Imperial Violet

JANUARY 18, 2017

(This post uses x86-64 for illustration throughout. The fundamentals are similar for other platforms but will need some translation that I don't cover here.). Despite compilers getting better over time, it's still the case that hand-written assembly can be worthwhile for certain hot-spots. Sometimes there are special CPU instructions for the thing that you're trying to do, sometimes you need detailed control of the resulting code and, to some extent, it remains possible for some people to out-op

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 17, 2017

On January 16, 2017, the Article 29 Working Party (“Working Party”) published further information about its Action Plan for 2017 , which sets forth the Working Party’s priorities and objectives in the context of implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) for the year ahead. The Action Plan closely follows earlier GDPR guidance relating to Data Portability, the appointment of Data Protection Officers and the concept of the Lead Supervisory Authority, which were published

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The Falcon's View

JANUARY 18, 2017

"If you're a startup trying to get a product off the ground, you've probably been told to build an "MVP" - a minimum viable product - as promoted by the Lean Startup methodology. This translates into products being rapidly developed with the least number of features necessary to make an initial sale or two. Oftentimes, security is not one of the features that makes it into the product, and then it gets quickly forgotten about down the road.".

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Managing Your Information

JANUARY 16, 2017

I couldn’t help but smile over the Christmas break when the other half was playing with their latest gadget, a well-known Voice Service speaker. Having started to become familiar with how it operated, the requests were getting shorter and shorter. It would appear that manners are included for free – when the commands were eventually reduced to a single word, the speaker responded with “that wasn’t a very nice way to ask” and the request had to be rephrased before being actioned!

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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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