Five More Lessons About Documentation: A follow-up to Mark Birch’s “Developer Documentation”

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Last week’s DevBizOps blog entry (“Developer Documentation: Developers don’t like writing docs, what’s the alternative?“) asked: How programmers can get their answers from documentation, and are there alternatives? As ever Mark’s post advises on questions every developer has to ask in understanding software. Open source or proprietary, documentation is necessary either for using, extending, or

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Something Something AI Expert

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Don’t blame recruiters for searching for AI experts “with 8+ years experience in TensorFlow”. It’s what their clients are asking for. The hype around AI brought with it a flood of experts. As literal fortune flow into the (rightfully) promising technology, thousands of job openings are advertised with titles that include “artificial intelligence”, “AI”, “machine

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Should Facebook be broken up? The lesson of Policy Vacuums

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Facebook has recently revised their privacy policy by virtually admitting to errors made in the 2016 presidential elections campaign. But that’s clearly not enough. Is legislation required? Is government intervention appropriate? Should Facebook be broken up? What about other information giants? Here to help us answer this question is the term ‘policy vacuum’ introduced in 2005 by Jim Moor, a professor of ethics in Dartmouth College and celebrated technology ethicist.

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HSBC’s New Securities Blockchain Will Control $20B

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HSBC will upgrade their blockchain technology to control $20 billion in assets by March 2020. Digital Vault, the blockchain HSBC announced today, will control assets referred to as “private placements”, which are securities bought on private markets. Digital Vault will use distributed ledger technology to “give investors real-time access to their records”.

Screenshot of HSBC’s Digital Vault announcement

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