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Financial IT leaders prep for a quantum-fueled future

CIO

Optimization problems, for which a whole chorus of variables must be fine-tuned and modulated, routinely plague financial firms, especially when it comes to highly engineered financial products such as those developed through quantitative analysis. Their work earned them a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership.

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Psychedelics startups are on a long journey to consumer markets, but these 5 VCs are taking the ride

TechCrunch

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. But as public market sentiment fluctuates, specialized VCs seem more likely to stick around for the whole trip.

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Radar trends to watch: December 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

What’s concerning isn’t the bad advice so much as the naiveté of the research project. Without a huge step forward in natural language understanding, and in the ability to reason about the history of human thought, why would anyone expect an AI system to do more than parrot back bad ethical advice that it finds in bulk on the web?

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Closing the climate-disclosure gap

Capgemini

First, the Capgemini team and the students from The Wharton School conducted a deep-dive into the SEC’s climate disclosure policy. Next, the team mapped the gaps and risks identified in the SEC policy to the solutions offered in the market.

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CIO 100 Award winners prove the transformative value of IT

CIO

So, the CarMax technology and content teams recognized the need to create a new system that could produce updated vehicle information and analyze and summarize customer reviews at scale. In partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft, CarMax worked to develop, test, and iterate GPT-3 natural language models aimed at achieving those results.

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AoAD2 Practice: Whole Team

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. Whole Team. The Hole Team. Modern software development takes a lot of skills.