Pacific Lane

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Pacific Lane creates success in technology products through consultation and program management. We specialize in online marketplace development, supply chain finance workflows, applied cryptography, local LLMs, and decentralization.
Web sitehttps://pacific-lane.com
LocationSeattle, WA

> Recourse-factoring companies, which buy invoices from small companies, charge variable fees, along with additional accruing fees for late payments (which the small businesses can't predict or control), and often use invasive tactics like collecting money from the business's bank account on a daily or weekly basis.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/these-founders-help-small-suppliers-get-paid-quicker-from/470341

#workingcapital #smallbusiness #retail #factoring

Big Businesses Take Forever to Pay Their Small Suppliers. These Founders Did Something About It: 'Nobody Had Seen Anything Like This'

This startup is revolutionizing the way retailers pay small brands, and making everyone happy in the process.

Entrepreneur

Tamper-proof Data for Healthcare Finance

> Medical factoring as the proving ground for tamper-proof healthcare data may be an excellent place to start because medical factoring companies start their process by evaluating unverified claims data submitted by their customers and then looking for the best ways to verify it.

https://pacific-lane.com/posts/tamper-proof-data-for-healthcare-finance/

#healthcare #hl7 #fhir #finance #tls #factoring #lending #medicare #dataintegrity

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Giving third-party healthcare entities data they can trust

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Delegating to local chatbots on our Mac

> In this post we'll imagine how Sujita, a fictional Online Course Instructor teaching three Power BI classes, might put this heuristic into practice as she starts her morning routine.

> We'll give Sujita a relatively new local #LLM app called #Msty that anyone can download.

https://pacific-lane.com/posts/delegating-to-local-chatbots-on-our-mac/

#chatbot #local #generativeai #productivity #privacy #apps #ollama #macos #mac

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Insinuating local LLM chat rooms into our daily workflow

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> Boeing needs to think about the long term and not next year’s cash flow. It will have to invest in its operations and workforce. As the company begins to regain its footing, there will again be cries from analysts and investors to ramp up cash flow and then return it to shareholders. But the company needs a free hand to invest to fend off Airbus,

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-04/boeing-needs-to-bring-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-back-into-the-fold

#boeing #suppliers #business #investors #fcf

Boeing Needs to Bring Supplier Spirit AeroSystems Back Into the Fold

Acquiring its former Spirit AeroSystems unit would be an important first step in correcting the planemaker’s quality-control issues, even if investors grumble about debt and cash flow.

Bloomberg

Installing Ollamac on macOs

https://pacific-lane.com/posts/installing-ollamac-on-macos

> ...shortcoming of the core Ollama app is that it provides only command-line access...

> Most users...tend to find this approach rather unwieldy.

> To address this, several front-end applications have been developed to provide an Ollama Graphical user interface that most users are likely to prefer.

#generativeai #llm #macos #mistral #macbook #firefox #chatbot #llama #ollamac #local #chatgpt

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Jumping through Apple's security hoops to get Ollamac installed

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Installing Ollama & Mistral on a MacBook

> Ollama's website advertises its capability like this: Get up and running with large language models, locally. Run Llama 2, Code Llama, and other models

> This can be a good option for people concerned about #OpenAI's fast and loose approach to user privacy...Let's set up Ollama on a MacBook Air running an M2 processor and Firefox.

https://pacific-lane.com/posts/installing-ollama-and-mistral-on-a-macbook/

#generativeai #llm #macos #mistral #macbookair #firefox #chatbot #llama #local #chatgpt

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Get the Ollama LLM client running on a Mac

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> ...changes are showing up in the companies’ annual regulatory filings, also known as 10-Ks where they give detailed information about performance, goals & risks. The modifications were found using the Bloomberg Redline function which compares similar documents for alterations in wording. Of the 82 filings reviewed by Bloomberg News about 1 in 5 either removed diversity language or substituted words that could be deemed less controversial.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-01/uber-citi-among-us-companies-dropping-anti-racist-tag-with-dei-backlash

#bias #business #dei #racism

Uber, Citi Among US Companies Dropping ‘Anti-Racist’ Tag With DEI Backlash

The corporate-speak about diversity is getting an update.

Bloomberg

> Today a lot of #internet users' data are siloed in different servers. This severely limits privacy and portability — users cannot simply prove the origin and authenticity of their data to a third party without relying on the servers or other trusted third parties. Using MPC-TLS, #TLSNotary enables users to achieve that while preserving their privacy.

https://www.meetup.com/ethmalaysia/events/299479388/

#privacy #malaysia #meetup #mpc #tls

TLSNotary: make data portable using multi-party computation (MPC), Wed, Mar 6, 2024, 7:45 PM | Meetup

It's Meetup time! Glad to have Christopher Chong, a rust engineer working at Privacy + Scaling Explorations (PSE), Ethereum Foundation to share with us his topic on [TLSNot

Meetup
Browser support via a separate export (Fixes #25) by samwillis · Pull Request #47 · ollama/ollama-js

This splits the main Ollama class into a base class which supports browser environments, and a subclass for full Node support. Currently the .create() method is only on the subclass. To use in the ...

GitHub

Irrefutable Facts, Past and Future

> The inevitable confluence of generative AI, algorithmically manipulated social networks, and super-personalized media brings us to the realization that it will soon be challenging to know what data is genuine and what is fraudulent.

https://pacific-lane.com/posts/irrefutable-facts-past-and-future/

#tls #tlsnotary #authenticity #generativeai #security #future

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TLSNotary as a prover of facts

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