Tue.Jun 09, 2020

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Does AI Still Pose A Threat to Humanity?

CTOvision

The threat of artificial intelligence is a hot topic as the number of people who fear artificial intelligence is on the rise. With recent advancements in the field of artificial […].

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Working From Home – Cons and Pros

Henrik Warne

Because of the Corona pandemic, our whole company has now been working from home for 12 weeks. Before, we mostly worked in the office, although occasionally people would work from home, for example when waiting for a delivery. This abrupt switch has made for a great natural experiment on the differences between these two ways of working. Many developers on both Twitter and Hacker News argue that remote work is the future, and that they want to keep working remotely even after the need for it bec

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Machine Learning and the Production Gap

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The biggest problem facing machine learning today isn’t the need for better algorithms; it isn’t the need for more computing power to train models; it isn’t even the need for more skilled practitioners. It’s getting machine learning from the researcher’s laptop to production. That’s the real gap. It’s one thing to build a model; it’s another thing altogether to embody that model in an application and deploy it successfully in production.

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Evaluation parameters that support a bias-free interview process – FaceCode

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Conducting structured interviews and having pre-defined evaluation parameters are excellent ways to interview candidates in an unbiased and standardized manner. Asking a set of questions in a structured interview format helps the hiring team to collect useful information from each interviewee that they can use for making informed hiring decisions and as well as compare with other candidates in the funnel. .

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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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Implicit Declaration of Function in C

The Crazy Programmer

We are very much familiar with the flow control in C where it follows the Top-Down approach , and when we are writing a C program and if we are using any function, we might have come across a very common error ‘Implicit declaration of function’ Now why this error occurred? The answer is already in the error. We have used a function in our program which is not declared yet or we can say that we have used a function implicitly.

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Cloud and DevOps: CI/CD and Market Analysis

DevOps.com

Companies today are under heavy pressure to deliver software faster and with more quality than their competitors. A set of good features and their reach to customers can increase only when the company releases software updates frequently. As a result, organizations are embracing DevOps and CI/CD approaches to improve their ability to plan, build, test […].

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My Python/Java/Spring/Go/Whatever Client Won’t Connect to My Apache Kafka Cluster in Docker/AWS/My Brother’s Laptop. Please Help!

Confluent

tl;dr When a client wants to send or receive a message from Apache Kafka®, there are two types of connection that must succeed: The initial connection to a broker (the […].

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How to improve cybersecurity for artificial intelligence

CTOvision

Read Josephine Wolff take a look at the cybersecurity aspects of artificial intelligence on Brookings Institute Blog : In January 2017, a group of artificial intelligence researchers gathered at the […].

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Harness Enables DevOps Teams to Rein in Cloud Costs

DevOps.com

Harness today unfurled its Continuous Efficiency application, which enables DevOps teams employing its continuous delivery platform delivered as a service to monitor the cost of deploying applications on a public cloud. Company CEO Jyoti Bansal said cloud costs are spiraling out of control within many IT organizations because DevOps teams lack visibility into the true […].

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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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Artificial Intelligence May Bring More Management-Free Organizations

CTOvision

Read why Joe McKendrick says that artificial intelligence could mean more management free organisations on Forbes : The increasing ubiquity of artificial intelligence and decisioning systems means there will be […].

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Microsoft’s June 2020 Patch Tuesday Addresses 129 CVEs Including Newly Disclosed SMBv3 Vulnerability (CVE-2020-1206)

Tenable

Microsoft continues its streak of patching over 100 CVEs, addressing 129 CVEs in June, including a fix for a new SMBv3 vulnerability dubbed SMBleed. For the fourth month in a row, Microsoft has patched over 100 CVEs, addressing 129 in the June 2020 Patch Tuesday release. The updates this month include patches for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Windows Defender, Microsoft Dynamics, Visual Studio, Azure De

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Cognilytica joins OECD Network of Experts as Invited Expert

CTOvision

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 8, 2020 Ellicott City, MD – AI focused research firm Cognilytica joins the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Network of Experts as invited experts. […].

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How to Write Data Driven Tests With Robot Framework

Dzone - DevOps

In this post, we are going to explore how to write data driven tests with Robot Framework. We will take a look at how data driven tests can be written with standard Robot Framework syntax and we will take a look at the Data Driver Library which offers some interesting features. 1. Introduction. In our previous post , we looked at some basic concepts of Robot Framework.

