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  • TrueCar AI: Solving Car Dealers’ Biggest Challenge

    TrueCar AI: Solving Car Dealers’ Biggest Challenge

    Time is money – and one of the most significant ways for dealers to waste both is chasing bad leads. Typically, the biggest problem for dealers isn’t getting enough leads, but rather, how to correctly manage the many they do have and how to distinguish the good leads from the bad ones. Source: Cox Automotive…

    Jason

    September 22, 2025
    AI, TrueCar
    AI, automotive, business, digital-marketing, Machine Learning, marketing, Software Engineering, technology, TrueCar
  • A TrueCar Employee’s Car-Buying Adventure

    A TrueCar Employee’s Car-Buying Adventure

    Lessons from Navigating the Car-Buying Process as an Insider The car-buying process can be rough. Even today, finding the right car for you and getting it at a reasonable price can seem daunting. I’ve been at TrueCar for six years, working in Software Engineering, and I just bought a new car in December 2024. I…

    Jason

    February 6, 2025
    Uncategorized
    automotive, car, Car buying, cars, Dealerships, finance, tips and tricks, TrueCar
  • Video: Lightning Talks – Computer Vision YOLO -Getting started with Image Object Detection in Yolov5

    Video: Lightning Talks – Computer Vision YOLO -Getting started with Image Object Detection in Yolov5

    Lightning Talks are short, informative, and somewhat informal presentations designed to share ideas, concepts, best practices, or basically anything you think might be of interest.. I run a series of Lightning Talks for TrueCar. This is an excerpt of one of those talks If you would like to learn more about Lightning Talks I wrote a…

    Jason

    October 13, 2024
    Uncategorized
  • Video: Lightning Talks – OCR Image pre-processing -Teaching a computer to read from a video game

    Video: Lightning Talks – OCR Image pre-processing -Teaching a computer to read from a video game

    Lightning Talks are short, informative, and somewhat informal presentations designed to share ideas, concepts, best practices, or basically anything you think might be of interest.. I run a series of Lightning Talks for TrueCar. This is an excerpt of one of those talks If you would like to learn more about Lightning Talks I wrote…

    Jason

    March 23, 2024
    Uncategorized
    Gaming, Lightning Talk, OCR, Python, Software Engineering, Tesseract, video
  • The Future of Engineering: Harnessing the Power of AI Prompts

    The Future of Engineering: Harnessing the Power of AI Prompts

    Evolving from simple Google searches to mastering AI prompt writing. One of the most valuable skills in my career as an engineer has been the ability to properly construct a Google search to find the answer I’m looking for. Site-specific searches (site:reddit.com), wrapping required terms in quotes, or using the (-) minus operator to exclude…

    Jason

    November 17, 2023
    AI
    AI, Bard, ChatGPT, Midjourney, Prompts, Software Engineering
  • Lightning Talks: Making Presenting Less Scary and More Fun

    Lightning Talks: Making Presenting Less Scary and More Fun

    What are the benefits? How do I get started? How do I keep it interesting? Lightning Talks are short presentations, usually between 5 and 10 minutes long, that focus on just a few key points. The goal is to cover the most critical information only and get folks excited to learn more. At TrueCar, I…

    Jason

    November 14, 2023
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