Struțocămilă: This term denotes a hybrid composition, from two incompatible elements, an Ostrich and a Camel The term comes from Dimitrie Cantemir’s Hieroglyphic History, where it is used allegorically to designate Mihai Racoviță, elected lord of Moldavia (see Struțocămilă - Wikipedia).

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There has been a series of unfortunate events involving Wordpress recently, and a Company that offers hosting on Wordpress software called WPEngine. Although Wordpress has always defined itself as open source software, it has come to light that the trademark “Wordpress” is the exclusive property of Matt Mullenweg, founder of the company that offers services related to the commercial site Wordpress.com.

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Aka The CrowdStrike effect

Maximum respect for a company able to hangs 8 millions of Windows PC.

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Test driven development is a beast to tame. I like TDD but in the past it was quite difficult to achive, at least in a pure-consultant approach with a "turn key" framework behind.

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Sometimes you need to fix a production defect. To do it, you need to mirror a specific set of data, and do a test to proof the bug and then fix it.

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With new JDK, when you compile a spring-boot application you get a big jar which cannot be included as utility jar anymore.

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This week was very hot because Google published Gemma, a smal-size LLM, and also Nvidia has a rush on stock market, with a evaluation around 2000 BILLIONS dollars. Last but not least, Mistral.ai published a service for its more advanced model, which can also run on-prem.

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts.

Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics. This similarity is probability-based.

At low level, these systems are based on Transformer deep-learning architecture and are called generative pre-trained transformer  (GPT) first defined in 2018 (for a complete description refer to Wikipedia)

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