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Experiment, Experiment, Experiment

Destination Innovation

Here is a question for leaders and managers. Would you like your people to try out their ideas for better ways to meet the needs of customers or better ways to run the business? Most leaders I ask give a positive response – often guarded with a ‘within reason’ They would like to see people trying to find new and better ways to do things on their own initiative.

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Top Posts Of 2020

Digital Tonto

2020 was a year to be endured more than to be lived. The Covid-19 pandemic arrived as a curiosity, then a panic, extended into tragedy of genuine loss and, hopefully, is emerging as a set of concrete. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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022: You’re Awesome! How Sarcasm Enhances Creativity

Innovation in Practice

Comedian Bill Murray’s classic line, “You’re awesome!” was sarcasm at its best. . Sarcasm is the idea of using irony in a way to mock somebody or to insult them. But while it can be insulting and hurtful to somebody, it also has an important positive aspect on peers. . Sarcasm can lead to higher levels of creativity. . So, the next time you get a sarcastic remark?

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#2,040 – The Greatest Books of 2020

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I didn’t read a huge number of books this year but I really enjoyed the ones that I did read. As per usual, these books were not necessarily published in 2020, they’re just books that I read this year: The Three Body Problem Trilogy : No wonder the original Three Body Problem was a Hugo award winning tale that became Mark Zuckerberg’s and Barack Obama’s favorite book.

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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.

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Escaping the Innovation Purge – Part 2

helloFUTURE

In last weeks blog post, we discussed the innovation purge – the “disease” which seems to strike corporates once every few years or so, when they realize that the innovation group that they so lovingly created was not going to be able to generate those billion-dollar businesses that they expected from it magically. Depending on… The post Escaping the Innovation Purge – Part 2 appeared first on hellofuture.