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14 Must-Know Statistics and Probability Terms for Data Science

Dataiku

Data scientists: You may recognize or know some of these terms from your data science work, as they can be particularly helpful when applying statistics and probability to data science and machine learning. Whether you are working on a project where statistics might come in handy or you just want to discover (or freshen up on!) initial concepts, we hope you find these definitions clear and helpful.

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Clubhouse launches payments so creators can make money

TechCrunch

Clubhouse, a one-year-old social audio app reportedly valued at $1 billion , will now allow users to send money to their favorite creators — or speakers — on the platform. In a blog post, the startup announced the new monetization feature, Clubhouse Payments, as the “the first of many features that allow creators to get paid directly on Clubhouse.”.

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How to Get Better at Delegating the Right Decisions (With Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Delegate the Right Decisions to Save Time and Reduce Anxiety for Everyone. You want to empower your team to make the right decisions. But delegating can be scary. After all, some decisions are not up to them. Heck, some are not even up to you. So, how do you delegate the right decisions and ensure your team understands the decision-making parameters?

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Singapore-based career platform Glints gets $22.5M in Series C funding

TechCrunch

Glints , the Singapore-based career platform, announced today it has raised $22.5 million in Series C funding led by Japanese human resources management firm PERSOL Holdings. The new capital will be used on Glints’ expansion in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan and hiring for its product and engineering teams. Glints co-founder and chief executive officer Oswald Yeo said this is the largest funding round to date for a talent platform in Southeast Asia, and brings the startup’s total raise

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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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Continuous management platforms: The key ingredient for digital transformation

TechBeacon

If you ask a great cooks why their food is so good, you will often find that there is one necessary ingredient in a recipe that makes all the difference. In the pursuit of digital transformation, that ingredient is a well-chosen continuous management platform.

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NASA is so Much More than “Rockets”, April 8, 2021, 11:00 AM (EST)

Dots and Bridges

Background. The public and private sectors share a symbiotic relationship; one that requires continuous dialogue in order to effect mission enablement, workforce development, and technology optimization. However, well-intentioned efforts to collaborate tend to focus on a buy-sell paradigm versus a seeker-solver opportunity. The Dots and Bridges Thought Leadership Consortium understands, appreciates, and values participatory, transparent, and cooperative discussion.

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ConductorOne raises $5M in seed round led by Accel to automate your access requests

TechCrunch

Over the course of their careers, Alex Bovee and Paul Querna realized that while the use of SaaS apps and cloud infrastructure was exploding, the process to give employees permission to use them was not keeping up. The pair led Zero Trust strategies and products at Okta, and could see the problem firsthand. For the unacquainted, Zero Trust is a security concept based on the premise that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside its perimeters and, instead must verif

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Low-Code Makes API Testing More Accessible

DevOps.com

APIs are rising both in quantity and business value. But with that growth comes an increasing number of vulnerabilities, which could affect cloud service dependencies and internal APIs. Functionality and uptime could also suffer as cloud services evolve their APIs with new versions. Thus, API endpoint testing is critical to ensure a reliable back end. […].

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Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO

TechCrunch

It appears that the slowdown in tech debuts is not a complete freeze; despite concerning news regarding the IPO pipeline , some deals are chugging ahead. This morning, we’re adding Alkami Technology to a list that includes Coinbase’s impending direct listing and Robinhood’s expected IPO. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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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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Build Strong Working Relationships with Executives at Work

Career Advancement

“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.” – Ben Stein. Getting to know the key executives in your company will propel your career forward. Those influential leaders need to know who you are, what you do, and the value you bring. When they understand how much you contribute and truly like and believe in you, they will want to see you succeed.

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Ribbit Capital leads $26.7M round for Brazilian fintech Cora

TechCrunch

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 million since its 2019 inception.

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DevSecOps: Rethinking and Reengineering Cloud Security

DevOps.com

Organizations are embracing the cloud to modernize legacy applications, create more resilient business infrastructures and to support remote work. In fact, Deloitte’s “TMT Predictions 2021: Cloud Migration Trends and Forecast” report suggests that, spurred by this growth, cloud revenues will likely continue to remain above 30% through 2025.

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Hipmunk’s founders launch Flight Penguin to bring back Hipmunk-style flight search

TechCrunch

Hipmunk’s founders are building a successor to their now-defunct flight search service. The startup was acquired by SAP-owned travel and expense platform Concur in 2016, and its CEO Adam Goldstein departed in 2018. But Goldstein told me he and his co-founder Steve Huffman (also co-founder and CEO of Reddit) were still disappointed when Concur shut the service down at the beginning of last year. “Over the years, there were millions and millions of people who used it and loved it,̶

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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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6 Signs You’re Undervalued in Your Career

Coding Dojo

There’s a strange double standard in life: When someone’s in a relationship where they’re unappreciated or undervalued, their loved ones … Read more >>. The post 6 Signs You’re Undervalued in Your Career appeared first on Coding Dojo Blog.

