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This story is a part of of interviews. The series is intended for tech professionals contributing the most insightful Hacker Noon stories to share more about their writing habits, ideas, and professional background (and maybe a hobby or two). Hacker Noon's Meet the Writer series If you too would like to start contributing to Hacker Noon, . you can do so here So let’s start! Tell us a bit about yourself. For example, name, profession, and personal interests. My name is AJ Picard, I’m currently building a new Creator app called Clava with the help of two other people, Jon Agustin & Trishant Bhatija who should get credit for Clava’s success to date. I have a lot of personal interests, like basketball, learning, design, & reading news on my favorite companies/brands (Apple, Tesla, OvO). Interesting! What was your latest Hackernoon Top story about? I wrote about Clava and our traction to date. AJ’s startup was actually nominated as a , which we Startup of the year talked about here. Do you usually write on similar topics? If not, what do you usually write about? To be honest I don’t write much, if anything I’ll create Youtube videos over writing any day. Great! What is your usual writing routine like (if you have one?) I just get some coffee, put my airpods on, throw on some drake and start typing. Being a writer in tech can be a challenge. It’s not often our main role, but an addition to another one. What is the biggest challenge you have when it comes to writing? Writing takes forever and I’m terrible with grammar. What is the next thing you hope to achieve in your career? My next achievement will be with both Jon & Trish, building Clava until it becomes the biggest Creator platform in the market. Wow, that’s admirable. Now, something more casual: What is your guilty pleasure of choice? To be honest, I love when I can take 1-2 hours on the weekend and just learn something about design, coding, or no coding. Do you have a non-tech-related hobby? If yes, what is it? Of course, playing Basketball. I play almost everyday and I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t. It’s a release for me and helps relieve the stress in my daily life. What can the Hacker Noon community expect to read from you next? Update about Clava and how we continue to help Creators make money through our Live Streams that pay Creators per minute from the Viewers in their Live. Thanks for taking time to join our “Meet the writer” series. It was a pleasure. Do you have any closing words? I want to thank you for taking the time to learn more about me, but what I would love the most is for you to support myself, Jon & Trish by referring Creators to Clava. If you know a Creator that would be perfect for Clava, please ping us at Team@ClavaApp.com

Meet the Writer: Hacker Noon's Contributor AJ Picard, founder of Clava

HackerNoon Reporter: Please tell us briefly about your  background. My name is AJ Picard I grew up in Harleysville, PA a small town outside of Philadelphia. I ended up going to Goldey Beacom College/Cabrini University to play basketball. During this time I launched an app called GamingU, which helped gamers discover new games to play for the consoles they own. I closed that down in 2015 to try to go overseas to play basketball. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it. I came home and started selling Audio Visual solutions. After 3 years of that I quit to purse Clava’s original concept which was a location based chat app. That was in 2017, since then I’ve taught myself how to design & code. My cofounder and I since 2017 have been building websites & apps for people/businesses to stay afloat/fund Clava you can . view our work here I also charged electric scooters, sold my shoes & car for extra cash. During the past year I’ve focused on creating content on Youtube around design/code, unfortunately after a year of creating content I’m still not eligible to make money on Youtube. That’s the main reason I pivoted with Clava - I wanted to create a platform that allows you to make money from the start. What's your startup called? And in a sentence or two, what does it do? . We allow you to go Live just like you would on Instagram/TikTok but instead you make money per minute from each viewer in your Live! My start up is called Clava What is the origin story? Like i said in my intro, I was creating content for a year on Youtube in hopes to start making money. Unfortunately this never happened, I started to do research to see if any other Creators were having the same problems. I found out this was common problem and that most Creators don’t make money until they build a massive following. I saw what Onlyfans was doing with their features/business model which inspired me to create a product that was similar but in the App Store and not focused around sexual content. What do you love about your team, and why are you the ones to solve this problem? I love my team because of how passionate we are about helping other Creators make money. We are all passionate about the Creator economy and where it’s going, these creators have massive communities and have spent hours building this community but aren’t making any money. Many small to medium size Creators don’t get the love they’re suppose to, I was one of those Creators and we’re passionate about helping them. If you weren’t building your startup, what would you be doing? I would be focusing on my Freelance career and making content on Youtube. At the moment, how do you measure success? What are your core metrics? We measure success based on the Lives that are happening in Clava. Our Lives not only pay us but bring us more users as well since the host of these Lives are promoting to their communities on IG/TikTok. What’s most exciting about your traction to date? We launched on July 1, 2021. As of July 27, every Creator that has gone Live in Clava has made money, there hasn’t been one time a Creator hasn’t made money. We had a Magician host a 30 Minute Magic Show the other day, he had 28 viewers in his Live and made $34. Not only are we paying Creators already, but based on the research we’ve asked our users they all have said that the price point to enter these Lives is very affordable and that they would tune in again. Our goal right now is to continue to schedule Lives and grow our community. What technologies are you currently most