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What Is The Attention Mechanism In Deep Learning?

Daffodil Software

Less than two decades ago, Deep Learning (DL), or the simulation of human neural networks, was only a concept limited to theory. Fast-forward to the present day and it is being leveraged to solve real-world problems such as converting audio-based speech to text transcripts and in the various implementations of computer vision. The underlying mechanism behind these applications is known as the Attention Mechanism or Attention Model.

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Adam Neumann’s blockchain-based redemption story now sponsored by a16z

TechCrunch

In a classic “pivot to crypto to reinvent yourself” moment, controversial WeWork founder Adam Neumann recently launched a startup, Flowcarbon , to sell tokenized carbon credits on the blockchain. Venture capitalists just can’t seem to get enough of Neumann and his spouse/co-founder, Rebekah, who started the company alongside its CEO Dana Gibber and two others, Caroline Klatt and Ilan Stern.

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Tracking On-Call Health

Honeycomb

If you have an on-call rotation, you want it to be a healthy one. But this is sort of hard to measure because it has very abstract qualities to it. For example, are you feeling burnt out? Does it feel like you’re supported properly? Is there a sense of impending doom? Do you think everything is under control? Is it clashing with your own private life?

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Berlin’s Gorillas lays off 300, explores ‘strategic options’ in 4 countries as funds dry up for its $3B instant grocery play

TechCrunch

It’s crunch time in the world of instant grocery delivery, with the latest turn representing a big blow specifically in Europe. Berlin-based Gorillas , which raised nearly $1 billion dollars at around a $3 billion post-money valuation only seven months ago — today announced that it would be laying off some 300 employees and exiting four markets — Italy, Spain, Denmark and Belgium — as it seeks to shift from “hyper growth” (read: burning tons of cash to win new

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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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Competing Priorities Prevent Devs From Creating Secure Code

DevOps.com

The recently released Secure Code Warrior State of Developer-Driven Security Survey revealed that developers continue to wrestle with secure coding practices in a working environment that has long prioritized features and functionality and speed at the expense of security. Of the more than 1,200 developers who took part in the survey, only 14% named security […].

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Survey Surfaces Challenges Ahead on National DevOps Day

DevOps.com

A survey published today for National DevOps Day found nearly two-thirds (63%) have seen an increase in the frequency of service incidents that have affected their customers over the course of the last 14 months. The survey polled 1,046 engineering, IT operations, DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) professionals at organizations with more than 300 […].

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Kim Kardashian lends her taste buds to Beyond Meat as first chief taste consultant

TechCrunch

Beyond Meat has some new star power behind its plant-based meat brand in Kim Kardashian. The entrepreneur and influencer extraordinaire came on as the company’s first “chief taste consultant” and will be featured in a new campaign touting her recipes for using Beyond Meat and other creative content. Kim Kardashian is Beyond Meat’s new chief taste consultant.

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9 Extraordinary Terraform Best Practices That Will Change Your Infra World

Dzone - DevOps

Before you quickly glance over the title and think " Oh god, yet another tutorial on how to give proper names to variables, how to use modules, how to manage states; nothing I haven't already know, " then close the tab right away, let me assure you: this article is none of those. This "best practices" article aims to tell you something you haven't read a hundred times.

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Moka.care raises $16 million for its corporate mental health service

TechCrunch

French startup moka.care has raised a new $16 million Series A funding round (€15 million). The company is focused on mental well-being in the workplace. It offers a full-fledged service that sits in between employees and HR departments. Left Lane Capital is leading today’s funding round. Existing investor Singular is participating once again. VC firm Origins (co-founded by Blaise Matudi, Ilan Abehassera and Salomon Aiach) as well as Antoine Griezmann are investing in the company for the first t

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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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Could Buying VMware Bring Broadcom Hybrid Cloud Bona Fides?

DevOps.com

Rumors are swirling that Broadcom wants to buy its way into the growing hybrid cloud market by acquiring VMware. The deal won’t come cheap—after news of the potential deal surfaced, VMware’s market cap soared to around $50 billion. Yes, billion with a ‘B’ As interest rates increase and investors reevaluate many of the lofty software […].

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Daily Crunch: 7 months after raising $1B, grocery delivery Gorillas exits four countries and lays off 300

TechCrunch

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s the 24th of May, 2022, and today Amanda made us laugh with her “Welcome to Hell, we all drive Teslas,” subhead to her story about Everything you wanted to know about Elon Musk and Twitter (but didn’t want to ask).

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Kaseya is Helping to Build Miami’s Tech Workforce

Kaseya

Kaseya is one of the hottest tech companies to work for right now. Headquartered in the exciting city of Miami, which is experiencing a tech renaissance, the company is committed to helping employees — known as Kaseyans – grow on their professional journeys. Through programs like Grow Your Own, they receive training, mentorship and leadership development to move up within the organization.

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Four-month-old Doppel is helping some of the biggest NFT projects spot scams

TechCrunch

As NFTs have gained popularity, so, too, has NFT fraud. Copycats can quite easily upload images to an NFT marketplace, mint them and sell them to customers for profit without verifying that those images are their own intellectual property. The problem has become even more widespread as NFTs have popped up on chains like Solana, which offer low gas fees relative to Ethereum and therefore fewer barriers to entry for potential fraudsters.

