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From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning

CTOvision

The conversation around Artificial Intelligence usually revolves around technology-focused topics: machine learning, conversational interfaces, autonomous agents, and other aspects of data science, math, and implementation. However, the history and evolution of AI is also inextricably linked with waves of innovation and research breakthroughs that run headfirst into economic and technology roadblocks.

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6 cybersecurity trends we’re thankful for

The Parallax

You might think of cybersecurity professionals as tech’s collective “ watchers on the wall ”—the guardians who let you know when doom is coming. With that perspective, you might find it hard to believe that hackers, security researchers, and other cybersecurity experts have much to be thankful for, or to look forward to. Certainly, we’ve recently been bombarded by alarming or depressing news in the cybersecurity and privacy arena, from new scams exploiting hacked passwords to hacks of 30 million

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The best patch management strategy for 2019

TechTalk

Patch management causes headaches. Just ask any IT manager or sysadmin! How do you keep all your systems patched against the never ending onslaught of security vulnerabilities?

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20 Simple Business Ideas For Programmers

The Crazy Programmer

Having a programming knowledge can bring you much more advantage than you could imagine. You can develop your own products, websites, and help out other people who are in trouble with their tech. Or you can simply sell computers. Here you’ll find 20 simple business ideas for a programmer like you. Image credit: Arif Riyanto. Blogging About Technology.

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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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Updated refactoring.com for second edition

Martin Fowler

With the new edition of my book on refactoring getting close to the bookshelves, I've spent some time to update refactoring.com. I've changed the visual design, put together a new home page to summarize what refactoring is, and updated the catalog.

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Agile Toolkit

Xebia

Pull coaching Traditional Agile Coaching goes like this: we take a look at what you are doing and we advise you what we think is a good next step in your growth and Agile Maturity. These next steps are supported by exercises, simulations, insights and experience that come from our own personal Agile Backpack. […]. The post Agile Toolkit appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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How to Fetch Data from Template Forms to Views in Django

The Crazy Programmer

In this tutorial, we’ll see how we can fetch text/data from HTML forms in our templates to views.py to process it and then send that data to another html page. Before starting, let’s have a look on our project folder that what files we have and in what directory these files are stored. Here we’ve home.html in our templates and views.py in my_website directory in our project folder.

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Choosing the Right CRM Platform for Your Business

OTS Solutions

Choosing the Right CRM Platform for Your Business. A customer relationship management (CRM) system is imperative to improve your business. Before you select one, you should keep in mind a number of aspects from your overall goals and features to application integration and reports. Problem to Solve. It is important to note that not all CRM programs are ideal for each business.

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Different or Better?

Let's Grow Leaders

Have you ever noticed the radically different approaches people take to preparing Thanksgiving dinner? Scott might order the whole thing from a caterer just to have it done. Jenny asks what they can bring, then shows up early with extra, and offers […]. The post Different or Better? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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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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5 ways cloud computing will change in the next year

CTOvision

No longer a brand new technology, cloud computing is entering its “young adult years,” according to a Forrester report. The cloud does not function simply as a temporary server anymore, with innovative analytics, machine learning, messaging, Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities, and database services all integrated today, said the report.

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As a JS Developer, This Is What Keeps Me Up at Night

Toptal

JavaScript is an oddball of a language with numerous approaches to almost any problem. When ES6 added the "class" keyword, did it save the day or just muddy the waters? In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Justen Robertson explores OOP in modern JS.

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Building tools for enterprise data science

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Vitaly Gordon on the rise of automation tools in data science. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Vitaly Gordon , VP of data science and engineering at Salesforce. As the use of machine learning becomes more widespread, we need tools that will allow data scientists to scale so they can tackle many more problems and help many more people.

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Why and How Women Make Successful Franchise Owners

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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“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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Reducing the risk of targeted phishing attacks

CTOvision

For us the big way to reduce the chance of targeted phishing attacks is to use the email by a major cloud provider like Google or Microsoft, and configure it appropriately. But we should all keep looking for tips. Read John Randall’s article about how small and medium businesses could reduce the risk of targeted […].

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Less is More – Using Lean UX to Assess Product Viability

Toptal

How do product teams avoid wasting months of valuable time building something no one wants? Apply the iterative validation principles of Lean UX and create products that their end-users actually need.

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You Better Watch Out: Online and Offline Threats Endanger Payment Card Data

Symantec

Cyber attackers are using old tricks and new to steal customers’ payment card details from retailers this shopping season.

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How to develop self-healing apps: 4 key patterns

TechBeacon

Self-healing applications sound futuristic. The phrase conjures images of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms adjusting complex processes. But while machine learning may be the next big thing in the tech industry, you don’t need any AI at all to build applications that heal themselves.

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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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A New AWS Snowball Edge Provides The Power Of The Cloud In Disconnected Environments

CTOvision

For the last decade enterprise architects have all known the importance of engineering continuous connectivity to cloud services. If you want to use the cloud you have to have a path to it. For parts of the enterprise who may operate at the edge, where connectivity can be an issue, it has been hard to […].

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Trello vs. Jira: Compared From A Developer’s Perspective

Toptal

Project management tools have dramatically transformed the way software is engineered, but which one should you use, and when? In this article, Toptal Freelance Developer Juan Carlos Arias Ambriz outlines the differences between Jira and Trello and explains how you should choose between them.

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Open Banking and Financial APIs: How to Integrate Your Company with the Digital Financial Ecosystem

Altexsoft

The financial services industry is one of the most regulated sectors of the world economy. Bank secrecy, security terms, the lack of trust in technology, and strict regulations slow down industry development from the tech perspective. As result, the industry with its broad potential for digital development significantly underutilizes its opportunities, especially in terms of customer experience and data sharing.

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PHP 5.6 end of life approaching: How to ensure support and security

Zend

Community support for PHP 5.6 ends on December 31, 2018. Ensure your applications continue to run in a secure, compliant, and supported environment. The post PHP 5.6 end of life approaching: How to ensure support and security appeared first on The Zend Blog.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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The Bill Codifying The New Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Is Short and Sweet

CTOvision

The nation has a new federal agency. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was created out of several existing organizations within the DHS. The CISA was codified by a law signed by the President on 16 November 2018. I read what DHS said about CISA (see more here). Then thought I should spend a […].

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Design Talks: Emotionally Intelligent Design with Pamela Pavliscak

Toptal

In the first of our Toptal Design Talks series, futurist Pamela Pavliscak discusses how emotions are deeply integrated into digital experiences and designers are positioned to facilitate genuine relationships through technology.

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agile42 invests in Cognitive Edge to accelerate thought leadership and innovation

Agile42

Press Release, Berlin and Singapore - November 22, 2018 agile42 and Cognitive Edge are excited to announce that from the 1st of December 2018, Marion Eickmann and Andrea Tomasini, the founders and CEOs of agile42, become major investors in Cognitive Edge. agile42 is a global leader in Agile Transitions, Leadership and organizational change, while Cognitive Edge provides thought leadership in the application of insights from anthropology, neuroscience, and complexity science to organizational cha

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Don’t be Basic – Why You Should Automate IT Starting NOW

Dell EMC

Picture this. You’ve arrived at work in the morning, ready to get going on an important strategic initiative you talked about with your boss last week. It’s a project that energizes you and has huge potential to impact the business. Yet somehow, hours later, you still haven’t started it. Email, mundane reports, repetitive everyday tasks, and unexpected fire drills kept you from the work that really matters.

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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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Artificial intelligence is here to disrupt industries. Are we ready?

CTOvision

Read why Luke McCormack says that AI will disrupt industries and we should be ready for it on HCA Mag : Artificial Intelligence technologies and capabilities are driving digital transformation, growth, and opportunity in nearly every sector. So, why is it that AI can have such a massive impact, and should your organization jump on the […].

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The Rules of Motivation: A Story About Correcting Failed Sales Incentive Schemes

Toptal

Rewards programs and sales incentive schemes are necessary for any business that operates outbound customer acquisition channels. They encourage certain behavior and that, if poorly constructed, can lead to perverse results and conflicting interests. Creating a holistic plan that stimulates positive company-wide behavior is an art that has huge benefits.

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part Two

Accenture

“My Facilitation Problem”. Recently I was conducting a Design Thinking and Agile Learning workshop with a group of seasoned consultants. These types of learning experiences follow similar patterns. They require a skillful application of a series of mini-learning components that build upon each another to provide a metanoia, an “aha” experience that hopefully occurs for the participant at some point during the progression of exercises.

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