Coding Horror
MAY 20, 2016
I've been happy with my 2016 HTPC , but the situation has changed, largely because of something I mentioned in passing back in November: The Xbox One and PS4 are effectively plain old PCs , built on: Intel Atom class (aka slow) AMD 8-core x86 CPU. 8 GB RAM. AMD Radeon 77xx / 78xx GPUs. cheap commodity 512GB or 1TB hard drives (not SSDs). The golden age of x86 gaming is well upon us.
General Leadership
MAY 20, 2016
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leaders set high standards and refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. Brian Tracy. Recently I was teaching a leadership course and the discussion migrated to the topic of moving out the 10% of the organization who need to go.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 20, 2016
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival gives tips about professional development for leaders. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about favorite apps and technology. What tools do you use to stay productive?
Toptal
MAY 19, 2016
Clustering algorithms are very important to unsupervised learning and are key elements of machine learning in general. These algorithms give meaning to data that are not labelled and help find structure in chaos. But not all clustering algorithms are created equal; each has its own pros and cons. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Lovro Iliassich explores a heap of clustering algorithms, from the well known K-Means algorithm to the elegant, state-of-the-art Affinity Propagation
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.
CTOvision
MAY 17, 2016
Bob Gourley. There are seven key MegaTrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the first of these trends, Cloud Computing.
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CloudScaling
MAY 17, 2016
After OpenStack, the number one topic that I get asked about these days is containers and their prospects for the enterprise and cloud-native applications. The prospect of containers replacing hypervisors such as VMware ESX or Linux KVM (the default for most OpenStack deployments) is of keen interest to many. Yet, there is confusion. Many people can’t distinguish the difference between containers and VMs.
Toptal
MAY 19, 2016
Do you have what it takes to travel the globe while working full-time? Can you work on the road while still finding enough time to take care of yourself and enjoy the adventures of travel? It’s not a lifestyle for everyone, but it’s probably not as tricky or demanding as you think, especially when you have a sense of purpose. In this article, Toptal Director of Operations Dror Liebenthal explains how to enjoy the nomadic lifestyle without compromising your professional performance, health, or so
CTOvision
MAY 17, 2016
Rick Delgado. When we think of virtual reality, it usually relates to video games and general entertainment, but technology is doing more than just giving the masses a chance to live roleplay as a superhero -- it’s helping us with our health. VR has been in action for longer than you’d imagine, with its hands in healthcare even decades ago. New advances in VR and for flash storage array are making it more realistic and more applicable to those with social disorders, mental traumas, and even to d
Women on Business
MAY 16, 2016
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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.
Steve Farber
MAY 19, 2016
Next week I’ll be speaking in New Orleans at the American Wind Energy Association ‘s annual meeting. And since “ Generate Energy ” is an Extreme Leadership practice, I think I’ll be in good company. The Wind Energy world is fascinating and particularly timely. Here’s how the association puts it: US is the world’s number one wind energy producer. “Today’s generation is more attuned to the economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy than
Toptal
MAY 18, 2016
Software engineers are always searching for the best tools and guides to help them be more productive and allow them to spend less time reading long technical specifications. Today, Toptal is pleased to present a new resource to the community: the JavaScript Cheat Sheet - ES6 and Beyond. Toptal's JavaScript Cheat Sheet is a quick, easily understandable reference guide.
CTOvision
MAY 20, 2016
Bob Gourley. We have just updated the CTOvision Mobile application to take advantage of hot new design styles and more of the features today's enterprise technologists expect in a mobile app. The upgrade is available for for iPhone , iPad and Android users. The application focuses on content we create for technologists, so you will find our blog content and tech write-ups featured prominently in the app.
Women on Business
MAY 15, 2016
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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.
Nathan Magnuson
MAY 16, 2016
For years I’ve been asked for book recommendations. I always take them seriously because I wouldn’t be the leader I am without my library. It’s been a huge part of my leadership education. As a senior in college, I started reading business bestsellers to see how they compared with my textbooks. When I joined the workforce, I quickly started noticing positive and negative organizational dynamics I had “seen” before in the books – and I knew what needed to chang
Next Level Blog
MAY 16, 2016
One of the more revealing regular features in The New York Times is a little story they run each week called Sunday Routine. In it, someone, usually famous or notable in some way, walks the reader through what a typical Sunday in New York City is like for them. Quite often they have packed so many activities into their Sunday that I leave with the impression that what they’ve actually described is their fantasy of a perfect 48 hour Sunday in New York rather than what they really do.
