Stoic philosopher Epictetus reminds us how to live: "Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." Source: Enchiridion #Stoicism #Epictetus #Philosophy #Wisdom #Mindset #Virtue #SelfMastery #LifeLessons
Doug Drechsel
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Oracle Developer Evangelist interested in Database, AI and Cloud with a focus on Micro Service development, Spring, Mobile and full stack. "Innovation is a process of failing fairly regularly.”
Ditch chatbot obsession—AI’s real power is in specialized solutions, says Gary Marcus. I agree Editorial: nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o... Learn about building specialized AI with Oracle AI Optimizer & Toolkit. oracle.com/database/ai-... #Oracle #AI #SpecializedAI #AIInnovation
Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Investing in the Wrong A.I.
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Larry Ellison’s #Oracle #AI World keynote is a must‑watch. First hour: how AI powers Oracle products—from infrastructure to apps. Last 30 mins: Oracle + partners solving real problems with AI reasoning. Fascinating insights into what’s next. 🎥 youtu.be/4eCFmbX5rAQ #EnterpriseAI #Visionary
Larry Ellison Keynote on Oracle's Vision and Strategy: Oracle AI World 2025
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Larry Ellison is running the table—leading Oracle’s AI surge, big media moves, and bold deals like TikTok USA. At 81, his vision and resilience keep him a giant in tech’s fast-changing world. #LarryEllison #Oracle #AI #Leadership #TechLegend #Innovation #MediaDeals #CloudComputing bit.ly/3WDlm97
Larry Ellison’s Latest Gambit to Keep Oracle on Top Is His Biggest Bet Ever
Oracle has roared into the AI gold rush, but it’s taking on huge amounts of debt to do so. Last month’s $18 billion bond offering could be just the beginning.
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Check out my new #Oracle Newsletter for #Developers! 🚀 Packed with curated blogs on Oracle tech, practical tips, and innovations to help you build smarter and faster. #AI, #Microservices, #SQL, #CloudNative — find your next spark here! medium.com/oracledevs/o...
Oracle Developer Newsletter
I’m an Oracle Developer Evangelist, and I love this job. It lets me dive into Oracle’s latest technologies and share why developers should…
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One of the great scientific endeavors of the modern age #Beer #Archeology #AncientParties www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
Patrick McGovern, the ‘Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol,’ Dies at 80
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This weeks listen Its title is inspired by the 1924 Russian dystopian novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. We was the first novel officially banned in the Soviet Union. Excessive ambition, big ideas, complex arrangements, count me in! #ProgRock #Music #ArcadeFire open.spotify.com/album/2sAePf...
WE
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Scale, security, performance. Our #cloud is built for the largest workloads across industries, helping countless organizations with the trusted cloud and #AI services they need to succeed. www.oracle.com/cloud/
#AI is reshaping software development. #GPT-5 hitting limits shows bigger models alone won’t deliver #AGI. The future is hybrid AI and new dev skills. I mapped a 3-year roadmap: from AI-assisted coding now to symbolic + neural AI systems ahead. #TechSkills #AIDev bit.ly/41HAFke
GPT-5 Hit the Wall. Here’s Your 3-Year Roadmap for What Comes Next
I have worked in software development for almost 40 years. I’ve seen development trends come and go, but I have never seen the likes of AI…
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Safest #AI bets? Infrastructure & hardware. Friday’s jobs report could give them another lift if rate‑cut hopes lower capex costs. #AIInnovation #TechStocks bit.ly/3JUmYrX
Apple, Meta, Google CEOs Dined With Trump. Where AI Trade Goes From Here.
Trump’s Fed dispute heats up, Broadcom reveals new $10 billion AI customer, Goldman to invest in T. Rowe Price, and more news to start your day.
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www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3551955... #nfl #grievance
Nothing Is Sacred - Scott Hanson Says That Red Zone Will Have Commercials All Year, New Intro Is “7 Hours of RedZone Football Start Now“
We saw a quick peek last year of this:But now we know it’s for real. It proves nothing is sacred. I don’t want to hear about money or ads or anything like that. Red Zone has always been commercial fre...
