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5 Powerful Ways to Ensure Leadership Training Sticks

Let's Grow Leaders

“Don’t bother me with this crap. I don’t believe in leadership training. It’s a complete waste of time. It’s nothing against you as the new Training Director. I get that I have to work with you in some way. If you MUST […]. The post 5 Powerful Ways to Ensure Leadership Training Sticks appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Exploring Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms

Toptal

While machine learning sounds highly technical, an introduction to the statistical methods involved quickly brings it within reach. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Vladyslav Millier explores basic supervised machine learning algorithms and scikit-learn, using them to predict survival rates for Titanic passengers.

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Turning your desires into purpose

Lead on Purpose

Success depends as much on the desire of an individual as anything else. Hard work, persistence and intelligence also factor in, and depending on the endeavor, these may play a big role.

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The most important practical lesson that JavaScript has taught us

Wolk Software Engineering

The incredible rise in popularity that JavaScript has experienced over the last decade has been spectacular. According to the yearly developer survey by StackOverflow [1] , JavaScript is today the most popular programming language in the world: JavaScript also leads the ranks in other studies and surveys like the quarterly Programming Language Rankings by Redmonk [2] or the 2018 Developer Skills Report by HackerRank [3] : The success of JavaScript has been so spectacular that we even have a “law

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Breaking through the clouds in Asia Pacific

Cloudera

To quote Sam Walton, Walmart’s founder, “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else”. This very much forms the lens for our focus here at Cloudera Asia Pacific. And it is this unwavering passion and commitment that has driven the team to strive for the very best for our customers and partners, and milestones that we have collectively attained since 2015.

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Rethinking the Password – Part 2

The CTO Group

James Murphy is one of our Security Consultants at CTO Group. Contact him directly via email or through his LinkedIn account. In Part 1 of this blog I explained how you can improve your credential security by using passphrases instead of passwords. This is a step in the right direction, but it’s limited in its effectiveness due to two main problems.

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Constraints that drive creativity

SIG

A different code quality philosophy By Joost Visser Should you measure and control code quality? According to a poll conducted by O’Reilly Media and my colleagues at the Software Improvement Group, virtually all developers say YES! Here’s a number of compelling reasons: Happiness: Better code and happy developers go together. It’s more fun to work on code […].

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Product Review for Distributed Retrospectives

Derek Huether

On a monthly basis, I see at least one distributed retrospective. Sure, I would prefer to do it onsite with participants, on a wall with sticky notes, but that’s not always an option. So, what can we do about it? Not having the retrospective is not an option. Instead, I want to find a tool that has a low level of friction, is purpose built, and reasonably priced.

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Constraints that drive creativity

SIG

A different code quality philosophy By Joost Visser Should you measure and control code quality? According to a poll conducted by O’Reilly Media and my colleagues at the Software Improvement Group, virtually all developers say YES! Here’s a number of compelling reasons: Happiness: Better code and happy developers go together. It’s more fun to work on code […].

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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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Competencies – are they dead? Or are we ignoring the true 3 core competencies?

Rapid BI

Competencies – are they dead? Are competencies and how HR (and managers/ professional bodies) often relate to them irrelevant in today’s business world? Do we actively ignore true core competencies? I was at a training workshop recently, and the trainer was talking about competencies. He was talking about the fact that the core competencies had changed […].

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Steps For Optimizing Your Company’s Processes

Strategy Driven

Whether your business or company venture is new or just in need of being redesigned, then keeping on top of rules for optimization is crucial to effective business management and room for growth. In business, time is money, so, in order to maximize sales, longwinded and time consuming processes and procedures must be avoided. Processing documents digitally can save you a significant amount of time, providing the software you’re using is running as efficiently as it can and you’re utilizing your

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What to look for when hiring college graduates

Strategy Driven

In business, hiring new recruits is crucial to success — they bring fresh thinking and can challenge the existing paradigms of your corporation. A steady stream of prospective employees is likely knocking on your door daily, and even more so around summer time when college and university students finish their final year. As a recruitment officer, it’s your responsibility to bring in the talent.

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The benefits of getting out of the office

Strategy Driven

It might feel safe behind that desk, but there’s nothing quite like getting out into the world and just getting things done at your own pace. The office may have everything that you think you need, but you might be amazed by the mental adjustment that occurs when you step into the outside world. Between fresh air and natural light, as well as more control over your working day, there are a number of reasons that make it worthwhile to escape the cubicle.

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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.