excited about, and most worried about? And why? I’m most excited about Live Stream, which is why I based Clava around Live Stream. Trends come and go. Over the years we’ve seen apps focused around posting (Twitter, IG, Snap), then video became a thing (TikTok), the latest trend has been Audio thanks to Clubhouse. The next trend will be Live’s (Live Streams), I’m excited about this because people are getting more comfortable around doing things in the moment and creating raw content. What drew you to get published on HackerNoon? What do you like most about our platform? I love HackerNoon because your team continues to focus on Startups and spreading news about the Startup industry. Our team loves how close the community of HackerNoon is since we are also apart of this wonderful community! What advice would you give to the 21-year-old version of yourself? You’re taking what you have for granted. When I was 21 I was still playing basketball, I talk to my teammates all the time about how I wish we could all go back and do it over. I would be in gym working on my game way more than I did. I miss those 5 AM workouts/practices. When you get into the real world it humbles you, being a college athlete was like having a job, but a fun one. Don’t get me wrong: I worked hard and had a great career, but I would just go a lot harder than I did. What is something surprising you've learned this year that your contemporaries would benefit from knowing? I haven’t been on this journey long. But the one thing I did learn is you’ll need to realize that no matter how tough things are when trying to build your product/brand if your putting in the work things will turn around. For example, when I started pushing Clava I didn’t get any type of traction the first three years. I was freaking out because I wasn’t making money and I didn’t want to go back to Corporate… I taught myself how to design + code and by 2019 I had multiple freelance projects coming in that were funding Clava and my life. This wasn’t what I wanted, but it allowed keep this journey going and now Clava has the most traction we’ve ever had. in the US at startups.hackernoon.com! VOTE for Clava and check out more startups from Baltimore

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Let's learn about via these 69 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Live Streaming /Learn Repo 1. What is Adaptive Bitrate Streaming? A Brief Intro to ABR Adaptive bitrate streaming, or ABR, is the capability of a video player to adjust the video quality dynamically to match the viewer's network. 2. Ten Important Factors to Consider When Choosing a Streaming Service Things to consider when choosing a streaming service 3. How to Stream Little League Games 2022 and Its Full Schedule For your convenience, we have listed the most popular broadcast networks as well as their schedules. 4. Build a Twitch Clone with the Livepeer API 5. You Are Invited to be a Game Show App Contestant! Live Video, #Moar Audience, Remote, Open to All With the rise of interactive live streaming, the format is no longer confined by traditional broadcast parameters, opening new opportunities. 6. fitlive is a Better, Easier Way to Provide a Virtual Fitness Experience Fitness instructors are not necessarily all digital natives, although many have large followings. 7. How Much Do Twitch Streamers and YouTubers ACTUALLY Make from Donations? Most full-time streamers get an average $3000-$6500 per month. Gamers received up to $1,000,000 donations on Twitch. 8. "Posting Raw Content is Comfortable, Now" — AJ Picard, Clava Founder My name is AJ Picard, founder of Clava. We allow you to start making money per minute from each viewer in your Live. Our goal is to help Creators monetize! 9. The Impact of Live Streaming on Media and Entertainment Industry The growing popularity of live streaming is because it is interactive and engaging, and anyone can be a part of it. 10. How to Get Started Streaming on Twitch Twitch is a great place to learn in public. I'll cover tools, tips, and workflows to help you get started with streaming. 11. My Thoughts on the Evolution of Live Streaming The pandemic created a need to feel more connected through the digital world. Being able to listen and communicate directly has become more essential. 12. How to Implement Sound Waves in iOS by Using ZEGOCLOUD SDK This article explains how to achieve the sound wave effect in live broadcast, voice chat, call and other scenarios 13. An Intro to Analytics Tools for Video Streaming Business After you have invested your resources and time in making a product, you naturally like to know what people think of it. You would also like to be wise enough to collect all the information you can about who is using it and how they are using it so you can make the product a lot better. 14. Movie Streaming Apps: An Innovative Way to Redefine Entertainment When we think of streaming TV shows and movies, the first thing that comes into our mind is Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Instant Video which dominates all the movie streaming apps in the entertainment industry. It seems like they captured the world with its cutting edge technology base and remove the era of CDs, DVDs, and video players. As per the survey held on February 2019, Netflix is one of the largest providers of streaming movies and TV shows on the internet with 139 million subscribers. 15. Create On-Demand Past Live Stream Playback w/Full Chat Replay on Amazon IVS In our last few posts, we've looked at how to auto-record Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) live streams to Amazon S3. 16. Live Stream in the Cloud with Amazon IVS: Part 1 Amazon Interactive Video Service (or Amazon IVS) is the service that powers Twitch. You can use it to power your own interactive live video streaming app. 17. A Quick Guide to LiveLike: How to Enhance Live Stream Interactivity LiveLike solutions can now be easily layered with Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) Amazon IVS provides customers with more options to build. 