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Building accessible tools for large-scale computation and machine learning

O'Reilly Media - Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Eric Jonas on Pywren, scientific computation, and machine learning. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Eric Jonas , a postdoc in the new Berkeley Center for Computational Imaging. Jonas is also affiliated with UC Berkeley’s RISE Lab. It was at a RISE Lab event that he first announced Pywren , a framework that lets data enthusiasts proficient with Python run existing code at massive scale on Amazon Web Services.

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How enterprise mobile apps are changing IT strategy?

OTS Solutions

How enterprise mobile apps development changing IT strategy. 2018 is a year where you are going to witness a change in enterprise mobile apps development, thanks to the current trends in hybrid cloud, container infrastructure, blockchain, and DevOps. To discuss more on the growing changes, we are going to dive right into the changes in the enterprise mobile app dev space.

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Conversational Semantics

A List Apart

As Alexa, Cortana, Siri, and even customer support chat bots become the norm, we have to start carefully considering not only how our content looks but how it could sound. We can—and should—use HTML and ARIA to make our content structured, sensible, and most importantly, meaningful. Content, confined. Most bots and digital assistants work from specially-coded data sets, APIs, and models, but there are more than 4.5 billion pages of content on the web, trapped, in many cases, within our websites.

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Completing the extraction of a data-rich service

Martin Fowler

Praful completes the steps of extracting a data rich service by pointing the new service to the new database and removing the dead logic and schema from the monolith.

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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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Agile for Hardware Development and other non-Software Development Activities

Agile Alliance

In this Lightning Talk Neal Herman described how our company uses Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile to develop complex medical instruments and clinical assays.

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Mental model for the agile mindset

Agile Alliance

In this talk Ben Kopel walks through his mental model for the agile mindset and explains how agility and the agile mindset helps produce desired outcomes.

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Prominent Factors in Bad UX

Toptal

There are many types of UX projects, and while each tends to have its own unique flavor, there are common challenges. Advance planning can help less experienced teams dodge problems.

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11 changes you can make to move faster (and break fewer things)

Agile Alliance

In this lightning talk, Andrew Homeyer, founder of Waffle.io, shares some of his tips and stories for becoming a faster-moving team.

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Independent Nurse Contractors – 6 Things to Know About Starting Your Own Business

Women on Business

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Let’s Keep Retrospectives Engaging via Gamification

Agile Alliance

This talk introduces two techniques that help ensure retrospectives that are fun and engaging for participants.

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Great Tips to Increase Startup Success

Women on Business

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Ageism Is Hurting Your Tech Company’s Hiring More Than You Realize

Battery Ventures

Movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp are spurring necessary conversations about unconscious bias in the workplace. But, bias goes beyond gender and race. It’s time to talk frankly about a common, socially acceptable bias in the technology industry: ageism. It’s no secret the tech sector celebrates youth. What may surprise you, gen Xers, is that you’re considered old now, too.

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Make Money From Home Without Taking On a Job

Women on Business

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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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Best Mobile Analytics Tools Comparison

VironIT

Analytics plays an essential role in marketing activities strategy. With analytics tools, you can measure the number of downloads, the amount of money they brought you, even the most recent opinions on your app. Relevant data will give you thoughts on the most efficient methods to grow and support your application. But what are the […].

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EPEAT: Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Further Validated as the Responsible Choice

Dell EMC

Those who know the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) registry know it is one of the best indicators of sustainably produced electronics. The Green Electronics Council is expanding their registry to include a new server category, and customers can find multiple Dell EMC PowerEdge servers from the start. Why EPEAT matters Since it first launched more than a decade ago, EPEAT has grown into a trusted procurement tool for making responsible purchasing decisions.

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Introducing Cloudera Enterprise 6.0

Cloudera

Digital technologies are changing business models, reshaping how companies go-to-market, win new customers and drive new revenue-producing opportunities. Consider the following practices that, until recently, were relegated to the R&D department: Data-driven decision making – the collection and analysis of data to guide decisions that improve success.

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Meet the Women of the Dell EMC Partner Program: Mary Catherine Wilson

Dell EMC

This is the third post in our Meet the Women of the Dell EMC Partner Program series, which provides insight into what drives the inspiring women of the Dell EMC channel. Missed the first posts? Get to know Joyce Mullen (President, Global Channel, OEM & IoT, Dell EMC) and Cheryl Cook (Senior Vice President of Global Channel Marketing, Dell EMC) now.

