John Rauser

Director of Engineering @Cisco, building cloud systems for networks & security. Passionate about ways of working, organizational behavior, and practical AI

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The original Transmission

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Interesting https://t.co/CefDghcTAO

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

"The biggest advantage of working in small batches is that quality problems can be identified much sooner" - Eric Ries, The Lean Startup

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What do you notice about this list of the Top 10 Models? (per LMSys https://t.co/0BueY42ow7)

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@davidu Yes, this is the Lindy Effect and Taleb discusses it re Projects in The Black Swan

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Did you know that the word “computer” originally was a job title for a human?

What do you think will happen to the word “programmer” or “developer”?

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Great roundup!

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

Yesterday, Quanta published its annual roundup of the biggest stories in physics from the past year. Here are a few of the stories that our editors chose 🧵

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Fascinating summary of why we see very little high speed rail anywhere in the world (and by extension why Hyperloop failed) https://t.co/3JPKGfMnpo

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A playful take on the role of Generative AI in our products - here I describe LLMs in our systems using archetypes, which I find to be a fun and thought-provoking way of thinking about emerging patterns. Let me know what you think!

https://t.co/aWVs5ADy9w

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@damonedwards The word being used by the Learning From Incidents community is "mechanism"

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@dgreen Wow, unreal

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Let's try this again ... this time slightly more specific.

Ooo so close ChatGPT! So close ...
Also interesting that getting a white background is consistently a problem!

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Both DALL-E and Midiourney have a very strong bias for elaborate pictures. It is surprisingly difficult to get them to draw simple things without a lot of decoration. Try it!

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A very simple example.
Prompt = "Draw three horizontal lines on a white background"

First picture is from OpenAI, and second picture is from Midjourney

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@markburgess_osl Sounds awesome, too bad the didn’t pan out. Love your work!

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@JosephJacks_ Burn!

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@kcqon @SlimToolkit @mauilion Nice one Kyle!

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Interesting how when you get a name for something, you start to see it everywhere.

After learning about this concept at the #WTWO workshop at #DOES23 I am finding examples of it all over the place. Now that it's "officially" a word, we can start being more intentional with it!

[Gene Kim @RealGeneKim]

In this article, I describe the curious story behind the word "Slowification" that we use @StevenJSpear and I use in "Wiring the Winning Organization."

TL;DR: There's no word in English that conveys "slow down to speed up." So we made one up.

https://t.co/q9azlsKdMR

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I keep thinking about this simple yet crucial line from @StevenJSpear at the #DOES23 WTWO Seminar

"Every business starts every day with a set of problems. The ones that can solve them sooner: they win."

Going into Monday excited to apply new ideas to unlock our potential!