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Preliminary Thoughts on the White House Executive Order on AI

O'Reilly

The recent discovery (documented by an exposé in The Atlantic ) that OpenAI, Meta, and others used databases of pirated books, for example, highlights the need for transparency in training data. Like other internet-available services, AI models are not static artifacts, but dynamic systems that interact with their users.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 22nd, 2018

High Scalability

using them to respond to storage events on s3 or database events or auth events is super easy and powerful. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter.

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5 signs you need to implement test automation

Testsigma

We have software that communicates with different components, such as APIs, databases, and hardware, and data flows in real-time across many connected devices in the IoT environment (internet of things). With the complexity of an application, the amount of test effort required increases exponentially.

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Misaligned Incentives Fuel Organizational Dysfunctions

Strategic Tech

When there is an incentives mismatch, a lot of energy can be expended. And for many internet-era companies, developing quality products at speed is necessary to gain market share and avoid being disrupted. Customer-facing work requires changes to existing APIs, databases, and internal systems.