Wed.Dec 27, 2017

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Are You Dedicating Unnecessary Funding to IT?

CTOvision

You may view your company’s IT department as indispensable, especially as the workers within it troubleshoot issues with slow page loading times for a web browser, keep employees’ computers free from viruses and protect your network for interior or exterior threats. However, you also might have unnecessary expenditures associated with the IT department.

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Can IoT help make the enterprise more secure?

Network World

It’s no secret that the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) presents massive new security challenges. Heck, I’ve written about the issue here more than once. But one company claims that enterprise IoT also shows promise for addressing key security issues. Also on Network World: Is the U.S. finally about to take IoT security seriously? and The time to deal with IoT security is now.

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5 Ways live streaming is going to change the future of education

Kitaboo

Did you know more than 80% of internet and mobile audiences watched more live-videos in 2016 as compared to 2015, and streaming video accounts for more than two-thirds of all internet traffic and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020? So, what’s the future of education? The answer is, dynamic and ever-changing, as live streaming will be an integral part of it.

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The Future Happens in the #NOW

Network World

N OW is where the future happens. In this moment we will take action that will affect our future or we will not. All we have is now. In #NOW , Max McKeown asks us the think about our now. He says that “for most people, most of the time, it is better to lean towards action than inaction.” People who grab opportunities that are available now, who don’t waste time looking back, and are regret-minimizers, are what McKeown calls Nowists.

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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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Pay it Forward Project (Exponential Growth)

Future of CIO

A common core standard for Grade 8 states “Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions.”. No matter how you approach this standard, students seem to struggle with how abstract the concept is and why they need to learn it in the first place. Last year, I decided to show them the importance of learning exponents by introducing them to the concept of exponential growth through inquiry, and then go back to showing them the need to simplify exponent

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13 most popular articles of 2017

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: With 2018 approaching, let’s take a look back at the most popular articles published on this blog over the last year. Learn about dashboard tips, digital transformation, ways to maximize data value, and much more. As we say goodbye to 2017, let’s take a look back at the last year. Over the last 12 months, we’ve explored topics surrounding a few common themes: Business data, emerging technologies, and IT challenges.

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My year in books 2017

Anoop

Reading this year has been so many things for me. An escape. A way to educate myself. A way to see my own struggles in a different way through another’s story. A way to understand the struggles of others. A way to better understand where I came from. This year I think I’ve read more than I had in any other year since college. I read 16 of the 22 books I’d hoped to read this year , which feels like an accomplishment.

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