Imperial Violet

DECEMBER 30, 2016

RISC-V is a new, open instruction set. Fabrice Bellard wrote a Javascript emulator for it that boots Linux here ( more info ). I happen to have just gotten a physical chip that implements it too (one of these ) and what's cool is that you can get the source code to the chip on GitHub. The full, user-level instruction set is documented but there's a lot of information in there.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 30, 2016

On December 27, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced charges against three Chinese traders who allegedly made almost $3 million in illegal profits by fraudulently trading on nonpublic information that had been hacked from two New York-based law firms. This is the first action in which the SEC has brought charges in connection with an incident involving hacking into a law firm’s computer network.

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 29, 2016

There’s some really interesting leaked photos and analysis by Charles Goodman. “ Leaked photos from the Rogue One sequel (Mainly Speculation – Possible Spoilers).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The post Predictions 2016: How’d I Do? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. At the beginning of each year I make predictions , and at year’s end, I hold myself to account. It’s kind of fun to look back and see how wrong (or right) my musings end up being. I’ll be writing my Predictions 2017 post this weekend (I think), and publishing it shortly thereafter.

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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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JKevinParker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Earlier this year, I became the new President of the National Capitol Chapter of AIIM (NCC-AIIM). I have been a member of this group for the last several years, and I see a lot of potential for even greater impact in the Washington, D.C. region for Information Professionals. This group has a rich history and has some amazing professionals as members as well as past and current board members.

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