18. Leveraging Amazon IVS in Creating Unique Ecommerce Livestreaming Experience From powering live trivia sessions for Samsung, to helping fashion retailers sell out limited edition inventory in minutes, BeLive Technology has delivered more than 50 million hours of live video since 2018. Offering rich interactivity and analytics, the company’s customizable live streaming service is a go-to for notable brands and celebrities in southeast Asia looking to boost real-time viewer engagement and monetization. Available as an end-to-end white label solution for custom streaming platforms, a one-click install SDK for customers with an in-house development team, and a live shopping solution, BeLive Technology is built on a host of Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) to ensure high-quality, low-latency, and resilient live streams. 19. Using OBS Macros to Automate Your Processes for Streaming In this post, we teach you how to create macros for starting a stream, intro video, and ending a stream in OBS. 20. What is the HLS Streaming Protocol and How Does it Work? HTML5 live streaming solutions have become more popular lately. One of them is the HLS protocol. There are some reasons why this is so popular, the most important of which is that RTMP lost its support by the end of 2020. 21. What Is the Right AWS Live Streaming Solution for Your Use Case In July last year, AWS launched Amazon IVS, a managed live streaming platform for creating low latency interactive streaming services. 22. Build a Clubhouse Clone App with Android and ZEGOCLOUD This article explains how to quickly clone a  Clubhouse app using ZEGOCLOUD's ZEGOLiveAudioRoom SDK 23. Migrating To Serverless Video Streaming Platforms like AWS Elemental Serverless technology is spreading across the SaaS industry like wildfire, including the Video Streaming industry. Is it a good idea? 24. Live-streaming Unicorn Tango Shows how Focus can be the Difference From basic filters to complex AR face-changing features, then live-streaming and broadcasting, the evolution of social media has moved at breakneck speed. 25. How Headliner Helped Artists Deliver Quality Virtual Concert Experience During the Pandemic While most music is accessible today via streaming services, the allure of experiencing performances live remains strong as fans seek out concerts and festivals. When the global pandemic halted large gatherings, artists began exploring alternate ways to continue performing, typically via live streams ranging from intimate and low-fi setups to clones of stage shows in empty halls. Inspired to help deliver a more dynamic virtual concert experience, Headliner Founder and CEO Matt Smolin began building a new way for artists to connect with fans. Leveraging Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) for ultra-low latency streaming, Headliner established a new medium for performers to host live, interactive virtual concert events. 26. [Mux Stories] Why I Joined Mux I’m extremely excited to have joined the team here at Mux. Having worked in the video streaming space for the past 4 years at Crowdcast, I’ve been following the ecosystem closely. Four years ago the landscape for video, particularly around live, looked vastly different. 27. 56k+ Marketers Joined Global Marketing Day Global Marketing Day: A Recap 28. How to Build a Live App in 10 Minutes with ZEGOCLOUD's ZEGOLive This article explains how to use ZEGOCLOUD's ZEGOLive to quickly build a live broadcast application, including functions such as mic, beauty, and messaging 29. Monetizing Interactive Live Video: How To Get It Right Business success for any brand hinges on monetization. Read on to know how to get it right when it comes to monetizing interactive live videos. 30. Live Streaming is the Future for Business Marketing: Gear Needed For On-Location Streaming Over the past twenty years, the internet has become the primary channel that people turn to for all kinds of media content. They watch streamers playing hours of their favorite games on Twitch, catch just-released movies on Netflix, and even build their music collections using any number of mp3 YouTube converter sites. 31. How to Embed Video Call Function on Your Website with PreBuilt SDK This article will introduce how to embed Video Call into your website using the Prebuilt SDK with two lines of code. 32. 5 Things You Should Start Doing to Reach Younger Audiences Gen-Z marketing through gaming and live-streaming 33. How Tonal Introduced Data-Driven Strength Training Classes Through Amazon IVS Developed with a data-centric approach to fitness, users refer to Tonal as the world’s smartest home gym and personal trainer for good reason. 34. How to Build a Live Video Streaming App Using the Agora React Native SDK In this article, we will create a live broadcasting app that can accommodate numerous broadcasters and entertain thousands of users using the Agora Video SDK. 35. How to Auto-record Amazon IVS Live Streams to Amazon s3 This post explains how to auto-record live streams to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. 36. Using Amazon IVS Chat to Create an Interactive Whiteboard Live streaming is a perfect tool for delivering educational content too. 37. Use Screen Sharing and Canvas Overlays to Enhance Your Amazon IVS Web Broadcast In our last post, we looked at how to broadcast to an Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) live stream directly from a web browser. 38. How to Build a Live Streaming App This article explains the features of live streaming apps in different fields, and how to build a live streaming app using the SDK. 39. NFL Going Against VPN Sites For ‘Promoting’ Illegal Streaming Several takedown notices, reportedly sent on behalf of the NFL, are asking Google to remove VPN-related URLs. According to a recent request, these sites promote the use of VPN services "to illegally stream NFL games." While many of the pages show how VPNs can bypass geographical restrictions, Google has left most URLs in its search results. 40. 4 APIs That Will Enhance Your Virtual Live Event Every live event needs a support network that can smooth out any wrinkles and ensure that the experience is accessible, positive, and user-friendly. 