Tag: Miscellaneous
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Flow efficiency: Powering the current of your work
Posted on May 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
How can we be more efficient? What's holding us back from delivering great customer value, sooner? By Sonya Siderova.
Tags management cio miscellaneous agile teams performance
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Defenseless: UVA engineering computer scientists discover vulnerability affecting computers globally
Posted on May 7, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. Since Spectre was discovered, the world's most talented computer scientists from industry and academia have worked on software patches and hardware defenses, confident they've been able to protect the most vulnerable points in the speculative execution process without slowing down computing speeds too much. By Audra Book @virginia.edu.
Tags infosec management cio miscellaneous software linux servers crypto
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What is the Circular Economy?
Posted on April 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The World Economic Forum's circular economy definition is "an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design." As opposed to the traditional linear model that transforms raw materials into products that are used once and discarded, the circular model closes the loop by bringing products back into the cycle after use so they can be reused, recycled, or repurposed.
Tags miscellaneous cio learning how-to management
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When does reinventing the wheel make perfect sense?
Posted on April 28, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Electrification of road transport promises environmental and commercial gains. At the threshold of an evolution in transport, the environmental consequences are huge. So too are the commercial gains for the earliest and fastest movers. By Serge Colle, Randall Miller, Thierry Mortier, Marc Coltelli, and Andrew Horstead @ey.com.
Tags miscellaneous data-science how-to management
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The myth of the young startup founder
Posted on April 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
While the story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook has undoubtedly inspired an entire generation of young entrepreneurs and reshaped their imaginations about what's possible, people too easily forget that a big part of what makes the story compelling is that it's so unusual. Mark Zuckerburg is not only an outlier — he's an outlier among outliers. By Ian Hathaway.
Tags startups miscellaneous management cio teams data-science
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Trapped on technology's trailing edge
Posted on April 20, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
We're paying too much to deal with obsolete electronic parts. Keeping aging systems on their feet is a daunting and resource-intensive task. By Peter Sandborn.
Tags miscellaneous servers cio management performance
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PyTorch – How to apply Backpropagation with Vectors and Tensors
Posted on April 19, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
In Machine learning, a backpropagation algorithm is used to compute the loss for a particular model. The most common starting point is to use the techniques of single-variable calculus and understand how backpropagation works. However, the real challenge is when the inputs are not scalars but of matrices or tensors. By Strahinja Stefanovic.
Tags python data-science big-data learning iot miscellaneous performance
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How can we fix the data science talent shortage?
Posted on April 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Data science might just be the most buzzed-about job in tech right now, but its pop culture sheen conceals some of the harsh realities of being a fresh graduate in the industry. By Kindra Cooper.
Tags data-science career miscellaneous cio big-data
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Use event-driven data mesh to avoid drowning in the (data) lake
Posted on April 15, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
For much of the last decade, enterprises fought against data silos, isolated persistence stores holding untold but inaccessible knowledge. Their primary weapon was the data lake: a huge centralized datastore that held terabytes of domain-specific data in a single logical location. By Jesse Menning.
Tags machine-learning big-data cloud cio miscellaneous management
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Cloud vendor lock-in: the good, the bad and reality
Posted on April 13, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This is the second part of a mini-series centered around cloud computing; a high-level overview of vendor lock-in and mitigation strategies. By Piotr.
Tags software-architecture cloud cio learning miscellaneous
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Watch hybrid work: It's complicated
Posted on April 11, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
We're all rooting for a happy medium with WFH and RTO, but to succeed, take note of these takeaways from 2020. By Jon Arnold.
Tags startups cio miscellaneous agile teams
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Google beats Oracle in biggest programming copyright Supreme Court case ever
Posted on April 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At long last, programming code's application programming interfaces are protected from Oracle's over-reaching claims. Ten years ago, Oracle argued that Google had infringed Oracle's copyright, by copying the "structure, sequence, and organization" of 37 Java application programming interfaces (APIs) into Android. By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Tags java miscellaneous cio apis