Tue.Oct 30, 2018

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How To Fail And Not Get Fired

Forrester IT

For years now we’ve been promoting the concept of “fail fast” like failure is awesome, something to aspire to. In many ways, it is. Thomas J. Watson Sr, the Chairman of IBM in its industrial heyday, advised “If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.” I can find you a dozen similar quotes, from […].

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Machine learning: more than a buzzword

CTOvision

Read why Paul Fermor says that machine learning has more to it than just being a buzzword on Tech Radar : While artificial intelligence has long been heralded as the nextgen technology, many businesses are still afraid to dabble into it considering its very complicated nature. The IT industry has a severe case of Buzzword […].

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How To Navigate The Corporate And Startup Dance

Forrester IT

(By Carl Doty at Forrester Research and Nader Ghaffari at Venture Scanner) Successfully engaging with the startup community will not only give corporations a competitive advantage but can also mean the difference between future relevance or demise. As a result, corporations of all sizes are launching innovation programs. The corporations’ objectives are chiefly to understand […].

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We Have Watched This Evolving: Artificial Intelligence Has A Big-Time Trust Issue

CTOvision

Read why Joe McKendrick says that AI has a big trust issue on Forbes : We’re reaching the point in which an AI-driven purchasing system can collect sales and shipping orders, looks at historical trends, and pre-orders and prepays for batches of materials for production before the demand is even apparent — without active human oversight. […].

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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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The Forrester Wave™: Customer Feedback Management Platforms, Q4 2018 Is Now Live!

Forrester IT

Even though the report is live, I continue to reflect on the research behind the customer feedback management (CFM) Forrester Wave™. I am reminded once again how important it is for CFM shoppers to do their homework. This is because — as many of us know — selecting the “right” vendor is no easy task.

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This Is A Good Start: Instagram now uses machine learning to detect bullying within photos

CTOvision

Facebook-owned Instagram has been facing a serious photo bullying problem. Instagrammers photoshop other users’ photographs to either demean them or create a meme. Instagram has now decided to use machine learning to scan photos to detect bullying and send them to community moderators for review if needed. The new feature will be rolling out in […].

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Google launches $25 million AI Impact Challenge To Encourage Projects For Social Good

CTOvision

Google has launched a $25 million prize money AI Impact Challenge contest. The contest is aimed to offer opportunities for groups involved in AI projects for social service. As part of the initiative, Google.org launched the AI Impact Challenge, a contest to support various AI for good projects with up to $25 million in funding. Grantees […].

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To Benefit From $90B New Insurance Sales In 2019, Insurers Need A Seamless Digital Integration

Forrester IT

As Hurricane Willa rapidly moves closer to the US border, how are insurance companies preparing for this next calamity? The rise in natural catastrophes puts mounting pressure on insurance margins. While there’s no resisting Mother Nature, insurance companies need to prepare themselves for the nearly $90 billion in new insurance sales in 2019. The challenge […].

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Just The Basics Here: Artificial Intelligence gives businesses real insights into their customers

CTOvision

Most of us are already pretty deep in the tech of AI. But we found a basic article at Tech Radar we thought worth sharing because it may help technologists explain things in plain english to non experts. It’s easy to see a world in which the predictive capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) will direct […].

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Download Intune Configuration Spreadsheet

Anoop

I’m sharing my Intune design and architecture experience in this post. Intune configuration spreadsheet will help you in your Intune design work. For Intune Configuration projects, below are the challenges faced by consultants. Intune have many settings for different OS platforms. How to document these settings. After implementation, How to hand over Intune configurations to […].

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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A Wake-Up Call for Software Development Practices?

Information Week

Agile, DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Development all help improve software delivery speed. However, as more applications and software development tools include AI, might software developers be trading trust and safety for speed?

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The recent right-to-repair smartphone ruling will also affect farm and industrial equipment

Network World

Last week, the tech press made a big deal out of a ruling by the Librarian of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office to allow consumers to break vendors’ digital rights management (DRM) schemes in order to fix their own smartphones and digital voice assistants. According to The Washington Post , for example, the ruling — which goes into effect Oct. 28 — was a big win for consumer right-to-repair advocates.

