I would love to talk more about it if you're interested. I posted my email below if you'd like we can set up a skype and I'll answer anything you'd want to know.
A few weeks ago I was listening to Joe's episode with Tony Hinchcliffe. At some point, the discussion leads to Tom Cruise doing his own stunts. The conversation then devolves into this hypothetical situation where Cruise dies while performing a stunt and how odd it would be to watch the movie knowing Cruise dies in it. Or whether people would actually go see the movie. As morbid as the whole conversation was, I thought it was hilarious.
Days go by and I start to think back to that episode. I try to remember who the guest was so I can look it up and listen to it again, specifically the discussion around Tom Cruise. But I just couldn't remember anything. Surprisingly youtube search wasn't that helpful either. All I could remember from the episode was the phrase "Tom Cruise snuff film".
That's when I thought it would be great to be able to search Joe's podcasts (or any podcast for that matter). I spent some time researching what it would take to build out a search engine specific for a podcast. And after a few weeks of working on it, I got a prototype up and running.
And now if you look up "Tom Cruise snuff film", it brings up the episode and the specific spot where the discussion starts:
I'm using AWS transcribe. I would love to eventually train my own model specifically for each podcast. For this specific instance, since Joe is moving the Spotify soon, I'm not sure the investment is worth it.
This is a very good point. Top youtubers definitely have the resources to put up a decent fight and add a certain level of consequence for haphazard video claims by the Music Companies.
Unimaginable that Amazon doesn't already do everything it absolutely can to reduce its engineering payroll, which is probably its biggest expense.
Without knowing anything about them, one would assume they're already tapping global talent pools with maximum aggression.
If anything, recession in the US may increase the supply and lower the cost (salaries) of American developers, thus making them more competitive against other countries.
NYC shelters nearly 95% of it's homeless population. SF only manages to shelter about 11% of it's homeless population (about the worst rate in the country). Thus there are more homeless people on SF's streets despite a much smaller total homeless population than NYC (and NYC is of course also a much more populous city).
My recollection: when I took a class on Homelessness and Public Policy through SFSU, the number of homeless in San Francisco was similar to the number in New York in spite of it being a much smaller city.
The most current stats I have indicate that California has about 25 percent of the nation's homeless:
Yes, exactly. The point is that in a warm climate there may not be more homeless people, just more visible homeless people.
NYC now shelters most of its homeless mainly because state law requires it. We’re spending a ridiculous amount of money putting homeless people up in hotel rooms because the process to get new shelters built is stalled and we can’t even build enough market-rate housing to account for population growth, let alone affordable housing.