CTOvision
MAY 20, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The creators of iPhone's Siri have now created Viv , a personal assistant. Powered by artificial intelligence and an unprecedented amount of data, Viv could be the first step to connecting every service and business to the Internet. With Nuance Communications technology, the sounds a person makes are converted into on-screen words, which enables Viv to understand what the person is saying.
Women on Business
MAY 17, 2016
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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.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 16, 2016
Thanks to the Industrial Age we (still) live in a world where most companies hire employees. They look for people with the right education, who have been trained with the right skills to do their job.
Cutter Consortium
MAY 17, 2016
Cutter’s Senior Consultants are experts in training management teams how to both meet the needs of the Agile development organization and pursue the strategic goals of the business. At the end of this two-day Agile Management session, your executives and managers will know how to balance empowerment with governance, align goals and metrics up and down the organization, and determine the exact amount of agility (or stability!
CTOvision
MAY 16, 2016
Bob Gourley. We organize and report on the megatrends of enterprise IT in seven major categories. You can easily remember these categories by the simple mnemonic acronym Cambric. Cambric stands for: C loud Computing. A rtificial Intelligence. M obility. B ig Data. R obotics. I nternet of Things. C yberSecurity. Advances in these seven technologies are closely interrelated.
Women on Business
MAY 18, 2016
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The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 18, 2016
Airline CIOs are going to have to make some tough in-flight internet decisions Image Credit: Christopher Doyle. Back in the day, airline passengers could be assured that their time in the air meant that they had an excuse to unplug and step away from the constant need to do more and more work. Since they could not be connected to the Internet when they were in flight , they were released from their obligations.
Jeremiah Grossman
MAY 17, 2016
Security budgets are always extremely tight, so it’s smart to get the absolute best price possible from your security vendors. Never ever pay full price, or even take the first quote vendors give you. That price just sets the stage and it’s best to think of it as the ‘dummy price,’ so don’t pay it! I’ve spent nearly two decades sitting at the price negotiation table in the security industry and seen all manner of techniques customers use successfully to win discounts, and more people should use
CTOvision
MAY 20, 2016
Katie Kennedy. Moving to the cloud is not a seamless transition for most organizations. There are ways to make it much easier, however. How do you do that? You learn lessons from those that have been engaged in this effort, paying the most attention to those that have successful execution of transitions under their belt. Carahsoft recently hosted a fantastic webinar featuring three who have fantastic insights and lessons to share on this topic.
Professor Beekums
MAY 15, 2016
I’m a big believer in agile software development. One major part of that is being able to determine a team’s development velocity (a.k.a. how fast the team works) in a period of time. The naive approach is to use straight up time estimates. Task A will take me 4 hours, task B will take me 2 days, task C will take me 5 minutes, etc. Decades of late projects has served as empirical evidence that this does not work.
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Kentik
MAY 16, 2016
Using the Data Explorer API for Added-value Content. Kentik Detect™ is a powerful solution that ingests and stores large volumes of network data on a per device, per customer basis. The data is stored in the Kentik Data Engine™, a timeseries database that unifies flow records (NetFlow v5/9, IPFIX, sFlow) with BGP, Geo-IP, and SNMP. Information stored in KDE can be utilized for a variety of use cases, including network traffic engineering, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) detection, BGP traff
Jeremiah Grossman
MAY 18, 2016
A couple times a week, people I may or may not know reach out to me for help because they’re experiencing some kind of computer security catastrophe. Sometimes the situation is serious, other times not. They might be dealing with an online bank account takeover, online scam, data breach, malware infection, identity theft, and the list goes on and on from there.
CTOvision
MAY 20, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Viv, Your Personal Assistant. Cooper Standard Adds Former General Dynamics Exec Sonya Sepahban to Board of Directors. 2016 FCW Rising Star Awards Call for Nominations Now Open - Press Release Rocket. General Michael Hayden to Deliver Keynote Address at Gigamon Federal Cybersecurity Summit - SYS-CON Media (press release). a16z Podcast: Innovation vs.
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