Sat.Dec 22, 2018

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Strategic Planning Rights and Wrongs

Innovation Excellence

Strategic planning is one of those phrases like creativity or innovation. It means something different to each person who hears it based on his or her experiential application of the concept. In the broadest strokes there are three types of strategic planning. One: What strategy? Haven’t had one in too long and we’re doing okay.

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#1,417 – Ice Wires

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Scientists have long suspected that carbon nanotubes would play a key role in our future as an important building block with plenty of practical uses. Medical breakthroughs, computer components, heck, even as a way to construct a Space Elevator. Name a futuristic innovation and nanotubes were likely to play a part. However, I don’t think that anyone had ever imagined Ice Wires.

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#1,418 – The Ten Greatest Books of 2018

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The greatest books that I read in 2018. Not necessarily published in 2018. . The Martian: Never underestimate the power of a Jewish mother’s guilt. My mom got this book for me as a gift a while back because she knew that I had loved the movie but I was adamant about not wanting to read it since I already knew what happened. However, as the weeks went by I began to feel worse and worse that I wasn’t reading it.

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#1,416 – National Park Volunteers

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

When I heard that the federal government was indeed shutting down late on Friday night my first thought was, “wow, this really sucks for anyone who was planning a trip to a National Park over Christmas break.” However, it now looks like National Parks will remain open. On the surface that seems like great news. However, there is a caveat: there won’t be any staff.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.