CIO

MAY 18, 2023

Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? And this group of CIOs, CTOs, and technical CEOs have strong favorites — books they turn to again and again for inspiration.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The airliner, which competes against Qatar Airlines, is counting on agentic AI and the LLM to elevate its bookings and expand its share of the growing market, she said, adding that the six-month-old model has attracted 3 million visitors and has handled some bookings, but its value is far more strategic.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

“For instance, when an economics student uploads a PDF on the topic of marginal cost, StudySmarter will recommend several user-generated courses that cover marginal cost and/or several flashcards on marginal cost as well as e-books on StudySmarter that cover this topic.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 18, 2025

Writing a book is the best thing a thought leader can do to raise their authority in their field. Here is a step-by-step guide to making your book a reality. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. Todays post is by Zach Obront, co-founder of Scribe Media.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

The extensive pre-trained knowledge of the LLMs enables them to effectively process and interpret even unstructured data. Traditionally, such an application might have used a specially trained ML model to classify uploaded receipts into accounting categories, such as DATEV. This makes their wide range of capabilities usable.

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Henrik Warne

MAY 19, 2020

The book is her attempt at working out if the singularity is near (or at least likely), or if we still are far from creating any true intelligence. The code comes from the book Classic Computer Science Problems in Python , and trying it out really helped me understand how it works. These systems require labeled images for training.

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CIO

JANUARY 1, 2025

We train and equip our teams with the necessary tools to integrate technology into their daily work, fostering constant and natural innovation. However, he adds,the maturityvaries in one of the most consolidated verticals at a national level.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

That correlates strongly with getting the right training, especially in terms of using gen AI appropriately for their own workflow. According to some fairly comprehensive research by Microsoft and LinkedIn, AI power users who say the tools save them 30 minutes a day are 37% more likely to say their company gave them tailored gen AI training.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

On Monday morning, numerous writers woke up to learn that their books had been uploaded and scanned into a massive dataset without their consent. A project of cloud word processor Shaxpir, Prosecraft compiled over 27,000 books, comparing, ranking and analyzing them based on the “vividness” of their language.

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Xebia

MARCH 13, 2025

Unfortunately, the blog post only focuses on train-serve skew. Feature stores solve more than just train-serve skew. In a naive setup features are (re-)computed each time you train a new model. This lets your teams train models without repeating data preparation steps each time. You train a model with these features.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Plus, they can be more easily trained on a companys own data, so Upwork is starting to embrace this shift, training its own small language models on more than 20 years of interactions and behaviors on its platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Now, the agency is planning an all-in-one app — via third-party providers Transit and Masabi — where customers could plan and book end-to-end trips across trains, buses, bikes, scooters and taxis. Third-party platforms have become more appealing to transit agencies as they scramble to keep buses, trains and rail full of customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. Others do not have provisions for seat reservation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

While last year’s lockdown has impacted carpooling, it shouldn’t be compared with trains or flights. Car is and will be the universal connector that doesn’t rely on train stations or bus stops,” Brusson said. The company wants to build a multimodal app where you can find all shared travel — carpooling, buses and soon trains.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2024

Skill training is just the beginning; true leadership goes beyond that. Leadership Fundamentals – Beyond Skill Training (00:00) Integrity and Internal Compass Lori starts by highlighting that integrity and having an internal compass are crucial for exceptional leadership.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Travel is back, at least according to experts who say travel bookings for over the Thanksgiving holiday are showing to be even higher than pre-pandemic levels. The booking of travel without a system or knowledge is janky and hard. “The The booking of travel without a system or knowledge is janky and hard.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Image Credits: OpenAI The live web is less curated than a static training data set and — by implication — less filtered, of course. The OpenTable plugin allows the chatbot to search across restaurants for available bookings, for example, while the Instacart plugin lets ChatGPT place orders from local stores.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

“By not transforming to a more current state and failing to innovate based on anticipated future needs, CIOs may be exposing their organizations to greater vulnerabilities and competitive disadvantages,” says Kate O’Neill, an executive advisor and emerging tech analyst, and author of the forthcoming book What Matters Next.

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

A data catalog is like a library management system in which data sets and data products are books and employees are library patrons. A library management system helps library patrons find and check out books. Additionally, investing in employee training and establishing clear ethical guidelines will ensure a smoother transition.

