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

TechCrunch

As notably, despite introducing a far smaller number of teams to investors than Y Combinator and more renowned accelerator programs, there always seem to be at least one or two projects in Pear’s Demo Day mix that turn into actual, sustainable and, sometimes, sizable companies. Founders: Matt Alston (CEO), Melissa Zhang (CTO).

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. And, told publicly for the first time, Siemiatkowski reveals how he once sought out PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an advisor, only to learn a little later that he had started Affirm, one of Klarna’s most direct U.S.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. And, told publicly for the first time, Siemiatkowski reveals how he once sought out PayPal co-founder Max Levchin as an advisor, only to learn a little later that he had started Affirm, one of Klarna’s most direct U.S.

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Prompt Engineering: The Guide to Mastering The Art of Talking to AI

Altexsoft

In the world of machine learning , there’s a well-known saying, “An ML model is only as good as the training data you feed it with.” Watch our video about data preparation for ML tasks to learn more about this. If the prompts for the chatbot are poorly engineered, a question like “ What is PMS?” Communication.

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Two Tales

LaunchDarkly

While stories like these can be cringe-worthy, they are invaluable learning experiences. Eric Pollman, CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain and one of the original SREs at Google, shared two stories. Then he went on to talk about a zombie haunted pipeline that kept developers awake late into the night. TRANSCRIPT.