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San Jose becomes the first city in California to choose to implement AB 1033, allowing homeowners to sell ADUs separately from their primary residences. Representative Phil Ting, a San Francisco Democrat who authored the bill, and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan held a press conference on Friday, emphasizing that this is a new path to affordable housing. "We all know that homeownership has become out of reach for many residents in San Jose and across California," Mahan said. "We need to incorporate the innovation inherent in our region into housing policy to keep the American dream alive, and this new ordinance does just that. San Jose will continue to lead the way, but we can't solve this crisis alone, and I look forward to seeing other cities in California follow suit." “I’m grateful to the City of San Jose for seeing the impact my legislation could have on their community. ADU ownership can provide a pathway to buying a first home and can even help our seniors downsize,” said Ting. “With this more affordable housing option, increased homeownership can help create stronger communities.” San Jose has built nearly 1,400 new ADUs in the past five years, with thousands more under construction. That number represents about 23% of San Jose’s new housing stock during that same period. Now, homeowners in San Jose can sell their ADUs individually, similar to how you would sell a condo. AB 1033 went into effect this year, but cities must take additional steps and opt-in to the law. “Being able to sell my ADU was another reason to build my backyard addition, and it was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done,” said Joyce Higashi, an ADU owner in San Jose. “Not only has it increased my property value, it’s generated more rental income than I ever expected.” The Casita Coalition, a statewide organization dedicated to removing barriers to building more affordable, sustainable housing, was a strong advocate for the legislation. They developed a model ordinance that San Jose used to draft the local legislation needed to take advantage of the new law. “With homebuyers across the state facing an extreme shortage of new home inventory, we applaud Mayor Mahan and the City of San Jose for creating new possibilities for homeownership,” said Rafael Perez, Casita Coalition board chair.#SanJose #California #AB1033 #AccessoryDwellingUnits #HousingPolicy #AffordableHousing #HousingInnovation #PhilTing #MattMahan #HomeOwnership #CommunityBuilding #RealEstate #HousingReform #UrbanDevelopment

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This insightful blog post by Manpreet(Manny) Sidhu explores how to leverage this low-power, long-range network with AWS IoT Core to build track and trace applications. Perfect for various asset tracking usecases!.

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Large Language Models (#LLMs) are evolving rapidly, and the demand for running them at scale is skyrocketing. #Ollama is stepping up to meet this need with its official container image on Docker Hub, excelling in local #deployments. However, there’s a catch for containerized environments: downloading #models requires the ollama serve command to be running within the #container. This extra step complicates automated deployments via #CI #CD #pipelines, making seamless model access challenging. To take your #model to production, it needs to be #container-ready—a feature Ollama has yet to fully support. The gap in #AIOps for smooth deployments gets blurred with the inference services available as an easy way to take it to production. Goal is to overcome obstacles and deliver solutions 😉 so here is to get you started on having your (O)#llama #production ready in a private #deployment from your #local to #cloud all in #oneshot . Enjoy Medium: https://lnkd.in/g9jqBQ8d dev.to: https://lnkd.in/gi_gGwam #AI #LLM #Ollama #llama3 #phi3 #mistral #S6overlay #AIOps #CI #CD #oneshot #container #docker #podmanEnjoy

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Customers often ask if Amazon Q Developer is only for Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads. The short answer is no. Our developer platform can add value to your on-premises development and multi-cloud needs, regardless of your platform. Our partners at Heroku have a great use case for this. Check out their blog post on how the Amazon Q Developer / Heroku integration simplifies their customer workflows.

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Our customers can now create Route53 Alias records for their Amazon OpenSearch custom endpoints and gain faster DNS resolutions while saving on additional CNAME costs. Good job on the launch Sachet Alva and team - https://lnkd.in/g_aaUp7S. #aws #opensearch #route53

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Oracle today announced the general availability of HeatWave #GenAI, including in-database LLMs, an automated in-database vector store, and the ability to have human-like contextual conversations in natural language. https://lnkd.in/gK-Q44gc

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How do the costs compare of implementing a low-latency write-ahead-log (WAL) on S3 Express One Zone and one implemented as a State-Machine-Replication (SMR) system (such as Paxos/Raft/Kafka)? I built a cost model for both to find out. https://lnkd.in/dwczVutW

