Mon.Jan 19, 2015

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DC Area Technologists: Support the 7 March STEM Symposium Organized by WashingtonExec

CTOvision

'By Bob Gourley. This year''s STEM symposium focuses on the "parent factor" when it comes to STEM education. Many sessions will help parents learn more ways to engage kids in the field. The 2015 K-12 STEM Symposium is a free, exciting and all-day forum that equally engages children, parents, and teachers, coupled with corporate, government, academia and non-profit executives alike from the STEM fields.

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The What, Why, and How of DevOps

Social, Agile and Transformation

'I learned much about what I know today about systems operations from Bill, a head of network engineering that I hired for my SaaS company about fifteen years ago. We already built separate systems for managing dev and test from production, matured source code controls, and implemented some automation around testing and deployment. What Bill taught me is that we needed to separate developers.

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Vantage CEO: Model T Approach No Longer Works for Wholesale Market

Data Center Knowledge

'Company''s recent deals illustrate that one-size-fits-all approach may not work for wholesale Read More.

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A Wise Mind

Future of CIO

Wisdom is wider and intelligence is narrow. Knowledge can be out-of-date; wisdom is timeless. There is known known, known unknown and unknown unknown. To know what we don’t know is knowledge. We become intelligent / informative by knowing what we don’t know, and then we capture insight from the static knowledge and apply it to varying disciplines; ultimately the knowledge and insight can be abstracted into human wisdom which can be shared broadly and timelessly, also makes one humble enough to a

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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10 good reasons why working remotely makes sense

Tech Republic

Remote work, flextime, career sabbaticals, and zero-hours contracts are all types of flexible work. But it's remote work that's disrupting the traditional tech industry 9-to-5 grind. Here's why.

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An “EGO” Mind: Good or Bad

Future of CIO

The word ego means a 'sense of self' which means that you are aware of your physical, mental and emotional presences. Ego is such a colorful word, etymologically and philosophically, there are many different definitions of the word. It can range from Sartre's concept of 'one's projection into the World' to pompousness and even self-awareness. Many thought Sigmund Freud coined the term.

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Digital Master Tuning XVI: Should and How can IT Get more Engaged in Revenue Generating Initiatives?

Future of CIO

IT can drive the business but it should be in conjunction with the business. Historically, IT has been perceived as a back office and a cost center, a technology controller, not an enabler. Now, with the accelerating speed of change and the consumerization of IT, IT organization has to improve its maturity, from being a reactive helpdesk to a proactive business partner; from a cost center to a value creator; and, more importantly, it needs to become an innovation engine and the driver of busines

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