Tue.Jan 01, 2019

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The Most Amazing Artificial Intelligence Milestones So Far

CTOvision

Read Bernard Marr list the most notable artificial intelligence milestones on Forbes: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hot topic of the moment in technology, and the driving force behind most of the big technological breakthroughs of recent years. In fact, with all of the breathless hype we hear about it today, it’s easy to forget that […].

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Distinguishing Between Cloud Washed and Cloud Native

DevOps.com

Don’t fall for the marketing jargon: Running legacy infrastructure on a cloud instance is not actually cloud computing. Unfortunately, “cloudwashing” is common among enterprises as they attempt to jump on the cloud trend. So, how do we dispel the hype to distinguish pure cloud software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and […].

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10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Sales

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning show the potential to reduce the most time-consuming, manual tasks that keep sales teams away from spending more time with customers. Automating account-based marketing support with predictive analytics and supporting account-centered research, forecasting, reporting, and recommending which customers to upsell first are all techniques freeing sales teams from manually […].

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Free Agile Productivity Courses

J.D. Meier's Blog

Agility simply put is “responding to change.”. When you know, “what got you here, won’t get you there”, and you change your approach, that’s agility in action. Agile productivity is about getting better results by learning how to adapt and respond to the changing world around you. By adopting a growth-mindset , playing to your strengths, and taking a whole-person approach to productivity you change your game.

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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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Facebook AI Research (FAIR) turns five: What has accomplished and where they are headed

CTOvision

From Facebook on Facebook AI Research (FAIR) : Five years ago, we created the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) group to advance the state of the art of AI through open research for the benefit of all — it’s an effort to understand the nature of intelligence so that we might create intelligent machines. Since then, FAIR […].

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7 tips for scaling your AI strategy

CTOvision

Read Clint Boulton list 7 tips for companies to scale up their AI strategy on CIO : Pilot projects of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies proliferated in 2018, as many enterprises tested machine learning (ML) algorithms and an array of automation tools to cement relationships with customers, improve network operations or augment their cybersecurity postures.

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Best of…: 2018: Another Bitmask Fail

The Daily WTF

To wrap up our best-of year in review, here's yet another case where a simple problem is solved using simple tools, and everything still turns out entirely wrong. Original. -- Remy. As we've seen previously, not all government jobs are splashy. Someone has to maintain, for example, the database that keeps track of every legal additive to food so that paranoid hippies can call them liars and insist they all cause cancer and autism.

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Inside the Pentagon’s Plan to Win Over Silicon Valley’s AI Experts

CTOvision

We have been tracking this topic closely and are pulling for DoD on this one, the nation needs great capabilities like AI to help save lives and maintain progress in the face of continuous threats. This is an update from Wired: Ever since Google walked out of the Department of Defense’s Project Maven due to […].

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2018 Highlights

Dan Pupius

Getting out more Professionally, 2018 was focused on Range , the company I co-founded in 2017. It’s been a year of learning and growth, navigating the fabled rollercoaster of startup life; with ups and downs often occurring in the same day, sometimes simultaneously. But, as with my previous years in review , this post is about life outside work and tech.

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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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How Data Privacy Can Be Good for Your Business

Teradata

Regulations like GDPR are an opportunity for many organizations, Reiner Kappenberger explains how data privacy can be good for your business.

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Four short links: 1 January 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Amazon Tricks, Public Domain, Blocking Telegram, and Approximate Spreadsheets. Amazon Marketplace Scams -- As Amazon has escalated its war on fake reviews, sellers have realized that the most effective tactic is not buying them for yourself, but buying them for your competitors—the more obviously fraudulent the better. A handful of glowing testimonials, preferably in broken English about unrelated products and written by a known review purveyor on Fiverr, can not only take out a competitor and a

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Marketing intern based in Barcelona, join our team!

Apiumhub

We are looking for a marketing intern in Barcelona. Apiumhub is looking for a passionate marketing intern in Barcelona to join our Sales and Marketing team. We want creative people with a “getting things done” attitude. You will be working with the team to come up with new ideas to develop our marketing strategy. Networking and analytics skills are highly valued as you will work on action plans to achieve our common goals. .

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Free Agile Productivity Courses

J.D. Meier's Blog

Agility simply put is “responding to change.” When you know, “what got you here, won’t get you there”, and you change your approach, that’s agility in action. Agile productivity is about getting better results by learning how to adapt and respond to the changing world around you. By adopting a growth-mindset , playing to your strengths, and taking a whole-person approach to productivity you change your game.

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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How to Stay Motivated at Work this New Year: Setting Personal & Corporate Goals

Experience to Lead

The Apollo 8 mission was a smashing success for NASA. Letters and newspapers described it as “The event that saved 1968.” But what did it really take for the Apollo 8 team to stay motivated? The answer will push you through your business goals in the new year. It was a moment that astronaut Frank [ ] The post How to Stay Motivated at Work this New Year: Setting Personal & Corporate Goals appeared first on Experience to Lead.

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2018 Theatre in review

Mike Roberts

2018 was quite a year for me for theatre. Starting slowly, it really ramped up. An amazing variety of shows, even though most of what I saw were plays. I feel very lucky to live in New York and to be able to see such great works of creativity. By the numbers I saw 43 productions?—?14 were NYC Broadway, 27 NYC Off Broadway, and 2 out of New York. I saw 33 plays, 5 musicals, and 5 “other”?

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2018 Highlights

Dan Pupius

Getting out more. Professionally, 2018 was focused on Range , the company I co-founded in 2017. It’s been a year of learning and growth, navigating the fabled rollercoaster of startup life; with ups and downs often occurring in the same day, sometimes simultaneously. But, as with my previous years in review , this post is about life outside work and tech.

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Private Sector Preps for Active Shooters in 2019

The Cipher Brief

As we head into 2019, the U.S. does so as a nation that has become accustomed to active shooters, evidenced by horrific tragedies that occurred in 2018. On Feb. 14, 2018, 17 people died at Parkland High School. On Nov 8, 2018, at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, CA, Marine veteran Ian David Long killed 12 people , including a Sheriff’s deputy who had entered the bar to try to stop him, before killing himself as police closed in. .

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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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Business Politics Impacts – Cost of Employee Distraction

Strategy Driven

All workplace environments have distractions diverting employees’ attention and diminishing productivity. Some of these distractions are simply a part of the human condition, our physical, intellectual, and social needs for diversionary activity. Others, however, are induced by workplace structures, policies, and employees (executives, managers, supervisors, and individual contributors) including through the abusive exercise of business politics.

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Top 5 RegTech startups to watch in 2019

Apiumhub

More and more companies and governments put a focus on managing risk, complying with stricter rules and regulations. More and more Regtech startups are born out of this combination of regulatory change and more efficient technology. RegTech is basically the use of new technology to facilitate the delivery of regulatory requirements. It puts a particular focus on regulatory monitoring, reporting, and compliance and is thus benefiting the finance industry.