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John Newton

@johnnewton

Founder of Alfresco and Documentum. Tracking content, AI, ML, LLM, ECM, Open Source, tech, politics & economy.

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Harsh Makadia (@makadiaharsh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ChatGPT has 100,000,000+ users. But 99% don't know its output formats beyond text. 11 Powerful output formats ChatGPT can produce ( with examples ) 🧵:

Ros Atkins (@bbcrosatkins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As the schools concrete crisis continues, we've looked at government spending on education infrastructure (including school buildings) by the Tories since 2010 and by Labour before then. Produced by Michael Cox, Mary Fuller, Robert Cuffe & Anthony Reuben. bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-6…

Daniel (@mnkedaniel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

10 Mental Models that will level up your Thinking: 1. First Principle Thinking - Rethink the problem from the ground up. Separate the underlying facts from assumptions made based on them. 2. Second-Order Thinking - Instead of thinking about the immediate consequences,

10 Mental Models that will level up your Thinking:  

1. First Principle Thinking - Rethink the problem from the ground up.  

Separate the underlying facts from assumptions made based on them.  

2. Second-Order Thinking - Instead of thinking about the immediate consequences,
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Happy 80th Birthday, Michael Stonebraker! Grateful for his insights from my Berkeley and Ingres days. A true software industry visionary and 2014 Turing Award winner! Legend! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S…

Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@khodorkovsky_en) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Putin is holding his annual televised Q&A today, and people have been invited to send questions via text, to be displayed on big screens behind him. Apparently, whoever is filtering them has let some uncomfortable ones slip through. 🧵Let’s see what questions the Russian

Putin is holding his annual televised Q&A today, and people have been invited to send questions via text, to be displayed on big screens behind him. Apparently, whoever is filtering them has let some uncomfortable ones slip through.  

 🧵Let’s see what questions the Russian
Andrew Ng (@andrewyng) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It is only rarely that, after reading a research paper, I feel like giving the authors a standing ovation. But I felt that way after finishing Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) by Rafael Rafailov @ NeurIPS Archit Sharma Eric Stefano Ermon Christopher Manning and Chelsea Finn. This

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Whoever asks for slides in advance has never given a big presentation themselves or at least not a good one. If you are still working on it, it’s because you really want it to be good. Control freakery is not compatible with creativity.

Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower (@perpetualmaniac) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Crowdstrike Analysis: It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language. Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.

Crowdstrike Analysis:

It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.
Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Power of Prompt Engineering Prompt engineering has evolved considerably over the last year. It's become a legit profession, with several real engineers specializing in the area and others writing research papers! This is a good survey paper that outlines all the different

The Power of Prompt Engineering 

Prompt engineering has evolved considerably over the last year. It's become a legit profession, with several real engineers specializing in the area and others writing research papers!

This is a good survey paper that outlines all the different
China in Pictures (@tongbingxue) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A Life in Portraits: Ye Jinglu, a Chinese who took a selfie every year from 1907 to 1968, for 62 years, compiled a chronicle of his personal odyssey from the Qing Empire through the Republican Period and extending well into the People's Republic of China. 🧵 1/63

A Life in Portraits: 
Ye Jinglu, a Chinese who took a selfie every year from 1907 to 1968, for 62 years, compiled a chronicle of his personal odyssey from the Qing Empire through the Republican Period and extending well into the People's Republic of China.  

🧵  1/63
Alex Volkov (Thursd/AI) (@altryne) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I take back EVERYTHING I said about other video models catching up to SORA even remotely. Leaked video of SORA v2, showing 1 minute generations of txt2vid, img2vid, vid2vid, txt+vid2vid. Multiple scenes and just incredible character consistency. p.s