PWC have released a report on the current proliferation and uptake of voice assistants and voice recognition technology among consumers. "Usage will increase but consistency must improve for wider adoption".
Shopify have released a State of Commerce report which presents the results of surveys conducted between April 2018 and 2019 of over 3,800 shopify merchants and 2,600 consumers.
The Zero-G design company in Dublin has created a great and illuminating map of the Irish State, which re-imagines the various state bodies and organisations as island land masses, grouped and positioned based on their allocated budgets and perceived power within Ireland.
This is a good story by Ibrahim Diallo about how he quoted $18,000 to build a single HTML page and got away with it, or rather, he quoted for all the time the company took to give him what he needed to build the page.
Last week, The Swansea Laptop Orchestra finished up their Ireland Tour in Dublin and Cork. They played in Studio 10 in Dublin supported by The Line, Check out the photos from Dublin here. They also played in the fantastic Guesthouse in Shandon in Cork, supported by The Quiet Club. Check out the photos from Cork here.
Following on from listening to the fantastic interview Tim Ferriss did with Neil Gaiman, I recently binge watched Good Omens on Amazon Prime and was not disappointed. The book is written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet, and the TV series is a co-production between Amazon and the BBC.
Google's The Launchpad have published a machine learning case study by The Frontier Car Group. The case study describes how the company, with the help of Lunchpad mentors, implemented a machine learning pipeline to predict the selling price of used cars month over month.
Life On Marts describes some mental fallacies that can interfere with successful software engineering, and any other work for that matter. I'm sure we've all encountered or been guilty of succumbing to historian's fallacy or survivorship bias at some point in our working lives :-)
