For some reason my mind first just picked up Twilio & Natural Language and got quite excited at the prospect of an additional layer on top of Twilio to run NLP on SMS/phone call streams.

Like if you could just create smart NLP around SMS menus, you'd solve the third world's sms-as-a-helpdesk frustrations.

Or think of the premium subscription services you could charge for when people can interact on the level of natural language instead of just replying with simple commands.

"for the first time, the developers themselves do not have to be experts in the field, or face the prospect of huge expense to bring in that technical knowledge from elsewhere." - I love that the building blocks of building cool experiences become more well-polished and easier to fit together.

It's a good time to be alive, that's for sure!

Wow that was the most lucid piece I've read about the incident - also good to have found somewhere to point my crazy conspiracy theory family to :)

wow this is amazing haha!

when you say "statistically best bracket choices", does that mean you're applying a prior on the guesses?

If yes, could you give us some more details on how you're arriving at the best way to spread our guesses?

My colleague was doing some work on sports betting and remarked how the current odds are actually really good predictors for the outcomes.

cool idea well done :)

THIS :)