Category: Stuff
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Been even longer this time!
Like many people, I started the new year with plans to adopt new resolutions, start good new habits and also journal. Of course, I had to buy new tech to support my new resolutions – OK, I didn’t have to but I did anyway. And, I am very impressed with my new Remarkable tablet, and […]
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Been too long
When I last posted here, I’d just been made redundant from a job I loved, building a chatbot from scratch for Vodafone. I started the thing with an idea and a pitch, persisted and switched tack from an internal bot for staff to a public-facing bot and even took onboard the responsibility of building an agile […]
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Building a chatbot: The Conversational Specialist
Typically, an agile squad will contain all the skills required to achieve your mission or solve the problem you’ve been given. However, as I developed a chatbot, it became clear that as well as UX, CX, frontend developer and Tech Dev Lead roles, we would have to create some new roles. Cognitive Engineer – fairly […]
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Hasan Minaj – Homecoming King
So, I started with Seinfeld. A little coffee, a few laughs and a Ferrari. Good start to the day, and he’s talking to Hasan Minaj, who I know from the Daily Show. Sharp, fast, smart and damn funny. Talking about a special on Netflix, hmm, sounds fun, fire that up. However, you really need a […]
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The Defiant Ones
Ah, the story behind Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine. Been planning to watch this for a while, but busy busy with the chatbot world. Thankfully, Christmas brings break time and so I’m neck deep in books, film and tv, I want to catch up on. I only really knew the headlines to their stories. Springsteen, […]
Mike Hales 