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Measuring Fairness in Machine Learning Models

Dataiku

In our previous article , we gave an in-depth review on how to explain biases in data. The next step in our fairness journey is to dig into how to detect biased machine learning models.

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Why self-discipline is overrated and what you need to use to find lasting motivation

CEO Insider

Although very few people will agree with me, when it comes to peak performance, success and trying to improve the quality of your life, self-discipline is massively overrated. I’m not suggesting that it is without value all together – obviously, it has its place. Yet for most people it is the only tool in the […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article Why self-discipline is overrated and what you need to use to find lasting motivation are those of the author J

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Leadership for an Era of Dynamic Hybrid Work

IDC

The shift to hybrid work fundamentally challenges traditional leadership strategies. Focus on empathic leadership for success in the future of work.

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This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers “came out of the woodwork”

TechCrunch

It’s no secret that a massive digital transformation is happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial products to their offerings. Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup NerdWallet, were a little taken aback by investor interest in their fintech-focused early-stage venture firm, Better Tomorrow Vent

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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Celebrating 20+ Years of Agility at the Agile20Reflect Festival

Agile Alliance

February 2021 will mark the 20th anniversary of a pivotal moment in the history of the Agile movement, specifically the creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Earlier this year Scott Seivwright, an Agile coach based in Scotland, casually floated the idea of bringing the global Agile community together to celebrate and reflect on … Continued.

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7 Software Development Models You Should Know

Flexagon

The Software Development Life Cycle, or SDLC, is the process of planning, designing, developing, testing, and deploying high-quality software at the lowest cost possible, preferably in the shortest amount of time. To achieve this goal, software engineering teams must choose the correct software development model to fit their organization’s requirements, stakeholders’ expectations, and the project.

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Square and PayPal earnings bring good (and bad) news for fintech startups

TechCrunch

Earnings season is racing past us, with the big ride-hailing companies’ numbers in , all of the Big Five having wrapped their reporting and lots of SaaS numbers in the market. But amidst all the noise, The Exchange has kept an eye on two companies in particular: PayPal and Square. We’re not really concerned with their overall revenue and profit metrics.

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What is going on with Social Justice in Portland, Oregon with Diana Larsen

Agile Alliance

The post What is going on with Social Justice in Portland, Oregon with Diana Larsen first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Four Emotions That Keep People From Embracing Change

Change Starts Here

As much as we’d like people to respond logically and rationally to change, they really respond emotionally. It’s the human experience to interpret what’s happening based on how it makes us feel. Change at work, whether it’s a new technology, a reorg, a process improvement, or a merger, is no different.

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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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Army picks DataRobot for AI project

CTOvision

The Army has turned to a small artificial intelligence firm to explore how it might use AI to resolve issues with its financial data. Working with the Defense Innovation Unit and […].

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Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

TechCrunch

Scott Kirsner. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. Startups need to live in the future. They create roadmaps, build products and continually upgrade them with an eye on next year — or even a few years out.

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Sociocracy and Healthier Organizations

Agile Alliance

The post Sociocracy and Healthier Organizations first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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ITIL 4 in the Age of Agile and DevOps, With Axelos

DevOps.com

ITIL is well-established as the process, certification and information resource library for service management across many IT organizations globally. With the recent updates to ITIL 4, influences from Agile and DevOps are helping ITIL to expand and adapt to changes in ways to create software and build operations into the delivery process. In this DevOps […].

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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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Why Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is leaving Silicon Valley

CTOvision

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is following the lead of the software company he helped create and moving his venture firm out of California. Earlier this year, Londsdale relocated his family from […].

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Fintech VC keeps getting later, larger and more expensive

TechCrunch

The venture capital market appears to be getting later, larger and more expensive. As a result, fintech — one of its hottest and most-funded sectors — is evolving in a similar manner. For late-stage fintech companies, it’s great news. But for smaller players, is the shift toward bigger, more mature rounds undercutting their ability to attract capital and reach scale?

