May 2017 Blog Posts (4)

Add a Caption to an Image

The ability to Interpret image data using software is advancing fast! The two images above are captioned with program generated text. Here's an article that describes concepts and an approach to generate a caption for an image. The code is written in Python and uses TensorFlow. …

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Added by Michael Levin on May 25, 2017 at 8:57am — No Comments

The JHipster Mini Book ::: Free!

This is what I'm reading right now. Here you go! Matt has given us good presentations that are quick and to the point. Super cool! If you decide to pay $19.95 for the printed book, it'll cover about 3 craft pints. The health monitor app Matt made will record one less point. You'll see! Enjoy, and be sure to let Matt know how much you appreciate this free mini…

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Added by Michael Levin on May 18, 2017 at 2:30pm — No Comments

$11 Billion Swapmeet

First of all, relax, I'm not announcing an exclusive executive swapmeet.  The market for used cell phones has ramped up to a whopping $11 billion as of 2016[1].  That's a big number by itself, especially since the market scarcely existed just ten years ago.  By comparison, everything sold in every category by everyone worldwide on Ebay, new or used, was $84 billion total in 2016[2].

Unless you are actually a senior exec and can offer your device, refurbished, to other…

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Added by Ismail Jones on May 15, 2017 at 8:36pm — No Comments

Cross-Platform Mobile Development

Mobile devices prove to be a setback for cross-platform software development, but I hope it will be a minor one.  At present, Android totally dominates the mobile market both in terms of hardware and software volume.  As well, mobile devices are overtaking desktops for overall usage as we speak.  But Linux, as open-source-friendly as it is appears to be getting the rub from Google, so where are we?

As Google continues to grumble about not controlling the world, they're leaking…

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Added by Ismail Jones on May 14, 2017 at 9:24am — No Comments

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Cloudflare K2 Builds Event Streams on R2 Object Storage, at a Second of Produce Latency

Cloudflare has launched K2 in public beta, a serverless event streaming service implementing a durable log on R2 object storage. Cloudflare states produce latency of about one second at p99; a tester reported end-to-end p99 of 7.5 seconds, which a commenter answering for the team said was higher than expected. Consume charges match produce charges per GB.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Presentation: Multi-Agent Patterns from Spotify’s AI Powered Advertising Platform

Pratik Rasam discusses how Spotify Ads Manager runs production-grade multi-agent systems at scale using Google ADK Java. He shares key architectural patterns, domain ownership models, deterministic guardrails, and tracing-based evaluation strategies, detailing hard-learned lessons on drawing agent boundaries, optimizing tool schemas, and managing costs while avoiding monolithic agent pitfalls.

By Pratik Rasam

Technological Sovereignty Requires Choice, Skills, and Support, Panelists Say During OSS EU

European organisations can enhance their technological sovereignty by developing credible alternatives and acquiring necessary skills, rather than completely avoiding global providers. A panel discussion at the OSS EU highlighted the importance of understanding dependencies in cloud and hardware, and emphasized the need for practical choices in software for effective operational sovereignty.

By Olimpiu Pop

Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents

During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models designed to choose between predefined options rather than generate text. Cloudflare released 9B- and 27B-parameter models, along with a platform for adapting them to specific decision-making tasks.

By Renato Losio

Survey Finds AI-Generated Code Increases Debugging and Failure Rates and Creates a Comprehension Gap

A survey conducted by independent research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of Undo, a company focused on scaling AI-powered root-cause analysis, found that while AI coding agents have accelerated code generation, they have shifted the primary bottleneck to debugging, code comprehension, and maintenance.

By Sergio De Simone

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