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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. It’s difficult to argue with David Collingridge’s influential thesis that attempting to predict the risks posed by new technologies is a fool’s errand.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Cryptic Trails to Blockchain Expertise: Exploring Lesser-Known Ethereum Avenues

Tech News Gather

The Ethereum Ecosystem: Beyond the Basics Ethereum, often described as the second generation of blockchain technology, has gained significant attention for its role in enabling smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps). represents a monumental shift in the network’s consensus mechanism. Staking and Ethereum 2.0:

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 21 AWS Edge Network Locations in Asia Pacific.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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What is APM?

Dynatrace

However, with today’s highly connected digital world, monitoring use cases expand to the services, processes, hosts, logs, networks, and of course, end-users that access these applications — including a company’s customers and employees. All these terms refer to related technology and practices. What does APM stand for?

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Experimentation is a major focus of Data Science across Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. but that would slow down our overall pace of innovation. Curious to learn more?