https://virtuwise.comVirtuwise2024-03-29T07:13:29.197380+00:00alucianihiddenpython-feedgenWelcome to my blog!
I’m Angelo, community evangelist, for the leader in the hybrid multicloud computing space.
This blog provides commentary, analysis, and r...https://virtuwise.com/chronicle-codebreakers-unraveling-tales-in-monthly-writing-hackathons/Chronicle Codebreakers: Unraveling Tales in Monthly Writing Hackathons2024-03-25T13:27:23.850472+00:00alucianihidden<p>I love this idea. What a great way to get everyone writing and provide the company with a binge bank of knowledge. I have always advocated for folks to write online. That can be on the internet or intranet.</p>
<p>Herbert Lui writes on his <a href="https://herbertlui.net/monthly-hackathons-but-for-writing/">blog</a></p>
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<p>I received an interesting response from someone who worked at Incident.io, “We see so much ROI that we run monthly content days for the entire company, getting everyone to draft posts we publish gradually over the next month.”</p>
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<p>This is a great way to communicate and really work on critical thinking. Getting feedback from friends and co-workers makes you a better writer and thinker.</p>
<p>I'm going to suggest this idea again, and maybe this time have a body of my own work to show for it.</p>
2024-03-25T00:00:00+00:00https://virtuwise.com/beyond-binary-the-duel-of-titans-openai-gpt-4-vs-groq-mixtral-8x7b/Beyond Binary: The Duel of Titans – OpenAI GPT-4 vs Groq Mixtral-8x7b2024-03-24T13:36:38.271387+00:00alucianihidden<p>A nice summary and comparison between OpenAI GPT-4 and Groq Mixtral-8x7b. Groq seems to be a winner in the speed arena. The comparison charts show a real difference.</p>
<p>Terry Tan writes for <a href="https://serpapi.com/blog/openai-gpt-4-vs-groq-mistral/">SerpApi</a></p>
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<p>A few months ago, we ran a benchmark on a traditional parser and Mistral 7B (Open Source LLM). The quality of the parsed result from Mistral 7B is quite impressive given it is only 7B parameters. One thing we weren't satisfied with is the processing time. Recently, I stumbled upon Groq who set the mission to revolutionize inference speed. They developed a chip for inference and they called it the Language Processing Unit (LPU). I have tested it and it is really impressive. I don't understand the technology of a chip but like CPU and GPU, I believe it will get faster and hopefully, we can get the inference speed down to 1 second consistently.</p>
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2024-03-24T00:00:00+00:00https://virtuwise.com/weekend-musings-brief-brilliance-for-your-saturday-march-24/Weekend Musings: Brief Brilliance for Your Saturday (March 24)2024-03-24T13:48:41.356660+00:00alucianihidden<p>Here is a quick run down of some stories that I found interesting during the week.</p>
<p><a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-gpt-5-release">OpenAI reportedly looking to release GPT-5 this summer</a> OpenAI has apparently been demonstrating GPT-5, the next generation of its notorious large language model (LLM), to prospective buyers — and they're very impressed with the merchandise.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714768/is-kubernetes-worth-the-price-tag.html">Is Kubernetes worth it?</a> I’ll go ahead and say it: When looking closer at the total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with Kubernetes, more traditional development methods still have compelling advantages. As we’re wrapping up another KubeCon, perhaps it is time to dig into this.</p>
<p><a href="https://siliconangle.com/2024/03/21/researchers-uncover-unfixable-vulnerability-apple-cpus-affecting-cryptographic-security/">Researchers uncover unfixable vulnerability in Apple CPUs affecting cryptographic security</a> A newly published paper from researchers details an unpatchable vulnerability in Apple Inc.’s M series of chips that allows attackers to extract secret keys used in cryptography operations.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/brief-history-of-ai">The brief history of artificial intelligence: The world has changed fast – what might be next?</a> How rapidly the world has changed becomes clear by how even quite recent computer technology feels ancient to us today. Mobile phones in the ‘90s were big bricks with tiny green displays. Two decades before that the main storage for computers was punch cards.</p>
<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/usb-hubs-printers-java-and-more-seemingly-broken-by-macos-14-4-update/">USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update</a> A couple of weeks ago, Apple released macOS Sonoma 14.4 with the usual list of bug fixes, security patches, and a couple of minor new features. Since then, users and companies have been complaining of a long list of incompatibilities, mostly concerning broken external accessories like USB hubs and printers but also extending to software like Java.</p>
2024-03-23T00:00:00+00:00https://virtuwise.com/unveiling-marty-cagans-insights-on-product-management/Unveiling Marty Cagan's Insights on Product Management2024-03-24T14:02:51.735136+00:00alucianihidden<p>Marty Cagan's latest interview has a wealth of knowledge is crucial for navigating the complexities of modern product management. From addressing prevalent challenges to unveiling transformative strategies, Cagan's insights serve as a beacon for product teams and leaders striving for excellence in today's competitive landscape.</p>
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2024-03-22T00:00:00+00:00https://virtuwise.com/unveiling-the-future-a-deep-dive-into-nvidias-2024-ai-event-in-16-minutes/Unveiling the Future: A Deep Dive into Nvidia's 2024 AI Event in 16 Minutes2024-03-21T13:37:12.652088+00:00alucianihidden<p>If you missed the NVIDIA GTC conference, and want a quick summary of Jensen Huang's keynote, CNET has put together a great short video summarizing the keynote. It's worth a watch.</p>
