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Example use case - Lancaster MA USA

video link: starts at 103 seconds (1:43) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_8M9feh_KA&t=103s

This presentation covers how Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to help bring public information closer to residents of towns and cities to help communities be more versed in local issues and happenings. It starts with the existing problems and moves to how to use AI to make things just a little bit better for everyone.

From a conceptual perspective it reviews how to grow the people's confidence using publicly available information summarized and presented using basic concepts like bibliographies.

From a technical standpoint the solution involves leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to curate and orchestrate public data, its specific attributes, and the possible distribution and consumption models for the public.

From IC to Management, tips and tricks on how to approach debugging in your software role

Apparently everyone has the word "Agile" on their resume. Not so fast! The spirit of this episode is reviewing the specifics of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and the history behind them. Also included is the value of each process and when they do well and when they can be a hindrance.

If you have Agile on your resume, please watch. This video will definitely help you better understand what Agile is and why its used.

We seem to have lots of software developers. Where are all the software engineers though?!?

What did you find inspiring about it?

Super cool. Is there any topo graphs of this? Would love to see a heat map of traffic share too.

From ER Nurse to Software Engineer, hear David's story.

Also, some special Tour de France homage, long live Peter Sagan. We will miss you!

The personas are pretty hilarious. Sudo astrophysicist and myoptic middle manager discuss why databases even exist.

Cain and Abel create a deadlock?

You could replicate your clothes drawer?

Sure, I completely get it. However, does that mean bitmaps have been fully explored? For example, OLAP is only growing as a market as the need for realtime analysis on the most fresh data. I mean, we never going to have 'less' data nor are we ever going to seek results 'slower'. Where I am going with this, utilizing technologies like bitmaps in OLAP services is an area I believe will see continued growth. While Lucene is a known commodity, I think we can agree it hasn't solved the sector, right?

Thank you for sharing this. As someone who is working to learn more about bitmaps, id like to ask how you came across this? Is there a specific community or other that you follow? Thanks!

Not sure I understand your point. Can you clarify some?

I think it's fair to say that the use cases for bitmaps have not yet been fully explored. I believe their use in areas of analytics and OLAP/RTOLAP will continue to grow as the desire to infer and target demo's across households increases.

In general SaaS vertically scales to increase demand which means factors of increased revue with no new work.

I would respectfully ask for someone to show me EXCLUSIVE UPPERCASE code which was not assembler, fortran 77, nor cobol.

So are you saying that the data is stored in categories which allows for those types of lookups to run faster? Do you have specifics on how the design of a bitmap based database achieves this? How does it maintain these relationships? Just through 0 and 1's?

I guess it's easy for me to visualize both row and column based. Im struggling with the bitmaps concept.

Completely agree on GDPR. Unfortunately there is so much money to be made in selling to people. I hope legislation wins out.

I've seen bitmaps mentioned a number of times lately. I must admit it is not something I am all that familiar with. Can someone explain to me why bitmaps are more valuable than standard column oriented databases?

I havn't wrapped my head around how this helps speed up queries while data is being ingested.

Good response. I believe the right counter is "diminishing returns".

Yes, the bad actor can break in my door, but they actually have to do it. Walking through without a door is sooooo much easier.

But then when they get inside, what will they find? Will I have silver and gold bars? Or will it be random HN posts?

My advice is to take reasonable precautions. However, if you have your entire life savings in an offshore back account with Venmo access which doesn't require 2FA ... then yea, I would worry.

I believe things that are valuable, like truly valuable, should be hard to change. Like liquidating a 401k life savings shouldn't be a couple mouse clicks. It should be a long and hard process because you are prolly only going to once or twice in your life. There is nothing wrong IMO with requiring being present at a bank to perform significant value transfers. Sure, wouldn't it be nice to only have to click a button? Sure ... but requiring physical (think MFA) slows the process down for the sake of security.

Great response. But the purpose of the article was about digital footprint IMO and not what is maintained in IRL.

Im not a conspiracy theorist or eternal cynic, but yes to the above stuff. I simply dont trust anyone. In the software world its the same concept as never trusting anything client side.

I guess the biggest thing is passwords. I use passphrases, but yea - I don't use any single point of failure with respect to access.

As far as physical, while a lot of your footprint exists on line, still having the physical matters. A property deed is a good example of this. Another example is my will. I might be aging myself out of this conversation, but it's a point of view for consideration. And yes, these are in a fireproof safe along with birth certificates, passports, etc. So yes, if someone steals my identity, I still have physical proof. Standard MFA stuff (from wikipedia) "knowledge (something only the user knows), possession (something only the user has), and inherence (something only the user is)"

I'll end with another opinion ... digital wallets which are not backed by the FDIC are super scary. Im sure this is another conversation, but just because I choose not to have a digital wallet doesn't mean I don't care about free speech :)

I fundamentally disagree with the premise.

I believe a hacker, or bad actor in general, will gain access to my data if they really really wanted it. I believe stealing data is just a function of time and resources (money). Based on this premise, I don't keep anything truly valuable available digitally. Sure, I have my bank accounts secured, but nothing past start practices.

I do not believe my feelings on this mean I do not care about free speech, nor do I not care about privacy. I believe our reality is that no one should be surprised if their data is stolen. People should plan on this happening and be prepared. Just as corporations have Incident Response and Business Continuity plans.

... unsure if I should upvote or not.

Cool article, maybe it should be added to the The Anarchist Cookbook?

Just want to comment that remote working in general is going to increase these types of conversations, which I believe is a positive.

Not on topic ... but as a life change I will only consider full remote work. I believe there will be many many more like myself and yourself. I believe this is going to alter how we as a society in general think about our primary residents. In your example you are considering a homestead. For me, I am considering moving between residences.

Back office is sticky and expensive to replace. Keep your customers happy and you basically have an annuity.

Just want to give you a shout out for using the acronym MUD. I havnt seen it used in like 25 years :). Thank you!

Couldn't agree more.

I believe this falls into the 'Results Oriented' mindset of delivering value. This means figuring out your desired outcome ahead of time, then measure it over time. In addition, overtime, you may determine that your desired outcome has changed and you need to measure differently. Yes, iterating is not just for software.

IMHO pure quantitative metrics are of little value for customer experience. I believe metrics should be a little squishy and subjective. The value in the subjectivity is that it spurns conversation and actual thought instead of simple counting.

Thank you for the response. In all seriousness, you are giving me an education on shipping that I did not have.

However, to my point, is it possible that invasive species would be less infested in freshwater areas had we as a species done much less sea based transport because it was cost prohibitive?

Thank you, I didnt know that.

How about other invasive species? How about zebra muscles: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-zebra-mussels-and-why-sho...

Are you serious??!? This feels like an abuse of trust.