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Author: Derik Hammer
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Trust Nothing, Verify Everything
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First Principles of AI Usage — Part 2 AI does not know what is true. It knows what is statistically probable. This distinction is…
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Context is the Product
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First Principles of AI Usage — Part 1 The quality of your AI output is bounded by the quality of context you provide. Not…
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Blog Restored!
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Welcome back, everyone! I apologize for the mess before this post’s date. A couple of years ago, I had been on a long enough…
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Architects and Gardeners
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There are two analogies for leaders that have made a visceral impact on my life and career, the architect leader and the gardening leader.…
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The immediate idealist
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Any given business day you will find an age-old conflict brewing in a neutral-toned conference room or on a tiled video conference call. This…
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Ephemeral barriers of the mind
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Just like you, I have struggled with many problems of a wide variety in my life. Given my profession, many of these problems were…
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Potassium and process ambiguity
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It has been discovered that potassium is capable of being in two states of matter, at once. Potassium, and potentially other metals, can be…
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Getting started with Godot
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Over the last couple of months I’ve been having fun playing around with the Godot game engine. At first, I gravitated to the systems…
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Amazon Redshift Views, Sort Keys, and Outer Joins
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My team built a process to load from a couple of base tables, in our Amazon Redshift enterprise data warehouse, into an other table…
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IT Responsibility – Informed Consent
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“We are fighting fires everyday! Why did you build such a brittle system?” exclaimed the support engineer. “We had a tight timeline. I presented…