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# Speech Wrecko

Musings on conversational AI, speech recognition, audio signal processing, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and managing teams that build those technologies

## Sitemaps

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## Posts

- [Technical Debt in the World of Generative AI: Lessons from a Pioneering Google Paper](https://speechwrecko.com/technical-debt-in-the-world-of-generative-ai-lessons-from-a-pioneering-google-paper/) - AI systems breaking in weird ways? Google predicted it. Explore the hidden technical debt behind generative AI—and what you must do now to stay ahead.
- [Secrets of Startup Equity: How to Make Sure You Get Your Fair Share](https://speechwrecko.com/secrets-of-startup-equity-how-to-make-sure-you-get-your-fair-share/) - Learn to negotiate startup equity, protect against dilution, understand vesting, and maximize the dollar value of your equity with this essential guide.
- [The Secrets of RAG: An Informative Introduction for Executives](https://speechwrecko.com/the-secrets-of-rag-an-informative-introduction-for-executives/) - Discover the essentials of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for AI. Learn how to enhance text generation with simple steps and tools. Easy and effective!
- [When Buttons Triumph Over Words: Find Out Why](https://speechwrecko.com/when-buttons-triumph-over-words-find-out-why/) - Picture it, Redmond, 2008. A young, naive program manager at Microsoft builds a prototype of one of the world's first far-field, open-microphone, conversational AI assistants. Excited by his invention, he invites his engineering manager to witness the masterpiece in action. He confidently says, "Hey Xbox, channel up," and the Xbox responds, "Got it. I've changed
- [How to Increase Team Productivity with "Swing"](https://speechwrecko.com/how-to-increase-team-productivity-with-swing/) - I wasn’t looking for anything special when I first picked up a copy of The Boys in the Boat. I was in an airport, probably more concerned about finding a decent cup of coffee than a life-changing read. But what started as a random grab for entertainment turned into a transformative experience that solidified my
- [How to Use Nondeterministic LLMs for Building Robust Deterministic Applications](https://speechwrecko.com/how-to-use-nondeterministic-llms-for-building-robust-deterministic-applications/) - If you've followed my previous posts, you might be under the impression that I'm against large language models (LLMs). However, in the words of my mother, "I'm just kvetching!" The truth is, I've been a devoted fan of LLMs for quite some time and have successfully integrated them into multiple customer-facing products. So, why the
- [The Astonishing Reasons Why Your LLM is a Bad Notetaker](https://speechwrecko.com/the-astonishing-reasons-why-your-llm-is-a-bad-notetaker/) - We've all been there. You gather your team for a meeting, you make a bunch of decisions that lead to a series of follow-up action items. Then a week goes by, you meet again and nobody remembers what on earth you decided and none of the action items have been closed out. And right there
- [Introducing Task-Oriented Multiparty Conversational AI:  Inviting AI to the Party](https://speechwrecko.com/introducing-task-oriented-multiparty-conversational-ai-inviting-ai-to-the-party/) - The term "conversational AI" has been around for some time. There are dozens of definitions all over the internet. But let me refresh your memory with a definition from NVIDIA's website. There's nothing wrong with that definition except for one small misleading phrase: "... allow humans to interact ...". What that should say is: "...
- [Generative AI - Prolific Copyright Infringer?](https://speechwrecko.com/generative-ai-prolific-copyright-infringer/) - So, you might be wondering, "What makes this guy fit to pen an article about generative AI and copyright infringement?" I mean, I'm no copyright lawyer, nor do I moonlight as one on television. But I do bring a unique viewpoint to the table. After all, I've dabbled in the music industry and have been
- [Your Large Language Model - it's as Dumb as a Rock](https://speechwrecko.com/youre-large-language-model-llm-is-as-dumb-as-a-rock/) - © Jason Flaks -Initially generated by DALL-E and edited by Jason Flaks Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately you likely think we’re entering some sort of AI-pocalypse. The sky is falling and the bots have come calling. There are endless reports of ChatGPT acing college-level exams, becoming self-aware, and even trying to break
- [The Annotators Dilemma: When Humans Teach Machines to Fail](https://speechwrecko.com/the-annotators-dilemma-when-humans-teach-machines-to-fail/) - What does a machine learning model trained via supervised learning and a lion raised in captivity have in common? … They're both likely to die in the wild! Now that might sound like a joke aimed at getting PETA to boycott my blog, but this is no laughing matter. Captive bred lions are more likely
- [Teachers Keep on Teaching - ‘til I Reach my Highest Ground](https://speechwrecko.com/teachers-keep-on-teaching-til-i-reach-my-highest-ground/) - Forgive me Stevie Wonder for slightly reordering your lyrics, but I think you'd agree that it's hard to reach your highest ground without the help of teachers. Being a teacher is often a thankless job. Nobody gets rich or famous for being a teacher, yet the contribution teachers make to society is invaluable. So, in
