Fri.Nov 20, 2020

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What Are the Ethical Risks of Your AI Project?

Dataiku

AI systems may cause unintended harms and their increasing adoption leads to additional risks and scrutiny. In this blog post, I present tools project teams can use to identify ethical concerns associated with their AI use cases. I first illustrate why this is so challenging, I then discuss various ethical checklists that were designed for this purpose, and I finally provide some recommendations on how to select such a checklist.

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Snap acquired Voisey, an app to create music tracks overlaying your own vocals

TechCrunch

Snapchat helped pioneer the use of lenses on faces in photos and videos to turn ordinary picture messages into fantastical creations where humans can look like, say, cats, and even cats can wear festival-chic flower crowns. Now it sounds like the company might be turning its attention… to sound. The company appears to have acquired Voisey , a U.K. startup that features instrumentals that you overlay with your own voice to create short music tracks (and videos), and also lets musicians uplo

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Leading While Green – Interview with Pierre Quinn

Let's Grow Leaders

? Your new leaders – the ‘green’ ones, are an incredible resource and the literal future of your business. If you are a new leader, the lessons to learn and the natural influence you see from more senior leaders can feel overwhelming. […]. The post Leading While Green – Interview with Pierre Quinn appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Wish files to go public with 100M monthly actives, $1.75B in 2020 revenue thus far

TechCrunch

This morning Wish , a well-known mobile ecommerce startup, filed to go public. It joins Affirm , Airbnb , and Roblox in filing this week as many well-known and valuable private companies look to debut before the year ends and the holidays start. Wish’s S-1 (which is filed under its corporate name ContextLogic) is of particular interest given that COVID-19 and the global pandemic have changed consumer behavior around the world in 2020.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Analysing historical and live data with ksqlDB and Elastic Cloud

Confluent

Building data pipelines isn’t always straightforward. The gap between the shiny “hello world” examples of demos and the gritty reality of messy data and imperfect formats is sometimes all too […].

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IBM Acquires Instana to Advance Observability Strategy

DevOps.com

IBM this week announced it plans to acquire Instana, a provider of an application performance management (APM) platform that is optimized for microservices. Robin Hernandez, vice president of hybrid cloud management and AIOps for IBM, said Instana will plug an observability gap that has emerged in IBM’s portfolio as organizations start to build and deploy […].

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Xesto is a foot scanning app that simplifies shoe gifting

TechCrunch

You wait ages for foot scanning startups to help with the tricky fit issue that troubles online shoe shopping and then two come along at once: Launching today in time for Black Friday sprees is Xesto — which like Neatsy , which we wrote about earlier today, also makes use of the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera to generate individual 3D foot models for shoe size recommendations.

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7 Things you Can Do Now to Make your eCommerce Business More Accessible

Altexsoft

This is a guest article by David Gevorkian from Be Accessible. Everyone shops online nowadays, but the way we shop differs from one person to another. Some of us love shopping online using a desktop or laptop while others prefer their mobile devices. Some enjoy the experience due to their fast internet connection. There’s the fact that some don’t enjoy the online shopping experience simply because they lack the skills, the knowledge, or the physical/mental ability to properly use the website.

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If you didn’t make $1B this week, you are not doing VC right

TechCrunch

The only thing more rare than a unicorn is an exited unicorn. At TechCrunch, we cover a lot of startup financings, but we rarely get the opportunity to cover exits. This week was an exception though, as it was exitpalooza as Affirm , Roblox , Airbnb , and Wish all filed to go public. With DoorDash’s IPO filing last week , this is upwards of $100 billion in potential float heading to the public markets as we make our way to the end of a tumultuous 2020.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Buildkite Tightens CI/CD Integration With GitHub

DevOps.com

Buildkite has tightened the integration between its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery platform and the GitHub source code repository. Fred Showell, a senior product manager for Buildkite, said the integration will accelerate application development efforts using the Buildkite application in GitHub. Any connected GitHub account can be selected as a source when creating Buildkite pipelines, he […].

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AllRight, an English language learning app for children, raises $5M from Genesis Investments

TechCrunch

AllRight is a platform for English language learning, aimed at children four years or older, which combines lessons with real teachers and homework with “AI-powered” tutors. It’s now raised a $5 million Series A round led by Genesis Investments, with participation from TMT Investments, TerraVC and existing investors Flashpoint and Misha Lyalin.

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4 technology leadership lessons for the coming post-pandemic world

TechBeacon

Leadership is something I've struggled with since the early days of my career. I've been a CTO several times and a CEO twice. While I take great pride in my leadership successes, I've had a few failures that still make me cringe. I've learned valuable lessons about leadership along the way, mostly by observing failures.

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Why is GoCardless COO Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas pivoting to become a full-time VC?

TechCrunch

Index Ventures, a London- and San Francisco-headquartered venture capital firm that primarily invests in Europe and the U.S., recently announced its latest partner. Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas, currently COO of London-based fintech GoCardless and previously the chief product officer of Skyscanner, will join Index in January. Gonzalez-Cadenas is a seasoned entrepreneur and operator, but has also become a prolific angel investor in the U.K. and Europe over the last three years, making more than 50 ang

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Tips for Acknowledging Sponsorship Gifts

TechSoup

This giving season is much different from other years. For one thing, there's a good chance you'll be holding a virtual fundraising event instead of an in-person one. Nevertheless, event sponsorships might be an important funding source for your nonprofit organization.

