Chris’ Corner: Complexity
Have you seen The Grug Brained Developer? It’s an essay with a URL. It’s written like a caveman became a developer and put together a philosophy that is largely a rally against complexity. Cavemen have dumb simple brains, get it? It has good points, and I largely agree with it.
Read moreGPT-4; Human-Cyborg Relations
Photo by Lyman Hansel Gerona on UnsplashImagine thisyou’re hurtling through space. The ship’s alarm wakes you up from deep freeze. Now you’re being told that unless you resolve the trajectory calculation error, your death — and the death of those asleep onboard — is imminent. All you need to do is reset the nav computer
Read moreWildfire detection startup Pano extends its $20M Series A with another $17M
Not all use cases for AI make sense, but Pano AI makes a life-saving contribution in the “yes” column. Just last week, the company was able to send early warnings of the Kutch Road Fire, which broke out near Kutch Mountain in Yamhill County, Oregon. The company showed me how
Read moreVerifiable validates its healthcare credentialing software with another $27M
Knowing that a doctor on your hospital staff is who they say they are would seem like a no-brainer, but poor access to real-time credentialing data is causing a headache for healthcare organizations. Verifiable is automating the healthcare credentialing and compliance process, which aims to verify a provider’s background information,
Read more12 Key Responsibilities of Business Analysts in Agile, Innovation, and DevSecOps
Here’s how Wikipedia defines the business analyst role, which I believe needs some deeper context and definition. “A business analyst (BA) is a person who processes, interprets, and documents business processes, products, services, and software through analysis of data. The role of a business analyst is to ensure business efficiency
Read moreThe Elon Musk private jet tracker resurfaces on Threads and immediately goads Mark Zuckerberg
There’s also an account set up to track Mark Zuckerberg’s private jet, though this hasn’t posted any information yet. | Illustration: The Verge Jack Sweeney, the college student and creator of the banned @ElonJet Twitter account that tracked the movements of Elon Musk’s personal jet, has now launched the tracking
Read moreUK battles hacking wave as ransomware gang claims ‘biggest ever’ NHS breach
The U.K.’s largest NHS trust has confirmed it’s investigating a ransomware incident as the country’s public sector continues to battle a rising wave of cyberattacks. Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs five London-based hospitals and serves more than 2.5 million patients, was recently added to the dark web leak site
Read moreHow to get the old version of TweetDeck back
The “old” TweetDeck has had a (likely temporary) stay of execution, with users now able to manually revert back to the version they’ve grown accustomed to through the years. How long this will be possible for, though, remains to be seen. The reprieve comes in the form of a “TweetDeck
Read moreFrontRow, a learning platform featuring celebrities, shuts down
FrontRow, a hobby-learning and community platform featuring celebrities in India, has shut down, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The three-year-old startup sought to build a community where well-known artists and athletes taught their craft to consumers. The startup had raised about $18 million and counted Elevation Capital, Eight Roads Ventures,
Read moreHR tech startup Propel wants to power the open talent economy via tech communities
Besides the billions of dollars from local and foreign investors, a strong factor behind Africa’s growing tech ecosystem is its burgeoning talent. Being sought after locally and internationally, these homegrown talents — including software developers who, according to Google’s Africa Developer Report, grew almost 4% to 716,000, UI/UX designers, engineers
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