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Let’s face it, LLMs aren’t without limitations. In this discussion, Varun Grover shares the benefits of a RAG framework and provides an overview of how it works as well as practical use cases. Watch now: https://vrt.as/43MNQQx #AI #GenAI #LLM #RAG

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I am excited to share the latest blog, co-authored by myself, Junhwi Kim and Vyas Sekar, detailing how we managed to successfully localized and improved LLM by combining Fine-Tuning and RAG. https://lnkd.in/gKDkgGPq

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If you want to purchase third-party AI models, look no further than Google Cloud Marketplace! With its integration into Cloud Console, developers and MLOps engineers can trust the partners and solutions featured in the marketplace as they are rigorously tested and validated by the Google Cloud team. Watch along as we look at how Google Cloud Marketplace brings value to organizations worldwide. https://ow.ly/awbt50RMW33 #GenAI #GoogleCloudMarketplace

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Fellow in-house taxonomists, ontologists, metadata managers, and semantic wizards: what is the name of the team or business unit that you work within? I have the good fortune of getting to rename the "Content Standards" program I lead at Kaiser Permanente IT. My team has determined that the name is too vague to convey the core activities of the program, and leads to confusion with the cross-functional teams we collaborate with. I'm looking for a clear name that will resonate with stakeholders within my org. So I've got a very classic taxonomist question: What to call the program? 🤔 For some context... What my program is responsible for: - Defining and governing standards for metadata, structured data, taxonomy, and ontology for classifying/structuring digital content - Implementing processes and platforms to good metadata hygiene - Assessment and remediation of content metadata What my program doesn't cover: - Writing or editorial style guides - Content design - Content strategy - Site maps or navigational structure - Data governance Any ideas are most welcome!

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We are excited with the progress in AI and its potential to positively impact our world. It's crucial that we advance AI responsibly. I'm proud of our team for their exceptional work in this area! As the saying goes, 'you can't improve something that can't be measured'. To measure for unfair bias in any system, for example by race or gender, one would need to know the attributes. However, with the knowledge of those attributes, one would worry about unintended consequences. This blog post describes how we addressed the issue by developing methods for measurement while preserving privacy. https://lnkd.in/gqDtPR8U

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🚀 🌐 At #GoogleCloudNext, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google's cloud business now boasts a $36 billion annual run rate. This growth is attributed partly to our investments in AI technology, which powers various applications, from code scanning to enhancing cloud service operations. AI's demand for high-performance GPUs will drive business for cloud providers. The conference also highlighted Google's AI advances, including new generative AI capabilities and the introduction of AI agents designed to perform specific tasks, such as assisting in online shopping. Or to say with The Register: We’re on a highway to ML… https://ow.ly/XVuK50RkSxk #AI #CloudComputing

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🚀 💡 Managing cloud costs effectively is crucial for any business. Our latest blog post dives into advanced strategies for optimizing Compute Engine spending. Part two of the series focuses on leveraging committed use contracts and intelligent automation tools to maximize cost-efficiency. By implementing these strategies, businesses can significantly reduce their cloud infrastructure costs while maintaining high performance and scalability. This guide provides practical tips and best practices for optimal resource utilization in your cloud environment. https://ow.ly/UVJ450SszOJ #ComputeEngine #CostOptimization #CloudComputing #ITInfrastructure

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We are pleased to announce that you can now achieve up to an aggregate 1.3 million I/O operations per second (IOPS) and 12 GB/s throughput per OCI compute instance with the OCI Block Volume Service. In addition, you can also attach up to 32 Ultra High Performance (UHP) volumes to a single OCI compute instance. This service update is particularly useful for high I/O workloads, such as OLTP, AI/ML, data warehousing and analytics, databases with large data sets and extensive complex processing. https://lnkd.in/gFN8nrtF

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Part of what inspires me at my job is the ability to identify gaps and having the autonomy to create and build. Andy talks about builders as inventors. He then talks about primitives. I have not heard this before so as I read on I became obsessed with the idea and how I can relate it to my work. To sum it up, the idea is to create every process as a separate entity so that they can be mixed and matched as needed to create a new and better process. The criteria is that a primitive can't be divisible. The idea that a new invention, service or process doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to be better is novel. One can take the product then, gain feedback and improve upon it as often as necessary until it becomes the gold standard. Well, that sums it up for me but feel free to read... https://lnkd.in/gZSuhf7T

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