Tue.Aug 07, 2018

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5 findings from O'Reilly's machine learning adoption survey companies should know

O'Reilly Media - Data

New survey results highlight the ways organizations are handling machine learning's move to the mainstream. As machine learning has become more widely adopted by businesses, O’Reilly set out to survey our audience to learn more about how companies approach this work. Do companies with more experience deploying machine learning in production use methods that differ significantly from organizations that are just beginning?

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Pandas, Caviar, and Deep Learning

Dell EMC

Analytics is redefining the world. Data is the new oil. Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere It feels like we hear some variant of these phrases too often. But there is a reason why such statements have become so pervasive. Data has quickly become the most valuable and differentiating asset for many organizations as it opens up new revenue streams and unearths opportunities for improvement in almost every part of an organization.

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Exploring SMACSS: Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS

Toptal

CSS is notorious for getting messy quickly as a website scales. While frameworks like Bootstrap can help, SMACSS takes a different approach, as a set of solid organizational guidelines. In this article, Toptal Freelance Front-end Developer Slobodan Gajic gives us a run-down of the idea and benefits behind Jonathan Snook's architectural wisdom.

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Introduction to Object Detection

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Humans can easily detect and identify objects present in an image. The human visual system is fast and accurate and can perform complex tasks like identifying multiple objects and detect obstacles with little conscious thought. With the availability of large amounts of data, faster GPUs, and better algorithms, we can now easily train computers to detect and classify multiple objects within an image with high accuracy.

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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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Business Management Lessons from a San Francisco Bus Driver

General Leadership

“Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.” Reba McEntire. If you’ve ever been to Pacific Heights area of San Francisco, California, you know the charm of Fillmore Street. This boutique chic, street is quintessentially SF trendy and has been for decades. If you know the street, you know Blue Bottle Coffee on the corner of Fillmore and Jackson.

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Python Speech Recognition Using Google Speech API

The Crazy Programmer

In this tutorial you will learn about python speech recognition. There are plenty of options available for this. But Google Speech API is best among all of them. So in this article we are going to see how we can implement Google Speech API in Python. Required Installation Files. 1. Install PyAudio. PyAudio provides Python bindings for Port Audio, the cross-platform audio I/O library.

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How to Use Powerful Gestalt Principles in Design [Infographic]

Toptal

Gestalt’s guiding principle, that our minds tend to perceive objects as part of a greater whole, is a very useful and powerful design technique [includes infographic].

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Support magic with Z-Ray

Zend

Z-Ray is a must-have for every PHP developer, providing immediate app execution insight. Discover what makes Z-Ray a powerful support tool. The post Support magic with Z-Ray appeared first on The Zend Blog.

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The Impending Commercial Robot Revolution

Toptal

The field of robotics has seen incredible strides forward in recent years. As a result of improvements in computer vision, dexterity and also overall economics, use of robots has increased in a variety of different fields. However, most of the growth in robotics so far has happened in industrial applications, and thus hidden from the view of the general public.

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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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Tesla is dumping Nvidia chips for in-house ones, Media has got AI horribly wrong, UCLA’s AI tool that mimics human brain, AI and e-commerce

CTOvision

The following are some of the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data topics we are tracking: Tesla says it’s dumping Nvidia chips for a homebrew alternative Tesla's driverless cars will be powered by a completely new AI chip which is faster than Nvidia chips that Tesla currently uses. CEO Elon Musk said during a […].

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Meet Us at SHARE St Louis And Learn About Hitachi Vantara Solutions for Mainframes In the IoT Age.

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

SHARE is a volunteer-run user group for IBM mainframe computers that was founded in 1955 and is still active today providing, education, professional networking, and industry influence on the direction of mainframe development. SHARE member say that SHARE is not an acronym, it is what they do. SHARE was the precursor of the open source communities that we have today.

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CodeSOD: This Interview Doesn't Count

The Daily WTF

There are merits and disadvantages to including any sort of programming challenge in your interview process. The argument for something like a FizzBuzz challenge is that a surprising number of programmers can’t actually do that, and it weeds out the worst candidates and the liars. Gareth was interviewing someone who purported to be a senior developer with loads of Java experience.

