Content tagged with “tech” under “Stuff I Looked Up”

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Agentic
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Date
February 7, 2025
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51

“ An ‘agentic’ process is one whereby someone else goes and does something with your approval and authority. In the world of AI, it means empowering an AI engine to do something for you. These agents are goal-seeking, adaptible, asynchronous, and have decision making powers. ”

Amara’s Law
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Date
November 10, 2024
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162

“This is a quote from Roy Amara, the one-time president of The Institute for the Future. We tend to over-estimate a new technology’s impact in the short-term and under-estimate it in the long-term. It refers to the fact that technology has to mature over time. Valuable use cases for new technologies…”

Coordinated or Responsible Disclosure
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Date
November 20, 2021
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314

“This is a cybersecurity practice or policy which promotes the disclosure of security vulnerabilities to the affected vendor first , before public disclosure. If a software or hardware vulnerability is announced publicly before a fix is available, then bad actors (‘hackers’) will learn about it, and…”

Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
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Date
November 3, 2021
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1896

“At its most basic level, an NFT is some digital data that can be uniquely distinguished from any other data. This seems simplistic, but it enables up a lot of interesting secondary effects. Understand that in digital terms, true uniqueness of data is rare. Normally, a byte on a hard disk and an…”