Daily Reading List – July 18, 2024 (#358)

I spent an hour today trying to get a SQL query to work. How was YOUR day? I’m sure it’s something silly, and at some point I’ll downgrade the conference demo to something simpler, but I can’t quit yet. Meanwhile, I also read some good items today.

[article] Developer Experience in the Age of Generative AI. This video and transcript offers a panel’s perspective on wide set of topics. How does AI help developers? What are the pitfalls? What’s the future of developer experience?

[blog] Don’t talk about non-functional requirements, talk about quality attributes. I need to be better about this too. Don’t call things like performance, maintainability, and performance “non functional requirements.” Quality attributes is a better term.

[blog] Scaling Up Malware Analysis with Gemini 1.5 Flash. Can AI help with large-scale malware dissection by analyzing executables and libraries for malware? Here’s details of the attempt.

[article] Over budget and under-performing: Department of Defense IT challenges in the spotlight. I’m sure this is a familiar story to a lot of you. A lot of spending on “keep the lights on” work, without even getting the benefits of strong performance metrics.

[blog] How we built AlphaFold 3 to predict the structure and interaction of all of life’s molecules. Here’s a short peek at some details of how we trained this fascinating model that may have actual world-changing impact.

[blog] Bringing cloud and AI capabilities to the tactical edge: Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is generally available. Use the public cloud wherever possible, but if you need a rugged, disconnected platform, this is a good option. News story here.

[blog] Introducing the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) and founding member organizations. A bunch of major players have joined us to invest in AI security practices.

[blog] Is a Zero Temperature Deterministic? Karl wrote such an interesting piece about the temperature parameter of LLM requests. What impact does it have on creativity in response? Read to find out.

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