Avoiding Shift Left Exhaustion – Part 1
A realistic guide to empowering application developers In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, application developers are the unsung heroes who craft the software that powers our modern world. They’re responsible for creating the apps we use daily, the websites we visit, and the systems that keep businesses running smoothly. Yet, despite their crucial role, developers often […]
Fed chair Powell confirms regulator has no plans to recommend, adopt CBDCs
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers that the regulator remains far from adopting or even recommending a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Powell made the statement during a March 7 Senate Banking Committee hearing on monetary policy. The Fed chair’s testimony aimed to quell fears over privacy concerns, emphasizing that the Federal Reserve […]
The State of the Union Is … Busy
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to […]
Investing in Cannabis: Five Due Diligence Red Flags
Our cannabis team has performed due diligence on countless business purchases, investments, loans, and just about every other kind of transaction you can imagine. As you can imagine, we’ve seen some pretty bad and even sketchy things over the years. With rescheduling on the horizon (see here and here), we expect to see an increase in loans, investments, […]
Meet ‘Liberated Qwen’, an uncensored LLM that strictly adheres to system prompts
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Abacus AI, the startup building an AI-driven end-to-end machine learning(ML) and LLMOps platform, has dropped an uncensored open-source large language model (LLM) that has been tuned to follow system prompts – in all scenarios. Officially […]
New ‘Fallout’ TV Show Trailer Features Lots Of Cars, No Corvega
As an absolutely rabid fan of the video game franchise Fallout, I wasn’t holding out too much hope for a quality television series that could even come close to the in-game world building. However, after a second, longer trailer dropped Thursday morning, my Fallout frown is turning upside down. There are many, many more nuggets […]
John Park’s Workshop will not air today 3/7/24 « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
There will not be a John Park’s Workshop today due to filming schedules and travel plans and some vague threats by Lars. Who knew March could get this busy? We’ll be back next Thursday for more antics, projects, CircuitPython Parsecs, and more. Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and […]