What’s up today? (Part 1)

AI chatbots for Calibra’s customer service

Servicefriend provides artificial intelligence-powered messaging bots that supposedly can mimic the intelligence, comprehension and empathy of a human to such a degree that customers won’t realize they are interacting with a bot.

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Coincidentally, I recently heard a researcher deriding the Turing test as a good measure of AI because it can be turned into a game of evasion. By making it hard for the human to get a straight answer, it is hard to tell how well the AI is understanding the situation or how knowledgable it is. Sounds like customer service, so I guess AI can be the perfect fit!

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https://www.electriccapital.com/electric-research/2019/8/12/developer-report-h1-2019

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If I read the chart correctly MaidSafe are far ahead of the competition in a ratio Volum$/Developer…

For example, if EOS have the same ratio, they should have 30 000 Developers…

Sounds just like politicians!

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https://www.coinspeaker.com/decentralized-web-hosting/

I don’t have time now, but maybe someone can create a nice comment there about the Safe Network

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I’d like to see some modelling of this because I don’t think our instincts are reliable with complex models like this. For example, the effect of diminishing storage costs over time might mean that storage forever is cheap. That is my experience as I generally transfer everything from one computer to the next. As one fills up, the next is big enough to hold everything and still start pretty empty.

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No and no. Volume makes sense only on a logarithmic scale (the chart is correct in that regard) while developers not so much. As for Maidsafe, it’s fit right on the edge with the lowest ones including Cardano, BAT, Tezos, and many others—quite the opposite of your conclusion.

With about $100k volume and 32 devs on the chart, and using log10 for simplicity, it has a ratio of 5/32. EOS’s ratio with about 8/225 is indeed lower than Maidsafe’s (or anything else, for that matter) but by not as much as you say, since they would be right in line with Maidsafe if they had 140 devs instead of 225.

This chart may be interesting but it would be a mistake to draw deep conclusions from it.

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8 posts were split to a new topic: 80 solutions to reverse global warming, ranked

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Has Boris Johnson just signalled a green light for the SafeNetwork and others to run wild in Britain?
Is this a bring it on speech (for privacy, security, and freedom), or am i being naive?

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It was actually a pretty good speech. Although nobody told him that one of the likely results of such innovation is the abolition of the political class :slight_smile:

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IMO about 60% of the speech content was decent. However, there were some logical inconsistencies the speech writers missed. The hair was hypnotic and made me give it a like.

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Just seen the dev hub link appear when I login on my phone.
Looking very slik.
Great job to all those responsible.

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Marketing suggestion: “Move fast and fix things” - Maidsafe

Seems appropriate now although perhaps needs a prefix, “Take time to solve hard problems”?

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BBC Podcast

Dr Ruja promised financial revolution [with OneCoin]. And then, two years ago, she disappeared. Why?

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HTTP/3 or HTTP-over-QUIC

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https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/25/inenglish/1569384196_652151.amp.html

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The downfall of YouTube

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I’m not a big fan of Google or Youtube but, in all fairness, it is a private company, not a taxpayer sponsored platform for democracy, so I think they should be entitled to pick whomever they like on there. The problem is Google is so dominant it’s almost a monopoly. People have little other choice. I hope SAFE is going to solve this.

I can’t stand Microsoft Windows, so I don’t use it. But many people have to. My beef with Microsoft is they make e.g. sharing documents from other platforms difficult, often by referring to absurd patents, and this requires lobbying/bribing governments. That I’m definitely against. I’m not sure about Youtube, though.

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