Sun.Feb 19, 2017

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Scifi Version Of AI Is Not Available Yet

Forrester IT

Spark Summit East came to Boston this year and I was there to enjoy it including being interviewed by Dave Vallente and George Gilbert about Apache Spark and AI on The Cube. We talk about the waning of the term "Big Data" , but get quickly into the future of AI and Apache Spark. Read more.

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Low-Cost Amateur Radio Gear Opens Up Other "Wireless" Possibilities

IT Toolbox

I can remember way back in the day when I first got started in Amateur Radio. I had all kinds of interesting things I wanted to do… building and testing antennas, interfacing radio gear with computers, and getting into all manner of different communications protocols.

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Facebook calls on Middle East-based developers in bot challenge

Computer Weekly

Facebook is looking for software developers in the Middle East to create software robots on its Messenger platform

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Did you want a side of SLBS with your software or hardware FUD? (BD2017)

IT Toolbox

Whats the issue with SLBS? Simple, on the one hand, there is no such thing as software that does not need hardware somewhere in the stack. Second, many purveyors of SLBS are solutions that in the past would have been called shrink-wrap.

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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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Stop Malware Attacks and Online Identity Theft

Galido

Malware means a malicious or intrusive software application that is coded for executing on the targeted device without notifying its user or the owner. Affecting a mobile phone, a computer, a laptop, or a network server, malware interrupts computing operations, hijacks networks, or access systems. This is mostly done to steal the identity of any authorized user, rob confidential data, degrade performance, spy on a device, disrupt a service, and/or disable the targeted network or system for the s

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The smart alternative for mainframe disaster recovery

IT Toolbox

Colin Fettes from Azamour Solutions takes a look at alternative ways to handle Disaster Recovery (DR) in this year?s Arcati Mainframe Yearbook. His article focuses on recovery services, and hope that these thoughts help to clarify your own ideas and create some useful assistance around DR.

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Did you want a side of SLBS (server less BS) with your software or hardware FUD?

Storage IO Blog

It turns out, serverless BS (SLBS) and hardware less are still trendy, and while some might view the cloud or software-defined data center (SDDC) virtualization, or IoT folks as the culprits, it is more widespread with plenty of bandwagon riders. SLBS can span from IoT to mobile, VID and workspace clients (zero or similar), workstations, server, storage, networks.

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Is 2017 the Year for Big Change in Civic Tech? No.

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

No. 2017 is not the year for Big Change in city, county or state tech. I’d argue NO year is a year for “Big Change” in the technologies used by government. Government does not change fast, which may be a Good Thing. Civic Technology – the information technologies used by local, state and federal governments – typically plod along many years behind commercial adoption of technology and a decade or more behind the latest, leading edge, advances in tech.