Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
I’ve written 640 blog posts and never had a response like I received from last Monday’s post, What Happens When We Really Listen. Notice I didn’t say “reaction,” I’m not counting up social shares or page views, I’m talking about real human beings from around the world reaching out in deeply personal ways. First was the executive who picked up the phone as soon as he read it. “I’ve never done this before, and I’m a bit surprised I’
General Leadership
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”. Abraham Lincoln. Growing up my Grandfather always said, “Time waits for no one”. In 1979, Grandpa was forty-eight years my senior, so naturally his words went in one ear and out the other.
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CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
With new technology, come new problems. Oft times, with the increasing demand for the latest and greatest tech, security is more of an after thought. What has been a consistent theme is developing the next best technology, and then figuring out how to protect it. Before the tests are run to find the gaps, a hacker already knows how to exploit the tech in every way possible.
Erik Bernhardsson
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning last week. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do (approximate) nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces. I will be splitting it into several parts. This first talks about vector models, how to measure similarity, and why nearest neighbor queries are useful.
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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.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
The outdoor wedding on the water was beautiful, the bar was open and the line for the fanciest version of a port-o-pot I’ve ever seen was long. Which is why so many heard the screams of the little boy who couldn’t escape from the pottie on wheels. His cries grew more frantic as his dad and others tried to calm him down. “Lucas, it’s going to be okay… Just turn the knob… Please stop crying… ” Lucas stayed stuck.
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CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Here’s something to think about when you're planning a big data project: are you planning a project or a program ? Here's a simple distinction: A project typically has a beginning, middle, and end. A program is something ongoing and relatively permanent. Projects. Relatively self-contained big data projects may be tied to an ongoing process or program that is already developing or delivering a product or service.
Erik Bernhardsson
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
This is a blog post rewritten from a presentation at NYC Machine Learning last week. It covers a library called Annoy that I have built that helps you do (approximate) nearest neighbor queries in high dimensional spaces. I will be splitting it into several parts. This first talks about vector models, how to measure similarity, and why nearest neighbor queries are useful.
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
Since I moved to Portland in 2010 I’ve become fascinated with a particular kind of business person – Oregon entrepreneurs. So much so, that last year I started to write nearly as much about them as I did about my first love, leadership. Those stories have appeared here, and in the online magazine we launched in late 2014, Built Oregon. What was it about these people that could have possibly pulled me away from my true north, my quest to find the best of More Human leadership?
General Leadership
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Mastering Others is Strength; Mastering Yourself is True Power”. Lao Tzu. We’re taught from the beginning that leadership is about a person applying influence to guide and enlist the support others in achieving a goal.
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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
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Researchers from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering have designed an interface that takes advantage of a human's split-second reflexes allowing a humanoid to maintain its balance and complete tasks. Watching the video at this link will immediately bring to mind many disaster recovery/assistance scenarios and use cases that these robots can be controlled in.
Erik Bernhardsson
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
A couple of people in my old team have been around talking about how Spotify does music recommendations and put together some quite good presentations.
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
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General Leadership
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 24 Feb 2014. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” General George S. Patton, Jr.
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.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
The video at this link and embedded below captures key parts of a a 24 Sep 2015 session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence with testimony by NSA Director Admiral Rogers. The exchanges allowed Admiral Rogers to offer expert testimony on a range of key issues including the need to simplify things for corporations in America seeking to coordinate with the government on issues of cybersecurity.
Erik Bernhardsson
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
A couple of people in my old team have been around talking about how Spotify does music recommendations and put together some quite good presentations.
Toptal
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
The fact that women are underrepresented in tech is nothing new. However, while we've seen the gender diversity reports from companies like Google, Facebook, and many more, a look at the number of women in the open source community suggests that the numbers might be worse than these reports imply. In this post, Toptal COO Breanden Beneschott shares the results of a study looking at gender on GitHub and considers a few reasons why GitHub is so male-dominated, including a few ideas on how we can m
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Editor's note: We have been tracking WayIn since their founding and are very proud to close to the founders and executives of this very savvy team. We are also proud that WayIn was a founding sponsor of our Synergy Forum, where we could expose them to a wide range of government executives who need to track this trend setting tech. For more on WayIn see the press release below.
The Accidental Successful CIO
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
CIOs Need To Plan For Who Comes Next Image Credit: Xiaojun Deng. Wow – it sure was hard to get the CIO job. Just think for a moment about all of the various positions you had to rise through in order to finally obtain the top spot in IT. You do realize that you are not the last CIO that your company is ever going to have – because of the importance of information technology there will be others who follow behind you.
Toptal
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
Memory leaks in long running Node.js applications are like ticking time bombs that, if left unchecked in production environments, can result in devastating outcomes. These bugs are often considered to be hard to find. However, with the right tools and a strategic approach, memory leaks can not only be solved but also avoided in the future. In this article, Toptal engineer Vladyslav Millier gives us insight into what memory leaks are, how some sophisticated debugging tools can be used to find mem
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Last week I had a vivid reminder of why, when a health crisis or some other kind of major life setback occurs, you should never write yourself off. As I shared here last year, I was diagnosed with MS in the summer of 2009. My primary form of exercise, head clearing and general sanity maintenance before MS was distance running. In the months surrounding my diagnosis, I went from running six or seven miles at a time to barely being able to walk around the block.
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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.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
The video at this link and embedded below shows an incredible use of drones to construct a bridge that people can walk across. Doesn't that get your mind thinking about use cases for this technology? Imagine what it will be like when it matures? Here is more from the video description: The video shows quadrocopters autonomously assembling a rope bridge.
Lead on Purpose
SEPTEMBER 19, 2015
Guest post by Adrian Terry A world-class sales team is a lot like a world-class football team.
Toptal
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Bootstrap, one of the most used HTML/CSS/JavaScript front-end frameworks, offers a little more than just fancy customizable user interface elements. It provides a great starting point for many types of projects, a plethora of components, and many nifty styles predefined for responsive layout and utility classes to help keep your HTML and CSS code clean.
QAspire
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Once there was a circus Lion who was so tamed/trained that he never knew about his real strengths. He was then left in the jungle where real Lions lived. Upon seeing other Lions, the tamed Lion started running fiercely driven by fear until he saw his own reflection in a pond. He realized that he was also a Lion as powerful as others. Metal chains are easier to notice but mental chains of our past experiences, fixed beliefs and perceived limitations are invisible.
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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.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
On 26 August 2015 the DoD promulgated new rules that apply to any contractor or subcontractor that does business with the DoD. These rules are in immediate effect. We are compiling information we will use in future reporting on CTOvision.com and also to provide as feedback to DoD on the new rules. We are looking for inputs from members of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), which is any company providing anything to the DoD.
Rapid BI
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
Picture this scene. You are asked to be a witness in court about an unfortunate incident that happened some time ago. You believe you can recall what happened, to who and when. The date of the case arises. You are sitting on the witness bench outside the court. People are walking backwards and forwards to […]. The post If it’s not written down, it didn’t happen appeared first on.
Toptal
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
It's no surprise that more and more people, from all kinds of backgrounds, are deciding to learn to code. But, each person who tackles the task is soon faced with an unpleasant reality: Learning to program is hard. Contrary to expectations, the feeling of "I don't get it," may persist unabated long into the journey, making once bright-eyed beginners feel hopeless, lost, and ready to give up.
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