
Ken Kocienda ISBN 9781529011845
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This book by Ken Kocienda came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Dan Kokotov. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple's campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly-respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era: the Golden Age of Apple.
“there's that book uh creative selection i don't know if you read it by a apple engineer named ken cocienda it's kind of a great book actually”— Dan Kokotov
The guest here is Dan Kokotov: VP of Engineering at Rev.ai, the speech-to-text company behind Rev.com's human captioning/transcription and its ASR engine. A programmer-turned-manager who immigrated from Russia in 1991. Rev's VP of engineering explains how AI and human transcribers combine to build the world's best speech-to-text engine.
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