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The Future Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying To Build
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What We Get Wrong About AI (feat. former Google CEO)
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Mark Cuban: Why Lifelong Learning is the Key to Success.
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Haseeb Qureshi: Doing Good with Your Career
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Why AI Needs a “Nutrition Label” | Kasia Chmielinski | TED
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Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim
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Digital nomad - I Live Better In Thailand Than I Did In The U.S. - Here's How Much It Costs | Relocated
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Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
Blake Lemoine is the ex-Google engineer who concluded the company's LaMDA chatbot was sentient. Gar… Michael Levin Jul 5, 2023 17 views
LaMDA | Is google's AI sentient? | Full audio conversation between Blake Lemoine and LaMDA
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The REAL GENIUS of Steve Jobs (THIS Made Him EXCEPTIONAL!)
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Data Science – Baba Brinkman Music Video
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Google's Deep Mind Explained! - Self Learning A.I.
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Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez - Kotlin: The Next Frontier in Metaprogramming
Topic In an epic quest using Kotlin and native desktop development to generate UI testing for the T… Michael Levin Aug 21, 2019 118 views
Larry Ellison: Billionaire Samurai Warrior of Silicon Valley
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Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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Presentation: The Friction Fix: Building Collaborative Relationships Between Teams
Diana Montalion and Cat Morris discuss why large-scale transformations often fail, pinpointing six systemic friction points. They explain how architects can drive change by understanding organizational systems, designing knowledge flow, and architecting relationships. They argue that focusing on outcomes, managing resistance, and adopting a learning-driven mindset are critical to success.
By Cat Morris, Diana MontalionxAI Releases Grok Code Fast 1, a New Model for Agentic Coding
xAI introduced grok-code-fast-1, a model developed specifically for agentic coding workflows.
By Daniel DominguezGoogle Spanner Unifies OLTP and OLAP with Columnar Engine
Google Spanner now features a columnar engine, allowing its distributed database to handle both OLTP and OLAP workloads on a single platform. This hybrid architecture eliminates the need for separate data warehouses and ETL pipelines. The engine's columnar storage and vectorized execution accelerate analytical queries up to 200x on live data, which is especially beneficial for AI applications.
By Steef-Jan WiggersPodcast: The Evolution of Code Review: From Bug-Finding to Team Building
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Greg Foster about the evolution and purpose of code reviews, building teams with kindness, expertise, and urgency, and how AI tools are changing software development.
By Greg FosterArticle: Virtual panel: How software engineers and team leaders can excel with artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is impacting the individual work of software developers, how professionals work together in teams, and how software teams are being managed. In this panel, we'll discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping software development, and what mindset and skills are required for software developers and engineering leaders to become adaptable and resilient in the age of AI.
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