Sustainability by Design
An application, IT system or website is considered DIRTY if sustainability has not been taken into consideration when building and running them. To lower the climate footprint from data and IT systems, we need to empower the ones creating these systems: the software developers.
Emerging industry and technologies of power There is little doubt that geopolitics is tightening its grip on international business and R&D. In this talk, Henric will give a deeper understanding of what trends and insights companies and universities should take home in a world with global competition. You can find Henric on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henric-johnson-4711a22 This presentation was recorded on 21 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/
Maximizing your context Have you ever wondered why some people make the most of a situation? The same question applies to companies, communities and even countries. I have tried to answer this question by looking at my own life and work - the circumstances under which I made decisions that worked out better or worse. And I tried to answer the question again for people with whom I have interacted over a significant period. There is something about maximising the variables in specific contexts that leads to success. In this talk, I share my thoughts on maximising the context in which we find ourselves, and when we do so, we maximise value for others too.
Virtual machines in history Join Erik for a historical view of his work on virtual machines, regular expression engines, garbage collection and language development that empathises with the users. We start the journey with the V8 JavaScript engine (with surprising anecdotes from the early days). Then we move on to Dart VM and end the talk with Toit VM, the new tiny VM that makes embedded devices feel like real computers. During this, he will talk about how your tools should not hate you, rant more about tools that stab you in the back, especially Golang, and end up with how the Toit GC manages your memory without stealing your memory.
Stop wasting your R&D budget! Start modeling value and experiment! Research by us and others shows that somewhere between half and two-thirds of all features in a typical system are never used or used so seldomly that these should not have been built in the first place. In addition, 70-90% of all resources in R&D work on commodity functionality, rather than differentiation and innovation. The current practices around product management and R&D are incredibly wasteful. In this talk, I present an alternative approach organized around quantitative modeling of value, experimental development approaches such as A/B testing, and continuous monitoring of value delivered to customers in operational software. You can find Jan on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janbosch/ This presentation was recorded on 21 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/
Virtual Machinations: Leveraging the Linguistic Bytecode of Large Language Models to Emulate Programming Language VMs If AI is the new embodiment of computing, we need to adjust the way we as humans communicate with and instruct AIs to perform desired tasks. However, natural language is inefficient for expressing ideas and instructions precisely. This is why computer scientists create programming languages. All programming languages share the design principles of *abstraction*, naming arbitrary things, and referring to these things by their names; and *parametrization*, leaving named holes for things that can be filled in by actual things via application. We will demonstrate the design of a natural language-based programming language that is also based on the principles of abstraction and parametrization. Moreover, we will show how we can implement this language by using a large language model as its virtual machine. This approach leverages the LLM's capacity as a general sequence predictor, transforming it into a tool for generating sequences of instructions for our newly designed language. The correspondence between LLMs and VMs enables the transfer of numerous techniques and insights from the programming language domain to the realm of LLMs. This cross-pollination of concepts opens up new avenues for utilizing LLMs to effectively execute complex computational tasks. By leveraging the strengths of both natural language and programming languages, we can bridge the communication gap between humans and AI systems, paving the way for a future of seamless and intuitive AI interaction. You can find Erik on LinkedIn using the link below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikmeijer1 This presentation was recorded on 20 May 2024. Follow us on LinkedIn or check our website for news on future webinars. factor10: Website: https://factor10.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/factor10-solutions-ab/ myConf: Website: https://myconf.io/
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