Things I Learned - 14 Jul 2024
This week, I learned: Carlton’s TDS session Always create a new venv via VS Code when starting a training session. Helps reproduce issues (though I could use Colab instead) Create an empty .ipynb notebook and double-click it. That’s another way (though slower) to open a Jupyter notebook Share Parrish Knowledge Project podcast. Three generations of wealth There is a big difference between liking animals and being a vet. Between liking education and being a teacher. Even if no one reads your writing, you benefit from the writing. Emotional.crises like 9/11 or Covid are far easier for markets to recover from Hidden brain podcast. White trying to hard can back fire on you Sometimes conscious thinking makes our automated responses of sports music, dance are great examples Instead, SURRENDER to something outside of you. Like playing with kids. Exercise also sends blood away from brain. Drugs. ChatGPT. It’s called Ue in Chinese philosophy A quick check on the pricing of text to speech models OpenAI TTS: $15/1M chars Ref Deepgram Aura: $15/1M chars Ref Elevenlabs Scale: $165/1M chars Ref Google TTS Neural2: $16/1M chars Ref Azure AI Speech: $15/1M chars Ref AWS Polly Neural TTS: $16/1M chars Ref