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