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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 to Interview and Hire ML/AI engineers

Eugene Yan

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

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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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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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How To Align Product Management And Supply Chain Operations For Successful Product Launches

Speaker: Shalini Dinesh

Effective cross-functional collaboration and communication heavily influence product launch success. Research shows that as many as 70% of product launches fail due to inadequate coordination among stakeholders, including supply chain, product management, legal, marketing, and change control teams (Gartner, 2022). The 2023 Supply Chain Insights Report highlights that 60% of supply chain disruptions are caused by poor communication and misalignment among cross-functional teams.

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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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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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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 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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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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Investors Pour $27.1B into A.I. Startups, Defying a Downturn

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Funding for A.I. firms made up nearly half the $56 billion in U.S. start-up financing from April to June, according to PitchBook.

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Building Your BI Strategy: How to Choose a Solution That Scales and Delivers

Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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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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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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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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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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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI

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fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular framework for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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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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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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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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Properly testing concurrent data structures

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There's a fascinating Rust library, loom, which can be used to thoroughly test lock-free data structures. I always wanted to learn how it works. I still do! But recently I accidentally implemented a small toy which, I think, contains some of the loom's ideas, and it seems worthwhile to write about that. The goal here isn't to teach you what you should be using in practice (if you need that, go read loom's docs), but rather to derive a couple of neat ideas from first principles.

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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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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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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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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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Numeronymize

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A Keyboard Maestro macro for shortening words with the number of letters between the first and last.

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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.