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Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim
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Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
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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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Microservices
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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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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: Empathy Driven Platforms: You Build It, Let’s Run It Together
Erin Doyle explains the evolution from siloed IT Ops to the Platform Team model, revealing why the "You Build It, You Run It" principle created new cognitive load. She shares the Empathy-Driven Platforms strategy - the ultimate attack against engineering roadblocks. Discover ways platform teams can build empathy, foster psychological safety, and adopt a product mindset.
By Erin DoyleAccessibility with Interactive Components at React Advanced Conf
Dynamic React speaker Aurora Scharff captivated attendees at React Advanced 2025 with her talk on "Building Interactive Async UI with React 19 and Ariakit." She showcased ARIAKit, an open-source accessibility library that empowers developers to create WCAG-compliant components effortlessly, blending modern React patterns with customizable, accessible UI primitives.
By Daniel CurtisPodcast: Looking for Root Causes is a False Path: A Conversation with David Blank-Edelman
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with David Blank-Edelman about the relationship between software architecture and site reliability engineering. Site reliability engineering can give architecture vital feedback about how the system actually behaves in production. Architects and designers can then learn from their failures to improve their ability to build systems that can evolve.
By David Blank-EdelmanJava News Roundup: Spring Cloud, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, JobRunr, LangChain4j, Java Operator SDK
This week's Java roundup for November 24th, 2025, features news highlighting: point releases of Spring Cloud, Quarkus, Hibernate ORM, JobRunr, LangChain4j and Java Operator SDK; first release candidates of Hibernate Reactive and Gradle; and a maintenance release of Keycloak.
By Michael RedlichHelm Improves Kubernetes Package Management with Biggest Release in 6 Years
Helm, the Kubernetes application package manager, has officially reached version 4.0.0. Helm 4 is the first major upgrade in six years, and also marks Helm's 10th anniversary under the guidance of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The update aims to address several challenges around scalability, security, and developer workflow.
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