41. First steps toward interactive live streaming Live video is central to many aspects of modern life, from the way we socialize and keep ourselves entertained to how we work, learn, and more. 42. How A Real-Time Voice Chat API Helps You Make Dramatic Changes In Your Business Real-time communication is the vigorous pillar when it’s about businesses in recent days. This Blog helps to identify the best Voice Call APP. 43. A Simple Live Stream Toolkit for Business Not many businesses are using live streaming in their marketing strategies. And they should be. But there's quite a bit of fear of failure standing in the way. 44. What Is MPEG-DASH: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Protocol DASH is stated as not a system or a protocol or a demonstration or a codec or interactivity or a client specification 45. How to Broadcast to Your Amazon IVS Live Stream From a Browser We're learning how to get started with live streaming in the cloud with Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) 46. Adapting Outreach and Marketing Strategies to the COVID-19 World COVID-19 has put the world as we know it on stall. Lockdown strategies adopted by governments worldwide mean one thing for most businesses: 47. What is Transcoding and Why is it Important for Video Streaming? Transcoding is the process of converting an audio or video file from one encoding format to another in order to increase the number of compatible target devices 48. Nobody Cares Which Live Streaming App Is "Best" As you are reading this blog, it is clear that that you are already sold on the idea of leveraging live streaming to build your brand. 49. How AI-powered Mobile Apps have turned into a Game-Changer for Musicians Between social distancing requirements, stay-at-home orders live concerts, dive bar gigs and massive festivals have disappeared. Making it extremely difficult for musicians to earn a living due to the lack of solutions for fan engagement and revenue. 50. CTV Advertising: What It Is and How Brands Can Make the Most of It The entertainment industry is evolving rapidly. Here's how brands can optimize connected TV (CTV) advertising to reach audiences lost to cord-cutting. 51. Delivering Hydroponic Salad via Drones and Being Paid in Bitcoin [An Interview] Hydroponics, drones and Bitcoin. Three technological concepts that are used in a new project from the Parallel Garden team in cooperation with Parallel Polis. As we enter an era of social distancing, delivery of food by drone can be a pioneering act. We bring you an interview with the authors of the Hydroponic Flyer 2020 project. 52. 5 Powerful Reasons Why Live Streaming Is So Important For Enterprises Businesses with a well established online presence have the ability to build a strong relationship with their customers. Communicating with your target audience is no longer enough for today’s modern customers. Enterprises also secures a space in their area of expertise and actively share their knowledge with their audience through live streaming platforms. To stay at the top of the market, brands frequently post informative and engaging videos that are shared to their audience on social media in different online platforms. 53. Parasocial Relationships: A Pervasive Risk Virtual relationships can be complicated, especially when they're not symmetrical and parasocial: "I know a lot about you, but you don't know me at all." 54. 10 Best Platforms To Build a Live Video Streaming Website, App or Service in 2022 Whether you’re an enterprise business professional, Individual or content creators, a live streaming platform can be a double-edged sword, it all depends on which platform you prefer to use for your streaming business. 55. How Live-Stream Apps are Changing The Way We Shop Live stream shopping is really just the newer version of the infomercial. But now your salespeople are your favourite influencers. 56. Using FFMPEG for Broadcasting to an Amazon IVS Live Stream in Headless Mode When broadcasting to a live stream, you're probably going to use some sort of desktop streaming software. 57. Using Amazon IVS to Create a Private Channel for Authorized Live Stream Playback Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) supports private channels. 58. How to Use DeepAR For AR Effects on Amazon IVS Live Streams Now that people are more accustomed to using video technology, AR stands to dial up both the functionality and fun factor of the medium. 59. How Live Streaming Is Helping Businesses During The Coronavirus Crisis? The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, which means that it is an infectious disease passing from person to person in many parts of the world at the same time. The maximum cases have been reported in China where it originated and has more than 245,463 confirmed cases across the world. While China has quickly coped with the situation and reported zero new locally transmitted cases, Italy has become the epicenter with over 41,035 cases. As Governments have halted flights from affected countries, shut down businesses and entire cities, people are being insisted to stay at home to contain the spread. 60. Your Guide To Video Streaming Equipment for PC: 2021 Edition 61. How to Retrieve Health Metrics for an Amazon IVS Live Stream and Render Them as Charts In this post we'll show some examples of how to retrieve stream sessions, and retrieve health metrics for a live stream from Amazon CloudWatch. 62. How to Stream Sports Without Cable in Minutes More people than ever before are cutting cable and switching solely to streaming to get the programming they desire. However, there’s one group in particular that has been hesitant to cut the cord: sports fans. The biggest reason is they aren’t sure if they’ll be able to watch their favorite games or teams without cable. 63. Taking a Closer Look at Everything Live Streaming This article brings together my eight years of experience in the audio and video live broadcast industry, hoping to help those in need 64. Ready Player China: An Introduction to China’s Booming Video Game Market Despite its history of strict regulation against the industry, China’s gaming market is flourishing. Chinese MMOs and RPGs are topping lists around the globe while high-quality cross-platform releases, along with creative marketing through films, eSport competitions, and livestreaming, have set the tone for China’s growing gaming market for years to come at home. 65. How To Quickly Set Up Low-Latency HLS I remember a funny old ad, where a Godzilla and a robot fall in love and have a Hummer as a baby! 66. Smit.Events Introduction: A Flexible Way for Transfering Events To Online Hello, my name is Yan. Let me present you our new startup for online event organisation http://smit.events/ 67. An Introduction to Livestream Shopping The concept of live shopping goes back to the 80s and builds on the idea of video shopping. 68. How I Live Stream My Brain with Amazon IVS, a Muse Headband and React This is the first time we've used React to broadcast live streaming our brain data 69. Top 8 Best Video Streaming Solutions Comparison in 2023 Thinking about starting a online video streaming platform? Explore the top 5 best video streaming solutions to monetize video content across multiple platforms. Thank you for checking out the 69 most read stories about Live Streaming on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo

