Patrick (Researching trends before they take off)

Adviser, Brainstormer and Creative Generalist. Tech Industry Analyst, Trend(W/C)atcher, Knowmad. Loves Zoom/Streamyard/Menti/Mural/Miro/Wonder.me/...

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Van patch-everything naar exposure management: 10 lessen van de VanRoey Cybersecurity Day https://t.co/c7DWaSLumf via @LinkedIn

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Jeroen (@TeamleaderBE) zei: kom met de fiets, kom met de fiets. Onvoldoende parking, geen tickets meer te koop vandaag.
Me: verzopen soepkieken. Maar vol spanning aan het wachten op Peter @hinssen
Jeroen: het was allemaal een beetje improviseren

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Happy belated birthday, #JFK.

Some names deserve respect, even from presidents who do not politically agree, and the Kennedy Center should stay Kennedy Center.

[Thomas L. Friedman @tomfriedman]

My column: Trump and Xi, This Is Your Nixon-Mao Moment. https://t.co/TCGsTVpwvL

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Hey @owasp_be, we would like to organise an afternoon on AI & Security in Bruges end of May. Who could present the AI & Security, LLM Top 10 problems or other related stuff there?

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Een Bezet Bedrijf, die @NMBS ?
Ah ja, door de vakbonden !

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

@TommiPedruzzi @Marketing_Nerd_ Book

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

XPENG's next-gen IRON robot effectively crossed the uncanny valley, leading many to believe it was a human in a suit.

In a follow-up event to prove it was a robot, He Xiaopeng had its leg skin cut open in front of a live audience. The robot then walked off the stage.

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Levensgevaarlijke situatie in fietsenstalling Gent. Kan iemand de veiligheidsregels eind deelfietsen uitleggen aan @BlueBikeBelgium ? Hier komen ongelukken van...

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Fascinating marketing tactic to kill iPhone 17

https://t.co/T2AuKh9zXN

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Nieuwe woordje geleerd: Fantoomremmen: auto beslist plots veel trager te gaan rijden. Moet onderzocht worden!
https://t.co/YQ4SCLUAfc

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

A brief history of Quantum computers 👇

1905: Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect and suggests that light consists of quantum particles or photons

1924: Max Born uses the term quantum mechanics for the first time

1925: Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan formulate matrix mechanics, the first formulation of quantum mechanics

1925-1927: Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg develop the Copenhagen interpretation, one of the earliest and most common interpretations of quantum mechanics

1930: Paul Dirac publishes The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, a standard textbook on quantum theory

1935: Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen publish a paper highlighting the counterintuitive nature of quantum superposition and arguing that quantum mechanics is incomplete

1935: Erwin Schrödinger develops a thought experiment involving a cat that is simultaneously dead and alive, and coins the term “quantum entanglement”

1944: John von Neumann publishes Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, a rigorous mathematical framework for quantum theory

1957: Hugh Everett proposes the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which suggests that every possible outcome of a quantum measurement actually occurs in a parallel universe

1961: Rolf Landauer shows that erasing a bit of information dissipates a minimum amount of energy, known as Landauer’s principle

1965: John Bell proves that quantum entanglement cannot be explained by any local hidden variable theory, known as Bell’s theorem

1973: Alexander Holevo proves that n qubits cannot carry more than n classical bits of information, known as Holevo’s theorem or Holevo’s bound

1980: Paul Benioff proposes a model of a quantum Turing machine, a theoretical device that can perform any computation using quantum mechanical principles

1981: Richard Feynman suggests that simulating quantum systems would require a new type of computer based on quantum mechanics

1982: David Deutsch generalizes Benioff’s model and proposes the concept of a universal quantum computer

1984: Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard develop a protocol for quantum key distribution, which allows two parties to securely exchange cryptographic keys using quantum states

1985: David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa devise an algorithm that can solve a specific problem faster than any classical algorithm, known as the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm

1991: Artur Ekert proposes another protocol for quantum key distribution based on quantum entanglement, known as the E91 protocol

1992: David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa extend their algorithm to handle multiple inputs, known as the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm

1994: Peter Shor discovers an algorithm that can factor large numbers in polynomial time using a quantum computer, known as Shor’s algorithm

1996: Lov Grover invents an algorithm that can search an unsorted database in square root time using a quantum computer, known as Grover’s algorithm

1997: Isaac Chuang, Neil Gershenfeld, and Mark Kubinec demonstrate the first implementation of Shor’s algorithm using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques

2000: David DiVincenzo proposes five criteria for building a practical quantum computer, known as the DiVincenzo criteria

2001: IBM researchers implement Grover’s algorithm using NMR techniques and achieve a modest speedup over classical algorithms

2007: D-Wave Systems claims to have built the first commercial quantum computer, but its validity is disputed by many experts

2019: Google announces that it has achieved quantum supremacy by performing a calculation on a 53-qubit quantum processor that would take a classical supercomputer thousands of years to complete

2020: IBM demonstrates that its 65-qubit quantum processor can perform calculations beyond the reach of any classical computer

📷 An IBM QC photographed by James Estrin

[Jayde 🍸♠️ @some1sbbdoll]

Julie Vanloo deserved better. Tbh any player that this has ever happened to deserves better. Being abruptly waived or traded is messed up

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Prompt engineering is dead, long live context engineering!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

+1 for "context engineering" over "prompt engineering".

People associate prompts with short task descriptions you'd give an LLM in your day-to-day use. When in every industrial-strength LLM app, context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window with just the right information for the next step. Science because doing this right involves task descriptions and explanations, few shot examples, RAG, related (possibly multimodal) data, tools, state and history, compacting... Too little or of the wrong form and the LLM doesn't have the right context for optimal performance. Too much or too irrelevant and the LLM costs might go up and performance might come down. Doing this well is highly non-trivial. And art because of the guiding intuition around LLM psychology of people spirits.

On top of context engineering itself, an LLM app has to:
- break up problems just right into control flows
- pack the context windows just right
- dispatch calls to LLMs of the right kind and capability
- handle generation-verification UIUX flows
- a lot more - guardrails, security, evals, parallelism, prefetching, ...

So context engineering is just one small piece of an emerging thick layer of non-trivial software that coordinates individual LLM calls (and a lot more) into full LLM apps. The term "ChatGPT wrapper" is tired and really, really wrong.

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Steve Jobs on what a brand really is... Trust!

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Steve Jobs on how to build a brand

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

The best companies just create massive amounts of value for the world...

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Sam Altman on how to arbitrage your time

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Another open-source breakthrough out of China and this one’s built to run, not just walk.

https://t.co/kUZP8p16XJ

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Yeah, extremely powerful but possibly a lot of collateral damage..

https://t.co/uVp6nV4kRt

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Happy birthday, @John_Fogerty !

[Patrick (Researching trends before they take off) @itworks]

Don't miss our Digital Product Passport conf on May 20th: https://t.co/DGBk2wbWhG

DPPs link the physical and the digital world as a secure, protected and private digital identity for physical products.

Yet another concern/opportunity for #CybersecEurope

https://t.co/VhaxMYgGoG