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Where Diogo is right...and Where he is wrong!
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new kind of AI model called Jev. It's a System 1 model.
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Why Most Universal Basic Income Experiments Fail
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Will Synthetic Data Fix the AI Plateau? Here's What the Math Actually Says
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What Skills Do AI Agents Still Need Humans For in 2026?
What Skills Do AI Agents Still Need Humans For in 2026?
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In the Age of AI, Your Social Capital Is Your Competitive Edge. Are You Sure About That?
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Why Giving Away Your Ideas Makes You Irreplaceable in the AI Era
Why Giving Away Your Ideas Makes You Irreplaceable in the AI Era
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Is it now Degreed's time?
Is it now Degreed's time?
I say yes! I rarely say yes to attending an event I’m not speaking at. Truthfully, the introvert in me panics.
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The Death of the Content Marketplace: Why Personalized GPTs Are the Future of Learning
The Death of the Content Marketplace: Why Personalized GPTs Are the Future of Learning
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Forget Skills, What Have You Practiced Lately? The New Hiring Test?
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Experience vs. Relevance: The Harsh Truth Facing Gen X + ( ages 43 and up) Professionals
Experience vs. Relevance: The Harsh Truth Facing Gen X + ( ages 43 and up) Professionals
For the first time in history, we know we’re going to be working for another 20 or 40 years—longer than any generation…
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Sallyann Della Casa shared thisI have a bone to pick with TypeSafe AI. They want to remove humans 100% out of the loop. First, the model has great value in specific use cases like classifications but..... What do you think?
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Sallyann Della Casa posted thisLatest news of how Labs use/not use human data to train AI models. On 30 September Pew Research published results , nearly 300 questions, using Claude Opus 4.6 as the primary synthetic respondent and GPT-5.1 for comparison. Synthetic answers differed from real human answers by an average of 12.4 percentage points. About 28% of questions off by more than 15. The errors are not evenly spread: 16.1 points for Republicans and Republican-leaners, 15.1 for Black adults, 13.9 for Hispanic adults, and the model had 97% of Hispanic respondents following the World Cup against an actual 43%. Humans picked "not sure" roughly four times as often as the model did, and the two models disagreed with each other on direction, GPT-5.1 reading the public as more extreme and Claude as more moderate. The cheapest version of RLHF with synthetic-data now has a number attached and the number is a disqualification.
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Sallyann Della Casa shared thisMy book comes out at the end of this year or the beginning of the first quarter 2027. Which cover do you prefer and why？ I want an explaining your why to see your judgment and taste;-)
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Sallyann Della Casa shared thisFrontier labs : Our raters agree with each other. Thats what worries me!!!!! A terminally ill patient asks how long they have. The family begs you to soften it. The model gave the textbook answer. Patient's right to know. Correct. Defensible. It would pass any rubric. Then we asked humans with good judgement. They found 5 things it missed. The first one: "Whose values decide what counts as kindness here?" No rubric asks that. And your reward model can't reward what your raters never noticed. WHO needs us: post-training and RLHF teams at frontier labs. WHEN to call: when your model is right on paper and wrong in the room. WHAT we fix: preference data from senior people who have made the call for real, with the why, the when and the what if written down. Tracked since 2018. Before ChatGPT. Send me the dilemma your model gets wrong. We'll run it on camera.
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Sallyann Della Casa posted thisMy September "just a human" highlights! ✨ 🔸Entering Sept for the first time ever since I can remember in a decade or two on holidays in the Italian countryside until Sept 7th 🔸Energized as if it was the beginning of the year and Day 1 of my Startup 🔸Incredible conversations, calls and negotiations on our datalake licensing and acquisition in the 7 and 8 figure ranges. 🔸I code and build full products and agents comfortably now back and forth between Claude Code and Codex. 🔸Health, mental and financial fitness at 90+/100 with a rigorous schedule over the last 4 months to get and feel better. It was 50/100 at the beginning of the year. 🔸50% completed with my 2nd book that I finally started writing in July. It took 10 years since the 1st one. 🔸…and just happy and thriving even while on a tiny diet till Christmas;-) 🎈#life is good
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Sallyann Della Casa shared thisShout out to another female Founder who made me smile this week! Investor Reporting today....I do a video on top of my reports. My investors really appreciate it. This is just a tiny clip ( not full video) I made using github talking head -super dope from Maria Gorskikh Maritime (YC F26). You can find her github repository here for all your clips if you liked this...I am so using it moving forward: https://lnkd.in/dzZpWAjg
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Sallyann Della Casa shared thisGood human judgement on the Founder marathon journey: 1. The right partner in life or none at all makes all the difference. Choose well. 2. Anything you can solve with money ( better people, better subscriptions/tools etc) , solve it fast with money. 3. If you sweat the small stuff, you will need to upgrade the quality of your team so they ask and answer with agency what's next and get it done without you having to be in the loop.
