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Poll: What’s On the Google Barge?

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post Poll: What’s On the Google Barge? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image USA Today ) I’m fascinated by this “Google Barge” story. It reminds me of the Google container stories of years past, which first sparked all manner of speculation, but turned out to be pretty mundane – a portable, water cooled data center, as I recall.

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Will Postal Services Stand and Deliver?

CGI

Will Postal Services Stand and Deliver? ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 10/31/2013 - 08:50. The recent announcement from eBay and Argos regarding their joined up delivery service looks to address one of the most visible obstacles in B2C commerce; The Last Leg. Companies across Europe have invested millions in recent years developing integrated, multi-channel systems that make the purchasing of products a simple and instant task.

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China Passes Amendment to Consumer Protection Law

Hunton Privacy

On October 25, 2013, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China passed an amendment to the P.R.C. Law on the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests (the “Amendment”). The Amendment, which was adopted after three readings and will take effect on March 15, 2014, adds provisions designed to respond to the recent boom in online shopping and focuses on improving protections in the area of consumer rights and interests by: increasing penalties for v

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It’s…A Marketing Barge?!

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post It’s…A Marketing Barge?! appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image CBS KPIX ) The #googlebarge meme has taken a very strange turn. A rather welcome diversion from our industry’s endless NSA revelations, the enigmatic barge floating off Treasure Island had been widely assumed to be a floating data center of some kind.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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else 10.28: “Merging with the technology”

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post else 10.28: “Merging with the technology” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week in our news round up: artists play with the possibilities of the 3-D printing medium, the lines between the digital world and the physical world of drones and dating blur, and Silicon Valley is getting more overtly political.

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