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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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Top 10 Tips for Successful App Development

WorkingMouse

WorkingMouse has firsthand experience building mobile applications and entire platforms for both startups and enterprise clients. Here are our top 10 tips for successful app development, regardless of your business size.

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Even an IQ of 34,597 Needs the Right Servers to Function

Dell EMC

Moore’s law postulates that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. As such, it serves as a wonderful example of exponential growth. We can intuitively grasp this principle when, for instance, we observe the advances in the performance capabilities of smartphones and other devices alone within the past few years. Moreover, this law only covers a small portion of overall technological development, which is growing just as exponentially – although it was unbearably slow in its

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October 29-31st in Hamburg, Germany: Agile Fluency Gathering (Conference)

James Shore

30 Aug 2018. James Shore/Calendar. Build your skills as a coach in the Agile Fluency™ Project’s annual Agile Fluency Gathering! Strengthen your ability to help teams and organizations. Bring your experiences, your questions, and your new ideas to contribute to the conversations. Learn more about the full Agile Fluency Suite. Come ready to engage with others on their Agile Fluency journeys.

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Guide for Building a Successful Online Business in 2018

Xicom

There is a huge demand for software developer in the market. It has its own reasons the main being that so many companies are now going to develop their software to represent or manage their businesses. One such field is the Ecommerce where all of the earlier brick-and-mortar businesses are going to build an online store for their businesses. Those businesses which are not building their online Ecommerce store are finding that their customers are going away.

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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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September 14th in Portland, Oregon: Agile Fluency Secrets (Talk)

James Shore

30 Aug 2018. James Shore/Calendar. I’m at Agile Camp Portland on Friday, September 14th! I’ll be talking about the secrets of fluency: What does it take to become truly fluent at agile development? Is it technical excellence? Team interactions? Servant leadership? Or something else entirely? Join James Shore in a deep dive into agile proficiencies and what takes to master them.

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Remembering and Honoring Senator John McCain

The Cipher Brief

There have been many touching tributes to Senator John McCain this week as his family, his state and his country, prepare for final goodbyes. Many of The Cipher Brief’s experts interacted directly with the late Senator in exchanges that were fiery, passionate, and often challenging. Whether you were on his side or not, it is notable that even those who disagreed with him on serious issues continued to have a healthy respect for him.

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September 12th: The High-Performance Coach (Free Webinar)

James Shore

30 Aug 2018. James Shore/Calendar. Learn how to expand your influence and impact in this free 30-minute webinar. Presented by James Shore ( The Art of Agile Development ) and created in conjunction with Diana Larsen ( Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great ), we'll detail The Agile Fluency Model, Diagnostic, and Improvement Cycle. We'll show how to use the tools to drive improvements of 5-10% or more per team, leading to improvements worth at least $50K-100K per team per year.

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Most people will be disappointed by the second edition of Refactoring

Martin Fowler

I've put a lot of hard work into the second edition of Refactoring. But I reckon that most people will be disappointed by it when it comes out, even though I think it's an improvement over the original. This memo explains why, and why I think that initial reaction ultimately doesn't matter.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace

Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr

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6 Ways to Boost Your Text Message Marketing Results

Strategy Driven

While tweets, snaps, and social media sharing remain in the limelight, instant messages remain the most popular form of instant messaging. An estimated 12 text messages are sent for every message sent on the world’s biggest social media site. Other benefits of text messages include the fact they reach people who have cell phones that aren’t smartphones and tend to be opened quickly.

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Introduction to Django

The Crazy Programmer

Hello everyone, from today we’re going to start a new tutorial series on Django framework. In this tutorial we will cover basic introduction of Django. Before start to learn, lets have a look on some most frequently asked questions about Django. These questions will help you to understand that what actually Django is. What is Django? Why use Django?

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TDD First Cycle ( part 2)

Apiumhub

Let’s continue with our series of TDD articles, in the first part we looked at the theory behind the TDD and Unit Testing. In this second part, TDD First Cycle , we begin to develop our application, an application of notes where a user can write notes and everything that comes to our mind. Please, leave comments if you are interested in seeing how we develop any specific functionality in our application.