John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 3, 2013

'The post Twitter’s S1: How Do the Numbers Stack Up To Google and Facebook? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Twitter’s S-1 filing is now public, you can read it here. There’s no dearth of coverage, just Google News it. I’m interested in a few metrics compared to its most likely comparables, namely Google and Facebook.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 4, 2013

On September 30, 2013, Hunton & Williams LLP hosted representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce for a timely discussion of the Safe Harbor Framework, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) Cross-Border Privacy Rules System (“CBPRs”), and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (“TTIP”) negotiations. The panel also addressed the development of privacy codes of conduct and privacy legislation being developed by the Department of Commerce.

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Robert's Db2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A lot of DB2 for z/OS people know about the hash mode of organizing data in a table -- something introduced with DB2 10 (I've blogged about this topic multiple times, most recently in an entry I posted a few months ago ). The basics of hash-organization of data (this as opposed to traditional cluster-based data organization) are pretty straightforward: you select for a table a hash key (which could be comprised of a single column or a concatenation of multiple columns, as long as each key value

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

'The post else 9.30: The “Monkeys with Typewriter” Algorithm appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. This week, the blind see with data, algorithms are uncovered, networks are analyzed, and data remains siloed. As always, if you want to keep up with what we’re reading/thinking about on a weekly basis the best way is to subscribe to the “else” feed either as an email newsletter or through RSS.

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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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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

On September 24, 2013, the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission (the “Commission”) published guidelines to facilitate implementation of the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (the “PDPA”). The Advisory Guidelines on Key Concepts in the Personal Data Protection Act and the Advisory Guidelines on the Personal Data Protection Act for Selected Topics provide explanations of concepts underlying the data protection principles in the PDPA, and offer guidance on how the Commission may inter

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 1, 2013

'The post Here Are the Companies I Chose For OpenCo SF This Year. Damn, That Was Hard appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I spent about an hour today choosing which companies I plan to visit during next week’s OpenCo. And I have to say – despite my obvious bias as a founder of the event – the difficulty I had deciding only gets me more excited about participating.

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