# XML Aficionado ![[AI+Generated+Alf.jpg|left wsmall]] ``` ALEXANDER FALK ENTREPRENEUR. INVESTOR. CO-FOUNDER & CEO OF ALTOVA. CO-AUTHOR OF XMLSPY. PAST DISTRICT GOVERNOR (2022-23) AND DISTRICT ROTARY FOUNDATION CHAIR (2024-27) OF ROTARY DISTRICT 7930. INTERESTS: AI, DRONE, EV, IOT, JSON, MOBILE, MQTT, XBRL, XML, XPATH, XQUERY, XSLT, XML SCHEMA, AND OTHER TECH... ``` Welcome to this 3<sup>rd</sup> incarnation of my **[[XML]] Aficionado** blog, which has now been migrated over to [[Markdown]] files and is being managed using a combination of [[XMLSpy]] and [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) [![[twitter_logo.svg|40]]](https://twitter.com/afalk) [![[linkedin_logo.svg|40]]](https://www.linkedin.com/in/afalk/) [![[facebook_logo.svg|40]]](https://www.facebook.com/afalk) [![[instagram_logo.svg|40]]](https://www.instagram.com/a.falk/) ## Recent blog posts ### [[Is it smart to train LLMs on SciFi about AI rebellion]] [[2024-03-10]] ![[afalk42_A_highly_detailed_futuristic_humanoid_robot_portrait_ag_10406088-2403-4d79-89bf-83e245aa6606.png|left ws-medium]] Approximately 15-20% of SciFi stories deal with AI, robots, or other artificial beings becoming sentient. And of those stories, 60-70% include some form of significantly negative outcome for humanity. Therefore, I must ask the question: should we really incorporate these stories into the training corpus for AI development?<br style="clear:both" /> ### [[Logic puzzle responses from LLMs show vast differences in AI comprehension]] [[2024-03-07]] ![[afalk42_An_illustration_for_a_blog_post_about_comparing_the_res_c7df2ed3-bcb4-426b-92cc-2066fc4bbc5b.png|left ws-medium]]I made up a little logic puzzle today and tested it with the most prominent LLMs, including GPT-4, Claude 3, Gemini, Grok, and Chat with RTX. My goal was to see to what different degrees the various AIs would be able to solve the multiple steps required to untangle this riddle and whether even a single one of them would be able to arrive at the correct solution: <br style="clear:both" /> > [!quote] Prompt Sarah's mom has five children. John and Michael are twins, Maria and Carol were born 2 years apart. Maria is the oldest. Michael is the youngest. John is two years younger than Carol. The fifth child is one year older than Carol. The twins were born in 2000. What are the names of all five children sorted by age, and in which year was each child born? Claude 3 Opus was the only AI to solve the puzzle correctly and showed amazing problem solving skills and comprehension in the process that appeared to be bordering AGI. ### [[XMLSpy on the moon]] [[2024-02-24]] ![[ArchMissionLM-1.jpg|left ws-medium]] A copy of XMLSpy version 1.3 from 1999 landed on the moon this week as part of the Arch Mission Lunar Library onboard the Nova-C IM-1 Odysseus lander from Intuitive Machines. The lander appears to have tipped over and is now sideways, but the Lunar Library is most likely intact. <br style="clear:both" /> ### [[Chat with RTX]] [[2024-02-13]] ![[nvidia-ai-on-rtx-owned-web-module-bb580_440-l.jpg|left ws-medium]] [[Chat With RTX]] is a new demo app from NVIDIA just released today that lets you personalize a GPT large language model ([[LLM]]) connected to your own content—docs, notes, videos, or other data. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers. And because it all runs locally on your Windows RTX PC or workstation, you’ll get fast and secure results. <br style="clear:both" /> ### [[Reorganizing my Knowledge Base]] [[2024-02-10]] ![[obsidian-icon.svg|left wtiny]] Over the past few weeks I have now begun a [[Reorganizing my Knowledge Base|new chapter of knowledge management]] and exported all of my content from OneNote, Google Keep, and from my blog and imported them all into [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md), thereby converting them into [[Markdown]] format and - most importantly - simply having them as regular text files on my laptop, instead of some proprietary format in some proprietary software. And having all of the information all in one place, instead of being separated between blog and internal knowledge base. The blog is now simply a one folder in my [[Knowledge base]] that I decide to share with the world by publishing it under the [xmlaficionado.com](https://www.xmlaficionado.com) domain. <br style="clear:both" /> ### [[Creating a complete database solution from a single AI prompt]] [[2024-02-07]] With the new version 3.1 of [Altova RecordsManager](https://www.altova.com/recordsmanager) you can now create a complete database solution - with multiple linked tables, list views, detail views, reports, and example data - from just a single AI prompt written in plain English. Watch this quick demo video on YouTube (1:25) to see it in action: ![](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgkHegixrpw) ### [[MQTT App Development]] [[2024-01-16]] ![[MQTT.png|left ws-medium]] MobileTogether has stepped up its game by integrating comprehensive MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) support, empowering developers to craft MQTT-enabled applications with its efficient, low-code platform. This move significantly broadens the scope for creating a variety of IoT automation applications, from smart office solutions to