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FinanZero, Brazil’s free online credit marketplace, raises $7M

TechCrunch

FinanZero , a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding – its fourth since it launched in 2016 was founded in 2016. It has raised a total of $22.85 million to date. The real-time online loan broker allows people to apply for a personal loan, a car equity loan, or a home equity loan for free and receive an answer in minutes.

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CodeSOD: Switching Your Template

The Daily WTF

Many years ago, Kari got a job at one of those small companies that lives in the shadow of a university. It was founded by graduates of that university, mostly recruited from that university, and the CEO was a fixture at alumni events. Kari was a rare hire not from that university, but she knew the school had a reputation for having an excellent software engineering program.

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Start your engines, TechCrunch is (virtually) headed to Detroit

TechCrunch

Thanks to a warm welcome from Miami, our first City Spotlight was a big success. We met investors and entrepreneurs who are working on amazing things, and we were proud to share their personal stories on why Miami is the right city for them to live in and do business. Join us on our next (virtual) field trip to Southeast Michigan. All lights will be shining on the Motor City.

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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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Turning your business stakeholders into citizen developers

Capgemini

We live in a cloud-native world, and the next generation of workers are digital workers. They are much more comfortable with tasks that have typically been taken care of by the IT department, and many – particularly the newest members of the workforce – actively do not want to depend on the IT department for standard, day-to-day tasks. At the same time, IT leaders managing large programs involving cloud migration, digital transformation, or version upgrades often find themselves with limited ban

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Equity Monday: Edtech consolidation, and Amazon continues to make you like it less

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets.

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BMC Tightens Integration Across DevOps Tools for Mainframes

DevOps.com

BMC has extended its BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and BMC Compuware portfolios as part of an ongoing effort to make mainframes just another platform for DevOps teams to build and deploy applications on. John McKenny, senior vice president for strategy and innovation for ZSolutions at BMC, said the DevOps technologies that the company gained […].

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India’s Swiggy nears $5 billion valuation in new $800 million fundraise

TechCrunch

Swiggy has raised about $800 million in a new financing round, the Indian food delivery startup told employees on Monday, as it looks to expand its business in the country quarters after the startup cut its workforce to navigate the pandemic. In an email to employees, first reported by Times of India journalist Digbijay Mishra, Swiggy co-founder and chief executive Sriharsha Majety said the startup had raised about $800 million from new investors, including Falcon Edge Capital, Goldman Sachs, Th

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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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Humans and AI: Business Subject Matter Experts, Forests, and Trees

DataRobot

Gone are the days when AI projects were cool science experiments, worked on exclusively by data scientists , far away from business world realities. A few years ago at a trade show, I asked a business manager who came to our booth if her employer hired any data scientists. She said they did have one data scientist, so I asked if their data scientist was any good.

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GitLab Survey Surfaces Advances in DevOps Education

DevOps.com

As more organizations clamor for employees with some type of DevOps education, higher education is responding in kind, according to survey findings. A survey of 843 students and teachers at various academic institutions who have had some exposure to the GitLab continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform suggests the number of individuals with DevOps skills graduating […].

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FlexDeploy 5.5.0.2 Highlights

Flexagon

In the spirit of continuous delivery, we release new versions of FlexDeploy monthly. FlexDeploy 5.5.0.2 is the second release after FlexDeploy 5.5 was delivered in February. FlexDeploy 5.5.0.2 includes new plugins, platform and plugin enhancements, usability improvements, and bug fixes. Here are some highlights! Webhooks Enhancements – Includes features to improve webhook build management and insights.

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7 Key Mobile App Development Trends to Watch Out for in 2021

InnovationM

The mobile application development industry is evolving like a whirlwind. If you want a business to survive this digital storm, you need to stay up-to-date with the latest mobile application development trends. Nowadays, mobile apps have become fundamental to transform business models and marketplaces. This dynamic digital world is evolving faster; famous applications that have performed best in.

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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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Self-Service Data Preparation vs ETL: What Would Suit Your Company Best?

Altexsoft

This is a guest article by Fazeel Khan from Data Ladder. If you look up the word “data” on the internet, you’ll find tons of different definitions. But the one we’re discussing in this article is the definition of data as unprocessed or raw information – specifically in business use cases. In recent history, the unprocessed and raw information that we call data has gained an increasing amount of traction due to companies realizing its potential.

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Anodot and Coralogix Partnership Takes Log Analytics to New Levels of Automation

DevOps.com

Leader in digital payments Payoneer Calls This Integration a ‘Game-Changer’ April 05, 2021 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Anodot, the autonomous business monitoring company, and Coralogix, a leading observability platform, have partnered to provide an integrated solution that monitors business operations and applications faster and more accurately than ever before.

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Deploying infrastructure with an approval job using Terraform

CircleCI

If you are looking for an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, Terraform probably tops your list. In this tutorial, you will learn how to automate the deployment of changes to your infrastructure using Terraform and CircleCI workflows. The workflows will use Approval Jobs. For this project, we will deploy the infrastructure we build to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).