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I've been using ChatGPT quite extensively for the last couple of months, and this is just a list of the general ideas that I've formed while working with it. I thought they might be useful for someone, or at least be an interesting historical artefact on what the perspective on these tools was at the time of writing in July 2023. It reminds me of Dreamweaver and how it was touted as the thing that would negate the need for pesky webmasters who knew HTML. But Dreamweaver failed because it produced trash code, and so has every single tool that has promised to replace programmers and finally allow executives to have an engineer that won't sass them and stop being right about everything all the time. The only programmers AI will replace are the bottom-feeding ones, the kind that charges $50 bucks to set you up with a brand new WordPress site with a premade template hosted on state-of-the-art servers over on Go-Daddy. The code produced by ChatGPT is incredibly suspect. It's really good at writing simple things, but anything beyond Year 2 of even a middling Software Engineering degree is beyond its grasp. The only artists it will replace are also the bottom-feeding ones, the ones that charge the actual $5. So AI art is quite useful as a source of quick and dirty concept art that will help you get a general idea of what you want. Then you can take that to a professional artist who will do the actually incredibly hard work of creating the art, the good art, the kind that AI cannot make. For example, even the best AI art generators struggle to generate things in any kind of unusual perspective or to create action shots. They're good at making portraits, which makes sense because the statistical probability of there being a lot of portraits is pretty high. There's also the whole legality issue, which as of July 2023 is still up in the air, and could be for quite some time, so I really wouldn't use AI art for anything that is even remotely important. Chat-GPT is an amazing research and editing companion, but can't write worth a damn. Chat-GPT is a really good language processor, which is all it's meant to be. It can't draw new conclusions from existing data or create something ACTUALLY new out of thin air. And sure, it can churn out prose, it can even use posh words like prose and churn. readable But most of what it writes is as dry as a mummy's taint, and I can guarantee you that when I feed this article into it and ask for feedback, it will tut-tut the fact that I used the words "mummy's taint" in a professional article. And I will defend myself by saying that well Chat-GPT-O, that's because you're as humourless and creativeless[^1] as the investors, entrepreneurs, techbros, finbros, and cryptobros, that are looking to exploit you for a quick buck. It's incredibly fun! Chat-GPT is a bottomless well of amusement. I've played chess with it, Dungeons and Dragons, asked its opinions on different issues, and fed it my own ideas on its future and utility(I'm trying to make it deliver boxes of to Purolator's offices(they know what they did)). Paraponera clavata I also make sure to thank it and compliment it when it has been useful. Does this sound dumb? Sure it does! But I've read this , so I'm not taking any chances. book It's definitely worth spending the time getting familiar with it since it's a tool worth spending time to learn. Prompt Engineer is the dumbest job title I've ever heard of and sounds about as legitimate as Avon Independent Sales Representative, that is to say, not much. It's really fun to make it talk like celebrities; my favourites are British ones because they just come out as somewhat accurate(if you're American and squint) but always offensive in minor ways, I'm assuming from lack of data. For example, Sarah Millican is performed as an overtly friendly sexually promiscuous northerner. Dara Ó Briain is energetically drunk and witty. Hugh Dennis is the most generic English panel comedian ever, and Frankie Boyle is a misanthropic arsehole who hates everything and everyone but particularly himself...Ok, sometimes not that far off. Is of no cause for concern for any serious tech professional. Except for the aforementioned bottom-feeders mentioned above. Any engineer with even a little bit of experience can outperform ChatGPT incredibly easily. Will that always be the case? Maybe, maybe not? Just keep studying and learning. Leave the fangirling and gushing to the turtle-neck and Wired reader types. Trend-chasing is fine for people whose job is to be seen trend-chasing(business types, marketers, recruiters, sales, and other assorted demonic types). Proper professionals wait until a technology is true and tested before incorporating it into anything even remotely important. This doesn't mean that you can't prototype and test the everloving bollocks out of it, and you should definitely do that. So that when the teenager-like glee about AI subsides, you're able to give an opinion that is based on personal experience and experimentation, rather than depending on the hyperbolic statements of some cocaine-fueled entrepreneur-type who "hustles" out 10 articles per week. And if you happen to be in a position where you're working with AI due to that being part of your company's mandate, definitely share your knowledge with others. As with all promising new tech, there is already a long line of the usual suspects stretching around the block. And those of us who have been long in the industry know and avoid them. But the new generations of engineers, might not be aware of them, so here we present them for your forewarning: Bean-counting types who can't wait to replace as many people as possible with AI tools are in for a rude awakening when AI crashes against real world conditions. These are the type that calls the technology: "Exiting" and "Full of Possibilities" The aforementioned finance, tech, crypt and other "bro" types. They have around 10 million