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Survey: C-Suite Execs Trust AI’s Potential but Face Challenges in Strategy, Execution, and Reliability

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A new survey of C-suite executives and AI leaders shows while enterprise decision-makers trust the potential of AI, many lack confidence in their company’s strategy to execute as well as the data readiness to ensure reliability of AI outputs. Moreover, 7 in 10 executives say their AI strategy is not fully aligned to their business strategy today.

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Effective Prompting with A Handful of Fundamentals

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Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

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Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet's most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature.

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Majorana, the search for the most elusive neutrino of all

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Neutrinos may be even stranger than they seem, if indeed they are the only fermions (particles of matter) that are their own antiparticles. Proof would be a rare form of radioactive decay called neutrinoless double-beta decay, which could only be seen if there’s virtually no background interference. The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR now under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota aims to prove these near-perfect conditions can be met.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while

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A non-hormonal, reversible and non-toxic male birth control could be a step closer, with scientists successfully targeting a protein that's crucial in making fertile sperm. Knocking this protein out for a period of time would give men control over their protection window, much like oral contraceptives for women – but without other side effects and no long-lasting fertility issues.

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People spend more when prices end in.99 (2018)

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I once worked at a company that priced everything with a.95 ending. The bestselling software package was $999.95. Add-on products were $9.95, or $19.95, or $49.95. Everything ended with a.95. It had been this way for more than twenty years.

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Rootless Docker in a multi-user environment

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After several months of working with rootless Docker, I think I came up with an approach to implement it in a convenient way that feels just right, and want to share it with you in this short guide.

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The future of foundation models is closed-source

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if the centralizing forces of data and compute hold, open and closed-source AI cannot both dominate long-term

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Talos – An Immutable OS for Kubernetes

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Talos is an operating system for Kubernetes. It is designed to be lightweight, secure, and easy to use. In this article, I will introduce Talos and its features.

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The error term isn't Pareto distributed

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You're probably familiar with the 80-20 rule: when 80% of the X stems from only 20% of the Y. For example, 80% of your revenue comes from only 20% of your customer, or 80% of the logs that you're storing are generated from only 20% of the services.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. By connecting your product’s journey with the company’s financial success, you’ll ensure that every feature, release, and innovation contributes to the bottom line, driving both customer satisfaction and business growth.

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Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Study Reveals

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Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body's epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests.

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'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

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Live facial recognition is becoming increasingly common on UK high streets. Should we be worried?

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Lessons from the Trenches on Reproducible Evaluation of Language Models

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Effective evaluation of language models remains an open challenge in NLP. Researchers and engineers face methodological issues such as the sensitivity of models to evaluation setup, difficulty of proper comparisons across methods, and the lack of reproducibility and transparency. In this paper we draw on three years of experience in evaluating large language models to provide guidance and lessons for researchers.

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When Open Source turns sour: A brush with mistaken identity

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Public shaming is common online, but in Open Source the reliance on reputation and collaboration makes it especially damaging to contributors.

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What Is Entity Resolution? How It Works & Why It Matters

Entity Resolution Sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, entity resolution, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits. Advanced entity resolution using AI is crucial because it efficiently and easily solves many of today’s data quality and analytics problems.

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How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science

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The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery.

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The Route of a Text Message (2019)

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[Note: Find the more polished, professionally illustrated version of this piece at Motherboard|Vice!] This is the third post in my full-stack dev (f-s d) series on the secret life of data.

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UltraNet: Revisiting Ultrasound

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Imagine a world where all the intelligent devices around you could seamlessly link together, sharing skills and distributing workloads through ultrasonic waves inaudible to humans. A decentralized cloud of ambient intelligence, woven into the fabric of our surroundings yet fluidly reconfigurable. This is the idea of UltraNet.

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Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

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Google’s AI Overview launch showcases that the race for AI domination is perilous.

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The AI Superhero Approach to Product Management

Speaker: Conrado Morlan

In this engaging and witty talk, industry expert Conrado Morlan will explore how artificial intelligence can transform the daily tasks of product managers into streamlined, efficient processes. Using the lens of a superhero narrative, he’ll uncover how AI can be the ultimate sidekick, aiding in data management and reporting, enhancing productivity, and boosting innovation.

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The Fall of the House of Etsy

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The beloved marketplace set out to disrupt the monotony of home goods gifting. Now its platform no longer feels differentiated. What happened?

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Last Hours of an Organ Donor

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In the liminal time when the brain is dead but organs are kept alive, there is an urgent tenderness to medical care

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Phobos photometric properties from Mars Express HRSC observations

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This study aims to analyze Phobos' photometric properties using Mars Express mission observations to support the Martian Moons eXploration mission. We analyzed resolved images of Phobos acquired between 2004 and 2022 by the HRSC and the SRC cameras on board the Mars Express spacecraft. We performed photometric analysis using the Hapke model for both integrated and disk-resolved data.

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Archaeologists Found an 'Anomaly' Near the Pyramids – May Reveal Ancient Portal

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New findings beneath the desert floor hint at entrances to long-lost chambers.

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Provide Real Value in Your Applications with Data and Analytics

The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.

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Abusing Go's Infrastructure

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I apologize if this information is already known, but I couldn’t find any references about it and I wanted to understand what was going on and share with you because I think there is some value doing it. In case this wasn’t known, I apologize to the Go team for not talking to them first and jumping the full disclosure gun (I don’t think it’s that severe).

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The new visa fees for foreign artists are out. This is not good

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When an artist wants to tour the US, they need to apply for a special visa. That application has to be made weeks and months in advance.

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`tmux` is worse is better

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tmux (short for “terminal mux” (short for “multiplexer”)) is i3 for your terminal. Oh, it’s so much more than that, and I recently discovered with some joy that it is installed by default on OpenBSD, but its fundamental value add to any programmer who has to SSH into servers more than once a week is it allows you to split your screen up into multiple independent shells without needing a graphical environment at all.

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Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder

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Regulators have avoided the problem for too long

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Digital Adoption Platform Fundamentals: The Key To Product Innovation And Elevated CX

Speaker: Pulkit Agrawal

As digital transformation advances at a rapid pace, Digital Adoption Platforms (DAPs) have become essential tools for enhancing user experiences and redefining product management strategies. DAPs are no-code solutions that integrate seamlessly with various technologies, and by fostering user adoption, these platforms help organizations maximize the potential of their tech investments.

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Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included

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A terminal workspace with batteries included

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Kombucha-associated microbes alter host metabolism & suppress lipid accumulation

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Author summary Kombucha is a popular fermented tea that has been purported to have many human health benefits, including protection against metabolic diseases like diabetes and obesity. These health benefits are thought to be conferred by the probiotic microbes found in Kombucha Tea, which includes both bacterial and yeast species, that may be able to colonize the human intestine and alter host physiology.

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Mistral Fine-Tune

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Contribute to mistralai/mistral-finetune development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success

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Reflections on a Wall Street legend.

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Deliver Mission Critical Insights in Real Time with Data & Analytics

In the fast-moving manufacturing sector, delivering mission-critical data insights to empower your end users or customers can be a challenge. Traditional BI tools can be cumbersome and difficult to integrate - but it doesn't have to be this way. Logi Symphony offers a powerful and user-friendly solution, allowing you to seamlessly embed self-service analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting directly into your applications.