• Monday

    • AI.
      • OpenAI for chat: https://chat.openai.com. ChatGPT, GPT = Generative Pretrained Transformer. It’s a language model.
        • ChatGPT was released by OpenAI last wednesday. They also make DALL-E. Cofounded by Musk (!) in 2015.
      • Lensa is the app for the digital art avatars of your selfies.
      • Laion has a very popular (image-text) dataset: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-400-open-dataset/. Laion = Largescale Artificial Intelligence Open Network.
    • Checked on GeminiEarn. Withdrawals are still paused. It’s hilarious how inconspicuous it is. They don’t show any issue – the withdrawal screen just says pending and a link to the FAQ. No direct info about an industry collapse, insolvency, corrupt partnerships, overcollateralization, bankruptcy, etc.
    • Finally finished cleaning from friendsgiving. 2 days total.
    • 15% of the 1inch token’s total supply is unlocking this december (~$111M) – https://www.theblock.co/post/192098/1inch-tokens-december-unlock
    • Fixed the dishwasher, racks and rails needed adjustments.
    • https://jeffburke.substack.com/p/the-spacex-effect-companies-founded
    • Roasted and blended new batch of peanut butter, 5lbs. With red skins on for the first time! Not very different in taste (expected way more bitter), and a little extra nutrition.
    • GitLab Q3 earnings call. Beat EPS, beat rev.
    • Pyrrhic. Great word. It means you won, but the cost was larger than the benefits of the victory.
      • Named after Pyrrhus, King of Epirus (northwest region of ancient greece), who defeated the Romans but lost the majority of his troops.
    • More AWS:reInvent keynotes on-demand.
    • Swami Sivasubramanian.
      • ML.
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL2HtX-FmiQ
      • Analytics. Spark now integrates with both athena and redshift.
      • Guest: Expedia. Moved to EKS, uses AI/SageMaker to suggest hotels/flights/etc to user.
      • Deepdived sagemaker, to build/train/deploy ML models. Supports geospatial data now (super helpful for predictive traffic, predictive weather, many more).
      • Redshift is now multi-AZ, so you can automatically failover in seconds instead of minutes.
      • Mentioned security as well, GuardDuty (same as other talk). GuardDuty covers RDSs now too.
      • AWS Glue Data Quality. Measure, monitor, manage data quality in your datalake.
      • Went over DataZone like the other presentation, data governance.
      • Zero-ETL another big theme in this one. Redshift now has auto-copy from s3.
      • They’re offering AWS ML University to community colleges now!
      • DeepRacer is a very popular ML intro tool (racing simulation): https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/
      • Used the phrase “democratize data” 😑
    • Ruba Borno.
      • AWS Partners, a ton of experiences shared by folks who use AWS.
      • Heineken, vodafone, ibm, confluent, nasdaq, more.
      • OCSF = Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework. AWS is working with palo alto networks, okta, more.
      • AWS Marketplace. You can sell software solutions to other people, buy AWS solutions from others, whatever. They’re launching some new dashboards for marketplace.
      • AWS Data Exchange. Provide, use, explore third-party datasets. Integrates with datalake, s3, more.