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Bringing the power: Generac CIO Tim Dickson says IT leaders need to start innovating today

CIO Business Intelligence

Tim Dickson, CIO, Generac Generac Power Systems “Every day that I come into the office,” explains Tim Dickson, CIO of Generac, “I see people I’ve never met, people I’ve never even seen, standing around the demo screen in the lobby. Do it anyway, Tim says. And ideas for how to improve it are pouring in.

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Edward Jones’ CIO Frank LaQuinta plays to win

CIO Business Intelligence

The viability of any transformation has to start with people — our associates and leaders, our culture and how we foster a place of belonging and emphasize continuous learning and innovation. Very few people are AI experts, so it is a whole new playing field. He was shocked and I was even more shocked, and Tim was laughing.

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Fearing the Wrong Thing

O'Reilly on Data

What does this mean for people who earn their living from writing software? My own sense, from talking to and observing many people over the years, falls into the lower end of that range: 15% to 20%. It’s time to reject that stereotype, and to build software as if people mattered. But what does this mean in practice? He’s right.

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Questions for 2024

O'Reilly on Data

Not Dead Yet The metaverse: It isn’t dead, but it’s not what Zuckerberg or Tim Cook thought. Enabling people with money to prove they can spend their money on bad art wasn’t a problem many people wanted to solve. The clock is ticking.) Will we see a solution to prompt injection, data poisoning, model leakage, and other attacks?

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Generac’s Tim Dickson on the evolving CIO role

CIO Business Intelligence

Generac Power Systems’ Tim Dickson is an award-winning CIO who drives transformative change through technology and talent. Tim Dickson: I have a funny story that sort of encompasses it. My boss, who’s the CEO, said, ‘That’s a great plan, Tim. We made that visually appealing to people. It’s the 90-day plan. IT Leadership

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The road to Software 2.0

O'Reilly on Data

At O’Reilly’s AI Conference in Beijing, Tim Kraska of MIT discussed how machine learning models have out-performed standard, well-known algorithms for database optimization, disk storage optimization, basic data structures, and even process scheduling. is having the greatest influence on data science: that’s where the skilled people are.

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly on Data

As Mike Loukides and Tim O’Reilly astutely point out : A model prompted to write like Shakespeare may start with the word “To,” which makes it slightly more probable that it will follow that with “be,” which makes it slightly more probable that the next word will be “or”—and so forth. That wasn’t illegal. Was it legitimate?

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