Conversations with Robots: Voice, Smart Agents & the Case for Structured Content

1. What is the difference between structured content and semantic HTML?

Structured content controls what we, humans, see on our screens. It communicated content relationships visually to us. Semantic HTML defined how a machine interprets the information, it describes the kind of information (<ol> vs <ul>) and how it relates to information around it (an <h3> element is subordinate to an <h2> element).

2. How do they work together?

Structured content and semantic HTML work hand-in-hand to display information is a comprehensible way to humans, while also providing algorithms with appropriate info that makes searches more effective.

3. Why is it important to have structured content and semantic HTML in your web pages?

It is important to have both elements on your web pages because you want your content relationships and information hierarchies to be understandable by both humans and machines. This will make the information on your website more easily accessible and readable.

Website Ideas

1. I like how this webpage by IBM is formatted.


2. Here is another example of the formatting that I want by DeepLearning.AI. I also want to implement beginner-friendly images .


3. I also like the open format of this webpage by SAS.

"Banishing Your Inner Critic" and "Procrastination"

• Denise Jacobs argues that we all have a troll-like inner critic. Of the methods she identifies to banish this troll, which would be most successful for you? Why?

I like "Go for 'Good' instead of Superlative" the best. I often care too much about a project that I end up getting overwhelmed and then ignoring the project altogether in order to avoid thinking about it. Needless to say but it's not a very productive method of getting things done. I need to take a step back and remind myself that I don't need to make the most perfect work of art ever created, it just needs to be good enough for the moment.

• In David McRaney's article, what is "hyperbolic discounting"? List one method McRaney identifies to counteract hyperbolic discounting.

Hyperbolic discounting, or present bias, is when we pick to enjoy smaller rewards instead of long term rewards. It makes it easy to push work off to the future. The key is to remember that "now" you can be trusted while "future" you cannot. So you should do your work now instead of trusting that you'll do it later.