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Behind the Prompt Curtain
Every AI prompt is a stateless HTTP request. No memory, no magic. Just a JSON array of messages you build and send yourself. Once you see what is actually going over the wire, adding AI to your product stops being intimidating. The technical barrier is gone. The only question left is whether you should.
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AI is Making Us Artificially Intelligent
We had KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid. A principle built to stop us drowning each other in noise. AI has replaced it with BOVINE. Being Overly Verbose In Needless Expositions. We are producing more content than ever, reading less of it, and proudly signing our names to work we never actually did.
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It’s Just a Series of Prompts
Everyone is talking about agent frameworks like they require a PhD and a six-figure implementation budget. They do not. At the core, it is a text file with instructions, a script that does one job, and a place to store state. That is it. You are already closer to being an agent developer than anyone is telling you.
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Uber Works – car no longer required
Sure there are services that offer this already, but if Uber can make this truly accessible, for people to earn an extra dollars in their free time, this could be a major game changer. Uber explained that it has partnered with local businesses in Chicago to offer would-be workers roles in six job categories: back-of-house, front-of-house, warehouse, cleaning, customer service and general labor. Jobs taken might include bartending, assembly-line work,…
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FedEx CEO finally admits Amazon is a real competitor
“We basically compete in an ecosphere that’s got five entities in it,” Smith said, adding: “There is UPS. There is DHL. There is a US Postal Service. And now increasingly there is Amazon. That’s who we wake up every day trying to think about how we compete against and give the best services to our sales force.” I am getting a Blockbuster feeling about FedEx – though this time, after…
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Netflix Loses No. 1 Spot as Bandwidth User for 2019
Interesting to see who is consuming the global bandwidth with this study. Buried deep in this report is how Google represents 17%. Worldwide, these are the top 10 applications by downstream bandwidth consumption: HTTP media stream (12.8%); Netflix (12.6%); YouTube (8.7%); operator IPTV (7.2%); HTTP download (4.5%); HTTP TLS (4.4%); HTTP (3.0%); Facebook (3.0%); PlayStation download (2.8%); BitTorrent (2.4%). Source: Netflix Loses No. 1 Spot as Bandwidth-Eating Application for…
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Audi unveils Mars rover-looking electric off-roader
Audi has teased the world at this years Frankfurt show, and by george, it looks fantastic. Changes of anything like this getting near production is next to zero, but let’s hope I proved wrong. Move over Tesla – the old vanguard has still some miles in it. The concept vehicle is called AI:TRAIL, and Audi uses it to communicate its vision of a future vehicle segment where a vehicle…
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Hands up who didn’t see this coming? FDA warns Juul for marketing e-cigs as safe
Anything you pump into your body, that let’s face it isn’t water, is going to have side effects – death being one of the harsher ones. The new e-cigarettes was somewhat wishful thinking by the industrial titans of health, (namely the tobacco industry) that this was their next product growth opportunity now that smoking was finally recognized as something that “may cause cancer”. The $38 billion e-cig company, partially owned…
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Over half a million active GPS trackers have ‘123456’ as default password
It is ridiculous that this is still happening in this day’n’age. We are not making it at all harder for the would-be hackers. Researchers have found serious security vulnerabilities in over 600,000 GPS trackers that may have exposed users data, including the exact real-time GPS coordinates. Source: Over half a million active GPS trackers have ‘123456’ as default password
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Productive Time Management
This week I played with the Pomodoro time management technique to see if it would improve throughput. Results are encouraging.
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My Top 2018 Movies
This year, I kept track via an IMDB list of all my viewing output, rating each one out of 10, as and when I watched it. While I tagged over 240 items, here are only the movies that, according to their IMDB rating was released in 2018. I confess to being surprised by some of my end-of-year results, but as they say, data doesn’t lie. The stand out movie, that…
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