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Business Development Book Recommendation: The Slicing Pie and Slicing Pie Handbook by Mike Moyer

Book Recommendation: The Slicing Pie and Slicing Pie Handbook by Mike Moyer

According to statistics, 65% of startups fail due to founder conflicts, meaning internal disagreements within the team directly contribute to the failure of the business — as state

Mesterséges Intelligencia How I created an AI-driven ecosystem to locally generate videos part 2 EN

How I created an AI-driven ecosystem to locally generate videos part 2 EN

Part II: Understanding Ollama In the first part of this series, I described the overall architecture of a fully local, multimodal AI pipeline capable of generating videos from a sh

Business Development Könyvajánló: James Clear: Atomic Habits

Könyvajánló: James Clear: Atomic Habits

Early January is always a special time. It is when we set new goals not only in our personal lives, but also as company leaders, take stock of where we stand, and reflect on what w

Technológia Availability Is More Than Just Uptime – Designing Truly Scalable Systems Part 2

Availability Is More Than Just Uptime – Designing Truly Scalable Systems Part 2

Long story short: In the previous part, I wrote about how application availability is much more than just uptime. We looked at SLA, SLO, and SLI frameworks, and how they help us me

Mesterséges Intelligencia How I created an AI-driven ecosystem to locally generate videos

How I created an AI-driven ecosystem to locally generate videos

Part 1: Overview and Architecture I decided to create a local AI application that can generate video from short text prompt. This sounds like a fun and useful activity to me since

Technológia Availability Is More Than Just Uptime – Designing Truly Scalable Systems

Availability Is More Than Just Uptime – Designing Truly Scalable Systems

In DevOps and SRE roles, we often fall into the trap of equating availability with simple uptime . “All systems green? Then everything’s fine.” But that assumption is dangerously m

Mesterséges Intelligencia Deep Dive into LLMs - Chapter 2: Tokenization

Deep Dive into LLMs - Chapter 2: Tokenization

written by Tamás Fodor These articles are loosely based on Andrej Karpathy's technical deep dive into Large Language Models. Karpathy is the former Director of AI at Tesla and an O

Mesterséges Intelligencia Deep Dive into LLMs - Chapter 3: Neural Network Architecture

Deep Dive into LLMs - Chapter 3: Neural Network Architecture

written by Tamás Fodor These articles are loosely based on Andrej Karpathy's technical deep dive into Large Language Models. Karpathy is the former Director of AI at Tesla and an O

Mesterséges Intelligencia The InstructGPT Breakthrough: Teaching AI to Actually Follow Instructions

The InstructGPT Breakthrough: Teaching AI to Actually Follow Instructions

written by Tamás Fodor When GPT-3 first amazed the world with its text generation capabilities, it had one major flaw: it often didn't do what users actually wanted. Ask it to writ

Business Development Book Recommendation: Who Not How by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Book Recommendation: Who Not How by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

When the question is no longer “how?” — but “who?” It’s not an exaggeration to say this book found me exactly when I needed it. As our company continues to grow, I’ve been graduall

Mesterséges Intelligencia Deep Dive into LLMs - Chapter 1: Data Collection & Preprocessing

Deep Dive into LLMs - Chapter 1: Data Collection & Preprocessing

written by Tamás Fodor These articles are loosely based on Andrej Karpathy's technical deep dive into Large Language Models. Karpathy is the former Director of AI at Tesla and an O

Mesterséges Intelligencia AI Utopia - Arguments in Favor of Artificial Intelligence

AI Utopia - Arguments in Favor of Artificial Intelligence

Stephen Hawking: AI will be 'either best or worst thing' for humanity How can artificial intelligence make the world better? The rapid fundamentally transforming our relationship w

Mesterséges Intelligencia AI Dystopia: Arguments Against Artificial Intelligence

AI Dystopia: Arguments Against Artificial Intelligence

Stephen Hawking: AI will be 'either best or worst thing' for humanity What risks does the development of artificial intelligence pose? The increasingly rapid spread of AI raises fu