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Sponsored Post: NationBuilder, Twitch, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Scalyr, MemSQL

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? NationBuilder — if you’re a systems engineer, SRE or DevOps focused developer and have been looking for a place where you can help other people while still working in tech? We can give that opportunity. Please apply here. Twitch's commerce team in San Francisco is looking to hire senior developers to keep up with rapidly increasing demand for our Subscriptions and Payment platform.

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“Build vs Buy Analytics?” The Question ALL SaaS Leaders Need to Answer in 2024

As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo

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Just Another Day in Utopia

Pandora's Brain

a Guest Post by Stuart Armstrong. Stuart is a Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. He works on how to map humanity’s partially defined values onto the potential goals of AI. He is probably best known for his collaboration with DeepMind on how to stop a developing AI resisting being switched off after showing signs of going rogue – see here.

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Hashicorp User Group #24

OpenCredo

Thanks to our hosts Mintel, the HashiCorp User Group is back on the 14th of August with speakers from applyingAgile and Grafana labs. Continue reading Hashicorp User Group #24 on opencredo.com.

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Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Training Workshop in Ottawa—October 15-16, 2018

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

Agile Pain Relief presents a two-day Certified ScrumMaster Workshop in Ottawa—October 15-16, 2018 taught by certified Scrum Trainer Mark Levison.

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Pandas, Caviar, and Deep Learning

Keith Manthey - Dell EMC

Analytics is redefining the world. Data is the new oil.

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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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Future Security Relations Between U.S. and Turkey on the Brink

The Cipher Brief

Iran hasn’t been the only target of U.S. sanctions in the past week. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered retaliatory sanctions again two unnamed U.S. officials after the U.S. ordered sanctions against two Turkish ministers last week. That action came in response to Turkey’s refusal to release North Carolina pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been held since October 2016 on terrorism charges.

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Pandas, Caviar, and Deep Learning

Keith Manthey - Dell EMC

Analytics is redefining the world. Data is the new oil.

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Next Generation Virtualization: The Converged Datacenter

Nutanix

According to the IDC, 46% of IT infrastructure spending in Q1 2018 was in the cloud, up from just under 42% a year ago. Reasons to move to the cloud are clear: agility, cost-savings, and ease-of-use are among the most cited benefits.

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App nutrition labels? Hackers disagree on software bill of materials

The Parallax

LAS VEGAS—Imagine if software came with a complete list of ingredients. And instead of revealing whether an app contains a digital equivalent of gluten or peanuts, this list would indicate whether it’s vulnerable to hackers. Call it a software bill of materials. Like complex dishes, modern apps, programs, and firmware heavily rely on a variety of ingredients, or pieces of software known as libraries potentially used for many purposes.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.

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Case studies in data ethics

O'Reilly Media - Data

These studies provide a foundation for discussing ethical issues so we can better integrate data ethics in real life. To help us think seriously about data ethics, we need case studies that we can discuss, argue about, and come to terms with as we engage with the real world. Good case studies give us the opportunity to think through problems before facing them in real life.

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Share Context With Collaboration: Suggested Query Boards

Honeycomb

Nobody knows your services/infra better than you, not even Honeycomb. If there’s one maxim for Honeycomb, it’s that context is king. Context determines the questions you can ask. The only way to make complex systems truly tractable is to make all questions possible. Ergo: more context. Context everywhere. Context coming out of the walls.

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App nutrition labels? Hackers disagree on software bill of materials

The Parallax

LAS VEGAS—Imagine if software came with a complete list of ingredients. And instead of revealing whether an app contains a digital equivalent of gluten or peanuts, this list would indicate whether it’s vulnerable to hackers. Call it a software bill of materials. Like complex dishes, modern apps, programs, and firmware heavily rely on a variety of ingredients, or pieces of software known as libraries potentially used for many purposes.

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Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: The Jet Fuel for Robo-Advisors

Coforge

The global wealth management industry, since the advent of digitization, has been experiencing transformation. Robo-advisors are one of the pioneering examples of alternative business models that have surfaced during the last decade. Capturing a White Space in Market that is Expanding. Traditionally, wealth managers have predominantly focused on the segments of high and ultra-high net worth individuals (HNIs and UHNIs).

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.