How to use AI for better hiring—without losing the human touch

AI is reshaping just about every industry and job function today—and hiring is no exception. A recent survey found that 75% of hiring leaders trust AI to help with hiring decisions, and companies using AI-powered hiring tools report reducing time-to-hire by up to 50%. Still, many recruiters and talent leaders

Build a Python Network Speed Test App with PyQt (Step-by-Step)

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Mnemonic images with Grok 3

The Major mnemonic system makes numbers easier to memorize by encoding them as words. Each digit corresponds to one or more consonant sounds, and you can fill in vowels as you wish. In August 2022 I tried creating a few images using DALL-E 2. The results were disappointing and sometimes

Standing with Intellectual Giants

  Is it possible to come up with truly innovative ideas when you’re not part of the institutions where the expertise resides? According to one study, the answer would seem to be “No.” The book, The Sociology of Philosophies by Randall Collins, makes a case for how great ideas through

Rich Sutton’s bitter lesson of AI

This morning I read Alberto Romeo’s article Grok 3: Another Win For The Bitter Lesson. I wasn’t clear on what exactly the bitter lesson was, so I followed the link to Romeo’s previous article GPT-4: The Bitterer Lesson, which lead to Rich Sutton’s original article The Bitter Lesson. Sutton opens

Research roadmap update, February 2025

An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.

Build a Python Fibonacci Sequence Generator (Step-by-Step)

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