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How will the GDPR impact machine learning?

O'Reilly Media - Data

Answers to the three most commonly asked questions about maintaining GDPR-compliant machine learning programs. Much has been made about the potential impact of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on data science programs. But there’s perhaps no more important—or uncertain—question than how the regulation will impact machine learning (ML), in particular.

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On-Demand Webinar: The Dark Side of Java Production Monitoring

OverOps

Automated workflows are the new gold standard for delivering top quality products in an agile environment, but with constant change, comes constant risk. Enter Observability, a measure of how well the internal states of a system can be inferred from its external outputs. It’s the ability to know how applications operate in production. Join the webinar.

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Python Multithreading and Multiprocessing Tutorial

Toptal

Threading is just one of the many ways concurrent programs can be built. In this article, we will take a look at threading and a couple of other strategies in building concurrent programs in Python, as well as discuss how each is suitable in different scenarios.

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Detect WebVR Support with JavaScript

David Walsh

It’s been two years since I was heavily involved with WebVR at Mozilla but, despite not contributing every day, I can see VR making leaps and bounds, from Firefox making an increased effort to Chrome pushing VR and Oculus and HTC (Vive) improving their offerings. Native games are getting better but, more importantly, browsers are getting faster and three.js and aframe are empowering incredible VR experiences with JavaScript.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Mobile App Design Best Practices and Mistakes

Toptal

Following some basic mobile app design best practices and avoiding the most common mistakes will help designers create apps that live past the crucial 90-day mark when 71% are abandoned.

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CIOs Struggle To Keep Their Airlines In The Air

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airlines run on their IT systems and CIOs have to keep these running. Image Credit: Job Garcia. When we think about the person who has the CIO job, we think of someone who spends their time thinking about the importance of information technology including such things as cloud computing, building new data centers, and the arrival of the internet of things.

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Combatting Observer Bias in Coaching with the Team Coaching Framework (TCF)

Agile42

In research, psychology, and any other field in which someone is intended to be an impartial observer, there is a phenomenon known as the Observer Expectancy Effect, or Observer Bias. This bias happens when an observer expresses their thoughts and expectations about a situation through tone, word choice, and body language in a way that influences how the people they are observing behave.

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Create a Perfect User Segmentation for Your Next Marketing Campaign

ShepHertz

The trade secret in marketing is now a well-known fact that behind every successful campaign is a well strategized user segmentation. Getting to know your customers is the first step in deciding on the positioning of the product or a […]. The post Create a Perfect User Segmentation for Your Next Marketing Campaign appeared first on ShepHertz App42 Blog.

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CDN, Web Security, and DDoS Protection from Incapsula (Sponsored)

David Walsh

There used to be day that you could have a small to large website that didn’t require protection and worldwide CDN but, with how easy it is to initiate a DDoS attack and how important website speed is for search engine placement, it’s a given that you should look for a service to handle CDN and web security needs, regardless of the size of your site.

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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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Microservices and How they Affect your Product

WorkingMouse

As it stands, there is not an agreed upon formal definition of microservices architecture. The easiest way to think of the concept is that it is a method of developing software applications.

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The Impact of 5G on Enterprise Network Monitoring

Kentik

The fifth generation of wireless technology, more commonly being referred to as 5G, is marching towards commercialization. Performance is a key driver behind the movement, with 5G enabling: Greater throughput -- mobile broadband with bandwidth ranging from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps. Lower latency -- ultra-low latency down to 1 millisecond. More connection density -- 1 million connected mobile devices in less than half of a square mile as compared to around 2K with 4G cellular networks.

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner: A Valuable Certification for Professionals in Non-Technical Roles

Coalfire

Within the past year, AWS unveiled what is arguably one of the best programs they have ever offered to non-technical professionals in the AWS Partner Network (APN): the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification. The program, which is especially valuable for those in sales or marketing roles, doesn’t offer any high-tech products or services for selling or marketing AWS.

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How to Maximize User Engagement and Retention of Mobile Apps?

Xicom

So many businesses now a days look for Mobile Development Company to get the mobile app for their business. In today’s digital age which is highly powered by smartphones and internet, having a mobile app for your business has become very important. The success of your mobile app now more depends on the user engagement and retention. Making people to download and install your mobile app is not such a difficult task but keeping them engaged with the app is tricky which is required if you want to r

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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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The Not-so-meteoric Rise of the Chief AI Officer

Cutter Consortium

Much has been made lately about the so-called rise of the “chief AI officer” in the computer press and other media. But Cutter Consortium’s ongoing study of how organizations are adopting, or planning to adopt, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies reveals that the chief AI officer (or equivalent) is very limited. You can see in the figure below, only 10% of organizations currently have a chief AI officer.

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Heuristics for Identifying Service Boundaries

OpenCredo

To identify service boundaries, it is not enough to consider domains only. Other forces like organisational communication structures, and time, strongly suggest that we also should include other criteria in our considerations. This blog documents a list of heuristics for service decomposition. Continue reading Heuristics for Identifying Service Boundaries on opencredo.com.

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How to Decide if a Franchise is Right for You

Strategy Driven

Many entrepreneurs wish to start a business based on an idea they have that they believe fills a gap in the market – or creates a new market. However, in many cases, you might wish to start a business but lack a viable opportunity in your location. This is where franchises come in. The basic idea is simple enough; you pay an established company for the right to use their business model and brand and run your own business under their umbrella.

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Partner Power on Display at.NEXT New Orleans

Nutanix

Attending my first.NEXT Conference last week in New Orleans was truly an incredible and exhilarating experience, featuring a record number of partners, customers, and exciting and innovative product announcements. It also featured our first-ever integrated and dedicated day for our partners, Partner Xchange.

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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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Implementing An Effective eCommerce Strategy: A Guide

Strategy Driven

You’ve done your research and decided that going branching out onto the worldwide web is the best decision for your business. But how do you actually go about implementing that? Building an online store and an eCommerce website requires a sophisticated content management system and a strategy that combines many separate elements. Not sure where to begin?

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Industrial systems need to prepare for the ‘big one’—but they’re not

The Parallax

If hacks are like earthquakes—something you can prepare for but can’t avoid—the organizations that oversee the industrial-control systems that monitor and manage electricity, water, oil, transportation, and other essential daily services aren’t taking enough steps to prepare them. That’s the conclusion of an annual security report based on a survey of 579 security experts, 85 percent of whom said they expect their country to suffer a major critical-infrastructure hack in the next five years.

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Every Strategy Is Different

Strategy Driven

Just like no two fingerprints are the same, no two businesses will be identical. There may only be minor differences, but these can make a big difference when it comes to planning a marketing strategy. What is right for one company can be totally the wrong thing for another, but sometimes you just have to try various things and monitor them to see which is working best for you.

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Cross-Functional Trade Surveillance

Cloudera

The Keystone to a Holistic Trade Surveillance Strategy. Criminals don’t refer to a playbook of best practices to execute a crime. They are creative in their thinking and collaborative in their efforts (including with parties who may not know they are complicit) to obtain their objectives and avoid getting caught. Trade surveillance in the financial services industry must respond to their creativity and the complexities of a global trading network, the myriad of digital and physical communication

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Heuristics for Identifying Service Boundaries

OpenCredo

To identify service boundaries, it is not enough to consider (business) domains only. Other forces like organisational communication structures, and – very important – time, strongly suggest that we should include several other criteria in our considerations. This blog is an attempt to collect and document a list of heuristics for service decomposition that I found useful over the years.

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