Dataiku

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In the previous posts in the How They Work (in Plain English!) series, we went through a high-level overview of machine learning and have explored two key categories of supervised learning algorithms — linear and tree-based models — and two key unsupervised learning techniques, clustering and dimensionality reduction. Today we’ll dive into recommendation engines, which can use either supervised or unsupervised learning.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Allison Xu. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. In the wake of COVID-19 this spring, construction sites across the nation emptied out alongside neighboring restaurants, retail stores, offices and other commercial establishments. Debates ensued over whether the construction industry’s seven million employees should be considered “essential,” while regulations continued to shif

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We enjoyed these insights from friend John Trauth of Bricata: The goal was to increase network visibility and eliminate the blind spots that exist in every company. My vision was […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Oliver Kharraz, MD. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Oliver Kharraz, MD is the CEO and founder of Zocdoc , a digital healthcare marketplace for in-person or virtual care. Telehealth has taken off. Spurred by the pandemic, many doctors in the U.S. now offer online appointments, and many patients are familiar with getting live medical advice over the internet.

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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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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Ping Identity, the intelligent identity solution for the enterprise, today announced the launch of a Consumer Data Right (CDR) Integration Kit enabling Australian banks and fintech company data holders to […].

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Recently I taught a brand new class on leadership at the Yale Law School. Despite popular misconceptions, young lawyers are hungry to become more self-aware and to sharpen their leadership competencies. One of the best leaders I’ve met is a lawyer named Wim Dejonghe. In this interview, you’ll hear his advice to aspiring lawyers who wish to become better leaders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Boston-based marketing automation firm Klaviyo wants to change the way marketers interact with data, giving them direct access to their data and their customers. It believes that makes it easier to customize the messages and produce better results. Investors apparently agree, awarding the company a $200 million Series C on a hefty $4.15 billion valuation today.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Low-code development is not a new concept, but since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, it has become increasingly popular. Low code helps businesses adapt to ever-changing environments quickly by allowing them to build, customize and deploy apps with little to no coding. It enables organizations to accelerate their innovation, automation and transformation […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Autodesk, the U.S. publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, has acquired Norway’s Spacemaker , a startup that has developed AI-supported software for urban development. The price of the acquisition is $240 million in a mostly all-cash deal. Spacemaker’s VC backers include European firms Atomico and Northzone, which co-led the company’s $25 million Series A round in 2019.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Taking a holistic approach to cloud optimization and application modernization can help keep cloud spend in check There’s a fine line between cloud spend and cloud sprawl. Most companies today are using cloud technologies to power their most important products and services, communications and collaboration, but it’s easy to cross the line from spending smartly […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Launched in the Philippines, social commerce startup Resellee wants to recreate the success of Pinduoduo, one of China’s fastest-growing e-commerce companies, in Southeast Asia. A major part of Resellee’s business is grocery deliveries, including fresh produce, and it has struck partnerships with the government and farmers’ groups to meet demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Read how Pindrop helps in the Contact Center security through anomaly detection and fraud prevention on their blog: Fraud costs don’t start in your finance department. They start in your […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Seldon is a U.K. startup that specializes in the rarified world of development tools to optimize machine learning. What does this mean? Well, dear reader, it means that the “AI” that companies are so fond of trumpeting does actually end up working. It has now raised a £7.1 million Series A round co-led by AlbionVC and Cambridge Innovation Capital. The round also includes significant participation from existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners and Global Brain, with follow-on investment from ot

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Puppet today launched two efforts to make its IT automation platforms accessible to a broader range of IT teams. The Puppet Enterprise Platform integrates the company’s flagship Puppet Enterprise offering with Relay by Puppet, the company’s existing event-driven automation platform. At the same time, Puppet announced Puppet Connect, a self-service platform for executing tasks on-premises […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Forto , a digital freight forwarder which has experienced a boom during the pandemic, has raised another $50 million in funding. It’s now raised $103 million since its launch in 2016. The round was led by Inven Capital, a growth fund out of the Czech Republic. Additional investment came from Iris Capital, with strong participation from current investors, including Rider Global, Northzone, Cherry Ventures and the Italian venture fund H14.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Boston-based DataRobot, a startup developing an end-to-end enterprise AI platform, today raised $270 million in an equity funding round led by Altimeter Capital. DataRobot says the pre-IPO round — which […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Levels today is announcing a large seed round to help bring its biowearable metabolic sensor to market. The innovative platform pairs continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) with an impressive software suite to provide the wearer with deep insights about their health. The company’s founders strongly feel that this approach helps users close the loop between food, exercise and well-being.

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TechBeacon

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world on its head, affecting all aspects of life and work, including sudden and major changes to cyber security. Specifically, the attack surface, which already under normal circumstances shifts quickly and unexpectedly, has gotten a major extra jolt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s get something morbid out of the way right up front: estate planning is a growth business in 2020. Whether you need to create or update a will, build a family trust, or sign over power of attorney for end-of-life decision-making, it’s been a heck of a year for many families, and even more people are starting to think about these instruments if anything worse happens this year (and there are still six weeks left!).

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Dynatrace today announced it has extended its observability capabilities via the launch of its PurePath 4 platform that adds support for the open source OpenTelemetry framework and W3C Trace Context specification for distributed tracing. In addition, the company is adding support for service meshes and serverless computing frameworks running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Giraffe360 has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. It has now raised $4.5 million in a funding round led by LAUNCHub Ventures and Hoxton Ventures. Also participating is HCVC (Hardware Club), alongside existing investor Change Ventures.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Digital transformation is creating even more data for organizations to manage effectively. Here’s how to find the intelligence needle in the data haystack Data and analytics transform how companies across all industries identify and act on opportunities to gain a competitive advantage. But many organizations are discovering that ever-growing volumes of the former make the […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The US property market has proven to be more resilient than you might have assumed it would be in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic, and today a startup that’s built a computer vision tool to help owners assess and fix those properties more easily is announcing a significant round of funding as it sees a surge of growth in usage. Hover — which has built a platform that uses eight basic smartphone photos to patch together a 3D image of your home that can then be used by contractors,

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CircleCI

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Starting today, the CircleCI runner will give customers on our new Scale plan the ability to choose which jobs run in the cloud and which run on their own infrastructure. Why did we build the runner? Our goal has always been to build a platform that allows developers to do what they do best: build great things. That started by taking away the burden of maintaining infrastructure for continuous integration and deployment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Rocket printer Relativity Space is raising a $500 million D round, valuing the launch provider at $2.3 billion, as reported by CNBC and confirmed to TechCrunch by sources familiar with the matter. That’s not bad for company that has yet to take its first payload to orbit. Relativity aims to reduce the cost and increase the speed of assembling a launch vehicle by 3D printing it from tip to tail fin.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced that it has been named the winner of the “Overall Enterprise Email Security Solution Provider of the Year” award in […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Meet Mati , a startup that recently raised a $13.5 million Series A round to build a digital reputation API that could change the way you interact with online services. Mati uses an API-first approach and lets users seamlessly share pieces of their legal identity. Investors in today’s funding round include Tribe Capital with Arjun Sethi joining the board, Jerry Murdock from Insight Partners, Sima Gandhi who is the former head of business development and strategy at Plaid and Will Hockey, the CTO

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

New extended Support and QA Testing services, geared toward improving automated CX assurance, agile and DevOps initiatives, are now available REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – November 17, 2020 – Cyara, provider of the award-winning Automated Customer Experience (CX) Assurance Platform, today announced the availability of Premium Support and Expert Services, two new offerings designed to help […].

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