Sat.Jul 06, 2024

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How to Interview and Hire ML/AI engineers

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What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.

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Acrolinx Launches New AI Capabilities To Unlock Enterprise Content Potential

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Acrolinx, a global leader in SaaS enterprise content governance, launched new generative AI capabilities designed to maximize productivity benefits while mitigating the risks that AI poses. After a successful Beta program with over 20 enterprise customers, Get Suggestions, AI Assistant, and AI Guardrails are publicly available to empower all organizations to use AI confidently and securely.

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How Good Is ChatGPT at Coding, Really?

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Programmers have spent decades writing code for AI models, and now, in a full circle moment, AI is being used to write code. But how does an AI code generator compare to a human programmer? A study published in the June issue of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering evaluated the code produced by OpenAI’s ChatGPT in terms of functionality, complexity and security.

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Why haven't biologists cured cancer?

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It's not because they're not good enough at math

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Tokens are a big reason today's generative AI falls short

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Tokenization, the process by which many generative AI models make sense of data, is flawed in key ways.

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What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues

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The blinding headaches are poorly understood — a mouse study suggests that the content of spinal fluid is a trigger for pain. The blinding headaches are poorly understood — a mouse study suggests that the content of spinal fluid is a trigger for pain.

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Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate

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Congress can grant any American permission to be a pirate. A.J. Jacobs found out what happens when you apply.

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First anode-free sodium solid-state battery

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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Concept of Nought

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“If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.

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London, Paris, Seoul Show Commuting Power of Fast Regional Rail

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Growing cities around the world are creating “rapid regional rail” systems that allow residents to commute across metro areas at high speeds. Will the US get on board?

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release

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Amazon giving refunds for business bot, will focus on home version instead.

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New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google

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The so-called JEST approach is up to 13 times faster and 10 times more efficient—which could mean lower energy demands.

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Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro

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When you think of Italian herbs, cilantro (also known as coriander) is probably not the first one that comes to mind. Yet crack open the fifth-century Roman.

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The Curious Case of Fullers Library and Its Deceptive Link Requests

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This isn’t strictly writing-related, but it is the kind of weird rabbit hole I enjoy going down, and it’s a writer (and artist) who drew my attention to it. The writer got in touch to share an email with me.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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How to Think in Writing

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Part 1: The thought behind the thought

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RISC-V Emulator for Sophgo SG2000 SoC (Pine64 Oz64 / Milk-V Duo S)

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Earlier this year we made a RISC-V Emulator for Ox64 BL808 SBC, thanks to our customised TinyEMU RISC-V Emulator. (Not the small flightless bird) Now that NuttX supports Sophgo SG2000 SoC: Let's create a similar emulator for Pine64 Oz64 SBC and Milk-V Duo S!

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When the CIA turned writers into operatives

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A new show about the Cold War, “Not All Propaganda Is Art,” reveals the dark, sometimes comic ironies of trying to control the world through culture.

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Against the Burden of Knowledge

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Why the most intuitive explanation for ideas getting harder to find is wrong

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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The Next New Thing: architecture's gulf between the traditional and the modern

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In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before

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Eddy Cue: 'After 36 years at Apple, I'm still learning every day'

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In a new interview Eddy Cue has spilled the beans on what his daily use hardware is, what Apple execs actually do, and like the most.

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The staggering science and art behind Wimbledon's legendary grass courts

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Neil Stubley, head of courts and horticulture at Wimbledon, is responsible for the battlefield that some of the most epic matches in tennis lore have ever been played on.

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Free and Open Source Software–and Other Market Failures

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework

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Open source Python framework for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps.

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Extraverted People Talk More Abstractly, Introverts Are More Concrete

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The differences make sense in terms of what we know about social behaviour and the introvert-extravert personality dimension.

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Is the 10k-Year-Old Yonaguni Monument a Man-Made Marvel or Nature's Art?

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Nestled along the southern coast of Yonaguni, Japan, are enigmatic submerged ruins that have captured the fascination of researchers and ignited fervent debates. Believed to date back approximately 10,000 years, the origin of the Yonaguni monument remains shrouded in mystery. Hotly debated among experts, some asserting that these formations are unmistakably man-made, while others, adopting a more conservative stance, attribute their creation to the forces of natural phenomena.

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Montana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef from Brazil?

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Cole Mannix, of Old Salt Co-op, is trying to change local appetites and upend an industry controlled by multibillion-dollar meatpackers.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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With Nothing to Do

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It was eight years ago that I lived through some of the worst weeks of my life as a professional software engineer. I was working for a small startup that was about to be acquired. Or about to go bankrupt. There was no other possible outcome anymore. Acquired or bankrupt, it was one of these two and every week for several months the odds would tip from one to other and back again.

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The Steel Man Technique: How to Argue Better and Be More Persuasive

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The steel man is the opposite of the straw man. It's being charitable, and building up the best possible form of the argument for the other side.

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The African workers driving the AI revolution, for about a dollar an hour

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Social media content and AI training data are processed in outsource centres in the global south, where long hours, low pay and exposure to disturbing material are the norm

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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated Declarations

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TypeScript's new isolated declaration feature is a game changer for sharing code among developers. It significantly simplifies the process of packaging your code for consumption whilst reducing the time to create type definition files from minutes, sometimes even hours, down to less than a second.

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Introducing CDEs to Your Enterprise

Explore how enterprises can enhance developer productivity and onboarding by adopting self-hosted Cloud Development Environments (CDEs). This whitepaper highlights the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based development over traditional setups, demonstrating how large teams can leverage economies of scale to boost efficiency and developer satisfaction.