Fri.Oct 30, 2020

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Rediscovering Semi-Supervised Learning

Dataiku

Many new machine learning projects start with a minimal amount of sampled data, if any. Even worse, they tend to fail to take advantage of the “hidden gem” that is unlabeled data by focusing on the obvious, labeled data. A potential solution is semi-supervised learning (SSL), which uses both labeled and unlabeled samples to perform prediction.

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Nestlé acquires healthy meal startup Freshly for up to $1.5B

TechCrunch

Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5 billion — $950 million plus potential earnouts of up to $550 million based on future growth. Founded in 2015, Freshly is a New York City-based startup that offers healthy meals delivered to your home in weekly orders, which can then be prepared in a few minutes in your microwave or oven.

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Be the Mentor You Always Needed

Agile Alliance

Women in Agile and Tech (W.A.T) is preparing for our 2021 Virtual Mentorship Program, where we connect Mentees with great Mentors. We are now accepting applications from those who wish to be mentors. If you feel you can assist a mentee with knowledge about Lean, Agile, Kanban, DevOps, Tools, Agile Coaching, Personal Agility, or anything … Continued.

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Daimler invests in lidar company Luminar in push to bring autonomous trucks to highways

TechCrunch

Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel. The deal, which comes just days after Daimler and Waymo announced plans to work together to build an autonomous version of the Freightliner Cascadia truck, is the latest action by the German manufacturer to move away from robotaxis and shared mobility and instead focus on how automated vehicle

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Blacklight tracks the website trackers

The Parallax

Amy Jessel made the conscious decision not to buy Facebook or Google ads to promote her nonprofit company, ShapingYouth. “I went to great lengths not to monetize via Google AdSense or even sponsorship tethers,” explains Jessel, founder and executive director of ShapingYouth, which aims to teach media literacy to children and their parents.

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Blacklight tracks the website trackers

The Parallax

Amy Jessel made the conscious decision not to buy Facebook or Google ads to promote her nonprofit company, ShapingYouth. “I went to great lengths not to monetize via Google AdSense or even sponsorship tethers,” explains Jessel, founder and executive director of ShapingYouth, which aims to teach media literacy to children and their parents.

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Teachers are leaving schools. Will they come to startups next?

TechCrunch

It wasn’t the lingering exhaustion that made Christine Huang, a New York public school teacher, leave the profession. Or the low pay. Or the fact that she rarely had time to spend with her kids after the school day due to workload demands. Instead, Huang left teaching after seven years because of how New York City handled the coronavirus pandemic in schools.

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D2iQ Takes the Next Step Forward

d2iq

When I co-founded D2iQ more than seven years ago, only a handful of the world’s leading organizations were beginning to embark on their cloud native journeys. We empowered many of these brands with our DC/OS offerings and support, enabling them to scale deployments in production environments and become truly cloud-driven organizations. Over the past year and a half our focus has been providing our customers with a path that enables Kubernetes adoption that meets the demanding needs of the enterp

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New GV partner Terri Burns has a simple investment thesis: Gen Z

TechCrunch

In 2015, then-Twitter product manager Terri Burns penned a piece about staying optimistic despite the sexism and racism that exists expansively within tech. “America has broke my heart countless times, but I believe that technology can be a tool to mend some of the woes of the world and produce tools to better humanity,” she wrote. “It’s hard to continue to believe this when the industry holding this power takes so little interest in the basic rights of women and people of color.

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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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SREs: Stop Asking Your Product Managers for SLOs

DevOps.com

One of the fundamental premises of software reliability engineering is that you should base your reliability goals—i.e., your service level objectives (SLOs)—on the level of service that keeps your customers happy. The problem is, defining what makes your customers happy requires communication between software reliability engineers (SREs) and product managers (PMs) (aka business stakeholders), and […].

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Illinois is taking a data-driven approach to its mask-wearing ad campaign

TechCrunch

Here’s an example of ad targeting that’s actually good for public health: In a campaign encouraging people to wear masks, the Illinois state government has been focusing its digital ad dollars on the counties with the highest COVID risk. To achieve this, the government’s been working with Civis Analytics , the data science company founded by Dan Wagner , who was previously chief analytics officer for Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

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Tips for optimizing Docker builds

CircleCI

Docker images are used as the primary image in the Docker executor. They are the blueprints for containers, providing the instructions for how a container is spawned. In this post I’m going to address a few often-overlooked concepts that will help with optimizing the Docker image development and build process. How do you build a Docker image? Let’s start with a brief description of the Docker build process.

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B8ta remains bullish on IRL shopping with new acquisition

TechCrunch

Coronavirus cases in the United States are reaching new peaks. E-commerce is continuing to boom. And b8ta , a San Francisco startup that is betting on the future of physical retailers, is doubling down on its in-person footprint. B8ta offers shelf space to unique digital products, such as electric skateboards or a coffee alarm clock, on behalf of brands that want a physical presence.

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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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Cisco CEO: Developers Need More Infrastructure Control

DevOps.com

Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins said this week that the company’s No. 1 priority going forward is to enable IT organizations to better manage application experience via abstraction layers that make to possible for developers to programmatically manage infrastructure. Speaking at its annual Cisco Partner Summit, which occurred online, Robbins said Cisco is working toward […].