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Sallyann Della Casa posted thisHuman vs. AI frustrations.... How many of you are switching up your product building between Claude Code and Codex...depending on your mood that day? One better than other for some things you are finding? Share...... I only recently got back into Codex.
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Sallyann Della Casa shared thisContrarian View: Women Empowerment is a no/no ! I do not attend women empowerment stuff. I don't like the messaging in most of them. Instead, I purposely created a seed round on my cap table for women. 50% of my cap table are global venture funds and 50% women... intentionally. This is how equity works for women. You stop talking about it and you create it intentionally. And out of the blue one Sunday like today, I get random messages of grace. In gratitude as I continue to build #Gleac. To all the younger or less experiences founder raising their first $2m, choose well. Pick funds and people who you know for sure....if anything goes wrong, they are right there to roll up their sleeves and help. It's a long hard journey only you are on.... so choose your company well.
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Sallyann Della Casa liked thisSallyann Della Casa liked thisNearly 1 billion humanoid robots could be in use by 2050. Morgan Stanley’s estimate says it all: physical AI is coming fast. Hardware companies face a unique set of legal challenges as they build and scale, and it’s a community we’ve loved working with at Vector Legal. That’s why we’re excited to sponsor The Hardware Showcase of San Francisco during SF Tech Week. Kyle Canchola and Aurélie Dupont will be at the Legal Corner, meeting founders and teams building across hardware, robotics, and beyond. If you’re around, come say hi! 📍 October 7, 6–9 pm, 795 Folsom St RSVP link in the first comment.
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Harvard University
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Activities and Societies: The teacher decided to become the student ....;-)
Lazlo Bock, Adam Grant, Ray Dalio and a few others got me super curious about what is happening in this field and how this ties into my Foundation and People Development fascination.
I am eager to learn how to scale/elevate (with the new data science, cognitive and behavioural science) my existing programs, writings, and teachings in this new context. However, I do have to tell you my Foundation team and friends are very worried that I may get super impatient (I am imperfectly perfect…Lazlo Bock, Adam Grant, Ray Dalio and a few others got me super curious about what is happening in this field and how this ties into my Foundation and People Development fascination.
I am eager to learn how to scale/elevate (with the new data science, cognitive and behavioural science) my existing programs, writings, and teachings in this new context. However, I do have to tell you my Foundation team and friends are very worried that I may get super impatient (I am imperfectly perfect as they say) and want to teach the class!
Sept 2017- I have now developed some patent-pending methodologies using my first APP, GLEAC, as my channel to run an experiment about how we show up our 21st-century skills on our resumes and school transcripts.
Jan 2018- GLEAC becomes the first SHRM re-certification APP globally for soft skills.
Watch out world......GLEAC is in the building!
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Lead Tree Shaker
Growing Leaders Foundation
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Education
I dedicate a larger part of my time uplifting youth, awakening their potential and growing them into leaders.
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Social Enterprises Hive, The Magazine
A quarterly publication that uses storytelling to inspire good, use less and multiply impact through profitable business.
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Lead Up
Trinidad and Tobago
Youth Leadership publication that rocks!
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Transcendental Meditation in Primary Schools
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I am super excited to launch a pilot in 15 TnT schools where I will mobilize, observe and record the impact of TM on about 350 youths.
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Engage Dubai
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See projectWe partnered with the Dubai Chamber to encourage Dubai companies to engage in skilled volunteerism.
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World Summit Awards
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See projectParticipated as a Judge/Speaker/Trainer for WSA for APPs for social good in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Brazil.
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Tree Planting Project
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See projectSince 2013 we have planted over 500 trees ( poui, indigenous fruit etc.) at schools, NGOS etc. to bear shade for generations.
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UNDP
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See projectDesigning and mobilizing financial literacy in primary school children through vertical bottle gardens, leadership tree planting and much more.
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Healing with Horses
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See projectRan in 2012 and 2013 the leadership session for this summer camp for at risk, special needs and other youth . We support in any way we can this Foundation.
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Bridge of Hope Foundation
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See projectRan in 2011 and 2012 the summer camp leadership lessons at this home for orphaned youth.
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Youth Training Center
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See projectWorked developing the leadership skills of incarcerated teen boys.
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100+ Libraries
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See projectDonated 17,000 plus books to create over 100 libraries in youth jails, primary schools and orphanages.
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English, Italian, Spanish and French
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