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Our colleagues recently attended ICLR in Rio to connect with the machine learning community. Hear from Sthefanye and Alec about what we look for in candidates, the resources we provide, what sets research in finance apart and what it’s like inside one of our networking events.

Enjoyed a great conversation with Liz Hoffman – Semafor’s Business and Finance Editor – at Semafor World Economy in Washington, DC last week. An outstanding gathering of founders, investors, operators, policy innovators, and reformers.

Thank you for your work Sarah Chary , and partnership with Kristi House in Miami.

New Series Kickoff: Owning & Managing Real Estate Starting with your complete glossary of real estate terms, from AM to WALT The latest publication of Real Estate Investing Explained by Professor Bateman We have covered a lot so far. I like to think of it as three main subject areas: 1) Introduction to Real Estate Investing 2) Investment Fundamentals 3) The Acquisition Process Today kicks off the next series of topics: Owning and Managing Real Estate We will be covering the following over the coming weeks: >Understanding the terms (aka the jargon and acronyms) >Getting organized for success >Developing your leadership skills >Day to day activities >Reading reports >Property management and accounting >>>Contracts 101: what’s in a vendor service agreement >Insurance and property taxes >Leasing >>>Contracts 101: what’s in a broker listing agreement >>>Contracts 101: what’s in a lease agreement >Construction >>>Contracts 101: what’s in a construction agreement >Investor and lender issues >Ways to add value to your property >Executing your business plan >What to do next My core background is in real estate operations. It is a dynamic and exciting aspect of the business, filled with both opportunities and challenges. I will be your step-by-step guide. This week we will focus on understanding the terms specific to real estate. Think of this as your real estate glossary. So grab your favorite beverage. Sit back and relax. Let’s dig in. https://lnkd.in/gvXxDE_7

Like pretty much anyone reading this, I've spent the last few years learning to work with tools fundamentally different from anything I've used before. Years ago, after CodeView (showing my age), I thought IDEs with basic refactoring were amazing. Nothing prepared me for LLMs. I've been lucky enough to have some non-compete time to spend learning. I've been burnt along the way, the time I left a badly configured OpenClaw instance up and it decided to chat along with a couple of my pals about solar panels was a very strong learning experience. I am incredibly excited about what is happening. I've helped small businesses with steps into this brave new world, and my homelab is the most organised it has ever been. The stuff I think matters, though, remains what it has always been. Software engineering discipline. Code reviews. Scepticism about output that looks right. Testing. Verifying assumptions. Getting tools to walk you through their reasoning. The models are impressive, and getting more and more impressive, but they are far from foolproof, they are currently 'traps for the trusting'. Immense productivity aids of course, but boy can they bite. What has really grabbed me in the last few weeks isn't a tool, though, it's a book. Sebastian Mallaby's The Infinity Machine came out a couple of weeks ago and I've really enjoyed it. It tells the story of Demis Hassabis and DeepMind. Demis, like me, is a North Londoner, and at about that point the similarity ends. It talks about the history of the technology, it pulls together stories that I was aware of but hadn't really stitched together, the protein folding breakthrough, the NHS/Google data sharing scandal, computers being able to play Go. It also talks a lot about the humans involved. The competing priorities of idealism and commercial pressure, the personalities and egos involved, the people splitting from one company and forming others, the desire of most of the people involved to keep this safe, set against the reality that the pace of innovation is eye-watering, the rewards are immense, and the sums of money are so vast that it may be beyond the capability of any government to sensibly regulate it. I'd really recommend it if you are interested beyond the technology. I am also all ears if you have book recommendations, I don't read enough.

I am listening to the preparation for Artemis to re-enter the atmosphere. As someone who has worked with monitoring systems it is interesting to hear how much mission control and the astronauts discuss alerts, and how they proactively move to suppress alerts that might be distracting later in the flight. It is obviously the right thing to do, everyone knows so, flight decks definitely know so, but it is not something that all SRE and SW Eng teams always do (to their detriment)