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Elon Musk is a business magnet, investor and engineer. Tags: Rogan, Joe Michael Levin Jul 31, 2019 104 views
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Find out more at: https://re-publica.com/en/17/session/notes-emergency The Trump administration and… Tags: codetown, re:publica Michael Levin Jul 22, 2017 138 views
The first presentation on Node.js from Ryan Dahl at JSConf 2009. This is a great look at issues wit… Tags: Codetown, design Michael Levin Feb 18, 2017 140 views
Ousmane Samba is from Senegal. He is one of Gebeya's trainers and a bonafide senior front-end engin… Tags: codetown, senejug Michael Levin Feb 1, 2017 122 views
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Ryan Sipes of the Mycroft project talks Open AI and what openness means for the fast-arriving futur… Tags: lord, tim Timothy Lord May 31, 2016 118 views
According to Tim O'Reilly, the makers want to see the things they make become reality. Wow, Tim and… Tags: makers, codetown Michael Levin Feb 14, 2016 92 views
He's an inventor, electronics engineer, and a computer programmer. He was awarded with the National… Tags: codetown, inspire Michael Levin Feb 3, 2016 112 views
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Marissa Mayer talks in depth about her background and tenure as CEO of Yahoo. Tags: codetown, interviews Michael Levin Dec 13, 2015 58 views
Get Hip with JHipster: Spring Boot + AngularJS + Bootstrap by Matt Raible Tags: Bootstrap, by Michael Levin Nov 19, 2015 106 views
These guys! Check out the drone. Pros? You might think so, what with that sweet skinned Porsche but… Tags: codetown, Drones Michael Levin Sep 9, 2015 70 views
JCP Program Manager Heather VanCura and Tori Wieldt discuss the improvements to the Java Community… Tags: java, codetown Michael Levin Sep 8, 2015 60 views
From OSCON 2015 in Portland: The Federal Government’s approach to technology is outdated and madden… Tags: oscon, 2015 Michael Levin Aug 16, 2015 102 views
Steve Jobs at the 1997 WWDC. This is the question that contains an insult based on a question asked… Tags: vision, codetown Michael Levin Aug 10, 2015 102 views
What you need to learn about entering into entrepreneurship, a practical suggestion by Alibaba CEO!… Tags: jobs, Alibaba Michael Levin Jul 3, 2015 98 views
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AWS recently announced the new Graviton5 processor and the preview of the first EC2 instances running on it, the general-purpose M9g instances. According to the cloud provider, the latest chip delivers up to 25% higher performance than Graviton4, introduces the Nitro Isolation Engine, and provides a larger L3 cache, improving latency, memory bandwidth, and network throughput.
By Renato Losio
A team of AI researchers at Microsoft introduces two novel approaches for enforcing contextual integrity in large language models: PrivacyChecker, an open-source lightweight module that acts as a privacy shield during inference, and CI-CoT + CI-RL, an advanced training method designed to teach models to reason about privacy.
By Sergio De Simone
Swiggy has released Hermes V3, a GenAI-powered text-to-SQL assistant that enables employees to query data in plain English. The Slack-native system combines vector retrieval, conversational memory, agentic orchestration, and explainability to improve SQL accuracy and support multi-turn analytical queries.
By Leela Kumili
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Vectors, increasing per-index capacity forty-fold to 2 billion vectors. By natively integrating vector search into the S3 storage engine, the service introduces a "Storage-First" architecture that decouples compute from storage, reducing total cost of ownership by up to 90% for large-scale RAG workloads.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Naveen Mareddy and Sujana Sooreddy discuss the evolution of Netflix’s media processing observability, moving from monolithic tracing to a high-cardinality analytics platform. They explain how to handle "trace explosion" using stream processing and a "request-first" tree visualization, and share how to transform raw spans into actionable business intelligence.
By Sujana Sooreddy, Naveen Mareddy
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