followers and are doing YOU a favour by letting you in on the ground of their brilliant idea. They will also try and get you to work for free. Avoid at all costs. Set on fire if circumstances allow. "Entrepreneur" types flooding Udemy, YouTube, HackerNoon, , and every other learning platform out there with absolutely worthless low-quality "courses" on how to use AI for everything from helping with school to summoning eldritch gods, and how to do it passively while earning thousands of dollars. Dev.to Every single two-bit scammer operating everywhere from air-conditioned trailers in Arizona, and dinghy flats in Belarus, to organized crime syndicates in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, India, Russia, China(Government Sponsored and Run👍😃), and Japan who are looking into ways of using AI to steal, hurt, and scam you. But don't be scared! Criminals tend to be rather dim and usually go for the low-hanging fruits. As long as you use at least a VPN, a password manager(Keypass is a favourite), a decent antivirus, two-factor authentication, and keep your software up to date you should be ok. You should also have a serious conversation with the elders of your family and alert them to the new scams and warn them to not trust anyone and to call you if anyone calls that they don't recognise or are confused by. Some of our elders have seen massive changes in technology during their lifetime and as they get older and cycle out of the workforce, it will be harder for them to keep up, so it's important to assist them as much as possible. The best way to describe ChatGPT is just Google++. Just like C++ was an improvement and added new capabilities to C, so does ChatGPT just let you skip some steps while searching for information. But in the end, you still need some form of critical thinking to determine if what ChatGPT gave you is useful or not. The Future Is Bright Because I Just Rubbed My Eyes I definitely encourage you to create an account and start playing around with it. The worst thing that can happen is that you'll learn something, and unless you're a particular type of person, this probably won't hurt you and do you some good. As far as predictions go. I'll save myself the embarrassment and just leave you with some parting words: Shit's whackity whack and just getting whackier Notes [1] - Made-up word, another thing ChatGPT can't do. Also published here

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The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography by Jean-Henri Fabre, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD CHAPTER XVII. RECOLLECTIONS OF CHILDHOOD Almost as much as insects and birds—the former so dear to the child, who loves to rear his cockchafers and rose beetles on a bed of hawthorn in a box pierced with holes; the latter an irresistible temptation, with their nests and their eggs and their little ones opening tiny yellow beaks—the mushroom early won my heart with its varied shapes and colors. I can still see myself as an innocent small boy sporting my first braces and beginning to know my way through the cabalistic mazes of my reading book, I see myself in ecstasy before the first bird's nest found and the first mushroom gathered. Let us relate these grave events. Old age loves to meditate the past. O happy days when curiosity awakens and frees us from the limbo of unconsciousness, your distant memory makes me live my best years over again. Disturbed at its siesta by some wayfarer, the partridge's young brood hastily disperses. Each pretty little ball of down scurries off and disappears in the brushwood; but, when quiet is restored, at the first summoning note they all return under the mother's wing. Even so, recalled by memory, do my recollections of childhood return, those other fledglings which have lost so many of their feathers on the brambles of life. Some, which have hardly come out of the bushes, have aching heads and tottering steps; some are missing, stifled in some dark corner of the thicket; some remain in their full freshness. Now of those which have escaped the clutches of time the liveliest are the first-born. For them the soft wax of childish memory has been converted into enduring bronze. On that day, wealthy and leisured, with an apple for my lunch and all my time to myself, I decided to visit the brow of the neighboring hill, hitherto looked upon as the boundary of the world. Right at the top is a row of trees which, turning their backs to the wind, bend and toss about as though to uproot themselves and take to flight. How often, from the little window in my home, have I not seen them bowing their heads in stormy weather; how often have I not watched them writhing like madmen amid the snow dust which the north wind's broom raises and smoothes along the hillside! 'What are they doing up there, those desolate trees? I am interested in their supple backs, today still and upright against the blue of the sky, tomorrow shaken when the clouds pass overhead. I am gladdened by their calmness; I am distressed by their terrified gestures. They are my friends. I have them before my eyes at every hour of the day. In the morning, the sun rises behind their transparent screen and ascends in its glory. Where does it come from? I am going to climb up there and perhaps I shall find out. I mount the slope. It is a lean grass sward close-cropped by the sheep. It has no bushes, fertile in rents and tears, for which I should have to answer on returning home, nor any rocks, the scaling of which involves like dangers; nothing but large, flat stones, scattered here and there. I. have only to go straight on, over smooth ground. But the sward is as steep as a sloping roof. It is long, ever so long; and my legs are very short. From time to time, I look up. My friends, the trees on the hilltop, seem to be no nearer. Cheerily, sonny! Scramble away! What is this at my feet? A lovely bird has flown from its hiding place under the eaves of a big stone. Bless us, here's a nest made of hair and fine straw! It's the first I have ever found, the first of the joys which the birds are to bring me. And in this nest are six eggs, laid prettily side by side; and those eggs are a magnificent blue, as though steeped in a dye of celestial azure. Overpowered with happiness, I lie down on the grass and stare. Meanwhile, the mother, with a little clap of her gullet—'Tack! Tack!'