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Reproducible SadTalker Pipeline in Google Colab for Single-Image, Single-Audio Talking-Head Generation (Wed, 03 Dec 2025)
If you’ve ever wanted to bring a still photo to life using nothing more than an audio clip, SadTalker makes it surprisingly easy once it's set up correctly. Running it locally can be tricky because of GPU drivers, missing dependencies, and environment mismatches, so this guide walks you through a clean, reliable setup in Google Colab instead.  The goal is simple: a fully reproducible, copy-and-paste workflow that lets you upload a single image and a single audio file, then generate a talking-head video without spending hours troubleshooting your system. 
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Engineering Evidence‑Grounded Review Pipelines With Hybrid RAG and LLMs (Wed, 03 Dec 2025)
Unchecked language generation is not a harmless bug — it is a costly liability in regulated domains. A single invented citation in a visa evaluation can derail an application and triggering months of appeal. A hallucinated clause in a compliance report can result in penalties. A fabricated reference in a clinical review can jeopardize patient safety. Large language models (LLMs) are not “broken”; they are simply unaccountable. Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) helps, but standard RAG remains brittle:
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MCP Elicitation: Human-in-the-Loop for MCP Servers (Wed, 03 Dec 2025)
What Is MCP The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard developed by Anthropic that enables large language models (LLMs) to receive data from any backend or application in a single, standardized format. Prior to the introduction of MCP, developers working on agent-based AI systems had to rely on custom tools and logic to connect with the APIs of various third-party applications. This process was often tedious and didn't scale effectively, as every integration had to be manually built and maintained by the developers. With MCP, this responsibility has shifted: application developers can now expose their APIs in a unified format that most models and agent frameworks can easily understand right from the outset.
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Building Privacy-Preserving ML for CRM Systems With Federated Learning (Wed, 03 Dec 2025)
The Problem: Training Models on Distributed Data When creating ML models for lead scoring, customer data is often stored in CRM systems across the EU, the US, and APAC. Because the GDPR prohibits moving EU data to central servers and violations are costly, traditional approaches are ineffective. Centralized training: Violates data residency laws Separate regional models: Poor performance, no cross-regional learning Data replication: Compliance nightmare Federated learning addresses this by training models in each region and sharing only updates to the model, not the raw data.
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DevOps Cafe Podcast

DevOps Cafe Ep 79 - Guests: Joseph Jacks and Ben Kehoe (Mon, 13 Aug 2018)
Triggered by Google Next 2018, John and Damon chat with Joseph Jacks (stealth startup) and Ben Kehoe (iRobot) about their public disagreements — and agreements — about Kubernetes and Serverless. 
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DevOps Cafe Ep 78 - Guest: J. Paul Reed (Mon, 23 Jul 2018)
John and Damon chat with J.Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches) about the field of Systems Safety and Human Factors that studies why accidents happen and how to minimize the occurrence and impact. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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DevOps Cafe Ep. 77 - Damon interviews John (Wed, 20 Jun 2018)
A new season of DevOps Cafe is here. The topic of this episode is "DevSecOps." Damon interviews John about what this term means, why it matters now, and the overall state of security.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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