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How to Navigate a Code Freeze [Event]

Agile Alliance

The post How to Navigate a Code Freeze [Event] first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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5 reasons QA teams need to pump up application security training

TechBeacon

For software quality-assurance testers and engineers, acquiring new skills has never been more important. While the number of software QA jobs is expected to grow over the next decade by a modest—if "faster than average"—7%, according to the O*NET career portal, that growth will not match the skyrocketing demand for information-security practitioners and software developers.

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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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Larry Ellison Wants It All—Can Oracle Get It?

CTOvision

Read Bob Evans take a look at Larry Ellison’s cloud strategy for Oracle Corporation on Cloud Wars : In what was billed as an introduction to Oracle’s new CX strategy, […].

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E-scooter startup Tier raises $250 million round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

TechCrunch

Berlin-based micro-mobility startup Tier has raised a significant Series C round of $250 million. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is leading the round, which proves that the Vision Fund team is still focused on high-risk, high-potential bets. As a reminder, SoftBank has invested in many late-stage funding rounds through its Vision Fund team. Portfolio companies include Nuro, Getaround, GetYourGuide, DoorDash, Grab and WeWork.

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Multi-Paradigm Languages

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The programming world used to be split into functional languages, object-oriented languages, and everything else (mostly procedural languages). One “was” a functional programmer (at least as a hobby) writing Lisp, Haskell, or Erlang; or one “was” an OO programmer (at least professionally), writing code in Java or C++. (One never called oneself a “procedural programmer”; when these names escaped from academia in the 1990s, calling yourself a “procedural programmer” would

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How Low Code Is Transforming Software Development

DevOps.com

Low code/no code is a business catalyst enabling technologies to automate processes and allowing developers to create real-time solutions for their business. With low code, businesses are able to build, customize and deploy apps with little to no coding. In this interview, Rackspace CTO Jeff DeVerter explains how low code is transforming software development and […].

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Fidelis Cybersecurity appoints Anup Ghosh as CEO

CTOvision

Fidelis Cybersecurity announced the appointment of cybersecurity industry veteran, Anup Ghosh as CEO. We are huge fans of Anup and can’t wait to see how he plans on leading and […].

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Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it?

TechCrunch

Ximena Aleman. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. More posts by this contributor. Fintech regulations in Latin America could fuel growth or freeze out startups. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face.

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21 top performance engineering leaders to follow on Twitter

TechBeacon

It's a strange time. We work from home. Political messages have invaded our social media. Layoffs over here, bailouts over there. Yet many of us still spend most of our days in front of a screen, writing software and helping improve it.

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Want To Deliver Better Software Faster? Use Automation

DevOps.com

Despite the evident evolution of the software industry, many enterprises continue deploying testing practices that require intensive time and effort, while also facing increased pressure to do more and work faster. I like to call this phenomenon “scattered islands,” as it describes the disconnect in maturity and capability across the testing landscape.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Digital Guardian rolls out Ryuk Ransomware Protection Content Pack to detect and defend against rising Ryuk ransomware attacks

CTOvision

Digital Guardian, a globally renowned company in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR), has developed a new Ryuk Ransomware Protection Content Pack to detect and defend […].

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Kyklo raises $8.5M to bring electrical distributors online

TechCrunch

Kyklo , a startup that helps wholesale distributors of electrical and automation products launch e-commerce stores, is announcing that it has raised $8.5 million in seed funding. The industry may sound a bit arcane, but it’s one that founders Remi Ducrocq (Kyklo’s CEO) and Fabien Legouic (CTO) know from having worked at Schneider Electric.

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How IAM powers cyber resilience: 5 best practices

TechBeacon

Here’s a hard truth: You can have the best application security tools, the best encryption technology, and, in general, the sharpest, most advanced cybersecurity stack, but that will amount to little without solid identity and access management (IAM).