Sat.Aug 10, 2013 - Fri.Aug 16, 2013

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The Sacrifice of Authenticity

Let's Grow Leaders

'Authenticity is risky. When you lead from your heart, feedback stings brighter. It takes courage to think (and even more to say) to those in positions of power, “Thank you, I understand you, I choose not to lead that way.” I’ve said that. These potentially vital words are treacherous on two fronts. First, you may be [.] The post The Sacrifice of Authenticity appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Infographic: DNA of a Fortune 100 CEO

N2Growth Blog

'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . W hat does it take to be a successful CEO? Of all the questions I’m asked, this is far and away the most frequent. While I could answer the question by offering anecdotal evidence or experiential commentary, I thought I’d try something a bit different… I asked my research team to examine the biographical information of all current Fortune 100 CEOs and render the data in the form of an infographic so you can draw your own conclusions.

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What’s up with music recommendations?

Erik Bernhardsson

I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are behind recommendations for music and movies. Of course, every media type is different. For instance, there’s fundamental reasons why latent factor models works really well for music and movies, as opposed to location recommendations where I suspect graph based models are more powerful.

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Advancing Genomics Through Big Data Studies: An Interview with Dr. Mark Guyer of NIH

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Genomics is a critically important discipline in contemporary biomedical research that takes a comprehensive approach to determining and understanding the structure and function of DNA to advance our understanding of life and our ability to make lives better for all. For IT professionals we can contribute to this domain through Bioinformatics.

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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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Becoming More Authentic: A Practical Guide

Let's Grow Leaders

'You are born authentic. Life happens. You slowly start to hide bits of yourself from yourself and others. Not deliberately. It’s a gradual mutation, hard to see– let alone feel. You work to convince your heart this new you is practical, even necessary. More life happens. Reverse the pattern. Benefits of Aging From the hundreds [.] The post Becoming More Authentic: A Practical Guide appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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3D

Erik Bernhardsson

Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the iframe but check out the link). It’s based on a LDA model with 200 topics, so the artists tend to stick to clusters where each cluster is a topic. The embedding also uses t-SNE but in three dimensions (obviously).

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Why The Hell Would I Use Node.js? A Case-by-Case Tutorial

Toptal

Node.js shines in real-time web applications employing push technology over websockets. What is so revolutionary about that? Well, after over 20 years of stateless-web based on the stateless request-response paradigm, we finally have web applications with real-time, two-way connections, where both the client and server can initiate communication, allowing them to exchange data freely.

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5 Ways to Define Your Seat at the Table

Let's Grow Leaders

'You’ve finally got a seat at the table, but your chair feels uncomfortably small. Perhaps you’re sitting in for your boss, or holding an acting assignment. You’ve got an amazing opportunity to impact and influence. Couple your authentic power with a more powerful chair… you’ll be unstoppable. Lead with your whole heart and head.

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What’s Trending For Hackers?

CTOvision

'By BryanHalfpap While at Defcon (the largest computer security conference in the United States) I overheard it described as a sort of “Hacker New-Years holiday” If that’s true, then maybe it’s time to go over one of the trends I’ve seen popping up for a while that has gained a lot of momentum this past year: Wireless hacking.

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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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What’s up with music recommendations?

Erik Bernhardsson

I just answered a Quora question about what, if any, are the differences in the algorithms that are behind recommendations for music and movies. Of course, every media type is different. For instance, there’s fundamental reasons why latent factor models works really well for music and movies, as opposed to location recommendations where I suspect graph based models are more powerful.

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What are the Benefits of Ruby on Rails? After Two Decades of Programming, I Use Rails

Toptal

Sometimes I hear people complaining about their clients, saying that they insist on using Rails, that they've had too much Kool Aid. If they are recruiters, they almost feel sick in the stomach from perspective of having to find yet another ROR primadona. From the programmers point of view it sometimes looks like clients don't have a clue. However, I believe most clients know their options just fine and they still decide to go with Rails.

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Build Your Leadership Prototype

Let's Grow Leaders

'Your journey toward authentic leadership involves evolution and revolution. You’re in what LinkedIn Founder, Reid Hoffman, calls the state of permanent beta. But, what’s your ideal leadership prototype? What are you working on becoming? Not some textbook leadership prototype, or what someone else wants you to be. Build your prototype of your leadership at it’s very [.

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Seven Interviews to Help You Implement Change in Your Organization

Change Starts Here

'Since The Change Agent’s Dilemma radio show is taking a break this month, here is a recap of the seven episodes that have aired so far this year. Click the play button below each description to listen to that episode. Gaining Agreement on a Blueprint for Change. Guest: Martha Greenway, former Deputy Superintendent of Fulton County Schools in Georgia.

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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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3D

Erik Bernhardsson

Andy Sloane decided to call my 2D visualization and raise it to 3D. (Looks a little weird in the iframe but check out the link). It’s based on a LDA model with 200 topics, so the artists tend to stick to clusters where each cluster is a topic. The embedding also uses t-SNE but in three dimensions (obviously).

