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Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin America

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Henry offers a five-month course that goes from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. To make the school more affordable, Henry looks to take on the same strategy used by Lambda School, a YC-graduate that has raised over $122 million in known funding: income-share agreements. VCs bet millions on Microverse, a Lambda School for the developing world.

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Vietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform

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CoderSchool, which offers full-stack web development, machine learning and data sciences courses at a lower cost, has trained more than 2,000 alumni up to date, and recorded over 80% job placement rate for full-time graduates, getting jobs at companies such as BOSCHE, Microsoft, Lazada, Shopee, FE Credit, FPT Software, Sendo, Tiki and Momo.

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AWS Lambda Benchmarking

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In this blog post, we examine the relative costs of different language runtimes on AWS Lambda. Many languages can be used with AWS Lambda today, so we focus on four interesting ones. Rust just came to AWS Lambda in November 2023 , so probably a lot of folks are wondering whether to try it out.

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Lambda Calculus Through JavaScript, Part 1

Xebia

Lambda calculus is one of the pinnacles of Computer Science, lying in the intersection between Logic, Programming, and Foundations of Mathematics. Most descriptions of lambda calculus present it as detached from any “real” programming experience, with a level of formality close to mathematical practice.

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The Pro’s Guide To Getting The Best ROI From Your New LMS

You need a Learning Management System when your courses and training programs need to be accessible online. Quickly build the perfect business case and easily determine which LMS will provide the best return on investment you need with this how-to eBook!

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Enhance customer support with Amazon Bedrock Agents by integrating enterprise data APIs

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The agent, using Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet, interprets the user’s query and determines the best course of action through chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. The Lambda function runs the database query against the appropriate OpenSearch Service indexes, searching for exact matches or using fuzzy matching for partial information.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

TechCrunch

The company’s model is akin to BloomTech’s (formerly Lambda School). Those admitted into the school, meeting a pass mark of 85%, will take a software engineering course with three tracks: frontend engineering, backend engineering and cloud engineering. In AltSchool’s pipeline are courses on product, blockchain and data.

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Does Your Company Need Help Solving These 4 Common eLearning Challenges?

If you want to know how to get ahead of the game and avoid the common mishaps in selling your eLearning courses, you’ve come to the right place! Lambda Solutions has identified the most common and costly challenges faced by eLearning providers today. These include: Overcoming the high cost of scaling.