Google’s early warning of the rise of Trump | CultureBy – Grant McCracken
Effectively, Google’s autocomplete function is working as my “desktop dashboard,” a flow of messages from the deep space of the Google data sphere.
Note to Self: Transcribing Podcasts – India, Ink.
Just by accident found this piece on transcribing podcasts with IBM's Watson. I wonder how it compares with SwiftScribe? Need to give it a try, because as I attempt more complex stories it certainly helps to have a bit of text in addition to notes and markers on the audio.
Trump, authenticity and the Tory succession
Interesting piece on, among other things, Jacob Rees-Mogg
[H]e’s authentic all right, but that will never make him a populist hero — because he’s not faking it.
I suppose things really have come to this.
At Vespertine, Jonathan Gold makes contact with otherworldly cooking. Is dinner for two worth $1,000?
[T]he sort of dining rooms that tend to do better on the World’s Top 50 Restaurants list than they do in the Michelin guide; the kitchens where the artistic imperatives of the chef tend to outweigh any questions of what a customer might want to eat; the meals after which a cynical diner, confronted with 20-plus courses of kelp, hemp and tree shoots, makes jokes about stopping for tacos on the way home.
Yeah. No.