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Non-Determinism Isn’t AI’s Weakness… It’s Your Blind Spot (opens the original)
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“Okay… this is a cool demo, but how do we even trust this output if it’s different each time?” That was the feedback I got on the quick POC I built to show an AI agent's functionality. While the feedback was 100% valid, we had very different expectations for what “trust” should look like at the POC stage. Yet if you have worked in data long enough, especially in the data quality space, then this conversation makes you feel like Bill Murray waking up all over again in Groundhog Day. Like AI today
You Probably Shouldn't Buy Local AI Hardware. I Did Anyway. (opens the original)
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Last week, a bunch of nerds like me packed into a back room of Seattle’s Museum of Flight for a local AI hackathon. The goal: 12 hours for your team to build something a business could use on local hardware, with all LLM calls being local as well.While that's an insanely cool problem to work on, even better was that Nvidia and Dell sponsored the event and gave each team a <a href="https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/dell-pro-max-with-gb10/spd/dell-pro-max-fcm1253-micro/xcto_fcm1253
Holoalphabetic Sentences: Substack's Latest Purveyor of Truth (opens the original)
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I’m pleasantly shocked that this once sleepy platform is now buzzing with conversation about no other than AI—1 due to Substack’s Co-founder & CEO announcing an AI writing detection feature powered by Pangram2:<a class="embedded-post
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