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MLflow: A platform for managing the machine learning lifecycle

O'Reilly Media - Data

An overview of the challenges MLflow tackles and a primer on how to get started. Although machine learning (ML) can produce fantastic results, using it in practice is complex. Beyond the usual challenges in software development, machine learning developers face new challenges, including experiment management (tracking which parameters, code, and data went into a result); reproducibility (running the same code and environment later); model deployment into production; and governance (auditing mode

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Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate Review

The Crazy Programmer

Working on videos isn’t always as easy as making them. Editing, converting, recreating and enhancing the videos might be a very essential task of our day to day activities but it is not always the easier one. It sounds good to have a video edited within the spur of a moment, but in reality it takes a lot of hard work, focus, dedication and concentration.

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Of oaths and checklists

O'Reilly Media - Data

Oaths have their value, but checklists will help put principles into practice. "Oaths? We don't need no stinkin' oaths" (with apologies to Humphrey Bogart in “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”). Over the past year, there has been a great discussion of data ethics, motivated in part by discomfort over “fake news,” targeted advertising, algorithmic bias, and the effect that data products have on individuals and on society.

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Smart Cities Cybersecurity Challenge

CTOvision

Smart Cities will become a full-scale cyber war battleground unless Congress mandates cybersecurity. The biggest danger in Smart Cities is the assumption that IoT sensors communicating over a 5G fabric to Machine Learning and Blockchain systems will be safe from cyberattacks. To the contrary Smart Cities suffer from all the cyber vulnerabilities we have today [.].

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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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Courage: 5 Ways to Show Up Stronger (Even When You’re Scared)

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever wanted to take a stand, but kept quiet? Have you had a moment of bravery you found hard to explain? Where does courage come from? A Courageous Guest Post from Selvia of Glowstone Peak Karin and David asked me to share […]. The post Courage: 5 Ways to Show Up Stronger (Even When You’re Scared) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Inform Your Cybersecurity Strategy With Lessons From July 1861

CTOvision

When I was the Director of Intelligence for DoD's first joint cyber defense organization (JTF-CND) our Commander (At the time, Army Major General Dave Bryan) and our J5 (Marine LTC Mike Davis) organized a visit for the senior staff to the Manassas Battlefield Park of Virginia. The purpose was not just team building, but to [.].

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What’s My Return on Investment and How Do I Calculate It?

Toptal

Finding out your return on investment from a project can become a subjective process with the myriad of returns measures and formulas that exist. This overview provides a breakdown and explanation of what type of return you need to measure and how to calculate it. With further guidance on how to use returns data to guide objective decision making.

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Scrum Hardware: eXtreme Manufacturing Explained

scruminc

Scrum Hardware: eXtreme Manufacturing Explained. by Joe Justice | July 13, 2018 | Blog. A continuously improving blast of new, high-quality products which get the marketplace excited, tests assumptions and makes money; That is the goal of Scrum Hardware. To Scrum hardware, we need fast design. The rules of Scrum give us a powerful and tested framework for new product development.

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Classic WTF: The Source Control Shingle

The Daily WTF

Our summer break continues. I once worked on a team which made "shingles"- software modules that were layered on top of a packaged product. There were a lot of WTFs in those shingles, but nothing that can compare to this once. Original -- Remy. The year was 1999 and the dot-com boom was going full-throttle. Companies everywhere were focused on building revolutionary applications using nothing but top-shelf hardware and state-of-the-art software tools.

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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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Performance Appraisals Update

scruminc

Impediments of Performance Appraisals. The research on performance appraisal shows that they: Demotivate employees. 70% of content is about the manager, not the employee, and the remainder often does not accurately reflect employee performance because the manager does not really know day to day what happens (the team does). They increase damage awards in the event of lawsuits.

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Platform Businesses Founded by Women are Shaking Things Up

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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How will AI affect nation states, Social media battle against fake news using AI, Walmart and Microsoft team up to take on Amazon, AI won’t be taking away your jobs

CTOvision

These are some of the AI stories we are tracking: The ascent of Artificial Intelligence: How will AI change the nation-state? We often talk about how artificial intelligence and machine learning will change the way we think about technology but how will it affect the human race as a whole? More specifically how AI will [.].

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Humans Are the Weakest Link in Security

Coalfire

In our recent analysis of penetration testing engagements contained in our Penetration Risk Report, we discuss the impact that social engineering, specifically phishing, has on the ability to allow attackers insider access to compromise an organization.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Don’t Let Senior IT Leaders Get Left Behind on Artificial Intelligence

Dell EMC

How you can help your customers to better understand the potential (and challenges) of AI implementations Over the next decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is predicted to have an impact on virtually every product and business process. So it stands to reason that organizations of all sizes in all industry sectors are moving swiftly to better understand how machine learning and deep learning technologies can enhance efficiencies and/or outcomes in their businesses.

