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How Blockchain Can Boost the Security of Mobile Application

OTS Solutions

How Blockchain Can Boost the Security of Mobile Application. If you are wondering how Blockchain technology can enhance the security of mobile application, you are in the right place. For you to be able to enjoy maximum benefits, of Blockchain, get a proper understanding of all the functionalities and how it is fit for mobile applications. The functionality of your app does not have to match with bitcoin, but you can be safe while transferring funds.

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Humans and the machine: Machine learning in context

O'Reilly Media - Data

Jean-François Puget explains why human context should be embraced as a guide to building better and smarter systems. Continue reading Humans and the machine: Machine learning in context.

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Get Things Done – Leading When Life Isn’t Fair

Let's Grow Leaders

Get Things Done by Changing Your Question Sara leaned back, crossed her arms, and sighed. “It’s not right! My VP expects me to hit these numbers, but customers want updates, and research is focused on new products and won’t give me the […]. The post Get Things Done – Leading When Life Isn’t Fair appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Migrating your front-end to React, step by step.

Xebia

Around you, small companies and startups are using React. Taking advantage of React's composable architecture and modern tooling, they put out new features at a speed you could only dream of. You'd like to start using React as well, or perhaps you already introduced it for some small components. But you simply can't afford to […]. The post Migrating your front-end to React, step by step. appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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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So You Want to Be a Change Practitioner. Where Do You Start?

Change Starts Here

I often meet people who want to move into change management from another job, and they ask me, where do I start? The good news is that most of the people I know who do change work full time didn’t start there. When you’re in school, you typically don’t recognize that it would be necessary […].

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Don't Scale an Unprofitable Business: Why Unit Economics (Still) Matter

Toptal

With venture funding having grown more than 120% in the US in the last five years, startup founders and investors alike have grown increasingly comfortable with low margin business models. But the successes of the Amazons and Facebooks of this world often mask failure in a slew of other sectors, where the "build it and they will come" model doesn't always work.

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Culture Matters: DTR and Your New Hire’s First Year

Let's Grow Leaders

Think back to your first twelve months at your company. I imagine you spent a lot of time thinking about the culture and how you fit in. Your new hires are doing that too. There’s a lot to consider before they can […]. The post Culture Matters: DTR and Your New Hire’s First Year appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Business Justification and the Project Lifecycle

SCRUMstudy

Business justification demonstrates the reasons for undertaking a project. It answers the question “Why is this project needed?” Business justification drives all decision making related to a project. So, it is important to assess the viability and achievability of a project not only before committing to significant expenditures or investment at initial stages of the project but also to verify the business justification for continuance throughout the project’s lifecycle.

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The Paradise Papers: Behind the scenes with the ICIJ

O'Reilly Media - Data

Pierre Romera explores the challenges in making 1.4 TB of data securely available to journalists all over the world. Continue reading The Paradise Papers: Behind the scenes with the ICIJ.

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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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Everyday Threats That Can Fool Even The Savviest Of Techies

CTOvision

If you consider yourself an expert in cybersecurity - or even if you’re somewhat knowledgeable about how to protect yourself online, you probably won’t fall for the standard Nigerian prince email scam. Enter your bank account information below, and we’ll send you a whole bunch of money. Those kinds of tricks are old news, and [.].

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Master Your Craft with These Top UX Tools

Toptal

When having the right UX tools is the crucial difference between having a highly effective design workflow, and one that’s slow and unproductive, it’s important to stay up to date with the latest tools.

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Improvement Boards

Allen Holub

The original version of this post had the tag #NoRetrospectives in the title, but I got tired of the flak and removed it. My intent was to be a bit provocative and to get people thinking about how we can do better than a biweekly retrospective.

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When to KISS

O'Reilly Media - Data

Zubin Siganporia explains how the KISS principle (“Keep It Simple, Stupid”) applies to solving problems and convincing end-users to adopt data-driven solutions to their challenges. Continue reading When to KISS.

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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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Intelligent Process Automation: The 4 Levels of AI-Enablement

CTOvision

Today’s knowledge workers are like the office workers of yesterday. They spend their time in email, on the phone, in various desktop and online apps and websites dealing with customers, suppliers, employees, partners, and internal stakeholders. Much of the time is spent dealing with various systems to shuffle information from one place to another, or [.].

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Styled-Components: CSS-in-JS Library for the Modern Web

Toptal

While preprocessors like Sass and Less have made CSS development easier, there is still a lot to be desired in this modern age of web development. In this article, Toptal Freelance JavaScript Developer Jeremy Davis explores styled-components—the niftiest CSS-in-JS library.

