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[kcdc 2025] The problems that arise when focusing on predictability instead of variability

Speaker: Joel Tosi @joelstosi@mastodon.social Deck For more see the table of contents General Process behavior chart Anti patterns Negative implications Decisions that reduce options Context Illusions of Progress Outliers Other notes What do https://sim.curiousduck.io – free simulator. can enter any email … Continue reading →

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[kcdc 2025] Loom is more than Virtual Threads: Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values

Speaker: Todd Ginsberg Bluesky: ‪@todd.ginsberg.com‬ For more see the table of contents Project Loom Project charter includes; Virtual Threads Structured Concurrency Scoped Values My take Not the point of the talk but I like that he uses Duration.ofMillis() instead of just … Continue reading →

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[kcdc 2025] ai killed your privacy tools

Speaker: Ben Dechrai Bluesky: ‪@bendechr.ai‬ For more see the table of contents General Creativity vs Imagination Australia experiment Cross Platform Identity Linking Chatbot with employee data Target AI can eLLephaMts never forget [cute play on elephants with LLM] What can … Continue reading →

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KCDC 2025 Live Blog Table of Contents

KCDC grew. There are talks in two halls this year plus dev ops days, I hurt my finger so curious to see how live blogging goes! (It’s going fine. WordPress autocomplete lets me save typing some characters which evens out … Continue reading →

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using the java playground

I’ve started offering using Oracle’s Java Playground for labs when I do half or full day trainings. While not all features can be used in playground. many can. This lets people do most of it if they bring a corporate … Continue reading →

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PASSED! Jeanne’s Experience Taking the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional

Today I took the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Generative AI Professional certification and passed with a score of 86%. Passing is 68%. This roughly the score I got on the Foundations exam. Which isn’t surprising. I tend to make the same … Continue reading →

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PASSED! Jeanne’s Experience Taking the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 AI Foundations Associate

Today I took the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI Foundations Associate certification and passed with a score of 88%. Passing is 65%. It’s a 60 minute exam with 40 questions. It look me way less than that (about 10 minutes). Each question is … Continue reading →

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NYC Bus Redesign and a Coding Problem

NYC is updating the MTA (metropolitan transit authority) bus system this summer with one set of changes taking effect today and another taking effect in about two months. How it went from my point of view: The plan There were … Continue reading →

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Do people buy paper vs ebooks

Scott and my certification books have always sold way more paper copies than e-books. While I personally like paper books better, I got the sense that they were less popular in general. Recently I was asked by someone who wanted … Continue reading →

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2025 attempt to buy us open tickets

Last year was the first year it was hard to buy US Open tickets. In 2023 and earlier, I would buy them after work during the American Presale, no problem. Ok fine, it’s going to be like Comic-Con where you … Continue reading →

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