Saw the Iridium guys, agree they were great. Also, this guy's talk was superb: https://xi.hope.net/schedule.html#-coding-by-voice-with-open-source-speech-recog

Saw the Iridium guys, agree they were great. Also, this guy's talk was superb: https://xi.hope.net/schedule.html#-coding-by-voice-with-open-source-speech-recognition- https://xi.hope.net/schedule.html#-coding-by-voice-with-open... There was definitely some good stuff, just seemed to me that overall, the mix of practical/technical vs cultural/lifestyle/political at events like this has changed a lot over the years. Either that, or my perception has changed, it's hard to tell.