Sun.Sep 22, 2019

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Is This Our New Sputnik Moment?

Digital Tonto

We are, in several important ways, actually undermining our ability to innovate, now and in the future. We need to renew our culture of innovation in America Related posts: The Eureka Moment Myth. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Here’s What You Really Need To Know About Quantum Computing

Innovation Excellence

Every once in a while, a technology comes along with so much potential that people can’t seem to stop talking about it. That’s fun and exciting, but it can also be confusing. Not all of the people who opine really know what they’re talking about and, as the cacophony of voices increases to a loud.

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PLAYING IT SAFE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU CAN DO

Innovation 360 Group

Are you safe? Or are you on the edge of irrelevance? Companies disappear all the time without a word, due to changing cultural values, changing technology, or changing audience demographics. People simply move on and leave the past behind. That’s precisely what you have to do if you want your company to survive. It’s really not as hard as you think to read the signs of a rapidly approaching upheaval in your industry.

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People Are Always the Hardest Part

Innovation Excellence

The toughest part of all things is the people part. Hold on to being right and all you’ll be is right. Transcend rightness and get ready for greatness. Embrace hubris and there’s no room for truth. Embrace humbleness and everyone can get real. Judge yourself and others will pile on. Praise others and they will.

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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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#1,561 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A quick look at everything that tickled my fancy this past week: Soft Tactile Logic. We assume that having a high level of intelligence is predicated by having a central nervous system but that may not necessarily be the case. As Science Daily reports, “Inspired by octopuses, researchers have developed a structure that senses, computes and responds without any centralized processing — creating a device that is not quite a robot and not quite a computer, but has characteristics of bot