John Rauser
@jrause
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Director of Engineering @Cisco, building cloud systems for networks & security. Passionate about ways of working, organizational behavior, and practical AI
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Joined May 2009
"The biggest advantage of working in small batches is that quality problems can be identified much sooner" - Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
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Did you know that the word “computer” originally was a job title for a human? What do you think will happen to the word “programmer” or “developer”?
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Great roundup!
Yesterday, Quanta published its annual roundup of the biggest stories in physics from the past year. Here are a few of the stories that our editors chose 🧵
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Fascinating summary of why we see very little high speed rail anywhere in the world (and by extension why Hyperloop failed)
caseyhandmer.wordpress.com
High Speed Rail (HSR) has been in the news, with a recent New York Times article listing some of the reasons that the California HSR project seems unlikely to ever be completed. Quite aside from Ca…
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A playful take on the role of Generative AI in our products - here I describe LLMs in our systems using archetypes, which I find to be a fun and thought-provoking way of thinking about emerging patterns. Let me know what you think! https://t.co/aWVs5ADy9w
linkedin.com
Thinking about Generative AI and Large Language Models in Product Development using Archetypes
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Let's try this again ... this time slightly more specific. Ooo so close ChatGPT! So close ... Also interesting that getting a white background is consistently a problem!
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A very simple example. Prompt = "Draw three horizontal lines on a white background" First picture is from OpenAI, and second picture is from Midjourney
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Both DALL-E and Midiourney have a very strong bias for elaborate pictures. It is surprisingly difficult to get them to draw simple things without a lot of decoration. Try it!
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Interesting how when you get a name for something, you start to see it everywhere. After learning about this concept at the #WTWO workshop at #DOES23 I am finding examples of it all over the place. Now that it's "officially" a word, we can start being more intentional with it!
In this article, I describe the curious story behind the word "Slowification" that we use @StevenJSpear and I use in "Wiring the Winning Organization." TL;DR: There's no word in English that conveys "slow down to speed up." So we made one up. https://t.co/q9azlsKdMR
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I keep thinking about this simple yet crucial line from @StevenJSpear at the #DOES23 WTWO Seminar "Every business starts every day with a set of problems. The ones that can solve them sooner: they win." Going into Monday excited to apply new ideas to unlock our potential!
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In my experience the main driver for RCA is simply this: it's what customers ask for. Not once has a customer ever asked "What did you learn?" after we had an incident (I wish they would!). Conversely, they do specifically ask for an RCA ... @norootcause
https://t.co/OeZHD45Ja4
surfingcomplexity.blog
There are two approaches to doing post-incident analysis: the (traditional) root cause analysis (RCA) perspective the (more recent) learning from incidents (LFI) perspective In the RCA perspective,…
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Looks like way too many people at Meta were hired using the “Build Twitter” interview question
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I am curious what the 5G conspiracy crowd thinks about strapping a computer to your head for 8 hours a day
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As we've started adding AI into our security products, I've been thinking about how we will build AI products securely. After playing around with some LLMs at home, here are my initial thoughts. https://t.co/LZb856eUgZ
webrauser.com
The current discussion about security AI is all about the prompt, a natural focal point: it’s the interface, generally available to the public and evoking the world’s imagination. We can already se…
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Shout out to all the moms and dads that get themselves a 25$ ticket to the trampoline park so they can jump around a little too
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