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1 week ago | 
notboring.co | Daniel McCormick |Packy McCormick
Hi friends ūüĎč ,Happy Friday, welcome back to our 149th Weekly Dose of Optimism. I am back from what was the best week of my life: I got married to my beautiful wife, Sienna, in Pietrasanta, Italy surrounded by 110 of our closest family and friends. This specific Tuscan region is notable for its combination of both mountains and beaches and seemed pretty undiscovered by the hoards of tourists that generally visit Italy during the early summer.
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2 weeks ago | 
notboring.co | Packy McCormick |Daniel McCormick
Hi friends đ , Happy Friday, welcome back to our 148th Weekly Dose of Optimism, and ciao from Pietrasanta, Italy, where DAN IS GETTING MARRIED TODAY. It would be inappropriate for Dan to write the Dose on his big day, but it would also be inappropriate not to send the Dose on the most optimistic day of his life, so Iâm taking over the writing duties for today. Dan picked a wild week to take off. Riots in LA. Plane crash in India. Israel striking Iran. âNothing ever happensâ is under siege.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
notboring.co | Daniel McCormick |Mario Gabriele |Noah Smith
Hi friends ūüĎč,Happy Friday and welcome back to our 129th Weekly Dose of Optimism. So much going on in the world right now: a flurry of executive orders and action coming out of the White House, the AI industry (maybe) being turned on its head, and a nightmarish airplane accident occurring at an airport I am sure many of us have flown in-and-out of many times. The world can be a chaotic place, but it‚Äôs a good place. Let‚Äôs get to it.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
notboring.co | Daniel McCormick
Hi friends ūüĎč,Happy Friday and welcome back to our 126th Weekly Dose of Optimism and first edition of 2025.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
notboring.co | Daniel McCormick
Today’s Weekly Dose is brought to you by … AlphaSenseAlphaSense recently acquired long-time Not Boring partner Tegus. Through their vast library of expert calls, the combined companies have more insight into how companies are actually using AI than anyone but the labs themselves. They’re where I turn when I’m trying to get the insider perspective on an industry or technology.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
notboring.co | Daniel McCormick
Today’s Weekly Dose is brought to you by… Baseten Baseten's model performance engineers have built the world's fastest inference engine for Whisper, the best open-source audio transcription (speech-to-text) AI model: Over 400x real-time factor (1 hour transcribed in <9 seconds) Best word error rate with domain-specific corrections Lowest cost per hour for Whisper V3 (up to 80% cheaper than OpenAI) This is the fastest, most accurate, least expensive Whisper inference on the market, counting...
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
notboring.co | Daniel McCormick
Today’s Weekly Dose is brought to you by… BasetenSlow models = dead products. Fifteen years ago, Amazon found that every 100 milliseconds of latency cost 1% of revenue. Today, 100 milliseconds kills entire products. That's why startups building real AI-native applications, not GPT wrappers, turn to Baseten for applied performance research, distributed GPU infrastructure, and hands-on support.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
notboring.co | Daniel McCormick
Today’s Weekly Dose is brought to you by… SpeakeasySpeakeasy recently raised $15M to revolutionize REST API development. Even the most gifted craftsman needs the appropriate tools to build something they’re proud of. Unfortunately, the API tooling ecosystem is still stuck in 2005.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
notboring.co | Daniel McCormick
Hi friends ūüĎč,Happy Friday and welcome back to our 119th Weekly Dose of Optimism. Even during a busy election week with so much coverage and noise that I can barely hear myself think, the world did manage to produce some pretty interesting work over the last week including new work on ocean cleanups, endometriosis, bipolar disorder, and sugar. But let‚Äôs be real: this past week was all about the election. Let‚Äôs get to it.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
notboring.co | Daniel McCormick
Hi friends ūüĎč,Happy Friday and welcome back to our 118th Weekly Dose of Optimism. You may have heard, there‚Äôs an election on Tuesday. You might be watching the ads and jabs and not feeling particularly optimistic. We‚Äôre here to tell you that no matter what happens, we‚Äôll be fine. Great, even. That‚Äôs not to say things will be perfect.
