Simon Tomes | Activities
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Hot take: your value isn't skills or outputs, it's judgement and perspective
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Making sense of the DORA AI Capabilities Model
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Making sense of the DORA AI Capabilities Model
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Member joined TWiC — This Week in Community chapter
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How using a pen can rewire your brain
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DDIL Environments: Managing Cloud Edge Computing for Defense Agencies
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Securing the Tactical Edge With ZTNA
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Edge Computing for Defense and Tactical Systems
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Last week, I shared the Learning Companion skill with the community. This week, I turned it on the paper that inspired it. I’d been testing the companion skill against different pieces of qual...
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Footholds, not answers: What the AI Learning Companion taught me about itself
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Footholds, not answers: What the AI Learning Companion taught me about itself
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L143-080 Truth or Myth? -- Road Testing Makes Autonomous Vehicles Safe
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Architectural Isolation as a Timing Safety Primitive for Edge AI Medical Devices: Controlled Experimental Evidence on a Shared-Silicon Platform
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AV Industry: Time to Reset, Redefine and Come Clean
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What's the Deal with Edge Cases and Autonomous vehicles?
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Safety-Critical Computer Systems - Neil Storey
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Safeware: system safety and computers - Nancy Leveson
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Ariane 5’s “Reused Code” Catastrophe
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The Therac 25: A Case Study in Unsafe Software
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How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
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Every AI evaluator is a tester at heart
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Every AI evaluator is a tester at heart
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Exploratory testing, risk-based thinking, benchmarking: the same approaches, aimed at a new kind of system
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Every AI evaluator is a tester at heart
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Every AI evaluator is a tester at heart
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Every AI evaluator is a tester at heart
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Exploratory testing, risk-based thinking, benchmarking: the same approaches, aimed at a new kind of system
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This Week in Community (TWiC) — Episode 6
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Helpful friction: why easy isn't always better for communities
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Helpful friction: why easy isn't always better for communities
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Helpful friction: why easy isn't always better for communities
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This Week in Community (TWiC) — Episode 6
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The awesome feeling you get when you asked a simple question and it turned into something you could have never imagined & then you go tell your friends.
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Inspired by this post in the Engineering Management Chapter Slack channel, we're writing a book of our own! The EM Chapter is trying to pull together 99 insights from the community on Engineering M...
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99 Things Every Engineering Leader Should Know - Share your thoughts!
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99 Things Every Engineering Leader Should Know - Share your thoughts!
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99 Things Every Engineering Leader Should Know - Share your thoughts!
Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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