Tag: AI

  • What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?

    What is a service mesh? Why do you need a service mesh? And which is the best service mesh?

    The infrastructure drives the app architecture A cloud native applications is typically designed as a bunch of little components that coordinate with each other over a network. They may use events instead, and while that isn’t the same as point-to-point network communications, it follows the same idea: you have a bunch of indepedent-ish bundles of…

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  • Survey: Majority of US Workers Are Already Using Generative AI Tools, But Company Policies Trail Behind – “The new survey finds that 56 percent of workers are using generative AI on the job, with nearly 1 in 10 employing the technology on a daily basis. Yet just 26 percent of respondents say their organization has…

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  • Taking a careful approach to AI in marketing – There’s a lot of analysis that we should all be doing with marketing, but it’s often hard to get at data and figure out what to do with it. // “Fifteen percent said that more than a quarter of their tasks today are intelligently automated, but…

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  • VMware Introduces Frameworks And Services At Explore Conference To Enable Enterprise Adoption Of Generative AI – Quick analysis of VMware’s AI strategy.

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  • Focusing on just outcomes leads to whacky tech decisions

    Focusing on just outcomes leads to whacky tech decisions

    Confusing outcomes with capabilities I don’t have this sorted out well, but the baby keeps crawling on me to remind me to chill the fuck out about being a professional thought leader and be more of a professional dad. (That’s right, I’m blaming my three year old for the shoddiness of the below!) In the…

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  • Bootstrapping ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4 to be a Dungeon Master for solo play in Dungeons & Dragons

    I’ve been experimenting/playing a lot with ChatGPT as a Dungeon Master. I like to call this “ChatDM.” That is, I’m a player, and it DMs for me. It’s not, like, great, but it is good enough if you want to co-imagine with it. Overtime, it is a great world building co-author with you. The current…

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  • What VMware’s AI Vision Means for Your Job – Figuring out how AI will affect tech stuff.

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  • Survey finds relatively few Americans actually use (or fear) ChatGPT – 30% to 40% (for young adult males) seem like a lot too me. // “Ongoing polling by Pew Research shows that although ChatGPT is gaining mindshare, only about 18% of Americans have ever actually used it. Of course that changes by demographic: Men, those…

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  • As ChatGPT goes Enterprise, here are Ten GenAI Reality Checks you need to take… – A long list of practice advice for planning out AI use in the enterprise.

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  • ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons – This is what spurred me to start using ChatGPT as a ChatDM. I’ve yet to ask it questions like “describe drinking games that the satyrs are taking part in that are so dangerous someone could get hurt doing them” or “why would a Displacer Beast Kitten…

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  • Why We Glorify Overwork and Refuse to Rest – One of the better explanations of what’s probably wrong with me: “It’s the most reliable way to feel a sense of his own worthiness — and to avoid difficult emotions.”

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  • The new spreadsheet? OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Enterprise for businesses – Can handle longer conversations, encryption, by default doesn’t share your stuff with the training AI, and SOC2 accounting controls. Also, of course, an admin panel.

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  • US judge: Art created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted – This is going to be weird for a few years, at least.

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  • Generative AI dominates VMware Explore news – AI uses in the VMware stack.

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  • Developers Are the Future Of VMware (Part 2): Multi-Cloud and AI | by Torsten Volk – Good examples and thinking on using LLM AI in systems management stuff, in this case with VMware Tanzu and Aria.

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  • The Lost Ingredient – An Elderwood Adventure

    The Lost Ingredient – An Elderwood Adventure

    Overview The Lost Ingredient is an adventure that takes place in the city of Aurel’s Reach and the surrounding Elderwood. The player, a new apprentice to Thanlin, a powerful but forgetful elven alchemist, is tasked with finding a rare ingredient, the Luminescent Elder Lily, for a potion that Thanlin has been brewing. The adventure involves…

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  • Evil Pixie: D&D Pixie Lore, Mischief and Illusions

    Evil Pixie: D&D Pixie Lore, Mischief and Illusions

    Pixies, those delightful and mischievous denizens of the Elderwood, are as much a part of the forest as the trees and the streams. Tiny and whimsical, they flit through the undergrowth, their wings aglow with an ethereal light. They are guardians of the forest, protectors of its secrets, and masters of trickery and illusion. Their…

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  • VMware Explore’s 5 Big Reveals: Updates To Tanzu, vSAN, NSX+, Workspaces And An AI Deal With Nvidia – As it says. Includes some actual deal size info for Tanzu and Workspaces.

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  • Non-knowing growing – “…non-knowing, growing. It’s what babies do when they learn to walk. They get up, they fall over, they get up, they fall over, and they gradually figure out what walking is. They don’t know how to walk.” // If you’re open enough to the universe, you make sure that doesn’t ever stop.

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  • Cloud-native approaches are now default software development practices – Highlights from a recent 451 survey. “Many organizations using cloud native expect their adoption of these technologies and architectures to become more ubiquitous over time. Among companies using cloud-native resources, approximately 60% say more than half of their applications are currently architected using cloud native, rising…

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