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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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“Less is more” … Have we achieved it on this new release of the Framework?

Published March 3, 2014 by Carlos Veira

“Less is more” … Have we achieved it on this new release of the Framework?“Less is more” … Have we achieved it on this new release of the Framework?

Back in 2013, I shipped the Social Media Scripting Framework for the first time. I was excited about it, but, at the same time, I realized that there were some things that, clearly, were too complicated. There is still a lot of work to do to make it even more simple and more capable. This is, definitely, not over. Anyway, I would like to spend some time showing you how the new updates have simplified the way you interact with the framework and how to get the most of it.…

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Say hello to the Social Media Scripting Framework!

Published February 23, 2013 by Carlos Veira

Say hello to the Social Media Scripting Framework!

It’s been a while since my last post. And there has been a reason for it, actually. I’ve been working on a new project, the Social Media Scripting Framework: a PowerShell-based environment that abstracts the complexities of modern Social Media Channels from the PowerShell command-line.

There is not question that Social Media Technologies have opened the door, not only to new ways of interaction and relationship, but also to new ways to evaluate and measure them. However, after looking at the current ecosystem of tools and solutions for a while, I’ve observed that many of them, and sometimes all of them, follow similar structural patterns.…

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Social Media Interconnection Map for 2012

Published September 3, 2012 by Carlos Veira

Social Media Interconnection Map for 2012

Last year I started looking at ways to handle the amount of Social Media presence in a reasonable way. Then, I came up with a Social Media Interconnection Map and a set of design rules, principles and guidelines that we could take into account shall we wanted to build our own.

Unfortunately, everything moves insanely fast in the technology space and so many things have changed since that first proposal. In fact, I have had to adapt my original design several times over the past months due to a number of reasons:

  1. new players have emerged or exploded: Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, Posterous, Instagram, SlideShare, LinksAlpha, ifttt, dlvr.it
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The real cost of your Personal Cloud

Published August 7, 2012 by Carlos Veira

As time goes by, it becomes more common to see ourselves contracting services on-line. They are diverse, easy to consume, mature enough, convenient and economic. Some times we see our friends, relatives or colleagues consuming them and, once we get to know details about their experiences, we feel it is the right moment to start and experience the service ourselves.

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Many of them are really economic (in the range of 1 to 5 euros/month), so we don’t feel the need of any sort of financial control.…

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Thinking about Cloud Strategy

Published May 12, 2011 by Carlos Veira

Thinking about Cloud StrategyThinking about Cloud Strategy

Cloud Computing has been a buzz topic for a while. I understand it: it promises exciting benefits and, therefore, everyone wants to be there. Obviously, that’s not new. Nevertheless, I happened to attend several Cloud Computing events recently and I couldn’t help having a strange feeling of “déjà vu”:

  • both Skeptics and Believers keep saying the same things over and over again.
  • there seems to be some confusion or lack of understanding about how different concepts and components relate to each other.
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Interconnecting Social Media Services

Published March 7, 2011 by Carlos Veira

Interconnecting Social Media ServicesInterconnecting Social Media Services

It’s a fact that the number of Social Networking Services is becoming so high that it is increasingly difficult to manage them appropriately. Of course, there is no need nor obligation to have an account on each of them.

It is also true that we all have preferences and these preferences change with time. Consequently, we can’t find everybody on the same place, be either physical or digital. Here is when we start considering on becoming part of the communities our friends, relatives, colleagues, workmates, or, simply, “interests” belong to.…

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APIs and the “Technology Mix”

Published April 11, 2010 by Carlos Veira

Today I would like to recall a really nice conference I saw last January: “Infrastructure in the Cloud Era”. This presentation was performed at O'Reilly Velocity Conference 2009 by Adam Jacob (Co-Founder at OpsCode) and Ezra Zygmuntowicz (Co-Founder at EngineYard).

They cover the theory of how you should be thinking about building a Fully Automated Infrastructure classifying their analysis in the following areas:

  • Bootstrapping: Corporate Approvals, Agile Approvals, Cloud.
  • Configuration: Manual, Ad-Hoc, Infrastructure as Code.
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“Why cloud vendors lie to you and how they steal your money”

Published October 19, 2009 by Carlos Veira

The following video shows one of the best presentations I've happen to see describing one of the most significant changes we are living today.

This is a short description from blip.tv:

This session examines the concept of cloud computing, its benefits and risks and why it matters. We then explore the difference between private and public clouds and the importance of open source in this field. Finally we take a look at the future of this industry and use all these concepts to explain “why cloud vendors lie to you and how they steal your money.”

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Security & Privacy on Personal Mashups

Published September 13, 2009 by Carlos Veira

It is not new that there is an explosion of services around the web that can play a role in a user-based mashup. I won't count them all, because this will change after this note has been written. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just have a look to the Services connected by ShareThis or Ping.fm.

Many of these services will raise their own privacy questions/concerns. But, anyway, your questions may fall into these two categories:

  1. How this Service Provider will manage my data.
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