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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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We’re Joining The Snowflake Partner Network — Bringing Cloud Cost Intelligence

CloudZero

Early on in our journey as a company, CloudZero split with legacy data architecture, migrating to Snowflake and opening up a world of resource flexibility.

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Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha: I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now

TechCrunch

Navin Chaddha. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield , an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. More posts by this contributor. Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital?

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Kick-start DevOps for Oracle Analytics Cloud with FlexDeploy

Flexagon

Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is a highly scalable and approachable cloud-native service. OAC provides enterprises with all the features required to explore and meet the demands of the entire analytics process from data ingestion and modeling, through data preparation and enrichment, to visualization and collaboration. OAC also combines flexible service management capabilities, including fast setup, The post Kick-start DevOps for Oracle Analytics Cloud with FlexDeploy appeared first on Flexagon.

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Questions arise on Y Combinator’s role in startup correction

TechCrunch

A chill has descended onto the global startup market , albeit not evenly. Venture capital totals are sagging in most geographies, and falling share prices for tech companies large and small have soured sentiment on the future value of high-growth and often cash-hungry startups. The end of the lengthy startup boom that first formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and largely powered through until the final months of 2021 is shaking out, changing how the market views certain entities.

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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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Who is Ready for Climate Disclosures?

Cloudera

I recently attended the CeFPro environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) conference in London along with a variety of risk experts and ESG leaders from large global institutions. If you have followed my prior blog posts , you know that I have a keen interest in the topic of climate risk modeling and how it can help assess the economic impacts of climate change.

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Here are all of the companies presenting at Alchemist Accelerator’s 30th Demo Day today

TechCrunch

It’s Demo Day time! Today marks the 30th Demo Day for Alchemist , the enterprise-focused accelerator that helped grow companies like LaunchDarkly, Rigetti Computing and Privacera early on. As an enterprise accelerator, the companies Alchemist backs generally focus on selling things to other companies as opposed to selling straight to consumers.

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Sharing the Spotlight with Dell PowerScale Customers

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies World attendees learned about fresh veggies from a PowerScale-powered smart farm, cyber-protection, cloud-based offerings and more.

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Parallel Learning expands remote special education assessment and tutoring with $20M round

TechCrunch

If a kid is having trouble at school, one of the standard steps is to schedule an assessment for conditions like dyslexia, ADHD or anything else that might require a special approach. But with teachers and psychologists overworked and in short supply, Parallel Learning is hoping that remote options can help get kids back on track with less delay, and has raised $20 million to expand its reach to new states.

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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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Tailored Support Designed for You

Cloudera

? ?. At Cloudera we’re building the world’s only hybrid data platform that’s founded on open source and truly hybrid. What do we mean by truly hybrid? Well, not only does it seamlessly support on-premises and cloud-based deployments alike, but uniquely, it is cloud vendor agnostic, allowing multi-cloud strategies to thrive. . Cloudera continues to innovate at pace, providing new and exciting features across Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) that many of our customers can’t wait to get their hands on.

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Your investor has an investment thesis. Here’s why you should care

TechCrunch

I work with a bunch of founders who have incredible stories, great pitch decks and solid businesses — and they get confused when investors turn them down anyway. A lot of the time, it doesn’t matter how good your company is. What matters is whether it matches up with your investor’s investment thesis. An investment thesis is sometimes a detailed document, sometimes a deck and sometimes something as vague as “we know it when we see it.” What it has in common, though

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SecOps Solutions to Maximize Your Resources and Resource Allocation

SecureWorks

SecOps Solutions to Maximize Your Resources and Resource Allocation How you can optimize your security resources and processes to work smarter, not harder – and get more done. SecOps teams looking to optimize its resource-efficiency can always turn to Secureworks for a bit of outside help by leveraging our cloud-native cybersecurity platform Taegis™ for more holistic threat prevention, detection, and response.

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Cribl raises $150M to beat back rival observability tools

TechCrunch

In software development, observability refers to keeping watch over all of an app’s components, from mobile and web clients to backend infrastructure. Given how critical this sort of visibility into a system can be for developers, not to mention a broader organization, it’s unsurprising that tools to help achieve greater observability remain in high demand.

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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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SLA Insights Part 4: Learner Affect & Anxiety

Gitprime

In this fourth part, we’ll take a look at something SLA researchers believe hold outsize influence on language learners’ persistence through the many (and inevitable) challenges that arise during the language learning process: learner affect.

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Singularity Energy raises $4.5 million seed round to decarbonize the grid

TechCrunch

Singularity Energy , a SaaS platform that reports on carbon emissions for the electricity grid, has closed a $4.5 million seed round led by Spero Ventures and Energy Impact Partners and joined by existing investors, including Third Sphere and J Ventures. . Singularity, based in Somerville, Massachusetts, provides detailed information about the carbon intensity on the grid at any given moment.

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CyRC Case Study: Securing BIND 9

Synopsys

Learn how you can improve your application security posture by adopting best practices from the BIND 9 team. The post CyRC Case Study: Securing BIND 9 appeared first on Application Security Blog.