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iOS snapshot testing

Apiumhub

Writing user interface tests is always a bit complicated, and many developers end up leaving views without testing or dedicating a lot of time and effort to the development of tests. Apple has its own native support for UI testing but does not support view-based testing. This lack of functionality makes many people skip the part of writing tests. Therefore, in Apiumhub we decided to write an article about iOS snapshot testing. . iOS snapshot testing.

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5 reasons you should begin using Apple Business Manager today

Ivanti

5 reasons you should begin using Apple Business Manager today. sraikow. Tue, 07/17/2018 - 13:01. After a quick Beta this Spring, Apple recently announced General Availability for Apple Business Manager (ABM) in the US. Following on in June, they added support for 34 additional countries, with plans for coverage in a total of 65 countries by the end of Summer 2018.

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The Pursuit of Inspired Leadership

Arista

At Arista Networks, great technology and leadership inspires us to innovate and continue our mission to reinvent. It’s an ongoing journey to create the right leaders and disruptive technology for market transitions and Arista’s evolution. Today I digress a bit, as I was reading a 2017 Harvard Business Review article on the four key traits identified for successful CEOs.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Our Teaching Philosophy at Coding Dojo in a Nutshell

Coding Dojo

It’s no secret. Web developers are in demand and are thriving. As demand has grown rapidly on a global scale, … Read more >>. The post Our Teaching Philosophy at Coding Dojo in a Nutshell appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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The evolutionary waves of the penetration-testing / vulnerability assessment market

Jeremiah Grossman

Over the last two decades the penetration-testing / vulnerability assessment market went through a series of evolutionary waves that went like this… 1st Wave : “You think we have vulnerabilities and want to hire an employee to find them? You’re out of your mind!" The business got over it and InfoSec people were hired for the job. 2nd Wave : "You want us to contract with someone outside the company, a consultant, to come onsite and test our security?

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Announcing Honeycomb’s Java SDK

Honeycomb

Now Java developers can leverage Honeycomb to gain insight into the behavior of their apps and services by using an SDK similar to the ones we’ve already released for Go , Python , Javascript and Ruby. Installation. The SDK is available from Maven Central Repository. To get started, add this to your Maven build’s pom.xml : <dependency> <groupId>io.honeycomb.libhoney</groupId> <artifactId>libhoney-java</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</ve

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The Strategic Relationship Between Russia and Iran

The Cipher Brief

This is Cipher Brief Level I Member Only content. It can be accessed via login or by signing up to become a Cipher Brief Member. ?. Cipher Brief Members engage in high-level conversations about national and global security issues every day. If you’re not already a member, you should be. ?. If you are experiencing any issues with signing up or signing in, please drop an email to support@thecipherbrief.com. ?.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Improve Your Application Performance with Garbage Collection Optimization

OverOps

Application performance is on the forefront of our minds, and Garbage Collection optimization is a good place to make small, but meaningful advancements. Automated garbage collection (along with the JIT HotSpot Compiler) is one of the most advanced and most valued components of the JVM, but many developers and engineers are far less familiar with Garbage Collection (GC), how it works and how it impacts application performance.

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[Updated] 5 epic video resumes that will make your jaw drop

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Video resumes are incredibly interactive — each minute of a video, if used well, is worth a thousand words. It is so easy to go with a 3-minute video resumes, and you would have conveyed more than what you could have with a 100-page booklet about yourself. When used well, humor, creativity, and imagination can help you make an engaging video which people wouldn’t mind spending time on.

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8 ways to save 50% on your cloud bill

Hypergrid

Cloud waste has become a major problem for enterprises and estimated to be over $10B a year. If you have significant public cloud spend in your company it is probably affecting you. Read on to see some key tactics you can use to bring this problem under control, and proactively avoid the most common problems going forward. 1. Optimizing instance size.

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How our “Follow The Talent” philosophy led to Slack’s most recent acquisition

Robots and Pencils

Slack acquires Missions to make it easy for non-tech teams to streamline work A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.?—?ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY It’s a big day here at Robots & Pencils ?—?a rock pile has been turned into a cathedral. Missions , a Slack tool our team created, has just been acquired by Slack ?

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Mueller’s indictment of election hackers a cybersecurity ‘wake-up call’

The Parallax

Regardless of U.S. President Donald Trump’s denials , Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal indictment on Friday of 12 Russian military intelligence officers for hacking into computer systems of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign bear hard lessons for geopolitical cybersecurity and U.S. political campaigns.

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