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Continuous Integration vs Continuous Delivery: Which is Right for Your Business?

Flexagon

Continuous integration or continuous delivery? Or both? It’s a question many IT teams are asking themselves. What are the key differences between each method and which will improve your processes so you deliver higher quality software to your end users in less time? Both continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) embody the culture and.

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Tech interviews simplified with HackerEarth FaceCode

Hacker Earth

The all-new FaceCode is the result of extensive customer feedback and tons of engineering hours. This latest addition to our technical recruitment platform allows you to seamlessly conduct remote technical interviews. What is FaceCode? FaceCode is an online interviewing platform that lets you conduct remote video interviews to evaluate the programming skills of candidates without compromising on the interviewing experience.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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What You Need to Know About Investing in Tech Stocks

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What You Need to Know About Investing in Tech Stocks - Information Technology Blog. Investing in stocks can be a great way to try and maximize the worth of your savings. If you have an interest in trading and learning how to do this yourself, then using an online trading platform can allow you to cut out the middleman and avoid paying a fee to have a managed fund.

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Flexagon Delivers FlexDeploy 5.0

Flexagon

Today Flexagon released FlexDeploy 5.0 which includes a wealth of new features, enhancements, and usability improvements to help teams deliver high-quality software faster and with less cost and risk. FlexDeploy is a DevOps platform for Continuous Delivery and Release Automation which provides a comprehensive and integrated platform for orchestrating the entire build, deploy, and release.

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How to Delete Your Personal Information from the Internet

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Delete Your Personal Information from the Internet - Information Technology Blog. You’ve definitely heard horror stories of what can happen when your personal information gets into the wrong hands: fraudulent credit card charges, or worse – fraudulent bank withdrawals, and even stolen identities. If you’re concerned about your personal information, you should consider ways to remove personal information from Google search results altogether.

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The Popular Change Quotes of “Digital Master” Series 2018

Future of CIO

"Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (26+ books) is to perceive the multifaceted impact digital is making to the business and our society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the digital journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” Here is the set of popular quotes about change and change management. “The digital era upon us is about changes with increasing velocity and speed.” ?

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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6 Ways To Grow A Successful Business

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - 6 Ways To Grow A Successful Business - Information Technology Blog. Everyone who starts their own business wants it to be a success. After all, this is the whole reason for running a business, as no one starts something so complicated and so full of challenges just to watch it fail! There are a variety of different elements that need to come together to create a successful business, and each one needs to be considered and ideally acted upon to make the company not

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?Three Aspects of Running Digital IT

Future of CIO

With the exponential growth of information and increasing paces of changes, organizations rely more and more on technology; the IT department has more and more to overcome. The digital connectivity and IT consumerization bring both challenges and opportunities for IT to maximize its full potential and shift from a support center to move up its maturity level as the trusted business partner.

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Looking for older versions of iPhone? Comparing iPhone 6s and iPhone 8: Specs, Design and Performance

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Looking for older versions of iPhone? Comparing iPhone 6s and iPhone 8: Specs, Design and Performance - Information Technology Blog. Apple releases newer iPhones every year, but some are just pretty much the same, with few design upgrades. If you’re wondering if iPhone 8 is worth the price and if it really is a major upgrade from the iPhone 6s, keep on reading.

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The Monthly Summary: “Hyperconnectivity” as the Key Word of the Digital Age Oct. 2018

Future of CIO

Logically, simplifying the complicated thing is an optimal and smart choice, to make progress either for designing products, solving problems, or managing an organization. With simplicity, what we are adding is clarity and purpose. Keep in mind, in today’s complex world, in the core of simplicity lies complexity, the more simple one perceives in any system, problem or living being is inherently more complex.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Why we should blame Facebook, instead of Fake News

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Why we should blame Facebook, instead of Fake News - Information Technology Blog. Social-networks have become a great tool to hijack the attention of the masses, conducting manipulation on our mindset and world-views. Political interest groups, commercial organizations, and foreign governments are using those platforms to easily influence the way we view the world.

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