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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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Using this Time to Optimize Your Dev Team?s Workflow

DevOps.com

As Andy Warhol once said, “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” This more than ever resonates with the change that companies have found themselves experiencing of late. The more the world embraces digital methods of work, the more that change becomes paramount to a successful workflow. It […]. The post Using this Time to Optimize Your Dev Team’s Workflow appeared first on DevOps.com.

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How remote IT teams can flip the process on incident resolution

TechBeacon

People working in IT support and incident management right now face unusual difficulties supporting large remote workforces and managing unpredictable workloads. On Reddit, systems admins and other IT professionals are bemoaning the hiccups and hassles of working in isolation during the pandemic while trying to resolve issues and maintain high service-level agreements.

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A Futurist’s Advice on Navigating through the Technology “Valley of Death”

CEO Insider

Even as a young person, I have always held a long-term vision of humanity being a true spacefaring people. When I co-founded Tethers Unlimited in 1994 with the late sci-fi author and space physicist Dr. Robert L. Forward, I’m certain many thought our ideas were very far-fetched. But we were dedicated to figuring out how […]. License and Republishing: The views expressed in this article A Futurist’s Advice on Navigating through the Technology “Valley of Death” are those of the author

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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Approaches to Data Science

Dataiku

Data projects are generally organized in one of two ways: top-down (that is, starting with the business question) or bottom-up (starting with the data and working up to insights). But is there a right way, and is one approach better or more effective than the other?

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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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IBM ends all facial recognition business as CEO calls out bias and inequality

CTOvision

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced today that the company would no longer sell facial recognition services, calling for a “national dialogue” on whether it should be used at all. He […].

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Gamification in eLearning: Understanding How it Works

Daffodil Software

Virtual classrooms are the only way out for educational institutions to diminish the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on education. The digital era of education has pushed learnings beyond books, lectures, and talks. Explanatory videos, live sessions, challenges, contests, and rewards have made learning more engaging for learners as well as tutors.

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Developer Personas, or the Exquisite State of Being of June

DevOps.com

The post Developer Personas, or the Exquisite State of Being of June appeared first on DevOps.com.

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The Lure and the Fallacy of the New Bright Shiny Object

Teradata

Teradata has an extraordinary legacy; yet only in the IT world is legacy looked at as a negative. Learn how Teradata's legacy gives it the ultimate competitive advantage.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Top New Products at TechSoup for 2020

TechSoup

Even in these strange days we have added an impressive roster of new product donations and discounted offers to the TechSoup catalog over the past year. Most of them are very suitable to the new ways that nonprofits and libraries have begun to do more remote work. We think you'll be surprised to see our new offers for 2020 that you might have missed.

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Rising from the Ashes

Teradata

Teradata's own Sir Freek Cox on dedicating one's life to charity and good works. Read more.

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A10 Networks Allies with Dell for ADC Infrastructure

DevOps.com

A10 Networks announced today it has partnered with Dell Technologies to make its application delivery controller (ADC) and A10 Thunder Multi-tenant Virtual Platform (MVP) available on Dell servers. Gunter Reiss, vice president of worldwide marketing for A10 Networks, said this alliance reduces the cost of deploying ADCs in on-premises IT environments by taking advantage of […].

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Full User Authentication and Access Control – A Laravel Passport Tutorial, Pt. 1

Toptal

Setting up authentication and state in a stateless API context might seem somewhat problematic. But Laravel Passport gives developers a clean, straightforward way to add OAuth 2.0 to an app's API.

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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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Episode One – Productivity Anywhere

Dell EMC

Working efficiently – from anywhere – has never been more important than it is today. In this episode of Technology Powers X we dive into how: Daughters of Rosie is continuing their mission as they move from face-to-face to screen-to-screen The industry is evolving its thinking around work-from-home technology Professionals can stay productive from anywhere with intelligent PCs Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts “If workplace teammates can anticipate

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Hunting for the Optimal AutoML Library

Dataiku

In the last few years a lot of research has been done into how to automate the process of building machine learning models. There is now a wide array of open source libraries offering AutoML. How do they relate to one another, and more importantly, how do they compare? To answer that, we’d need an independent team to test all the software packages under controlled conditions on a wide range of datasets.

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A strategy for cybersecurity strategy

Coalfire

Let's start with an assumption: Having a cybersecurity strategy is best practice. So, what makes a good cybersecurity strategy? You'd be surprised how this answer varies across the security industry, especially from seasoned CISOs of Fortune 500 companies.