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Celebrity chef Michael Chernow whips up new lifestyle brand, Kreatures of Habit, raises $2.2M

TechCrunch

Chernow spent over a year testing the formula, which comes in three flavors, including chocolate, blueberry-banana and vanilla. He is also working with one of his investors, Elevator Studios’ Fleyshman, who Chernow referred to as “the best marketer today.”. Chernow raised $2.2

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How will investors value MetroMile and Oscar Health?

TechCrunch

In the wake of last year’s debuts by neoinsurance companies Lemonade and Root, it’s not surprising to see others test the public markets. Lemonade, for reference, sells rental insurance with an eye on going up-market in time to other forms of home-focused insurance. How the new entrants will fare, however, is not clear.

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Amazon Personalize launches new recipes supporting larger item catalogs with lower latency

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Performance optimization – Amazon Personalize testing showed that v2 recipes improved recommendation accuracy by up to 9% and recommendation coverage by up to 1.8x A solution version refers to a trained ML model. In the Test campaign results section, enter the User ID and choose Get recommendations. Choose Create solution.

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Free Agency CEO seems to care more about control than the company, former employees say

TechCrunch

The New York-based startup launched in 2019 with the novel idea of bringing the talent agency model popular in Hollywood and sports to other professions. Employees felt subject to consistent pressure and loyalty tests which took time away from their actual jobs, former employees said.

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Building Future-Ready Tech Teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Future-proofing is a team-sport, meaning everyone can, and should, play an active role in learning, growing, and innovating. The skills gap refers to the mismatch between the skills that employers are looking for in employees, and the skills those employees possess. – Brian H.

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A scientific approach to debugging

CircleCI

Test it, using existing telemetry or new code, changing one thing at a time. Sometimes, especially for issues that are hard to reproduce, we will realize that we don’t currently have the information to test our hypotheses. Debugging, like programming, works best as a team sport! Form a hypothesis about what happened.

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6 Examples of how Augmented Reality (AR) Transforms Manufacturing

Trigent

As Randall MacPherson, senior manager of Boeing’s Electrical Strategic Fabrication Center in Mesa, Arizona puts it, “We’ve seen significant productivity increases in our wiring harness facility from this technology where we’ve tested it, and it resulted in a substantial improvement to first-time quality.