SPF13
APRIL 22, 2011
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Announcing Projects & Presentations. Iâ??ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 21, 2011
Serendipity is for me a deeply meaningful word. The more than dozen posts discussing serendipity on my blog include how we created “enhanced serendipity&# at an event I ran in 2003 in New York , more details on the story of the word serendipity and how to enhance it , the importance of the “serendipity dial&# and far more. One of the reasons I love Twitter so much is that it provides a rich substrate for serendipitous connections.
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I'm not lost, I'm wondering
APRIL 20, 2011
What does it mean to be normal? What does it mean to be different? These are big questions in any discussion about autism or other disabilities. The term “disabilities&# itself begs this question, since a disability is defined based on “normal&#. I like what Kristin has to say on the matter (the emphasis is hers): “Normal” is such a complicated word.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 19, 2011
I have just come across this – an excellent resource from PSFK on the Future of Retail. PSFK presents Future of Retail report. View more presentations from PSFK. The report covers 10 major trends: 1. World as retail experience. 2. Pre-view shopping. 3. Tablet enabled services. 4. Selling the ideal. 5. Every store as flagship. 6. Complementary curation. 7.
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.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 19, 2011
Crowdfunding is the topic of the moment, or maybe it only seems that way from the response to my recent posts on possible changes in regulation on crowdfunding and how the scene is developing. Movies are probably the endeavor which has attracted the most crowdfunding initiatives, including: - A Swarm of Angels (which I first wrote about in 2006). - IndieGoGo (which started with films and has broadened into other creative spaces). - The Age of Stupid. - Artemis Eternal (click on ‘Begin̵
SPF13
APRIL 21, 2011
I’ve decided to expand the scope of this site a bit to be more than just a blog. It makes sense, many of my posts are how tos and often for my own projects. Additionally now each project will have a legitimate project “homepage” for things like GitHub where that’s requested. So without further ado… Please checkout my Projects and Presentations sections of my website spf13.com.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 18, 2011
My company Advanced Human Technologies has recently launched the website Future of Sex ( futureofsex.net ), which explores the intersection of technology and human sexuality. A few people have been surprised to see us launch this site, as it is a little different from the topics we usually cover. Here is the background and reasons why we’ve launched the site.
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