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In the news today in Sri Lanka:
Elevated Metro train from Port City to Negombo
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What is this company? Where is the $2.5B coming from? How will the company earn a profit from their investment?
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What are companies doing with D-Wave’s quantum hardware?
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Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday.
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The digital universe requires a proper representation of physical and digital assets: a #digitaldouble. What is a digital double? And why is #CIAM key to #personalization? of explains: #Web3 #digitaltwins
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Last call for Applications for our 2023 intake. Pass this along to anyone you know who could benefit from an education at the Avinya Academy.
#avinyafoundation #secondaryeducation #srilanka #vocationalstudies #21stcenturyskills #educators #PBL #LKA #sustainableeducation
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Great post from about the generative AI landscape.
Two things I would change on the graph is rename "model hubs" by "ML platforms" & add an arrow between them and end-to-end apps (most of them use an ML platform even if they train their own models) a16z.com/2023/01/19/who
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My advice is simple:
Find out what you want to do, then spend a long time — ideally with a group of really brilliant people — figuring out how best to do it.
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We need to share more about how teachers are adapting to ChatGPT.
One of my favorite new policies comes from Professor Ethan Mollick, Associate Professor at .
What do you think?
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Board calls today with four companies to iterate & finalize 2023 budgets. Never in 23 years have I seen founders & finance leaders struggle so much to set appropriate growth expectations and spending levels given highly uncertain/dynamic market conditions that exist
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This week we () announced Seed Fund V and the return of our seed-stage catalyst, Arc. There are so many opportunities for innovation right now. Here are a few of the things I'm most excited about. 1/
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honestly how did engineering titles get so inflated that people with 2 years of experience are “senior engineers”
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13 secret websites powered by AI to finish hours of work in seconds (Don't lose them):
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Selling in a downturn is tough. From my experience, the best thing a company can do is deliver the right message at the right time. Right now that means selling customers on productivity & efficiency value drivers. Here is my latest piece:
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Just in—new AI models on Azure OpenAI Service empower your business to deliver results at scale. Explore the possibilities → msft.it/6017exfWh #AzureOpenAI
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Ballerina 2201.3.2 (Swan Lake Update 3) is out!
📝 Release note: bit.ly/3kmMDwI
⬇️ Download: ballerina.io/downloads/
#opensource #ballerinalang #microservices
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Interview with
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Microsoft's Products Will Soon Access Open AI Tools Like ChatGPT
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Bacteria replicate DNA at crazy speeds & accuracy. 💨
If DNA polymerase was a USPS truck, and each home was a single nucleotide:
This truck would deliver to every home in the U.S. in 65 hours. It would do this about 4 times without making a single mistake.
GIF
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Getting a coffee in the US.
Getting a coffee in France.
We get what we prioritize.
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From & Peter Levine: a guide on the steps a company needs to take to shape both itself and an early market, rather than assuming there is some existing product-market combo just waiting to be found.
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Interested in improving the developer experience? Join Thoughtworks’ Head of Tech on February 16, when he will explore the benefits of building an internal developer platform. thght.works/3CIOBxT
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Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach
nytimes.com/2023/01/16/tec
From .
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Here, I am visualizing the application design just from the code in #VSCode, and this image never goes out of sync with the code. How cool is that? 🙂
This is the Google cloud microservices demo.
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ChatGPT has changed software development!
However, 68.1% of Software Engineers still don't use it.
As a CTO, I'm telling my teams to use ChatGPT in their daily work to increase both velocity and quality.
This is how 👇
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Analysts expect LKR appreciation under all 3 scenarios
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It's a WILD👺 time to be building a generative AI startup.
Against my better judgement, I'm going to share numbers we've only shown investors. And some even they haven't seen. 👇
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Worth noting that the President seems to have absconded with more classified documents than many whistleblowers. For comparison, Reality Winner was sentenced to 5 YEARS for just one document.
Meanwhile Biden, Trump, Clinton, Petraeus... these guys have dozens, hundreds. No jail.
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An enormous printer weighing more than 12 tons is creating what is believed to be the first 3D-printed, two-story home in the United States reut.rs/3GBuHWL
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It’s not product-market-fit. It's not category creation. It's the long battle of hammering at the company and market simultaneously, trying to get the two to stick.
& Peter Levine explain market annealing and provide some GTM approaches.
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“Death steals everything except our stories,” wrote the poet Jim Harrison. If we aren’t careful, death can steal those, too. Here’s a helpful read on why telling your life story matters and how to say it:
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Getting to $10m in ARR in early markets is super hard. To do it, companies spend years hammering on the company *and* the market.
PMF and category creation doesn't cover this stage well.
So, here is our take ...
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Southwest, FAA: Have to upgrade your systems or things fail.
BUT... processes nowadays make it virtually impossible to upgrade large mission critical apps.
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Update 5: Normal air traffic operations are resuming gradually across the U.S. following an overnight outage to the Notice to Air Missions system that provides safety info to flight crews. The ground stop has been lifted.
We continue to look into the cause of the initial problem
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I'm looking for an NVR + IP cameras where the cameras connect over wifi or wired (ethernet PoE switch) without being directly connected to the NVR.
Isn't that possible? Why not?? How do WiFi cameras work with NVRs then?
(This is for the school in Bandaragama.)
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People of colour: there's a bias in how pictures are used to depict disease in global health publications
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