Most outbound sales pipelines fail at one of two critical stages:
Hey {{fi...Microsoft has introduced three documented MAI speech models: MAI-Transcribe-2 for speech-to-text, MAI-Voice-2 for high-fidelity text-to-speech, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash for lower-latency voice experiences. Together, they give developers and businesses distinct building blocks for transcribing audio, generating spoken responses, and designing more ...
I once watched a fallback model save a request and destroy a product decision.
It was a support-ticket classifier. The primary model timed out. The fallback model picked up the same prompt, returned valid JSON, and the dashboard turned green. Availability restored. Everyone exhaled. Then someone noticed that a ticket which should have gone to the urgent queue was sitting in the ordinary...
The Home Assistant that runs my house is on 2024.11.1, released in November 2024. The current version is 2026.8.2. That is roughly 21 monthly releases of distance, and it has been running the whole time without complaining.
Before deciding anything I checked what was actually in there, against the running instance's own REST API rather than from memory: 751 entities, 150 compone...
Building ZenZone for DOGFOOD 2026 taught us that a fallback value can look reasonable and still be mathematically wrong.
Our judging system needed to account for judges who use the scoring scale differently. One judge might give nearly every project a 4; another might use the full range. We chose to normalize each judge’s scores onto a T-score scale:
T = 50 + 10Z<...
