Sat.Oct 21, 2017 - Fri.Oct 27, 2017

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Four Powerful Ways to Get Helpful Feedback From Your Peers

Let's Grow Leaders

I’m sure you ask your boss for feedback. And, I imagine you’re checking in with your direct reports regularly on how you’re doing. If you’re like many managers we work with, you may be less inclined to ask your peers for their […].

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Leadership is Representation

General Leadership

If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. Anonymous. How important is it to represent the organization properly? This question has come to mind in rapid-fire succession these past few weeks as we witness people doing exactly the wrong things while representing their organizations on a daily or weekly basis. I was raised in a family that taught me to always do the right thing because others were watching and you did not want to tarnish the family name.

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Augmented Reality vs. Virtual Reality vs. Mixed Reality – An Introductory Guide

Toptal

Despite having many things in common, virtual, augmented, and mixed reality are not the same. Learn the essential differentiators and design considerations for these promising cousin technologies.

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Number #1 Factor for Career Success: Increased visibility in Your Job

Career Advancement

“The power of visibility can never be underestimated.” ~Margaret Cho~. Zachary Asks: You’ve seen a lot of people climb the ladder of success. And probably some fall back down it. In all that time, what’s the one thing people should know… but probably don’t… that would have the greatest impact on their career? Joel Answers: Great question Zachary. We’ve been programmed that those who work hardest get ahead.

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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.

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5 Top Leadership Articles for the week of October 23, 2017

Let's Grow Leaders

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 […].

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Pearls of Wisdom - The Best Shareholder Letters Nobody Is Reading

Toptal

Equity analysts often leave out an important source of wisdom when analyzing companies—the annual shareholder letter. This article intends to elucidate the purpose and traits of good shareholder letters based on an analysis of the 601 companies in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index. The article will also direct readers to some of the best lesser-known shareholder letters to put on their annual reading list.

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How Does Ireland Measure Up as a Location for Starting Your European Engineering Team?

CTOvision

Editor's note: This guest post by Alan McGlinchey makes a good case for why Ireland should be considered as the location for your European engineering team. Would love to see similar articles submitted for other locations, but so far it seems Alan is building a very compelling case! -bg Europe is a vast, lucrative market […].

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How To Use Agile Results To Realize Your Full Potential

J.D. Meier's Blog

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die.”. — George Bernard Shaw. Were you born for something more? Have you ever really tested and explored the outer limits of your full potential? Imagine if you could learn a new skill, or learn a new language, or even change careers? Imagine if you had a talent that was just waiting to be tapped or a hobby you could turn into how you will put your personal dent in the universe?

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This is Why You Should Learn from Women Leading in Business

Women on Business

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

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.

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Clean Code: Why HTML/CSS Essentials Still Matter

Toptal

In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Tigran Vardanyan covers code styling, essential HTML and CSS practices, and why clean code still matters.

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In Praise Of The (Selectively) Forgetful Leader

Terry Starbucker

Remember this famous quote? “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it” – George Santayana. I’ve heard this one time and time again, and it’s a very powerful message about learning from the past. However, as it pertains to great leadership, I would offer that this quote should be amended: “Those who learn best from wisely selected history are destined to greatness”.

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Three Basic Truths About People That Busy Leaders Should Not Ignore

Next Level Blog

Lately, I’ve been working with a company that’s about to make a big leap. They have a potentially world-changing product and are on the cusp of scaling up in a big way. It’s very exciting stuff. Everyone from the CEO on down is super busy. There is a lot of work to do both internally and externally. With all the demands, time and attention is a scarcer resource than money.

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Not Getting What You Want out of Your Instagram? Here’s What to Do

Women on Business

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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An Introduction to Computability Theory and Complexity

Toptal

What is a computer? What are the limitations of a computer? Are there problems that a computer cannot solve? In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Mehmet Bajin explores the fundamentals of computation and the impact they have on computability and complexity.

