A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
One day the world will be ready to accept that humanity, just as it is not constrained by skin colour, gender or nation, is not a condition penned into any one shape.
Dogs of War
Adrian Tchaikovsky
In contrast to the previous techniques, which try to maximize the likelihood of correct answers, another approach is to use GPT-3 to generate a tree of possible explanations (both correct *and incorrect*), and then analyze their relationships to guess at which set is correct. This technique was coined maieutic prompting by [Jaehun Jung et al. in May 2022](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11822) (maieutic means relating to the Socratic method of asking questions to elicit ideas).
To release a new version of our service, we deploy to the inactive environment, where we can perform our testing without interrupting the user experience. When we are confident that everything is functioning as designed, we execute our release by directing traffic to the blue environment. Thus, blue becomes live and green becomes staging. Rollback is performed by sending customer traffic back to the green environment.
The DevOps Handbook
Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren