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Peter Harrison

@cheetah100

Peter is the former President of the New Zealand Open Source Society. He is currently working on Business Workflow Automation, and is the core maintainer for Gravity Workflow a GPL workflow engine.

Auckland, New Zealand

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Feb 22 '24

Immortals vs The Precariat

This article was written for the Rationalists in 2015. Published in The Open Society, the journal of the association.

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Feb 22 '24

Rise of the Immortals

In May 2005 I published this article on my web site to document my ideas on the future of AI.

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Feb 21 '24

Open Source and AI: a 2014 perspective

In 2014 I posted this email to a Open Source mailing list. It is a alarm call about how Open Source is contributing to Artificial Intelligence

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Aug 1 '23

Execution Pointers vs Dependency Trees

Benefits of Dependency Trees over Execution Pointers in Business Process Automation.

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Jul 23 '23

AI Utopia is Hell

Two interpretations of AI Utopia

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Jun 22 '23

Cargo Cult Agile

Agile and Scrum have become popular development methodologies, but are we seeing a thin veneer over classic waterfall?

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Apr 7 '23

Six Month AI Pause

Brief video written by GPT4 about the Open Letter promoting a pause on AI training of models larger than GPT4.

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Feb 19 '23

Collaborative Virtual Teams

Some employers are demanding a return to the office. Is this really good for them or their employees?

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Feb 9 '23

Capability Driven Design

Strategic delivery of capabilities over short term expedient tactical development.

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May 29 '22

Why Functional Programming?

Functional Programming and the psychology of software developers.

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Apr 15 '22

Evolutionary Programming

Authors Note: this was written in 2002. Times change, but the fundamental point of the article...

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Apr 15 '22

What should an Architecture provide?

Some considerations when building the foundation of your software solutions.

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