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Sam Altman once said: “Minimize your own cognitive load from distracting things that don’t really matter. It’s hard to overstate how important this is, and how bad most are at it. Get rid of distracti
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It’s About Time! What's the time? Time to get a watch. My friend Al Vermeulen used to say time is for the amusement of humans . Al’s sentiment is still the common one among distributed systems builder
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OpenAI chief Sam Altman stood on stage in San Francisco earlier this month to announce that ChatGPT, the start-up’s brainchild which kick-started a new era of artificial intelligence a year ago, has 1
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