herman Hollerith's work for the US Census Bureau first exercised in the 1890 United States Census, involving data tabulated via hole punches in paper cards, may be considered the first computerized flat-file database, as it (presumably) included no cards indexing other cards, or otherwise relating the individual records (i.e. the individual cards) to one another, save by their group membership.
 

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Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM).

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The last song in the IBM songbook :acrobat: (1937):

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Thomas John Watson Sr. (February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956) was an American businessman who served as the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into a highly effective selling organization, based largely on punched card tabulating machines. A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.
 
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One of the best things you can do is record yourself doing a mock interview. To do this, try using Google’s Interview Warmup tool or a self-recording tool like Loom. Though it might seem awkward, simply listening to yourself answer questions can help you quickly identify things to improve on. For example, you might realize you speak very softly, say um or like a lot, or give long-winded answers.


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A desktop computer can be a smart and ergonomic pick if you’re setting up a home office and aren’t worried much about mobility. Staring into a monitor puts less strain on your neck than staring down into a laptop. You also generally get more power per dollar spent with a desktop than you do with a laptop.
 
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For academic research, SciSpace has a free, online "trace this paper" interface that infinitely expands to the right. You can also search for particular conferences, journals, topics, institutions, etc.

SciSpace also has a LaTex-compatible online word processor with a ton of templates for writing academic papers (requires a paid option to export more than 1,000 words):


Search Papers, PDFs, Topics and Authors from all fields of science. No signup required.
 
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Not popular yet in my state.

For Toronto, Too Good to Go gets negative reviews at Google Reviews -- mostly about cheap business owners giving very little in value, e.g.

"Worst deal at Subway 78 Dundas St East. For $4 contribution I received one Cookie and one foot long bread that was stale. That is it. If I had spent same amount at FreshCo I would have purchased 2 boxes of cookies."

The new coupon-cutting: Apps that sell discounted food headed for the trash

The Washington Post

Flashfood and Too Good to Go are helping consumers cope with high food prices

Flashfood, which has 2.5 million users, is one of a spate of new apps aimed at curtailing food waste by connecting people with grocery stores and restaurants with food that is unsold or close to its best-by date. With food costs rising more than 11 percent in August from a year earlier, some consumers are also turning to these apps to shrink their grocery bills...

We, the Pizza is among the 400 restaurants, bakeries and coffee shops in the D.C. area on Too Good To Go, another food waste app, selling surplus food in “surprise bags” for about one-third of its retail value. The app came to the D.C. region in March 2021 after launching in Copenhagen five years earlier. It’s now in 17 countries and has 3 million users in the United States.
 
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To gauge if their language models are correct, researchers will test whether they can correctly predict what a whale might say next, based on their knowledge of who the whale is, its conversation history and its behaviours. Researchers will then test these with playback experiments to see whether the whales respond as the scientists expect when played whale-speak.
 

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I am using the Ibotta app again:


Hayley Bennett runs @that_coupon_chick, an Instagram page focused on coupons and deals, and recommends Ibotta as her favorite app.

The Ibotta app is fun. I mostly just shopped as normal but scanned every brand-name item I put in my cart. Got $10 in total for buying Impossible "meat," Ben's microwavable rice, brand-name pickles, etc.

The app basically rewards you for buying brand-name items -- just like coupons in the old days.
 
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Two grocery-deal apps that work in the US and Canada:​

Learn to Love Coupons

You probably need all the help you can get with your grocery bill at the moment. Fortunately, major chains like Metro, Loblaws, and Walmart still offer flyers—perhaps you know, the ones your parents or grandparents read religiously for the latest deals—but you don’t have to grab a paper copy every week just to see where you can save the most.

Apps like Flipp help you compare prices across several stores at once from a single screen without leaving your home. “It used to be a lot more work to sit down on a Saturday and cut coupons out of the local paper,” says Jason Heath, a Certified Financial Planner and managing director at Objective Financial Partners, a fee-only financial advice firm.

Today, he said, coupon apps allow anyone to save on food, even food that’s close to its expiry date, but still edible. Some of these apps double as grocery lists. Checkout 51, in particular, stands out as a cash back coupon app that allows you to redeem deals by scanning your receipts after paying.

Unfortunately, there are downsides to coupon apps, handy as they may seem. Heath says they are, to a certain extent, marketing tools. “Oftentimes, it encourages you to buy things that you wouldn’t otherwise buy,” Heath said. “Ultimately, I think it’s up to the individual to make sure they’re sticking to their grocery list and ideally, having some sort of a meal plan.”
 

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BeReal, a French app born in 2020, grew so popular this year that TikTok has already ripped it off. It’s a come-as-you-are party. Once a day, BeReal urges users to post whatever lies before them, no matter how mundane (parking lots). Then, the app assaults users with a selfie. If the picture turns out traumatic, as my first one did, you can retake it. But there’s a catch; the app tattles, alerting everyone that you are not real. Real people display their chin acne once a day!


BeReal is more focused on sharing between acquaintances and is positioned as a more intimate and private social behaviour compared to Instagram.
 
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A cool, free tool to remove backgrounds from an image (including making backgrounds transparent):


(To add a new background to an image, click on Edit after uploading the image.)
 
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