With the invention of national broadcast radio, stage comedians - notably, my grandfather - had to rethink their whole approach in order to be successful in the new medium. They had to invent the sitcom. #JackBenny cracked.com/article_42065_…

To all of our soon-to-be new colleagues Noname Security, I look forward to welcoming you to Akamai Technologies. You'll like it here.

So iconic that few seem to know of the many other incredible stars in that show.

Check out these photos of the gold money clip that Grandad gave as a gift to JFK on the occasion of the birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden 62 years ago today. It's now in the JFK Library Museum collection (MO 2009.3.60). JFK Library #JackBenny #OTD

And please take a look at the story of this money clip and the wonderful and funny thank-you letter that JFK wrote, thanking Grandad for this money clip. lnkd.in/ecMTQdfS

I’ve seen so many photos of them together, and they always seem to be having so much fun. Inside Marilyn Monroe’s Unlikely Friendship With Comedy Legend Jack Benny: 'Delightful' closerweekly.com/posts/inside-m…

”My plea to developers: please stop throwing LLMs at every problem you see.” // Robert Blumofe, CTO of Akamai Technologies at Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien, IVA today, in the trenches for small, local deep learning solutions. Or as I would say: Make neural networks great again! // cc: Mouna Esmaeilzadeh Patrik Fältström

Arvind. Legend.

Just finished Griffin Dunne’s excellent memoir. We lived on Walden across the street and a couple of houses down, and I heard stories of the Dunne family from my older sibs.

So happy to see my grandmother getting this recognition as a pioneer in radio. I think she was a forerunner for Mary Tyler Moore. The Fierce Leading Ladies of Radio: Mary Livingstone youtu.be/mcUwwtjN6wg?si… via YouTube

Congratulation to American Repertory Theater. I think they've got a hit with Gatsby. Whole family loved it, especially the first half. I think it's the best new musical (NYC/Broadway included) of the past couple of years.

"If you want to make AI adoption projects successful and viable, you need to focus on humans first and AI second." hbr.org/2024/06/resear…

For enterprise use cases, you don’t need an AI model that knows the entire cast of ‘The Godfather,’ knows every movie that’s ever been made, knows every TV show that’s ever been made. wsj.com/articles/these… via The Wall Street Journal

Don't wanna miss this!

The hype is taking all the oxygen out of the conversation and not allowing the appropriate attention on other types of AI models that can really generate value. wsj.com/articles/a-cla… via The Wall Street Journal

I wonder what they were playing.

“Breazeal’s focus on taking multidisciplinary approaches to her research has resulted in an inclusive and supportive lab environment. Moreover, she does not shy away from taking students with unconventional backgrounds.” cynthia breazeal news.mit.edu/2024/large-lab…

Me thinks this hotel had some past experience with Joe Walsh.

And for anyone who's thinking that neural nets are a new thing, they were actually in this proposal.

Wow! Where does DrPopCulture find these gems?