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TEH 200: Two Hundred Episodes, Listening to your keyboard? Facial Recognition, Vocabulary Helps.
57 minutes Posted Aug 9, 2023 at 5:47 pm.
Episode numer 200!
Another headline was: And are there too many streaming services?
LN: 20 years!
Changes in Google
GR – #1 was iPods in schools
GR – A new way to steal passwords.
So so unlikely. Spy movie stuff. The paranoid will love this!
Two-factor and password managers thwart this.
But, interestingly, it does make a good case AGAINST pass phrases.
LN: Facial Recognition: Pro and Con
Medical use
LN – Grammar tools: Pro and Con
GR – (Aside) How is it that so many reddit posts have bad grammar and even spelling? Even right in the title. Are that many people simply turning off these features?
LN – More therapy:  (YouTube Shredder)
GR Oppenheimer. Forget IMAX Laser. Saw it in 35mm baby!
(What, no Barbie? 🙂 )
LN – 8/10: What I’ve Learned Answering Questions for 20 Years
GR – Get Creative With Numbers Spreadsheets
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In This Episode: Two Hundred Episodes, Listening to your keyboard? Facial Recognition, Vocabulary Helps.
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
Top Stories
Episode 1 was Nov 2017 and it was titled: “For One Welcome Our New A.I. Overlords.”
Now almost 6 years later, LLMs are “AI” and the concern is more about misinformation, stealing content, and people losing jobs. What changed?
7:40 LN: 20 years!
8/10/2003 – There was a bug in IE 6!
15:30 GR – A new way to steal passwords.
23:00 LN: Facial Recognition: Pro and Con
Easy access at the airport: big pro (for me)
Big con: Woman sues Detroit after facial recognition mistakes her for crime suspect
Old white guys…
30:20 LN – Grammar tools: Pro and Con
Google Search can now critique your grammar  and how I use it
33:40 GR – (Aside) How is it that so many reddit posts have bad grammar and even spelling? Even right in the title. Are that many people simply turning off these features?
Vocabulary helps
Ain’t it Cool
43:50 LN – More therapy:  (YouTube Shredder)
47:50 GR Oppenheimer. Forget IMAX Laser. Saw it in 35mm baby!
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
54:20 LN – 8/10: What I’ve Learned Answering Questions for 20 Years
55:10 GR – Get Creative With Numbers Spreadsheets