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Every Company Is An Experience Company

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post Every Company Is An Experience Company appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Illustration by Craig Swanson and idea by James Cennamo. Some years ago while attempting to explain the thinking behind my then-startup Federated Media, I wrote that all brands are publishers (it was over on the FM blog, which the new owners apparently have taken down – a summary of my thinking can be found here ).

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UK ICO Issues Guidance on Data Protection and Journalism

Hunton Privacy

On September 4, 2014, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published guidance on data protection for the media entitled Data protection and journalism: a guide for the media (the “Guidance”). The Guidance explains how the UK Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”) applies to journalism, provides advice on good practices for journalists and the media, and clarifies the role of the ICO in relation to the media.

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Exile for the BBC Micro; some elegant solutions

Scary Beasts Security

[Prelude: sorry, this has nothing to do with security whatsoever. Feel free to bail now if you're not interested in a classic 1980's game, and rest assured that non-security posts to this blog will remain extremely rare.] The BBC Micro game Exile , released in 1988, has a realistic claim for the best game ever. I lost months of my youth to this game.

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DB2 for z/OS: DDF, Stored Procedures, and SET CURRENT PACKAGESET

Robert's Db2

Recently, I was talking with people from a company's IT department about modernizing their mainframe application architecture.Among other things, we discussed increasing the company's use of stored procedures for DB2 for z/OS data access. That prompted some questions around the use of the DB2 SQL statement SET CURRENT PACKAGESET in stored procedures called by DRDA requesters (these being calls that would get to DB2 via the distributed data facility, or DDF).

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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 9.29.14: Google snorts milk through its nose; Food, Things, and Marketing

John Battelle's Searchblog

'The post Else 9.29.14: Google snorts milk through its nose; Food, Things, and Marketing appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. ( image ) This past week’s links are rife with people asking hard questions of Google and Facebook, and so much the better, I’d warrant. You don’t get to the lead position without raising questions.

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