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Join Greylock’s Asheem Chandna on November 5 at noon PST/3 pm EST/8 pm GMT to discuss the future of enterprise and cybersecurity investing

TechCrunch

The world of enterprise software and cybersecurity has taken multiple body blows since COVID-19 demolished the in-person office, flinging employees across the world and forcing companies to adapt to an all-remote productivity model. The shift has required companies to rethink not only collaboration software, but also the infrastructure that powers it and the best way to protect assets once their security perimeters have been destroyed.

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Building Streaming Data Architectures with Qlik Replicate and Apache Kafka

Confluent

A fundamental challenge with today’s “data explosion” is finding the best answer to the question, “So where do I put my data?” while avoiding the longer-term problem of data warehouses, […].

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Teampay adds $5M to its Series A at higher valuation after growing ARR 320% growth since the round

TechCrunch

What do you call the grey area between a Series A and a Series B? In 2020, when the money is taken on opportunistically, you call it a Series A-1 extension, according to Teampay. Even if the new capital was raised at a new, higher valuation. At least that’s what Teampay CEO Andrew Hoag has done with his company’s new $5 million investment, adding it onto its September, 2019-era Series A.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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5 ways to ensure your applications are cyber resilient

TechBeacon

The mass shift to remote work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the need for resilient app sec practices at many organizations.

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Is the Great 2020 Tech Rally slowing?

TechCrunch

Yesterday’s earnings deluge made plain that tech shares are not rocketing higher as 2020 comes to a close. Indeed, in pre-market trading this morning, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are all down. Alphabet is the only member of the Big Five that is worth more today than yesterday. Strong advertising and cloud results helped the search giant post a return-to-form quarter.

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Women at work: a continuous state of evolution

Cloudera

Being a woman in tech can be incredibly rewarding, lonely, frustrating and inspiring all at once. Each individual has their own experience and path that they’ve followed to get where they are. That is, after all, what makes us unique. Earlier this week Cindy Maike, VP Industry Solutions, hosted a panel discussion with women across the Cloudera EMEA business, working in a variety of different roles; each of us with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, which made for a wide-ranging discussion. .

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E.ventures opens up new office in Paris

TechCrunch

VC firm e.ventures is expanding its footprint in Europe with a new office in Paris as well as a new Paris-based partner. Jonathan Userovici, who previously worked for Idinvest Partners , is joining e.ventures as partner and head of Paris office. Originally founded in the U.S. 20 years ago, e.ventures has been expanding to new geographies over the past few years.

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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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Using the Radical Candor Framework for Effective Engineering Management

Toptal

One tool that managers can consider adding to their management skill set is a practice called Radical Candor. Radical Candor is the ability to care emotionally about the engineer as an individual and valued contributor, while also expressing honesty concerning their efforts and results achieved by those efforts.

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Firewall Security: Is a Secure, Firewall-less Network Possible? Perhaps, But Why Would You?

Firemon

Just three years ago, technology headlines were rife with articles stating that the firewall was obsolete. And maybe that prophecy would have come true if we were stuck with the same old firewalls that could only perform simple packet filtering. But even as the way we define network perimeter evolves and blurs, firewalls maintain a prominent position in the enterprise security stack.

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Security is Everyone’s Job

Dell EMC

The lessons we learned during Cybersecurity Awareness Month should be put into practice every day. Let’s continue to do our part and #BeCyberSmart every day of the year.

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Are Your DevOps Metrics Aligned With the Business Objectives?

Dzone - DevOps

An enterprise-wide Agile-DevOps transformation typically starts with a Vision followed by many items such as articulation of expected business outcome, a Transformation Roadmap, a set of Key Performance Indicators, an implementation plan, and so on. From the enterprise level these items get detailed out to the other levels from a Business Unit, Division, through the portfolio, program, and finally to the Agile-DevOps teams.

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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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Four short links: 30 Oct 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Mutation Testing — in this paper, we semi-automatically learn error-inducing patterns from a corpus of common Java coding errors and from changes that caused operational anomalies at Facebook specifically. We combine the mutations with instrumentation that measures which tests exactly visited the mutated piece of code. Results on more than 15,000 generated mutants show that more than half of the generated mutants survive Facebook’s rigorous test suite of unit, integration, and system

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13 DevOps Metrics for Increased Productivity

Dzone - DevOps

DevOps improves software delivery speed and quality through a list of practices that pursue an agile mindset. The terms that first come to mind when you mention DevOps are continuous integration, continuous delivery and deployment , collaboration, automation, and monitoring. DevOps means different things to different teams. Some teams are all about automation, while others do things manually and still consider that they are doing DevOps.

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Technology Radar Features Honeycomb

Honeycomb

ThoughtWorks believes that Honeycomb is worth pursuing, according to their post in the Technology Radar publication. They are especially impressed with Honeycomb’s new, simplified pricing model. In their words, “Our teams love it.” The post Technology Radar Features Honeycomb appeared first on Honeycomb.