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Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

TechCrunch

Udacity said that part of the business is growing fast, with Q3 bookings up by 120% year-over-year and average run rates up 260% in H1 2020. Udacity said that part of the business is growing fast, with Q3 bookings up by 120% year-over-year and average run rates up 260% in H1 2020.

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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I used to write custom mapreduce jobs to pull basic stats, then wait for hours for those jobs to finish. I once ran a web shop and spent a week implementing credit card payments.

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

TechCrunch

In Daniel Pink’s book “Drive,” he covers how autonomy, mastery and purpose are the main drivers of motivation. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. Give the gift of autonomy.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.

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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

TechCrunch

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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Bliki: TeamTopologies

Martin Fowler

But for many products there is no single off-the-shelf platform to use, a team is going to have to find and integrate several platforms. But for many products there is no single off-the-shelf platform to use, a team is going to have to find and integrate several platforms. But what makes an effective digital platform?

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.” Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations.