Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
I remember in my teens being told of the wonderful things Artificial Intelligence (AI) would do in the next few years. Now several decades later, some of these seem to be happening. The most recent triumph was of computers teaching each other to play Go by playing against each other, rapidly becoming more proficient than any human, with strategies human experts could barely comprehend.
Change Starts Here
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
There are elements of an organization's culture that will either help or hinder change, regardless of the change you're trying to implement. Organizations with cultures that enable change are Change-Ready, while those that work against it are Change-Resistant. Let's take a look at some of the elements of culture that affect change.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
When I started my first HR job at 26, my boss handed me a stack of books and two pieces of advice. (1) Always read what the client is reading and (2) learn to “talk trucks” (meaning, “learn the business, kid.”) Straight […].
Toptal
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Great designers help teams and stakeholders make better decisions by using questions to identify opportunities, reveal underlying needs, and understand user context—all of which lead to better designs.
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.
Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 11, 2017
San Juan and Race for the Galaxy are two of my favorite card games. They have a similar style and heritage, both much influenced by Puerto Rico. I'm happy to own both as San Juan is easier to teach and generally lighter play experience, but Race excels when I'm after more depth.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 11, 2017
Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have […].
Toptal
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Generative adversarial networks, among the most important machine learning breakthroughs of recent times, allow you to generate useful data from random noise. Instead of training one neural network with millions of data points, you let two neural networks contest with each other to figure things out. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Cody Nash gives us an overview of how GANs work and how this class of machine learning algorithms can be used to generate data in data-limited sit
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Software engineering is still a young discipline. Until the Agile Manifesto challenged the accepted waterfall-based development model, software creation borrowed most of its processes from that of hardware. But those older, hardware-like methodologies failed to take advantage of software’s biggest benefit: that it’s soft. What has emerged in the last 15 to 20 years is […].
Michal Komorowski
NOVEMBER 12, 2017
After 10 years of working for smaller and bigger companies I decided to join as Chief Scientific Officer a start-up called PlatformX. I'll not exaggerate saying that it's the most interesting and challenging project I've ever worked in. Our goal is to automate the process of developing software. In other words we want to create an artifical intelligence a.k.a.
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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.
Women on Business
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
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Toptal
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Web design is changing. Minimalist web design has been the reigning approach for years, but brutalist design is gaining in popularity. Despite its inelegant clutter and raw functionality, brutalist design may be taking over the web.
Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
When was the last time you were bored? I’m willing to bet that you can’t remember. If I’m right, it’s because, in 2017, no one ever has to be bored. That smartphone super computer you carry around in your pocket guarantees it. Don’t know what to do next? There’s always an Instagram feed to look at, a text to answer, an email to delete, a podcast to listen to, a cat video to watch, a news headline to click on or a Minecraft challenge to beat.
Steve Farber
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
The German poet and novelist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe seemed to understand a thing or two about the importance of close relationships with like-minded people. Consider this translated line from his Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, von Goethe’s novel about a businessman’s journey of self-realization: “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth
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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.
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Last week, Apple released its latest Diversity Report. Apple claims that from July 2016 to July 2017, half of its new hires in the U.S. were from historically underrepresented groups in tech (including black, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawaiian & women). . In the U.S., Apple is 54 percent white (down two percentage points from last year), 13 percent Hispanic (up one percentage point), 9 percent black (no change), 21 percent Asian (up two percentage points), 3 percent multiracial
Toptal
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Financial purists have long questioned whether corporate, environmental, and social initiatives benefit the bottom line and how to quantify their impact. In this article, we put aside motive—of genuine altruism or self interest—and philosophical debates around moral obligation. Instead, we examine the results of studies around whether corporate responsibility initiatives positively impact profitability, examples of companies that have implemented such measures successfully, and recommendations f
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
How CRM's Are Creating Time For High Priority Tasks Customer Relationship Management (CRM) provides a business with centralized application software to carry out its daily activities. The software manages a business, tracks customers, identifies a target market, receives customer feedback, analyzes data, tracks sales, manages tasks and documents, ensures sales mobility and facilitates social media […].
ShepHertz
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Ever since online marketing began, emails were the most effective means of marketing channel until push notifications arrived and changed everything few years ago. But over these years, apps have become overcrowded and people get too many notifications on their […]. The post 5 Reasons Emails Will Dominate Marketing Channels in 2018 appeared first on ShepHertz App42 Blog.
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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.
Mike Roberts
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Scaling and State This is Part 9 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. To be alerted about future installments subscribe to our newsletter , follow Symphonia on twitter @symphoniacloud , and our blog at The Symphonium. So far in this series we’ve only been talking about processing a small number of events with Lambda, one after the other.
Toptal
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Donald Knuth said that "premature optimization is the root of all evil." But there comes a time, usually in mature projects with high loads, when the need to optimize presents itself. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Iulian Gulea talks about five common methods to optimize a web project’s code using principles that can be used in Django as well as other frameworks and languages.
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
With this post, we are initializing our coverage of Garrison Technology, a revolutionary provider of ultra-secure web browsing. Internet access for government employees presents one of the gravest threats to enterprise cyber security today. Compromises on federal networks via spear phishing, watering hole attacks and drive-by-downloads permits cyber attackers ranging from criminals to nation states […].
ShepHertz
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Ever since online marketing began, emails were the most effective means of marketing channel until push notifications arrived and changed everything few years ago. But over these years, apps have become overcrowded and people get too many notifications on their […].
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“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.
Mike Roberts
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Cold Starts This is Part 8 of Learning Lambda, a tutorial series about engineering using AWS Lambda. To see the other articles in this series please visit the series home page. To be alerted about future installments subscribe to our newsletter , follow Symphonia on twitter @symphoniacloud , and our blog at The Symphonium. In this installment of Learning Lambda I discuss Cold Starts.
Toptal
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Embedded systems are everywhere we look. As these systems continue to permeate life for consumers and entire industries, businesses are increasingly finding themselves up against a severe talent shortage. This article explores the benefits of using agile talent in building embedded systems expertise, as well as how some of the commonly touted challenges in doing so can be overcome.
BPM
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
BPM.com's Peter Schooff and Fujitsu North America's Keith Swanson continue their discussion. In this excerpt from the podcast, they talk about the migration to cloud based services, and the necessity to focus on the GOAL of process when first starting out.
Coalfire
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Whether you need to upgrade your firewalls on-premise or in the cloud, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) can significantly reduce the risks associated with the modern threat landscape. Since attacks have evolved using techniques such as encryption, polymorphism, etc., firewalls have also evolved to protect against some of the most sophisticated attacks.
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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.
The Accidental Successful CIO
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Sometimes life can get to be just too much for us Image Credit: Joselito Tagarao. Can we talk about THOSE days? You know the ones that I’m talking about – the ones that just show up and slap you in the face. They may start out just fine, but all too soon they turn into monster days where everyone wants a piece of us and there seems to be no time for us to get the things done that we know that we need to get done because of the importance of information technology.
Toptal
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Since their emergence in the early 2000s, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) have been met with both curiosity and trepidation, existing somewhere between return-maximizing asset manager and clandestine government agency. This article takes us into the $7.4 trillion world of the SWF, shedding light on objectives, ambitions, and mandates as well as allocation strategies.
Cloudera
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
What’s more terrifying, knowing that you just lost your identity or unknowingly being manipulated? While they both seem awful, they are the reality of the digital world that we live in, just look at the news. With countless articles discussing the recent Equifax hack where thousands of social security numbers were compromised to organizations like Facebook, Google, and Twitter coming forward with Russian accounts that were buying ads to influence US elections.
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