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Forex Algorithmic Trading: A Practical Tale for Engineers

Toptal

A few years ago, driven by my curiosity, I took my first steps into the world of Forex by creating a demo account and playing out simulations (with fake money) using the Meta Trader 4 trading platform. After a week of 'trading', I'd almost doubled my 'money'. Spurred on by my own success, I dug deeper and eventually signed up for a number of forums.

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Frontline Festival August: Energy and Engagement

Let's Grow Leaders

'I’m delighted to present the August edition of the Frontline Festival. Thought leaders around the world share their insights on energy and engagement. I am inspired and grateful for these amazing contributions. Managing Personal Energy and Engagement Jesse Lynn Stoner of the Seapoint Center, shares 7 Ways to Increase Your Own Engagement and Satisfaction Are you concerned about the [.

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Bogons: Do not let them in or through your networks

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley Vogon’s are not bogons, but look like them. With this post we will dive a bit deeper into bogosity in networks, paying particular attention to the fundamental element of bogosity, the Bogon. We will then articulate a use case for the Centripetal Networks RuleGate which can ensure bogons never get to your enterprise. As a prelude let me first say there is a very high likelihood that your ISP is sending bogons your way right now, using the bandwidth you paid for to do so.

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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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2D embedding of 5k artists = WIN

Erik Bernhardsson

I’m at KDD in Chicago for a few days. We have a Spotify booth tomorrow, and I wanted to put together some cool graphics to show. I’ve been thinking about doing a 2D embedding of the top artists forever since I read about t-SNE and other papers so this was a perfect opportunity to spend some time on it. So – I spent a couple of hours taking the lower dimensionality representation of all artists, plugging it into the C++ implementation they provide, then using matplotlib to render something cool.

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Think You Need a Friend? Actually, You Need a Mentor!

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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How Leaders Can Get to the Truth

Next Level Blog

'One of the great challenges in taking on a more senior leadership role is staying plugged in to what’s really going on. All too often, leaders are blindsided because the people on their team tell them what they think they want to hear rather than what they really need to hear – the truth about what is actually going on. In this brief interview with "Out Think" author Shawn Hunter, he shares what a literal life or death situation from recent history can teach leaders about the importance of gett

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CTOlabs publishes White Paper on Empowering Analysts With Big Data

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com , has just announced a white paper titled “ Empowering Analysts with Big Data.” This paper, the results of four years of study and assessments and use case review focused on the use of Big Data in the federal government, provides design tips, concepts of operation and overarching design requirements which can inform any big data sol

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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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2D embedding of 5k artists = WIN

Erik Bernhardsson

I’m at KDD in Chicago for a few days. We have a Spotify booth tomorrow, and I wanted to put together some cool graphics to show. I’ve been thinking about doing a 2D embedding of the top artists forever since I read about t-SNE and other papers so this was a perfect opportunity to spend some time on it. So – I spent a couple of hours taking the lower dimensionality representation of all artists, plugging it into the C++ implementation they provide, then using matplotlib to render something cool.

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Essential Tips when Launching your First E-Commerce Website

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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How to Measure Learning Programs Using the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model

Nathan Magnuson

'All of a sudden you get put in charge of building a new training course for your organization. It could be leadership training, professional training or technical training. Doesn’t matter. So you do the hard work of analyzing the learning needs, developing objectives, designing content, coordinating the event and finally delivering the course.

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More Proof DSB Cloud Computing Conclusions Are On Track

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley We previously brought your attention to a Defense Science Board study on Cloud Computing (see: DSB Report on Reliability in a Digital Cloud ). I continue to believe this report captures critically important, actionable information and makes conclusions that should form the underpinning of DoD IT modernization efforts. It is a good read.

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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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Mindful Mondays: Three Things Mindful Leaders Do

Next Level Blog

'How are you feeling as the week begins? Is it a peaceful, easy feeling or something a bit more frantic than that? If there is one common denominator I see in the leaders I work with across a range of industries it’s that most of them would check in on the more frantic and overwhelmed end of the spectrum than the peaceful and easy end of the scale. The irony is that a bit more of the peaceful and easy approach can help lessen the frantic and overwhelmed feeling that a full calendar, inbox and to

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What’s Hot for Startups? [Infographic]

Women on Business

'We''ve Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven''t already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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CIOs Start To Deal With The Problem Of Big Data Backup

The Accidental Successful CIO

'It’s How The CIO puts the pieces together that makes big data valuable Image Credit. The era of big data has arrived. CIOs everywhere are swimming in a sea of data and only now are they starting to get the tools that will allow them to make sense of what they have. It turns out that there is another problem that has arrived at the same time and right now there is not a clear answer to how best to deal with it: how to back up all of that data.