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2024-03-21T00:00:00+00:00https://virtuwise.com/unleashing-chatgpt-your-ultimate-podcast-navigator/Unleashing ChatGPT: Your Ultimate Podcast Navigator2024-03-17T14:53:57.326383+00:00alucianihidden<p>This is a great hack for finding new content using ChatGPT. Books, podcast or anything else you can export and list out. I tried it and like the output.</p>
<p>Ryan Buening writes on his <a href="https://ryanbuening.com/posts/chatgpt-for-podcast-suggestions/">blog</a></p>
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<p>An experiment I tried recently with ChatGPT was to see if it could generate some Podcast suggestions for me based on my current podcast subscriptions. I was able to supply ChatGPT with an OPML file that is commonly used to transfer podcast subscriptions between podcast apps.</p>
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<p>Give it a try and see if it can help discover new content for you.</p>
2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00https://virtuwise.com/fortune-favors-the-bold-inside-michael-dells-billion-dollar-gamble/Fortune Favors the Bold: Inside Michael Dell's Billion-Dollar Gamble2024-03-17T13:47:27.691176+00:00alucianihidden<p>Another insightful video from the folks at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LogicallyAnswered">Logically Answered</a> YouTube channel.</p>
<p>I have always admired the company Dell Computers and Michael Dell. I bought Dell laptops and desktops and would often recommend them to my friends. I also liked their Poweredge server lineup.</p>
<p>This video explains how Michael Dell's astounding personal wealth surpasses that of his namesake company, Dell, with a net worth of $85 billion compared to Dell's $60 billion valuation. His bold gamble, borrowing $70 billion to take Dell private and acquire EMC, ultimately led to transformative success, notably acquiring VMware and securing a massive windfall with Broadcom's acquisition.</p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tZ9hEbASODA?si=y3jsObUvA_1AyErV" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
2024-03-17T00:00:00+00:00https://virtuwise.com/weekend-musings-brief-brilliance-for-your-saturday-march-16/Weekend Musings: Brief Brilliance for Your Saturday (March 16)2024-03-17T13:34:17.741783+00:00alucianihidden<p>Here is a quick run down of some stories that I found interesting during the week.</p>
<p><a href="https://staysaasy.com/leadership/2024/03/12/Getting-Things-Done.html">Getting Things Done In A Chaotic Environment</a> One of the first things my CEO told me is that things move fast, so you have to get things done as completely as possible and move on to the next thing. I think about that advice a lot, and I find myself telling people that same thing again and again.</p>
<p><a href="https://thenewstack.io/3-ai-tools-to-boost-your-productivity-4x/">3 AI Tools to Boost Your Productivity 4x</a> In my almost 10 years as a data science and artificial intelligence (AI) expert, I’ve witnessed the evolution of AI up close. Like many people, I have been told that eventually my job will become obsolete because AI will replace me. While I never believed this previously, global organizations increasingly trust important tasks to AI, and media speculation is growing that AI will take over the world.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/14/24101171/google-io-2024-announced-may-14-android-ai-gemini">Google I/O 2024 is happening on May 14th</a> Google’s next I/O developer conference will kick off exactly two months from now on May 14th. Just like last year, the I/O 2024 keynote will be “broadcast in front of a limited live audience” and available for anyone to watch virtually.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714445/open-source-is-not-insecure.html">Open source is not insecure</a> Every study I see suggests that between 90% and 98% of the world’s software is open source. We’re all taking code written by other people—standing on the shoulders of giants—and building and modifying all that code, implicitly trusting every author, maintainer, and contributor that’s come before us.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-received-a-message-laser-beamed-from-10-million-miles-away-in-nasa-test">Earth Received a Message Laser-Beamed From 10 Million Miles Away in NASA Test</a> Eventually, we're going to want to expand the World Wide Web across the galaxy, and NASA recently demonstrated a key piece of tech that could help, beaming messages via laser across a distance of almost 16 million kilometers (10 million miles).</p>
2024-03-16T00:00:00+00:00https://virtuwise.com/echoes-of-discontent-broadcom-ceo-chronicles-vmwares-transition-pains/Echoes of Discontent: Broadcom CEO Chronicles VMware's Transition Pains2024-03-16T14:13:37.069497+00:00alucianihidden<p>Folks are still feeling the pain from the Broadcom/VMware acquisition.</p>
<p>The goal has always been to add to the bottom line of Broadcom, and there is nothing wrong with that. You as a technology leader in your organization need to always be evaluating tech so you can pivot if needed.</p>
<p>Scharon Harding writes for <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/broadcom-ceo-admits-vmware-changes-have-brought-unease-to-customers-partners">Ars Technica</a></p>
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<p>For example, after buying VMware, Broadcom took over the top 2,000 VMware accounts from VMware channel partners. In a March earnings call, Tan said that Broadcom has been focused on upselling those customers. He also said Broadcom expects VMware revenue to grow double-digits quarter over quarter for the rest of the fiscal year.</p>
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<p>There will likely be more changes in the months ahead, so do your best to be prepared, stay informed and demand more from your account teams as you are going through this transition.</p>
2024-03-15T00:00:00+00:00https://virtuwise.com/parting-insights-illuminating-the-path-forward-from-supercloud-6/Parting Insights: Illuminating the Path Forward from Supercloud 62024-03-16T14:51:03.207880+00:00alucianihidden<p>Supercloud 6 was a great event. John, Dave and Rob always have great insights and give you a front-row seat to the latest newsmakers and technology shifts.</p>
<p>Here is a recap of the event.</p>
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