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Prices increase tonight for our space-focused event, TC Sessions: Space

TechCrunch

“Space, the final frontier…” You can probably recite the “Star Trek” opening monologue in your sleep. But we’re talking science fact, not fiction, and TC Sessions: Space 2020 provides real opportunity to connect with the people, information and funding you need to boldly build the future of space technology. Go boldly, yes. But why pay full price? Early bird pricing ends — in Gene Roddenberry’s parlance — on Stardate 98489.04.

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Article: Decentralised Development: Common Pitfalls and how Value Stream Management can Avoid Them

InfoQ Culture Methods

Big businesses often learn about Agile methodologies and start breaking up their teams to be more product-oriented. But this exposes teams to pitfalls affecting three main areas: risk, dependencies and governance. This article identifies these challenges, and introduces value stream management as an answer –the author explores what this is and how businesses can implement it effectively.

Agile 101
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Onit acquires legal startup McCarthyFinch to inject AI into legal workflows

TechCrunch

Onit , a workflow software company based in Houston with a legal component, announced this week that it has acquired 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield alum McCarthyFinch. Onit intends to use the startup’s AI skills to beef up its legal workflow software offerings. The companies did not share the purchase price. After evaluating a number of companies in the space, Onit focused on McCarthyFinch, which gives it an artificial intelligence component the company’s legal workflow softwar

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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The Baby Boomer retirement wave is coming. How do you prepare your high-potential Millennials to succeed?

CEO Insider

Companies have worried for years about how their workforces will be affected when Baby Boomers — the second-largest age cohort after Millennials — retire in the coming years. The best way to prepare for this “gray tsunami” involves a fundamental shift in how you approach career pipelines. As if COVID-19 hadn’t thrown businesses for enough […].

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LA-based Credit Key raises $33 million for its business-to-business payments platform

TechCrunch

Bringing to small businesses across the U.S. the buy-now pay-later model that transformed companies like Klarna and Affirm into billion-dollar businesses has netted the payment and lending company Credit Key another $33.85 million in funding. The Los Angeles-based company raised its latest cash from Greycroft, Bonfire Ventures, Loeb.nyc and other, undisclosed investors, the company said.

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Top 5 Leadership Sessions From DevOps World 2020

Dzone - DevOps

With over 25,000 registrants, 100+ sessions, and dozens of training and workshops, DevOps World 2020 delivered inspiring, strategic, actionable insight into where software delivery is going and what enterprises can do to deliver the experiences customers and users expect. Historically, our excellent technical programming at DevOps World has attracted developers, engineers, and other IT professionals.

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What is Roblox worth?

TechCrunch

With Roblox joining the end-of-year unicorn stampede toward the public markets, we’re set for a contentedly busy second half of November and early December. I hope you didn’t have vacation planned in the next few weeks. This morning we need to get deeper into the Roblox S-1 so we can better understand the nature of its revenue generation.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Ingram Micro Cloud Teams with nOps to Drive Channel Partner Growth on AWS

DevOps.com

November 19, 2020 – IRVINE, Calif. – Ingram Micro Cloud today announced it has formed a strategic collaboration with nOps, a leading provider of cloud management software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner. The alliance expands Ingram Micro’s offering of tools for reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) designed to help build […].

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Logging In Kubernetes With Loki and the PLG Stack

Dzone - DevOps

What is Loki? Loki is an open-source, multi-tenant log aggregation system. It can be used with Grafana and Promtrail to collect and access logs, similar to the ELK/EFK stack. While one can use Kibana and Elasticsearch to make advanced data analysis and visualizations, the Loki-based logging stack focuses on being light-weight and easy to operate. Loki provides a query language called LogQL , which allows users to query logs.

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IT Automation – 6 Technologies for Business Transformation

Kaseya

IT automation is transforming business. IT teams in small and midsize businesses are struggling with budget constraints and skill shortage. As a result, they are constantly overloaded with tasks as the demand for IT services increases and are hence looking for ways to increase their efficiency. As reported in the 2020 IT Operations Report – Strategic Priorities for IT Leaders , 60 percent of IT leaders worldwide are planning to invest in IT automation in 2021.

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What is Kubernetes, and how can it help your company?

Exadel

Digitization has been guiding business strategy in nearly every industry for many years. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced many companies who were slow to transform or hadn’t even started transformations yet to rapidly rise to the occasion. With more remote work, learning and greater need for digital customer experiences, businesses must adapt quickly to the new normal.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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5 Tips for Developers to Stay Competitive in a Constantly Evolving Industry

Perficient

Despite the downturn of global hiring markets this year, demand for software developers continues to rise, but that doesn't mean they can afford to become complacent. Nor should they want to! With its constant, high-speed evolution, the software.

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Marketplace Startups: Here’s A Magic Number For Efficient Growth

Battery Ventures

In March 2019, consumer-marketplace businesses were on a tear. But some high-profile stumbles, including Uber and WeWork, dragged down our Battery Marketplace Index early in 2020 — and that was before Covid-19 hit. Drilling into the numbers, it’s clear investors are still flocking to some marketplace companies — the ones that are growing efficiently.

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Four short links: 20 Nov 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

epr — Terminal/CLI Epub reader. I Should Have Loved Biology — Conveys well the magic of the field. Notable also for the reference to A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology , which I didn’t realise existed. Ur-Technical Debt — Reviving Ward Cunningham’s take on technical debt. Simply put, ur-technical debt arises when my ideas diverge from my code.