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LOCAL Private Telephone System (PBX) with USA number for $1 a month
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Why AI Needs a “Nutrition Label” | Kasia Chmielinski | TED
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Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim
Google Engineer Blake Lemoine joins Emily Chang to talk about some of the experiments he conducted… Michael Levin Jan 17, 2024 37 views
Digital nomad - I Live Better In Thailand Than I Did In The U.S. - Here's How Much It Costs | Relocated
Jesse Schoberg, 41, relocated to Bangkok, Thailand at the beginning of 2022. He has been living and… Michael Levin Jan 14, 2024 31 views
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
Can artificial intelligence come alive?That question is at the center of a debate raging in Silicon… Michael Levin Jul 3, 2023 31 views
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
Rap battle between a data scientist and a classical statistician, arguing for predictive algorithmi… Michael Levin Nov 6, 2019 70 views
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
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- BLOOMBERG GAME CHANGERS follows Larry Ellison from his early days in Chicago… Michael Levin Aug 8, 2019 122 views
Joe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a business magnet, investor and engineer. Michael Levin Jul 31, 2019 104 views
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks Google, Apple and the NSA
Larry Ellison is America's third richest man. His company, Oracle, makes a widely-used database tha… Michael Levin Jul 21, 2019 104 views
What people think programming is vs. how it actually is
Music: Noisia - Seven Stitches I thought you might find this one entertaining... Bradlee Sargent Dec 28, 2018 114 views
Swampcast features Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun CEO
Join Michael Levin in this video interview with Jonathan Schwartz, former Sun Microsystems CEO. "Jo… Michael Levin Aug 4, 2018 360 views
What do programmers actually do?
I left a physics job to do software engineering. Was it worth it? What do software engineers actual… Michael Levin Dec 2, 2017 102 views
re:publica 2017 - Maciej Ceglowski: Notes from an Emergency
Find out more at: https://re-publica.com/en/17/session/notes-emergency The Trump administration and… Michael Levin Jul 22, 2017 138 views
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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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Microsoft Native 1-Bit LLM Could Bring Efficient genAI to Everyday CPUs
In a recent paper, Microsoft researchers described BitNet b1.58 2B4T, the first LLM to be natively trained using "1-bit" (technically, 1-trit) weights, rather than being quantized from a model trained with floating point weights. According to Microsoft, the model delivers performance comparable to full-precision LLMs of similar size at a fraction of the computation cost and hardware requirements.
By Sergio De SimoneFast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io
Innovative cloud solutions expert Somtochi Onyekwere recently presented at QCon London 2025, unveiling Corrosion—Fly.io's advanced open-source distributed system. By leveraging CRDTs and Rust, Corrosion enhances scalability and data synchronization, addressing latency challenges and ensuring rapid, consistent application deployment across a global network of 40+ regions.
By Steef-Jan WiggersArticle: Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture
Rashmi Venugopal explores the inevitability of legacy systems in successful companies and the importance of transforming legacy systems to accelerate innovation. Rashmi discusses various strategies to tackle such technical renovation initiatives, like evolutionary architecture, deprecation-driven development, and intentional organization design.
By Rashmi VenugopalAmazon Q and Claude Code Let AI Control the Developer CLI
AWS recently announced an enhanced CLI (command-line interface) agent for Amazon Q Developer with advanced agentic capabilities. This upgrade allows developers to work with AI directly in their terminal. Meanwhile, Anthropic has launched Claude Code as a research preview. It is a terminal-based coding assistant that allows developers to work directly with Claude from the command line.
By Matt Saunders.NET Aspire 9.2 Released with Expanded Deployment Options and Dashboard Improvements
The .NET team has released version 9.2 of .NET Aspire, introducing updates to the dashboard experience, new integration capabilities, and deployment improvements. As stated in the official announcement, this release furthers the platform’s goal of simplifying application development and cloud-native deployment workflows.
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