Based on 44 meeting recordings from February to late April 2026, here’s how Straive’s small team (3-6 people at any time, mostly freshers and interns) produce a continuous stream of client-facing demos across topics as diverse as image filtering, geospatial analysis, insurance contract verification, NFL medical scoring, OCR benchmarking, and song similarity clustering — often with a 24–48 hour turnaround from assignment to demo. Here is how the team works: ...
I’ve stopped visiting websites. No, really. There’s only one website I visit these days. Google Reader. Google Reader is a feed reader. If you want to just catch up on the new stuff on a site, you can add the site to Google Reader. Anything new that is published on the site appears in Google Reader. Right now, I’ve subscribed to over 50 feeds. There’s no way I can remember to visit 50 sites – so I’m actually able to read more and miss less. ...
Cut and paste has become easier. So we make less effort to understand. We don’t need to. Like when we pay less attention if we’re recording a lecture. Solution? I suggest the Tunnel in the Sky strategy. Rod Walker is going for survival training on an alien planet, and asks his sister, Captain Walker… “Uh, Sis, what sort of gun should I carry?” “Huh? Why the deuce do you want a gun?” ...
D-Lib magazine reviews Social Bookmarking Tools. Comments Jetru 18 Apr 2005 7:38 am: i think you forgot something:D
Professional news feeds. A treasure for RSS news junkies.
Ever since I started using NewsIsFree.com, I manage to run through my morning news much faster. Now, I’m trying to use some of these RSS newsreaders to see if they can speed it up even further. (Note: Though I read news faster, I’ve ended up spending more time on it, not less!)
The subject-specific Scout reports, which were a prime source of my information, are about to be discontinued from the end of the month. (No funds.)