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Jack Clark talks AI sense
Jack Clark was featured on Rest is Politics podcast, which turned out to be an non-hyped sensible conversation with an honesty seldom seem from the AI founders.
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Podcast Episode: Prompting, AI, And Business Chaos
An experiment of an AI generated podcast from a series of previously published articles. You decide.
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Simulating Corporate Chaos: Your Own Truman Show
Setup your own Truman Show, with personality types, and then sit back and watch them interact in a virtual Slack channel. Each one is run by its own AI agent, learning and interacting.
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The Art of the KISS
Writing software that is simple, clean and easy is hard. KISS is easy to say but difficult to put into practice.
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Failure is an Option
Trial and error is the only way we learn. Taking chances (not risks) is how we evolve our knowledge and the output to which we are relied upon.
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Technical Debt – A visual guide
Unpicking the mystery of what technical debt is and how it can be provide learning and inform the future.
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2022 in review
Now that we have started 2023, one can take a look at the year that was 2022. Personally it was a great year (no deaths/cancer in the family so that is new), with a number of stand out moments. The biggest one is that I married, Kelley, the lady of my dreams in the summer. We wedded in our own home, with the ceremony in the front, and the big…
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Compassionomics ~ book review
How a little compassion can transform a whole industry and lift the lives of millions in the process.
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People are leaking their RDS database backups
Researchers discovered incompetence when handling AWS RDS database backups, exposing them on the public network for anyone to take
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What makes a great product manager by James Hamilton
What makes a great product by AWS guru James Hamilton
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Adrift America in 100 Charts ~ book review
Prof G’s latest book details the state of the country through 100 charts, each one powerfully presented and creating a lot of stroky-chin moments.
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The touch of Music
Vinyl records are more than just scratchy reproductions of sounds
the legend that is, Alan Williamson
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