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Finding accounts to follow on Mastodon

Martin Fowler

My latest post on Exploring Mastodon looks at how I go about finding people to follow on a site without an algorithm that tries to pick posts for you.

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The fundraising stages are not about dollar values — they’re about risk

TechCrunch

You’ve likely heard of pre-seed, seed, Series A, Series B and so on and so forth. These labels often aren’t super helpful because they aren’t clearly defined — we’ve seen very small Series A rounds and enormous pre-seed rounds. The defining characteristic of each round isn’t as much about how much money is changing hands as it is about how much risk is in the company.

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CodeSOD: Switching to Booleans

The Daily WTF

If you understand booleans in C, then you know that you don't really understand booleans in C. That's the case with Bodo 's co-worker, anyway. They either don't understand booleans, or they don't understand their business requirements. switch (getBool()) { case false : /* do something. */. break ; case true : /* do something else. */. break ; default : break ; }.

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Coforge | Blog | Top 5 technology trends in 2023 in the banking and financial services

Coforge

To boost performance and enhance client experiences, Banking and Financial Institutions (BFSIs) have been at the vanguard of digital transformation. Globalization and competition from a range of industries including fintech start-ups, alternative credit providers, retail, and internet behemoths have further accelerated the speed of digitization of banks.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Optimizing Your Warehouse-Based Business, For Better Productivity

Strategy Driven

If you run a business that’s not office-based, but quite the opposite, and you have a whole warehouse (or more) to take care of; you’ll already know about that added challenges you’ll face in comparison. You’ll have all the regular admin and process of an office-based company, with an array of added responsibilities, requirements, and practices, to consider.

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A look back at the world of fintech in 2022

TechCrunch

W. elcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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