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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

CIO

You didn’t know whether that was a good shot or a bad shot or any other context around what was going on when you played it,” Capel-Davies says. The BJK Cup is the largest annual team competition in women’s sports, with 16 national teams qualifying to compete for the prestigious title each year.

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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

TechCrunch

Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. Our team is on a mission to drive disruptive innovation in chronic disease care.”

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Quality Assurance Approach towards Virtual Reality (VR)

Perficient

Unlike the conventional user interface of displaying content on a screen, VR immerses a person to interact in a digital 3D environment. This reduces the risk of an engineered product failing after a full-fledged development. This will help reduce fatigue for testers who must operate the equipment in 3D mode.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Just a few notes on methodology: This report is based on O’Reilly’s internal “Units Viewed” metric. Remember that these “units” are “viewed” by our users, who are largely professional software developers and programmers. Software Development Most of the topics that fall under software development declined in 2023.

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When, why, and how to stop coding as your day job

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

After university, I got my dream job writing 3D graphics code. There were obvious, objective metrics that I could use to measure my work. Those metrics and my job defined me. Today, I am a Chief Technology Officer, leading software development organizations. I was a software engineer! Why is that?

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., Interpreting high-dimensional MNIST data by visualizing in 3D using PCA for building domain knowledge using TensorFlow.

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Fitness Goes Digital With Mobile Apps In 2020 And Ahead

Xicom

Regardless of social distancing norms, uncertainty, and roadblocks surrounding the epidemic, the only way out is to go mobile with trusted app developers in Dubai and stay at the path. Also Read : HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO DEVELOP AN APP LIKE INSTASHOP? But, all in all, setting personal goals is the main focus of such apps.

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