November 2010 Blog Posts (3)

Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is on Charlie Rose tonight at 2300 EST!

Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is on Charlie Rose tonight at 2300 EST! (Photo from Wikipedia)



I did a Swampcast interview with Wikipedia CTO Brion Vibber that was fantastically interesting. You can listen to it at…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 17, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Time Machine and AirPort Updates



I recently found an Airport Extreme A1034 on craigslist and bought it. It was in Portland, OR and the kind gentleman who advertised it found it at a garage sale. He said he "wanted to see it go to a good home." He sold it to me for $10! I called Apple and registered it in my name. Apple told me it was purchased in Chile! It works fantastically well. The speed and range are above average.



I just noticed an option to use Airport Extreme as… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on November 17, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Woz at Univ of Florida Monday 11/8



Attention! Steve Wozniak will speak at UF 11/8 from 20:00-22:00 Details here:

http://www.sg.ufl.edu/accent

Time: 8:00 pm



to 10:00…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 4, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

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InfoQ Reading List

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By Guilherme Carreiro

Article: Virtual Panel - AI in the Trenches: How Developers Are Rewriting the Software Process

This virtual panel brings together engineers, architects, and technical leaders to explore how AI is changing the landscape of software development. Practitioners share their insights on successes and failures when AI is incorporated into daily workflows, emphasizing the significance of context, validation, and cultural adaptation in making AI a sustainable element of modern engineering practices.

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In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with David Gudeman about software architecture for startups. The discussion starts by illuminating how to make decisions with imperfect information, and how uncertainty and ambiguity flow through all aspects of developing the architecture. This leads to analyzing how the architect must focus on both product strategy and technical decisions.

By David Gudeman

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FunctionGemma is a new, lightweight version of the Gemma 3 270M model, fine-tuned to translate natural language into structured function and API calls, enabling AI agents to "do more than just talk" and act.

By Sergio De Simone

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