Tue.Jul 23, 2019

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Microsoft Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence Startup OpenAI

CTOvision

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, a San Francisco-based research lab founded by Silicon Valley luminaries, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman, that’s dedicated to creating artificial general intelligence (AGI). The investment will make Microsoft the “exclusive” provider of cloud computing services to OpenAI, and the two companies will work together to develop new technologies. […].

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Digital Transformation Challenges IT Leaders

Information Week

Tech disruption is uprooting traditional business practices while creating new responsibilities -- and opportunities -- for IT.

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Uber open-sources Plato for developing and testing conversational AI

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Designing conversational AI isn’t as Sysiphean as it sounds. Tools like Google’s Dialogflow, Microsoft’s Bot Framework, and Amazon’s Lex make it easier than it used to be, and the folks at Uber hope to eliminate any remaining barriers with a development platform all their own. It’s called Plato Research Dialog System, and it was released […].

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Techniques and Tools of Link Building that Work!

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Techniques and Tools of Link Building that Work! - Information Technology Blog. In current times, link building campaigns have become more of a norm rather than an exception. Given their numerous benefits, it is imperative that you have appropriate links in place to gain good search engine rankings. Links continue to be the primary factor for Google rankings in 2019.

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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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How Companies Are Augmenting Human Intelligence With AI

CTOvision

Among fictional buzzwords like “telepathy,” “cyberspace,” “parallel universe,” and so on – what’s undeniably popular and real is “AI” — artificial intelligence. The idea that a machine can exhibit the same level of intelligence and sentience as a human being has captured much interest today. This idea has increasingly become popular in the workplace: The […].

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How to Build a Mobile-Ready Training Program for Pharmaceutical Industry

Kitaboo

Ever wondered how healthcare practitioners and pharmacists remember the names of all the different drugs available? No, they do not have a super memory. Their super-power is derived from the training that is imparted to them. Pharma is an ever-growing industry. Every year there are drugs that are newly launched, some that are banned. Drugs with similar composition which perform the same function but are packaged differently by different brands, in addition to the new drugs approved by the FDA ev

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Don’t Use Kubernetes Until You’ve Asked This Question

Linux Academy

If you run Kubernetes in production, you must be incredibly intelligent. That’s not a compliment; it’s a requirement. — Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) April 25, 2019. Kubernetes technology has skyrocketed in popularity for the last few years. More and more organizations are using it to power their infrastructure, and as a result, there’s an influx of individuals learning how to use the technology in order to get a new job, upskill for an existing job, or simply to stay up-to-date with the latest tech.

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What's the Long-Term Impact of Salesforce's Tableau Acquisition?

Information Week

Three key questions should be answered for enterprises to glean a clearer understanding of their options.

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Don’t Use Kubernetes Until You’ve Asked This Question

Linux Academy

If you run Kubernetes in production, you must be incredibly intelligent. That’s not a compliment; it’s a requirement. — Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) April 25, 2019. Kubernetes technology has skyrocketed in popularity for the last few years. More and more organizations are using it to power their infrastructure, and as a result, there’s an influx of individuals learning how to use the technology in order to get a new job, upskill for an existing job, or simply to stay up-to-date with the latest tech.

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VMworld 2019 Prayer Time

Scott Lowe

For the last several years, I’ve organized a brief morning prayer time at VMworld. I didn’t attend the conference last year, but organized a prayer time nevertheless (and was able to join one morning for prayer). This year, now that I’m back at VMware (via the Heptio acquisition) and speaking at the conference, I’d once again like to coordinate a time for believers to meet.

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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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How AI is revolutionising healthcare: 10 use cases of artificial intelligence in healthcare

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Read Sagar Sharma list 10 uses of artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector on Information Age : The growth of artificial intelligence is evidential. Although we might see it, AI is truly changing our lives directly or indirectly, starting from its application in voice assistants such as Siri, Google Assistance, and Alexa to large scale […].

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The Best “Senior Leadership” Quotes of “Digital Master” July 2019

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28+ books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.

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libra (White Paper)

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This document outlines our plans for a new decentralized blockchain, a low-volatility cryptocurrency, and a smart contract platform that together aim to create a new opportunity for responsible financial services innovation. libra (White Paper).

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The Monthly Organizational Structure Tuning: Tuning a Flexible Digital Organization July 2019

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. From an organizational structure perspective, how can you fine-tune the digital dimensions of your organizational development to harness innovation?

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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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Artwork Personalization at Netflix

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This is yet another way Netflix differs from traditional media offerings: we don’t have one product but over a 100 million different products with one for each of our members with personalized recommendations and personalized visuals. Netflix Technology Blog – Artwork Personalization at Netflix.

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Webinar Review: CI/CD for Oracle APEX and Friends

Flexagon

On July 18th, 2019, Dan Goerdt presented a webinar on using continuous integration and continuous delivery for Oracle APEX and related technology, like ORDS, SODA, and Database. If you missed it, it is now available on-demand! You can watch it here. *WARNING: Spoilers ahead!* The FlexDeploy APEX plugin gives you the power to automate the. Read more.

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Choosing Aspect Ratio: A Guide to Everything You Need to Know

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The Academy Ratio. Anamorphic Widescreen. 16:9. The list of aspect ratios available to the modern filmmaker is long, especially now that changing your ratio requires only a few simple clicks in your editing software. A filmmaker choosing an aspect ratio for their next project is the same as a painter choosing the size and shape of their canvas. The aspect ratio is more than just a medium for information — it’s also a means of telling a story.

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Reinvent Digital Organizations from Five Aspects

Future of CIO

The exponential growth of information and continuous disruptions bring both opportunities and risks, unique scenes and hidden pitfalls. There are competitions, conflicts, and controversies all over the place. A digital organization can bring greater awareness of the intricacies and the systemic value of organizational systems, business process, people dynamics, resource alignment, information abundance, and technological touches.

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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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7 Things Every Designer Should Know About Business

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I would like to point out that I am not advocating for designers to stop being user-centric. Users are still our first priority. But understanding business and becoming fluent in business language will make it easier to convince non-designers into user-centric ideas. 7 Things Every Designer Should Know About Business.

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Crucial Writing Tips for Creating Audience-Engaging Content

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Crucial Writing Tips for Creating Audience-Engaging Content - Information Technology Blog. Writing content for the audience is more difficult than some think it is. There is more to it than putting some words together about a specific topic. As a writer, you need to know what your audience likes and retain their attention.

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UX Ecosystems: Designing a Patient’s Path to Health Care

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In order to adequately design for an ecosystem, we must evaluate touch points across a continuum. When we move across the continuum in this way, we are better able to identify the gaps in care patients receive, their pain points, and where the ecosystem breaks for them. This allows us to discover the failures in consistent care and explore solutions.

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The radical idea hiding inside Facebook’s digital currency proposal

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A major goal of the Libra Association, the nonprofit Facebook has created to manage the project’s development, is to use Libra to revolutionize the concept of digital identity… “An additional goal of the association is to develop and promote an open identity standard. We believe that decentralized and portable digital identity is a prerequisite to financial inclusion and competition.

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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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Neurodiversity as relation

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The neurodiversity movement has been important for shifting what is meant by “human” rights so that both speaking and non-speaking autistics obtain rights to access – be it a communication device, support for that device and for daily life, education, and community inclusion. We remember, however, that these methods of inclusion have, so far, been extensions to the neurotypical way of life – an architecture.