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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…To that end, I recently discovered a youtube channel called Mathologer that has an inspiring speaker and a visual explanation of some pretty cool math stuff<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg">https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is so much excellent instructional video available free or on Brilliant.org that a prole can scarcely scratch the surface. Oh is this a cool time to be alive, or what? I curse my grievous agedness. I envy the young. They have so much, most of it free, content donated by guys like Mathologer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> But I digress, for I want this thread to continue along the line of using the new tools such as OpenAI to create companion bots. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Are we talking about highfalutin ideas followed by QED... or actually outlining a plan to make a deliverable product? I hate to tell you, this is isn't an easy road from great idea through hand-wavey step to buttload of money. I know that is your oft-stated motivation for doing things…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja, it is such a curse that it is so difficult to merely make a buttload of money.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What I have learned in all this is that anything I think of, there are already teams of hipsters that have been on it and doing cool stuff for years. In a remarkably many cases, it is happening within a twenty mile radius of where I am sitting (kewalll!)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The task is then just to find who is doing it, what does it cost, what’s it do, how well does it do it. Then we buy their stock, make a buttload. Mike I am not pretending I have the programming chops to integrate talking avatars, speech recognition and OpenAI. I suck far too much to do all that. But I can recognize a workable product, and can arrange tests, being familiar with senile people who need it right now (no not me dammit, I mean those who really are currently literally senile.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>