Every year, older and beloved books enter the public domain. Project Gutenberg hosts 70,000 such titles—but there are millions. Most of these books are stored as .EPUB files. .EPUB has a lot of advantages, such as covers, chapter breaks, and other traditional manuscript formatting. In this guide, we
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If you’re like most organizations, your data has become almost entirely decoupled from your broader strategy. This isn’t a revelation; it isn’t controversial: around 60% of companies are still basing decisions on “gut feel” rather than the veritable wealth of information at their disposal. And you know,
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As early as grade school, you learned to cite your sources. If you’re as old as I am, you were told not to use Wikipedia — slightly older still, and you may have engaged in a battle of wills regarding Microsoft Encarta. But the rationale was the same: Know where
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OpenAI has officially announced GPT-4o, the newest model of its popular chatbot service. GPT-4o will be available for free and offer superior audio and visual processing. Perhaps most notably, GPT-4o can detect emotions—in voice and face—and respond in kind. During the demo, GPT-4o solved linear equations, sang a
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It's 2024 and I don't think anyone, at this point, is arguing that social media is good for us. I'm not going to bother citing this one: If you're spending more than a few hours a day on social media, hands up
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The protective spirit of the silo should be maintained, while leaders take on the additional cognitive burden of managing them as a whole and holistic system.
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I've been using AI to augment my writing and editing for four years now. When people find out, the responses are always similar: a fine split between "You can't be a very good writer, then." and "How? I only get absolute trash back.
Deep tech in the shallow web. Generalized disclaimer: I have not thought deeply enough about any of these opinions for them to be influenced by any organization I have worked for or around.
How gig work and the indomitable human spirit are confusing a dire economic machine. “If we find that consumers or businesses are really starting to feel like that long-term level of inflation … is creeping up, if that’s their expectation, we’ve got to act, and we’ve got to
Maybe a gig marketplace based on Victorian-era piecework wasn’t the right strategy for a global economy. For a long time, really the longest time, the average person hunted, gathered, or farmed. Still today, some communities spend most of their time growing food — and there’s always the homesteaders on