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TOON, or Token-Oriented Object Notation, is a new format designed to reduce token usage when passing information to large language models (LLMs), thereby reducing cost. Passing data to LLMs is essential to provide the context needed so that it understands what is being asked of it. That data might be a simple chat message, like…
People use their brains differently today than they did 30 years ago. In 1995, we all had to learn and retain knowledge. Referencing books and even using Microsoft Encarta was slow and cumbersome. And then Google arrived. In the early 2000s, we learned fewer things and retained less knowledge, but we started to learn and…
It’s been a while since I last offered my perspective on the world of AI. A lot has happened so this will be a big one… The key takeaways: Agents The most significant and exciting changes in AI revolve around giving large language models the ability to not only chat back to you but to…
This is the 4th state of artificial intelligence nation. You can read the previous editions here: AI in the last few months has been all about the Benjamins. Cash is invading AI faster than ever, except where it isn’t, and that place will surprise you. Open AI Update Since the last SOTAIN, Open AI is…
The day is coming where the technology that keeps our information safe as it travels across the internet stops working.
In this article we explore the risks and how we can start protecting our data now.
The default .NET templates have become advertisements for new .NET features and are no longer fit for teams to use to build well-architected, maintainable solutions with good design patterns.
So I’ve started to build my own.
It was a struggle to find any content for State of the AI Nation 3. Nothing has really happened in the space over the last few months….. Pahaha! Microsoft Let’s start with Microsoft. I’ve been unashamedly critical of Microsoft over the past few years, and frankly they’ve earned every scathing word. The multi-trillion-dollar company is…
MACH stands for Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native and Headless and joins a rich family of similar acronyms from tech history such as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) or MEAN (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS). MACH describes a set of high level architectural considerations but is not very prescriptive about how these are achieved, nor does it dictate…