Watermarking AI
Classifiers stopped spotting AI output once models got good. Watermarks hide a keyed statistical bias in text, images and proteins instead. But marking output is only half the job: without shared keys, nobody else can detect it.
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Over my career I’ve dabbled in various forms of testing, both on the backend and front-end. I’ve tried various frameworks and experimented
Help, I’m creating a file upload
Every software engineer has at some point in their career been asked to build a file upload. Perhaps it was to let a user upload
The Ultimate Startup Due Diligence Checklist for Investments
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The first days as a firefighting CTO — what to focus on when you are hired to lead a team in times of change
At madewithlove, we join teams when things aren’t so stable. Maybe a key non-replaceable employee has left or a new investment is fueling
How a CEO knows what’s being built
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Continuous Integration and Deployment in the era of Containers
One of the first steps when you are deploying an application with Docker Swarm or Kubernetes is to publish the image in a registry. It
Habits, retrospection, and ancient reptiles
I saw an interesting heuristic regarding habits recently but I couldn’t find the source anymore. Bear with me while I paraphrase a bit. If
Pulse: Episode 4 - Mike Veerman on product management, scoping, and poor leadership in software development
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The personal touch when onboarding an employee in a remote world
These are strange times for everyone. Imagine starting out in a new remote job when all you’ve ever been used to is going to
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