Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez[a] (/oʊˌkɑːsioʊ kɔːrˈtɛz/; Spanish: [oˈkasjo koɾˈtes];[1] born October 13, 1989), also known by her initials as AOC, is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district. The district includes the eastern part of the Bronx and portions of north-central Queens in New York City. She is a member of the Democratic Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez (more)

Peter Limberg: Sensemaking, Luigi, and Spectre of Uncle Ted. A friend asked me to make sense of what's happening with the situation involving the suspected assassin Luigi Mangione. (more)

Matt Heuser: Agile Alliance and PMI Partnership? Too long/did not read version: (more)

Michael Fogelman (Tasshin Fogelman): The Punk Strategy Guide to the Logical Thinking Process. In the 1980’s an Israeli physicist named Eli Goldratt shifted his attention to business. The most well known result of his efforts and studies was the Theory of Constraints. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Zvi’s 2024 In Movies. Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights. (good movie) (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Monthly Roundup #26: January 2025. Some points of order before we begin the monthly: (more)

Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., commonly referred to as DeepSeek, (Chinese: 深度求索; pinyin: Shēndù Qiúsuǒ) is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models (LLMs). Based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, it is owned and funded by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, whose co-founder, Liang Wenfeng, established the company in 2023 and serves as its CEO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepSeek

Zvi Mowshowitz: DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday. It’s been another checks notes two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news. You can also see my previous coverage of the r1 model and, from Monday various reactions including the Panic at the App Store. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #101: The Shallow End. This week we’re going to consider China, DeepSeek and r1 fully split off from everything else, and we’ll cover everything related to DeepSeek, including the policy responses to the situation, tomorrow instead. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: DeepSeek: Don’t Panic. As reactions continue, the word in Washington, and out of OpenAI, is distillation. They’re accusing DeepSeek of distilling o1, of ripping off OpenAI. They claim DeepSeek gasp violated the OpenAI Terms of Service! The horror. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: DeepSeek Panic at the App Store. DeepSeek released v3. Market didn’t react. (more)

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Diem (formerly known as Libra) was a permissioned blockchain-based stablecoin payment system proposed by the American social media company Facebook. The plan also included a private currency implemented as a cryptocurrency... The project, currency and transactions would have been managed and cryptographically entrusted to the Diem Association, a membership organization of companies from payment, technology, telecommunication, online marketplace and venture capital, and nonprofits... The project generated backlash from government regulators in the European Union, the USA, other countries, and among the general public over monetary sovereignty, financial stability, privacy, and antitrust concerns which ultimately helped kill the project.[7] The Diem Association (originally the Libra Association) shut down in January 2022 and sold the project to Silvergate Bank. Silvergate wrote off their Diem investment in January 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diem_(digital_currency)

Neal Stephenson book, ISBN:0553351923 (more)

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Zvi Mowshowitz: AI ([AGI]) and and the Technological Richter Scale. The Technological Richter scale is introduced about 80% of the way through Nate Silver’s new book On the Edge. (more)

pun on "train of thought"; a type of prompt engineering? Chain of thought (CoT) mirrors human reasoning, facilitating systematic problem-solving through a coherent series of logical deductions. Chain of thought prompting is an approach in artificial intelligence that simulates human-like reasoning processes by delineating complex tasks into a sequence of logical steps towards a final resolution. This methodology reflects a fundamental aspect of human intelligence, offering a structured mechanism for problem-solving. In other words, CoT is predicated on the cognitive strategy of breaking down elaborate problems into manageable, intermediate thoughts that sequentially lead to a conclusive answer. If we think about prompt chaining, it is a more rudimentary form of CoT prompting, where the AI is prompted to generate responses based on a given context or question. In contrast, CoT prompting goes beyond merely generating coherent and relevant responses by requiring the AI to construct an entire logical argument, including premises and a conclusion, from scratch. https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/chain-of-thoughts

issuer of free SSL certificates https://letsencrypt.org/ (more)

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