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Earned Value Analysis for Justification of Continuous Value

SCRUMstudy

Business justification demonstrates the reasons for undertaking a project. It answers the question “Why is this project needed?” Business justification drives all decision making related to a project. So, it is important to assess the viability and achievability of a project not only before committing to significant expenditures or investment at initial stages of the project but also to verify the business justification for continuance throughout the project’s lifecycle.

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Highlights from the Strata Data Conference in London 2018

O'Reilly Media - Data

Watch highlights covering machine learning, GDPR, data protection, and more. From the Strata Data Conference in London 2018. Experts from across the data world came together for the Strata Data Conference in London. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. Charting a data journey to the cloud. Mick Hollison, Sven Löffler, and Robert Neumann explain how Deutsche Telekom is harnessing machine learning and analytics in the cloud to build Europe’s largest IoT data marketplace.

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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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Automation is Not Intelligence

CTOvision

You know you’re in the middle of a hype cycle when every industry has products that use some buzzword, regardless of whether or not they have the technical merit or legitimacy to actually use that buzzword. This is where we currently are with regards to the market for Artificial Intelligence (AI) products and services. Cognilytica [.].

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Sharpen Your Skills: The Value of Multidisciplinary Design

Toptal

Want to become a phenomenal designer? Take a multidisciplinary design approach and study the methods of other design disciplines.

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4 Weekly Rituals to Implement to Improve Your Company’s Culture

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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Charting a data journey to the cloud

O'Reilly Media - Data

Mick Hollison, Sven Löffler, and Robert Neumann explain how Deutsche Telekom is harnessing machine learning and analytics in the cloud to build Europe’s largest IoT data marketplace. Continue reading Charting a data journey to the cloud.

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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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Seems Like We Should All Thank Cloudera, Tamr, Zoomdata, Trifacta, Kinetica For Helping GSK Help Humanity

CTOvision

Jessica Davis just published a piece at Information Week reviewing an architecture Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) put in place to help make drug development and fielding faster. Creating new drugs always takes years, and after they are created it takes years more to get them fielded. Mark Ramsey is the chief data officer at GSK. [.].

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Talent is Not a Commodity

Toptal

To drive digital transformation, companies increasingly rely on external resources to build and maintain new products. However, the means by which they source such resources often generate mixed results. In this article, we explore the historical roots of contingent labor sourcing, focusing on IT recruitment. We then share perspective from an executive who lead a recent Fortune 500 digital transformation, during which he adopted an innovative approach to rapidly scale his team of talent.

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Women Leaders: 3 Ways to Break Through the Glass Ceiling – Without Getting Cut

Women on Business

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What to expect at the JupyterCon 2018 Business Summit

O'Reilly Media - Data

One of our goals is to bring Jupyter’s enterprise use cases and practices into one place. We've seen a dramatic shift in Jupyter’s deployment over the past two years: starting with mostly use by individuals, but moving to enterprise production deployments at scale. Even while enterprise use cases for Jupyter tend to share common themes, however, there hasn't been a forum for comparing approaches.

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How Embedded Analytics Helps Product Managers Exceed Their KPIs

Embedded analytics can help you deliver cutting-edge analytics experiences to your end-users that align with KPIs that are critical to the growth and success of your business. Read this eBook to learn how an embedded analytics platform, like Qrvey, can help PMs exceed the following KPIs: Growing revenue while improving customer retention rate Delivering rapid time to value Earning a high net-promoter score Increasing Gross Margin / Profitability Conversion rate from trial to paid Don’t just meet

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Finally a GDPR email that was a pleasure to read (thanks Wickr)

CTOvision

We are all getting sick and tired of hearing about the GDPR. Everyone seems to be writing on this. Every consultancy has lists of steps they recommend, and every vendor articulates why their tech is the one to buy to help you get compliant. Even CTOvision has done our share of writing on this very […].

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Legal Sports Betting: A New Economy Built on Vice

Toptal

In the last Super Bowl when the New England Patriots faced off against the Philadelphia Eagles, Americans bet a staggering $4.76 billion on the game. 97% of that figure was done so illegally. However, this will likely change by the time the next Super Bowl rolls around. In a hotly anticipated move on May 14, 2018, the US Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, paving the way for states to legalize sports betting.

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Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer, Scrum

scruminc

Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer, & Scrum. by JJ Sutherland | May 21, 2018 | Blog. Source: [link]. Janelle Monae is a hard artist to put into a box. Hip Hop? R&B? An Afrofuturist like Sun Ra? Is she like Prince or Annie Lennox or Lauryn Hill? Maybe an apt comparison would be David Bowie, a genre and gender rethinking of the future. Maybe she is the future.

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