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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

TechCrunch

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. For example, U.S. ” Meanwhile, Google.org, Google’s charitable arm, will provide $4.25

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7 common IT training mistakes to avoid

CIO

What’s not often discussed, however, are the mistakes IT leaders make when establishing and supervising training programs, particularly when training is viewed as little more than an obligatory task. Is your organization giving its teams the training they need to keep pace with the latest industry developments?

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6 Reasons To Learn Programming If You Are Not A Programmer

The Crazy Programmer

It’s Freedom of Creativity Many people think you need A’s in math to program. Programming is more about logic and creativity. For example, you and your friends jokingly come up with an excellent smartphone game. For example, in The New York Times, more than half of the journalists already know how to program.

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Loft Dynamics raises $20M to tackle pilot shortage with VR training

TechCrunch

Through this, budding pilots can engage in realistic training scenarios, including night-time flying and carrying out proficiency checks, with force-feedback to simulate system failures and other issues. Other companies are using VR simulation to tackle similar workforce shortage problems or otherwise enhance existing training programs.

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V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models

TechCrunch

It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves. But annotating and manipulating that training data takes a lot of time and money, slowing down the work or overall effectiveness, and maybe both. V7 even lays out how the two services compare.)

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How to avoid AI commoditization: 3 tactics for running successful pilot programs

TechCrunch

The real moat is a combination of AI models trained on proprietary data, as well as a deep understanding of how an expert goes about their daily tasks to solve nuanced workflow problems. In highly-regulated industries where outcomes have real-world implications, data storage must pass a high bar of compliance checks.

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Synthetaic raises $3.5M to train AI with synthetic data

TechCrunch

Synthetaic is a startup working to create data — specifically images — that can be used to train artificial intelligence. The startup also validates its results after an AI has been trained on Synthetaic’s synthesized images, by testing that AI on real data. The startup announced today that it has raised $3.5

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