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2017 Edition of The Cyber Threat Provides New Insights Into Bad Actors

CTOvision

The Cyber Threat was written to help executives, especially those without a deep background in cybersecurity, understand the nature of adversaries in cyberspace. Now updated for 2017, the book includes a new section on the technological environment that can help decision-makers get their heads around the new tech enabled world arising around us. The book […].

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Finding Yourself Through Failure

Talent Anarchy

Mistakes. I’ve made a few. In fact, I’ve made a whole bunch over the course of my life. Turns out, I’m pretty good at it. I’ve started and failed a couple businesses. My first marriage lasted 20 months before ending in divorce. I totaled my very first car, which my parents had given me for my 16th birthday, four months after I got it.

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New Study Shows Workplace Equality is Still a Thing of the Future: What Working Moms Need to Know

Women on Business

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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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30 Days of Design – A Branding Case Study

Toptal

We’ve all picked up design projects that required us to deliver outstanding results under severe time constraints. This branding case study breaks down the process of how to accomplish it effectively.

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The Complete Guide To Microsoft Dynamics For Business

CTOvision

Digitization, mobile channels and real-time, engaging customer experiences are the norm for enterprise and business these days. Customers not only expect a uniquely crafted journey, but one that meets their needs and preferences. A whopping 75 percent of consumers are more likely to support a retailer that recognizes them by name, and recommends content or […].

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NET Developer Days 2017 - Grand finale

Michal Komorowski

It's time to make the summary of.NET Developer Days 2017. Let's start with the organisation aspects. Here I'll shortly say it was simply good and I cannot complain. The good example showing that organisers really try to make everything ok is a fact that a friend of mine was able to register for the conference just one day before the event (what theoretically was not possible).

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How to Disrupt the Gender Inequality Discussion in 3 Steps

Women on Business

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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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The Hypergrowth Executive

Toptal

Breanden Beneschott, co-founder and COO of Toptal, lays out a cultural framework for achieving and sustaining hypergrowth—sharing concepts that have steered Toptal clients to double- and triple-digit growth over the last seven years.

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Authenticity is an Inside Job

Talent Anarchy

Authenticity is something that happens when I take a good hard run at life. It’s not a goal, aspiration, or destination. I can’t acquire authenticity by saying magic words, doing (or not doing) special things, or trying harder to be more real. Authenticity is more about being comfortable in my own skin, holding the opinions of others lightly, seeing the world clearly, and accepting my own and others’ flawed humanness with compassion.

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Thoughts On Front End Architecture

Professor Beekums

Early in September I decided that I was going to rebuild the front end of my new product. Part of why I made this decision was because I had built my alpha with the intention of rebuilding it. A lot of that decision was because of what I wanted to do with my content pages. I personally dislike most home and content pages. They have a lot of content, but end up saying very little about what the product actually does.

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Down the BadRabbit Hole

Darktrace

This blog post describes the currently circulating ransomware called BadRabbit and how Darktrace’s machine learning technology detects it.

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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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How to Choose the Right Pricing Strategy for Your Business

Toptal

Pricing a product or service is a delicate art, there are many options to choose and the optimal one is never set in stone. In this tutorial, we run down some of the popular methods and how you can select the most appropriate strategy for your business.

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Cybersecurity On Call: Balancing Connectivity and Cybersecurity with Paul Roberts

Cloudera

Our lives continue to become connected, just look at your phone in your pocket. If you have an iPhone 6, for example, you are walking around with a connected device that has nine sensors in it. Nine sensors that are constantly collecting data about you. If you are an Amazon Prime user, chances are you’ve heard of an Amazon Dash Button that connects your Amazon account for 1-click shopping for those “hard to live without” items.

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Kissing Frogs

Distributed Agreement

Maybe retire was too strong a word. To stave off boredom I started reading 4 books (Burroughs Naked Lunch, Tahir Shah’s The Caliphs House, Pinker’s new book The Better Angels of our Nature, and a travel book on Morrocco), making a needlepoint dog, and have signed up for cooking and stand up paddleboard classes.

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