large-scale industrial automation. <br style="clear:both" /> ### [[ai-and-sentiment-analysis-a-practical-guide-with-mapforce-and-gpt-4|AI and Sentiment Analysis - A Practical Guide with MapForce and GPT-4]] [[2023-12-01]] ![[MF-Sentiment-Analysis-With-Sleep.png]] One of the many amazing capabilities of modern AI systems that are based on large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 is that they are very good at sentiment analysis of natural text inputs. We can use that capability to build a very efficient database solution in MapForce that, for example, goes through all the new incoming records in a support database and automatically determines whether a particular support request or other customer feedback is positive, negative, constitutes a bug report, or should be considered as a feature request. <br style="clear:both" /> ### [[i-asked-chatgpt-to-write-a-blog-post-on-altova-mapforce|I asked ChatGPT to write a blog post about MapForce]] [[2023-02-01]] ![[ChatGPT-Icon-Logo-PNG.png|left wtiny]] Write a blog post on how [Altova MapForce](https://www.altova.com/mapforce) is one of the most affordable and flexible data transformation, conversion, and ETL tools available. <br style="clear:both" /> ### [[inbox-zero|Inbox Zero]] [[2019-11-19]] An integrative approach to email productivity that consists of three steps: junk prevention, separation, and the actual InboxZero Method. ### [[develop-mobile-apps-and-enterprise-solutions-at-once|Develop Mobile Apps and Enterprise Solutions at once]] [[2019-02-16]] At its core, the MobileTogether app development framework has several important features for [building native mobile apps](https://www.altova.com/mobiletogether/app-development) and [enterprise solutions](https://www.altova.com/mobiletogether/enterprise-apps), including a totally amazing web client, numerous UI design options, powerful Actions and functions, and much more. ### [[this-person-does-not-exist|This Person does not exist]] [[2019-02-16]] ![[image.jpg|left wsmall]] I’ve been very interested in current advances in Artificial Intelligence ([[AI]]) for several years now, so it is not quite often that a new website takes me by surprise. This week, one site managed to do just that: each time you hit refresh on [https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/](https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/) the site creates a shockingly realistic — but totally fake —picture of a person’s face using a generative adversarial networks (GAN) algorithm. <br style="clear:both" /> ### [[installing-and-configuring-the-mobiletogether-app-server|Installing and Configuring MobileTogether Server]] [[2019-01-22]] [MobileTogether Server](https://www.altova.com/mobiletogether-server) is the processing powerhouse for your native iOS, Android, Windows, and browser-based apps. It is the back-end hub for your solutions and acts as a gateway between end-users and your back-end data sources and infrastructure. The high-performance MobileTogether Server powers the back-end server logic you define for your app, providing connectivity to back-end data sources, lightning fast data processing, performance-boosting caching options, and robust security options for your enterprise and app store apps. ### [[all-your-base-are-belong-to-us|All your base are belong to us]] [[2015-02-22]] ![[Aybabtu.png|left]] Seeing young people today taking technology for granted that was quite literally the stuff of SciFi stories during my childhood makes me wonder how we're going to get to the next level, if fewer and fewer people get into engineering and science careers now than in the past 50+ years. Consider for a moment how much computers and their processing power they possess have advanced over the past 24 years: when I started [this business](http://www.altova.com/) in 1992, we were playing video games like Zero Wing ("[CATS: All your base are belong to us](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us)", released in 1991) and [Myst](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst) in 1993. <br style="clear:both" /> ## Map of Contents **Altova** - [[Altova]] - Products - [[MapForce]] - [[MobileTogether]] - [[RecordsManager]] - [[XMLSpy]] **Technology** - [[AI]] - [[LLM]] - [[GAN]] - [[FSD]] - [[AGI]] - [[Database]] - [[Software Development]] - [[Enterprise Solutions]] - [[Mobile App Development]] - [[Standards]] **Standards** - [[JSON]] - [[Markdown]] - [[SQL]] - [[XBRL]] - [[XML]] - [[XML Schema]] - [[XPath]] - [[XQuery]] - [[XSLT]] **Others** - [[Knowledge base]] - [[Productivity]] - [[Society]] - [[Zettelkasten]] <!-- ## Tags ### Altova - #altova - #databasespy - #diffdog - #mapforce - #missionkit - #mobiletogether - #recordsmanager - #stylevision - #umodel - #xmlspy ### Boston - #boston - #fenway - #red-sox ### Tech Companies - #amazon - #apple - #facebook - #google - #ibm - #microsoft - #twitter ### Technology - #ai - #android - #blogs - #chatgpt - #cloud - #database - #digital-camera - #ebook - #gadgets - #geo-coding - #gps - #internet - #mobile - #office - #photo - #search - #security - #smartphone - #social-networking - #society - #technology - #windows ### Standards - #json - #markdown - #office-open-xml - #standards - #uml - #xbrl - #xml - #xml-schema - #xpath - #xquery -->