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We Need To Get Back To Counting What Counts

Digital Tonto

The statistician George Box famously said, ““All models are wrong, but some are useful” and that’s especially true of economic models. When Ronald Coase argued that the “nature of a firm” was to reduce transaction costs, he didn’t mean that was the only purpose of an enterprise. To argue that there is a principal-agent problem between owners and managers should not imply that it only applies to profits.

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Follow The Leader: Arif Alawi, CEO, Dubai Cultiv8

Entrepreneur - Innovation

As the CEO of Dubai Cultiv8, Alawi is responsible for developing the entity's overarching business plan, while also ensuring it encourages and attracts international entrepreneurs to set up and expand their businesses in the Emirate by offering relevant funding and services.

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Laddering Up Your Career Portfolio

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. A career used to describe your roles in one company throughout your working life, like a career at Monsanto, Deloitte, a university or IBM. But, the workplace and generational attitudes have changed, along with a prolonged life expectancy, so careers now mean something different. Now, a career includes all […].

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The 10000 Hour Myth

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You are familiar with it. We have all been exposed to it. The “10,000 hours to mastery” idea has been discussed in many business books and general books about life. However, I believe that Malcolm Gladwell was the one who began it all, or perhaps it was research that he made public. The argument that… The post The 10000 Hour Myth appeared first on IDEATE+EXECUTE.

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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.