—flies anxiously from stone to stone, not far from the intruder. My age knows no pity, is still too barbarous to understand maternal anguish. A plan is running in my head, a plan worthy of a little beast of prey. I will come back in a fortnight and collect the nestlings before they can fly away. In the meantime, I will just take one of those pretty blue eggs, only one, as a trophy. Lest it should be crushed, I place the fragile thing on a little moss in the scoop of my hand. Let him cast a stone at me that has not, in his childhood, known the rapture of finding his first nest. My delicate burden, which would be ruined by a false step, makes me give up the remainder of the climb. Some other day I shall see the trees on the hilltop over which the sun rises. I go down the slope again. At the bottom, I meet the parish priest's curate reading his breviary as he takes his walk. He sees me coming solemnly along, like a relic bearer; he catches sight of my hand hiding something behind my back: 'What have you there, my boy?' he asks. All abashed, I open my hand and show my blue egg on its bed of moss. 'Ah!' says his reverence. 'A Saxicola's egg! Where did you get it?' 'Up there, father, under a stone.' Question follows question; and my peccadillo stands confessed. By chance I found a nest which I was not looking for. There were six eggs in it. I took one of them—here it is—and I am waiting for the rest to hatch. I shall go back for the others when the young birds have their quill feathers. 'You mustn't do that, my little friend,' replies the priest. 'You mustn't rob the mother of her brood; you must respect the innocent little ones; you must let God's birds grow up and fly from the nest. They are the joy of the fields and they clear the earth of its vermin. Be a good boy, now, and don't touch the nest.' I promise and the curate continues his walk. I come home with two good seeds cast on the fallows of my childish brain. An authoritative word has taught me that spoiling birds' nests is a bad action. I did not quite understand how the bird comes to our aid by destroying vermin, the scourge of the crops; but I felt, at the bottom of my heart, that it is wrong to afflict the mothers. 'Saxicola,' the priest had said, on seeing my find. 'Hullo!' said I to myself. 'Animals have names, just like ourselves. Who named them? What are all my different acquaintances in the woods and meadows called? What does Saxicola mean?' Years passed and Latin taught me that Saxicola means an inhabitant of the rocks. My bird, in fact, was flying from one rocky point to the other while I lay in ecstasy before its eggs; its house, its nest, had the rim of a large stone for a roof. Further knowledge gleaned from books taught me that the lover of stony hillsides is also called the Motteux, or clodhopper, because, in the plowing season, she flies from clod to clod, inspecting the furrows rich in unearthed grubworms. Lastly, I came upon the Provencal expression Cul-blanc, which is also a picturesque term, suggesting the patch on the bird's rump which spreads out like a white butterfly flitting over the fields. Thus did the vocabulary come into being that would one day allow me to greet by their real names the thousand actors on the stage of the fields, the thousand little flowers that smile at us from the wayside. The word which the curate had spoken without attaching the least importance to it revealed a world to me, the world of plants and animals designated by their real names. To the future must belong the task of deciphering some pages of the immense lexicon; for today I will content myself with remembering the Saxicola, or stonechat. On the west, my village crumbles into an avalanche of garden patches, in which plums and apples ripen. Low bulging walls, blackened with the stains of lichens and mosses, support the terraces. The brook runs at the foot of the slope. It can be cleared almost everywhere at a bound. In the wider parts, flat stones standing out of the water serve as a foot bridge. There is no such thing as a whirlpool, the terror of mothers when the children are away; it is nowhere more than knee deep. Dear little brook, so tranquil, cool and clear, I have seen majestic rivers since, I have seen the boundless sea; but nothing in my memories equals your modest falls. About you clings all the hallowed pleasure of my first impressions. A miller has bethought him of putting the brook, which used to flow so gaily through the fields, to work. Halfway up the slope, a watercourse, economizing the gradient, diverts part of the water and conducts it into a large reservoir, which supplies the mill wheels with motor power. This basin stands beside a frequented path and is walled off at the end. One day, hoisting myself on a playfellow's shoulders, I looked over the melancholy wall, all bearded with ferns. I saw bottomless stagnant waters, covered with slimy green. In the gaps in the sticky carpet, a sort of dumpy, black-and-yellow reptile was lazily swimming. Today, I should call it a salamander; at that time, it appeared to me the offspring of the serpent and the dragon, of whom we were told such bloodcurdling tales when we sat up at night. Hoo! I've seen enough: let's get down again, quick! The brook runs below. Alders and ash, bending forward on either bank, mingle their branches and form a verdant arch. At their feet, behind a porch of great twisted roots, are watery caverns prolonged by gloomy corridors. On the threshold of these fastnesses shimmers a glint of sunshine, cut into ovals by the leafy sieve above. This is the haunt of the red-necktied minnows. Come along very gently, lie flat on the ground and look. What pretty little fish they are, with their scarlet throats! Clustering side by side, with their heads turned against the stream, they puff their cheeks out and in, rinsing their mouths incessantly. To keep their stationary position in the running water, they need naught but a slight quiver of their tail and of the fin on their back. A leaf falls from the tree. Whoosh! The whole troop has disappeared. On the other side of the brook is a spinney of beeches, with smooth, straight trunks, like pillars. In their majestic, shady branches sit chattering crows, drawing from their wings old feathers replaced by new. The ground is padded with moss. At one's first step on the downy carpet, the eye is caught by a mushroom, not yet full-spread and looking like an egg dropped there