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InnovationM

MARCH 18, 2025

At its core, an epoch represents one complete pass over the entire training dataseta cycle in which our model learns from every available example. Imagine youre reading a book for the first time. This balancing act is something we constantly manage in our training process. Early stopping is a safeguard against overfitting.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 28, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. The resulting LLM outperforms LLMs trained on non-domain-specific datasets when tested on finance-specific tasks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Following a revamp in 2019, Shuttlers now offers a fully functional app that allows mobile professionals on its three plans to book rides. Through the platform, commuters can book a seat on one of the buses that goes along predetermined and scheduled routes. There were fewer issues of people running after buses in Ibadan.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In the railway industry, Andrew Martinez-Novoa, Naveen Kumar Nagavelly, and Katerina Tashoska shared how data-driven insights are revolutionizing train travel, improving both operational efficiency and customer experience in their presentation, “ Data: the Fuel Powering Train Travel. ” You can check it out here.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Fine-tuning is a powerful approach in natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI , allowing businesses to tailor pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for specific tasks. These tasks include summarization, classification, information retrieval, open-book Q&A, and custom language generation such as SQL.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Fresha got its start, and is best known among its 60,000 customers, for its booking software, which it provides on a subscription-free basis, charging instead based on taking a cut on payments, or first-time bookings and marketing messages (if a customer chooses those latter two options).

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Xebia

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This opens coding to every person on the planet, as you do not have to know every coding trick in the book to be able to start coding. Very helpful to complete your train of thought! You can still write your code in English and ask questions in French for example. These text predictions are generated while you are typing out new code.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“[W]e’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created.” You can’t ask [them] to book you a flight, cut a check to a vendor or conduct a scientific experiment. ” Luan told TechCrunch in an interview via email.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

Its important to take some time to identify out of the million things mentioned in the self-help books about being your best self what daily rituals align with you as you work your way to becoming the leader you aspire to be. I like to meditate, have a journal and work with a habit tracker, but my tools may not appeal to you.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

, she joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, where she developed a first-of-its-kind EV Network Technician Training Curriculum. Workers receive full training, earn two safety licenses, are guaranteed a wage of $30 an hour and receive shares in the startup, Terry said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Public travel systems provider Amadeus opened for business way back in 1987 when four airlines wanted to offer a centralized booking system. Today, the company facilitates booking and inventory management for 216 airlines, as well as hotels, trains, airports, online travel companies and even corporations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

It makes news, books, games and instant messaging accessible in a completely new way @voxmateapp. 5 – Pigpug : AI neurofeedback brain training system for kids with ADHD and ASD @PigPugHealth. Startups pitching: 1 – TeenUP : learning video platform teens-2-teens to unlock the teenagers’ potential and personality @TeenUP12.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

” Anthropic describes the frontier model as a “next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching,” making reference to an AI training technique it developed called “constitutional AI.” “We believe that companies that train the best 2025/26 models will be too far ahead for anyone to catch up in subsequent cycles.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

First, it is snapping up Blinkist , a startup out of Berlin that had built a platform to discover and read abbreviated versions of longer non-fiction books — “Blinks” that typically take no more than 15 minutes to read or listen to. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Business trip booking platform TravelPerk has bagged another rival — picking up UK-based Click Travel. In fact, taking a train over a domestic flight can reduce an individual’s carbon emissions by about 84%. TravelPerk plans to invest more than $100M in two key products in these areas (aka: FlexiPerk and GreenPerk), per Meir.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Known for his seminal book "Crossing the Chasm," Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker and adviser who splits his consulting time between startup companies in the Wildcat Venture Partners portfolio and established high-tech enterprises — including Salesforce, Microsoft, Autodesk, F5Networks, Gainsight, Google and Splunk. Geoffrey Moore.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

There is a reason the definitive book on the topic has such a depressing title: “Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It,” by my former professor, Josh Lerner, head of the entrepreneurial management unit and the Jacob H.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 13, 2025

Lets start with a simple travel booking scenario: Your interaction begins with telling a travel planning agent about your desired trip. Essentially, the LLM is transforming your casual, conversational input into a structured set of travel requirements that can be used by the specialized booking agents in the subsequent steps of the workflow.

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