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#Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI 1.4.0 is GA. Build #Microservices with #SpringBoot or #Helidon, prototype #AI chatbots, agents, and RAG services. #Observability is unified with #SigNoz. medium.com/@DatabaseDou...
Unlock AI-Powered Microservices with Oracle Backend 1.4.0
The team is thrilled to announce the general availability of Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI 1.4.0 — production-ready and packed…
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This week's #listen. See if you can spot David Gilmour's guitar work on some of the tracks on Disc 1 #70s #80s #music open.spotify.com/album/2V1Mbu...
Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023
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Lee Corso makes his final College GameDay headgear pick on Saturday Lots of data viz here: wp.me/pc2RuA-1lznH0 Here's all 430 of his picks, in one chart 👇
Most enterprise #AI fails not because it’s weak, but because it’s too confidently wrong; the winners are building AI that knows when it doesn’t know. www.forbes.com/sites/jaimec...
MIT Says 95% Of Enterprise AI Fail- Here’s What The 5% Are Doing Right
To succeed, enterprises must demand that AI is transparent about its uncertainty, integrated into workflows, and capable of improving with every interaction.
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The real question isn’t “which framework is best?” It’s “which framework is best for this service, in this context?” #CloudNative #Microservices #SpringBoot #Helidon #Java #Architecture medium.com/@DatabaseDou...
Framework Choice Strategy: When to Use Spring Boot vs Helidon in Cloud-Native Microservices
Introduction
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Origami bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. Cool #origami #space www.nytimes.com/video/scienc...
Video: New Origami Design Could Help With Space Engineering
Researchers discovered a new type of origami called bloom patterns, which are repeating tiles of creased patterns that rotate symmetrically around a center. Engineers are working on real-life applicat...
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Literally, the last guy that I thought would be #trippin www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
The Long, Strange Trip of Rick Perry
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Built a pluggable #microservices framework: now #Spring Boot & #Helidon run side‑by‑side on #Oracle Backend. 🚀 #Vibecoded it in a month, AI‑assisted. 👉 medium.com/@DatabaseDou...
Vibecoding a Pluggable Microservices Framework: How I Added Helidon Support to Oracle’s Platform
When Oracle Backend for Microservices and AI first launched, it supported only Spring Boot applications. Developers soon began requesting…
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Another great #album by Florida's JJ Grey and Mofro. A richly textured blend of swamp #funk, #blues, and #rock. 👍 open.spotify.com/album/1TK4IG...
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JJ Grey & Mofro · Album · 2024 · 11 songs
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When University of Amsterdam researchers deployed 500 uniquely‑styled #ChatGPT bots on a simulated #SocialNetwork, they soon noticed familiar patterns. #AI partisan echo chambers concentrated influence among a small elite amplification of polarized voices arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03385
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Margaret Boden revolutionized #AI by unlocking the secrets of human creativity through computational thinking, reshaping how we understand—and build—the future of artificial intelligence. #AIPioneers #CreativeAI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...
Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
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"A rough analogy: You put people in an MRI machine, show them a bunch of pictures, and, if a picture activates a part of the brain associated with fantasizing about mass murder, you decide not to include that picture in elementary school curricula." Robert Wright www.anthropic.com/research/per...
Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models
A paper from Anthropic describing persona vectors and their applications to monitoring and controlling model behavior
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This paper from Hugging Face researchers argues against developing fully autonomous #AI agents, presenting a systematic analysis of how risks increase with agent autonomy levels. #AIAgents #AISafety arxiv.org/abs/2502.026...
Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed
This paper argues that fully autonomous AI agents should not be developed. In support of this position, we build from prior scientific literature and current product marketing to delineate different A...
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Snap’s Q2 2025 earnings were hit by a technical glitch in its ad-buying platform updt, which allowed ads to be purchased at much lower prices than intended. This misconfig reduced ad revenue for the quarter. #Tech #Test #SNAP #Oops bit.ly/4lddvJi
Snap Earnings: Snapchat Parent Stock Tumbles on Disappointing Report
Shares of Snap were falling sharply Tuesday evening after the social media company reported worse-than-expected second-quarter financial results.
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