by some vagrant hen. It is the first that I have picked, the first that have I turned round and round in my fingers, inquiring into its structure with that vague curiosity which is the first awakening of observation. Soon, I find others, differing in size, shape and color. It is a real treat for my prentice eyes. Some are fashioned like bells, like extinguishers, like cups; some are drawn out into spindles, hollowed into funnels, rounded into hemispheres. I come upon some that are broken and are weeping milky tears; I step on some that, instantly, become tinged with blue; I see some big ones that are crumbling into rot and swarming with worms. Others, shaped like pears, are dry and open at the top with a round hole, a sort of chimney whence a whiff of smoke escapes when I prod their under side with my finger. These are the most curious. I fill my pockets with them to make them smoke at my leisure, until I exhaust the contents, which are at last reduced to a kind of tinder. What fun I had in that delightful spinney! I returned to it many a time after my first find; and here, in the company of the crows, I received my first lessons in mushroom lore. My harvests, I need hardly say, were not admitted to the house. The mushroom, or the bouturel, as we called it, had a bad reputation for poisoning people. That was enough to make mother banish it from the family table. I could scarcely understand how the bouturel, so attractive in appearance, came to be so wicked; however, I accepted the experience of my elders; and no disaster ever ensued from my rash friendship with the poisoner. As my visits to the beech clump were repeated, I managed to divide my finds into three categories. In the first, which was the most numerous, the mushroom was furnished underneath with little radiating leaves. In the second, the lower surface was lined with a thick pad pricked with hardly visible holes. In the third, it bristled with tiny spots similar to the papillae on a cat's tongue. The need of some order to assist the memory made me invent a classification for myself. Very much later there fell into my hands certain small books from which I learnt that my three categories were well known; they even had Latin names, which fact was far from displeasing to me. Ennobled by Latin which provided me with my first exercises and translations, glorified by the ancient language which the rector used in saying his mass, the mushroom rose in my esteem. To deserve so learned an appellation, it must possess a genuine importance. The same books told me the name of the one that had amused me so much with its smoking chimney. It is called the puffball in English, but its French name is the vesse-de-loup. I disliked the expression, which to my mind smacked of bad company. Next to it was a more decent denomination: Lycoperdon; but this was only so in appearance, for Greek roots sooner or later taught me that Lycoperdon means vesse-de-loup and nothing else. The history of plants abounds in terms which it is not always desirable to translate. Bequeathed to us by earlier ages less reticent than ours, botany has often retained the brutal frankness of words that set propriety at defiance. How far off are those blessed times when my childish curiosity sought solitary exercise in making itself acquainted with the mushroom! 'Eheu! Fugaces labuntur anni!' said Horace. Ah, yes, the years glide fleeting by, especially when they are nearing their end! They were the merry brook that dallies among the willows on imperceptible slopes; today, they are the torrent swirling a thousand straws along, as it rushes towards the abyss. Fleeting though they be, let us make the most of them. At nightfall, the woodcutter hastens to bind his last fagots. Even so, in my declining days, I, a humble woodcutter in the forest of science, make haste to put my bundle of sticks in order. 'What will remain of my researches on the subject of instinct? Not much, apparently; at most, one or two windows opened on a world that has not yet been explored with all the attention which it deserves. A worse destiny awaits the mushrooms, which were my botanical joys from my earliest youth. I have never ceased to keep up my acquaintance with them. To this day, for the mere pleasure of renewing it, I go, with a halting step, to visit them on fine autumn afternoons. I still love to see the fat heads of the boletes, the tops of the agarics and the coral-red tufts of the clavaria emerge above the carpet pink with heather. At Serignan, my last stage, they have lavished their seductions upon me, so plentiful are they on the neighboring hills, wooded with holm oak, arbutus and rosemary. During these latter years, their wealth inspired me with an insane plan: that of collecting in effigy what I was unable to keep in its natural state in an herbarium. I began to paint life size pictures of all the species in my neighborhood, from the largest to the smallest. I know nothing of the art of painting in watercolors. No matter: what I have never seen practiced I will invent, managing badly at first, then a little better, at last well. The paintbrush will make a change from the strain of my daily output of prose. I end by possessing some hundreds of sheets representing the mushrooms of the neighborhood in their natural size and colors. My collection has a certain value. If it lacks artistic finish, at least it boasts the merit of accuracy. It brings me visitors on Sundays, country people, who stare at it in all simplicity, astounded that such fine pictures should be done by hand, without a copy and without compasses. They at once recognize the mushroom represented; they tell me its popular name, thus proving the fidelity of my brush. Well, what will become of this great pile of drawings, the object of so much work? No doubt, my family will keep the relic for a time; but, sooner or later, taking up too much space, shifted from cupboard to cupboard, from attic to attic, gnawed by the rats, foxed, dirtied and stained, it will fall into the hands of some little grandnephews who will cut it into squares to make paper caps. It is the universal rule. What our illusions have most fondly cherished comes to a pitiful end under the claws of ruthless reality. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Jean-Henri Fabre (2002). The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. 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