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

Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Investing in the Wrong A.I.

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

Larry Ellison Keynote on Oracle's Vision and Strategy: Oracle AI World 2025 YouTube video by Oracle

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’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.

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

I have so many questions

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…

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...

Patrick McGovern, the ‘Indiana Jones of Ancient Alcohol,’ Dies at 80

One of the great scientific endeavors of the modern age
#Beer #Archeology #AncientParties

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

WE

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...

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/

Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date (Gift Article) Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

No wonder my #horoscope was never right

#astrology

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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…

#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

How Anime Took Over America: From Pokemon to Demon Slayer and Dragon Ball Z (Gift Article) “Demon Slayer” is just the latest confirmation of how Japan’s once-distinctive animation style has become a global visual language.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#anime #history

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.

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

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...

www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3551955...

#nfl #grievance

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…

#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...

Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023

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...

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 👇

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.

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...

Framework Choice Strategy: When to Use Spring Boot vs Helidon in Cloud-Native Microservices Introduction

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...

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...

Origami bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. Cool

#origami #space

www.nytimes.com/video/scienc...

The Long, Strange Trip of Rick Perry

Literally, the last guy that I thought would be #trippin

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

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…

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...

Olustee JJ Grey & Mofro · Album · 2024 · 11 songs

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...

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

Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88

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...

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

"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...

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...

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...

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.

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

Tech Billboards Are All Over San Francisco. Can You Decode Them?

See how you do on these 5 questions

#Tech #AI

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...

What’s on Cupid’s Mind at Versailles? A.I. Can Tell You.

A fun use of #AI

#travel #france

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/a...