- [Voting is Just a Precision and Recall Optimization Problem](https://speechwrecko.com/voting-is-just-a-precision-and-recall-optimization-problem/) - It's hard to avoid the constant bickering about the results of our last election. Should mail-in voting be legal? Do we need stricter voter identification laws? Was there fraud in the last election? Did it impact the results? These are just a fraction of the questions circulating around elections and voter integrity these days. Sadly,
- [“If you start me up I'll never stop …” Until We Successfully Exit](https://speechwrecko.com/if-you-start-me-up-ill-never-stop-until-we-successfully-exit/) - “Hey, our fledgling startup is on path to being the next *INSERT BIG TECH COMPANY NAME HERE* and we think you’re a great fit for our CTO role”. Find me a technical leader who hasn’t been enticed by those words and you’ll have found a liar. So, what happens when one succumbs to the temptation
- [Pair Programming or Bare(ly) Programming](https://speechwrecko.com/pair-programming-or-barely-programming/) - “Sorry we don’t have enough resources, we only have four pairs” – As an engineering leader no other statement has made me cringe more. After all four pairs is a healthy sized team of eight developers. Throughout my career I have run across CTOs, VPs, directors, development managers, teams, and individual developers who swear by
- [End-to-End Speech Recognition: Part 1 - Neural Networks for Executives (I Mean Dummies)](https://speechwrecko.com/end-to-end-speech-recognition-part-1-neural-networks-for-executives-i-mean-dummies/) - When I originally contemplated the subject of my next blog post, I thought it might be interesting to provide a thorough explanation of the latest and greatest speech recognition algorithms, often referred to as End-to-End Speech Recognition, Deep Speech, or Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC). However, as I began to research the topic I quickly discovered
- [Creating a Management Philosophy](https://speechwrecko.com/creating-a-management-philosophy/) - Just In case you couldn’t infer this from my previous posts some folks consider me opinionated and occasionally dogmatic. What else would you expect from a born and raised New Yorker, who grew up in a household where arguing your point was considered a cultural birthright! Unfortunately, while having strong opinions and ideas can be
- [Managing Research Projects in an Agile Development Environment](https://speechwrecko.com/managing-research-projects-in-an-agile-development-environment/) - Anyone who has worked in an agile organization has found that certain projects don’t quiet fit the agile mold. Nowhere is this more apparent than with research oriented projects. After all if there is complete uncertainty in the scope and outcome of a project, as would be the case in a research project, how do
- [Twitter Feed](https://speechwrecko.com/125-2/) - [rotatingtweets screen_name='speechwrecko' include_rts='1' tweet_count='20' timeout='5000']
- [Microsoft’s 5.1% Word Error Rate (WER) Announcement is Complete and Utter Bullshit](https://speechwrecko.com/microsoft-wer-announcement/) - I apologize! That title was actually generated by Microsoft’s speech recognition system incorrectly transcribing "Microsoft’s 5.1% Word Error Rate (WER) Announcement is Completely Misleading”. Okay, that was snarky, but I promise Microsoft compelled me to write that. You see in the course of editing my previous post Microsoft had to go and put out a
- [“Blinded by the Light, Revved up like a ???”](https://speechwrecko.com/blinded-by-the-light-revved-up-like-a/) - I probably sang that Manfred Mann song a thousand times in my teen years and I was pretty sure the last word in that lyric was a feminine hygiene product until Google came along and taught me otherwise. It turns out the lyrics to Blinded by the Light are very difficult to understand and so
- [Hello World!](https://speechwrecko.com/hello-world/) - I’m back! After a long hiatus from blogging I’ve decided to give it a go again. I’d like to use this blog as a forum for sharing my thoughts on advanced technologies like speech recognition, audio signal processing, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence. Additionally I will be covering my theories on how to manage

## Pages

- [About Me](https://speechwrecko.com/about/) - Jason is presently serving as a Group Manager of Technical Program Management (TPM) in Meta's Ranking Artificial Intelligence (AI) division, where he leverages years of expertise in building and leading teams that adeptly craft software products rooted in cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, Audio Signal Processing, Virtual and Augmented Reality,
- [Contact Me](https://speechwrecko.com/contact/) - Let me know what questions and/or feedback you have for me. I’ll get back to you as quickly as I can. Thanks! I look forward to hearing from you. [ninja_forms id=1]

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- [Agile](https://speechwrecko.com/category/agile/)
- [Code](https://speechwrecko.com/category/code/)
- [Startups](https://speechwrecko.com/category/startups/)
- [Machine Learning](https://speechwrecko.com/category/machine-learning/)
- [Conversational AI](https://speechwrecko.com/category/conversational-ai/)
- [Large Language Models (LLMs)](https://speechwrecko.com/category/large-language-models-llms/)
- [Generative AI](https://speechwrecko.com/category/generative-ai/)

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