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Summary and Initial Thoughts of the OpenAI DevDay

Published November 7, 2023 by Carlos Veira

Summary and Initial Thoughts of the OpenAI DevDayOpenAI DevDay: Opening Keynote

Yesterday, OpenAI held its first-ever DevDay conference.

Here you have a quick summary of the announcements presented:

  1. More speed.
  2. Price reductions.
  3. More Capabilities.
  4. Platform Play: Marketplace for customized GPTs + Revenue Sharing Schemes. 👈

On the Capabilities front, they announced:

  1. 128k context window. 👈
  2. New version of Whisper.
  3. Reduced knowledge gap: now updated until April 2023. 👈
  4. Improved fine-tuning.
  5. Custom Model Program for very large datasets.
  6. More deterministic behavior and better tools to manage this.
  7. Conversation Threads to hand off state management to OpenAI.
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Notes on Windows Advanced Troubleshooting

Published May 4, 2011 by Carlos Veira

Last year, I happened to be involved on a series of unusually complex problems that required some advanced diagnostic techniques. During the course of those issues I prepared some notes so that my teams could acquire some sort of independence and have a sense of how these tasks can be accomplished.

Advanced Troubleshooting requires lot of study, patience and dedication. Let’s face it: it’s not easy. But knowing what the tools are and how the process works helps on demystifying this activity.…

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The role of PowerShell in IT-aware Services and Applications

Published January 15, 2011 by Carlos Veira

Several months ago, I happened to share a nice conversation about the potential of PowerShell as part of the IT/Enterprise Architecture. Then I discovered that the benefits of architecting IT-aware Applications are still widely unknown or misunderstood. That’s the reason I would like to share my thoughts on this subject pointing out the special role that PowerShell can play in this field.

IT-aware Services and Applications

IT-aware Services and Applications incorporate the necessary instrumentation so that IT and Operations Teams can control, monitor, diagnose and operate them using the same semantics that the business uses in addition to the classic IT constructs and abstractions.…

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Ramblings of a 64 bit Desktop User

Published April 11, 2010 by Carlos Veira

Now that I have taken some time to feel how someone deals with a 64 bit desktop, I have certain “confidence” to write about this. Of course, this is only my experience and, obviously, doesn't pretend to be a universal opinion. The following notes and comments refer mainly to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.

First of all, it's safe, usable and seems mature enough. The drivers diversity is more than acceptable and, finally, you  take advantage of the hardware you have purchased for.…

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