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Abstract There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. And there is also deserved concern about such technologies’ material impact on jobs. But observers are missing two very important things:
Management tool for the information security management system / Outil de gestion du système de management de la sécurité de l'information - GitHub - dbarzin/deming: Management tool for the information security management system / Outil de gestion du système de management de la sécurité de l'information
Personhood appears to be simpler than we thought
Pour le recrutement, il est utile de disposer de questions standards permettant d’apprécier rapidement l’aptitude des candidats à appr ́ehender divers sujets et approches. Nous présentons dans cet article le processus de sélection des candidats à une formation technique en SSI – des questions parfois éloignees du cœur du sujet, mais dont nous justifions la pertinence.
Je fais partie des premières générations d’étudiants de lycéens à avoir été autorisées à utiliser une calculatrice électronique au baccalauréat. J’ai donc connu les deux systèmes: la règle à calcul et les tables de logarithmes versus la calculatrice électronique. Autant … Continuer la lecture →
Over the past years I attended hundreds of interviews. Many candidates proudly told tales on how they develop their projects with a microservice architecture. Often (I don’t want to say “always”, but from my memory I think it actually is “always”) it does not require many questions to see that they used a rocket launcher to kill a mouse. Microservices are hard. Everyone who experienced the pain of operating such an architecture can relate to it. The complexity kills you at one point or the other. You already had to do multiple refactorings of your architecture - because your domains didn’t work out. I wonder - why is this architecture so appealing to developers? And then I remember why I found them appealing 10 years ago.
As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.
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D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. - GitHub - terrastruct/d2: D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.