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How will the GDPR impact machine learning?

O'Reilly Media - Data

Answers to the three most commonly asked questions about maintaining GDPR-compliant machine learning programs. Much has been made about the potential impact of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on data science programs. But there’s perhaps no more important—or uncertain—question than how the regulation will impact machine learning (ML), in particular.

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Fragmentation likely to hinder Android P’s security chops

The Parallax

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google is prepping the Android world for its next upgrade, code-named Android P, with an array of security and privacy enhancements. But even locking down a long-criticized Android privacy flaw won’t help the operating system beat its biggest security flaw: its own success. Android P, expected to be released this fall, locks down privacy in a way no other Android version has.

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How to Calculate Cost of Delay So You Know Where You’re Losing Money

Luis Goncalves

Deciding which project should be given top priority is a dilemma that business owners and managers face regularly. For instance, would it serve the company better if it focuses on a $1 million, a three-month-long project first or push through with the smaller project that would cost $20,000 but with a two-week deadline? Sadly, making a concrete decision isn’t easy and often entails blurry visualisations using project management tools that don’t really tell you anything.

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Massive Failures? What Great Leaders Do Next

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do when you’ve screwed up and everyone knows it? Your failures weren’t just mistakes in judgment…you let yourself down. You didn’t keep your commitment. You hurt people you are supposed to help. Your team looks at you with disappointment. […]. The post Massive Failures? What Great Leaders Do Next appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Not all Machine Learning is Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

One of the downsides to the recent revival of popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that we see a lot of vendors, professional services firms, and end users jumping on the AI bandwagon labeling their technologies, products, service offerings, and projects as AI projects without necessarily that being the case. On the other hand, there […].

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Top 4 Trends That Define Future Of iOS App Development

OTS Solutions

Top Four Trends That Define Future Of iOS App Development. A couple of days ago, Apple launched their new Operating System iOS 11.3, which has a lot of improvements in the existing features. As a result, it is crucial to be in check with iOS App Development trends. The main reason why iOS applications are succeeding is that they offer better security capabilities than Android.

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Frontline Festival: Best Practices in Project Management and Project Planning

Let's Grow Leaders

Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival on project management and planning. We’ve been doing a lot of work with project managers and their teams in our corporate work as well as speaking at a number of Project Management Institute conferences and […]. The post Frontline Festival: Best Practices in Project Management and Project Planning appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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On-Demand Webinar: The Dark Side of Java Production Monitoring

OverOps

Automated workflows are the new gold standard for delivering top quality products in an agile environment, but with constant change, comes constant risk. Enter Observability, a measure of how well the internal states of a system can be inferred from its external outputs. It’s the ability to know how applications operate in production. Join the webinar.

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Industrial systems need to prepare for the ‘big one’—but they’re not

The Parallax

If hacks are like earthquakes—something you can prepare for but can’t avoid—the organizations that oversee the industrial-control systems that monitor and manage electricity, water, oil, transportation, and other essential daily services aren’t taking enough steps to prepare them. That’s the conclusion of an annual security report based on a survey of 579 security experts, 85 percent of whom said they expect their country to suffer a major critical-infrastructure hack in the next five years.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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How to Calculate Cost of Delay

Evolution4all

One challenge that every business face is deciding which project should be prioritised. Would it be in a company’s best interest to embark on a $1 million project that would take three months to finish or a 20-day project that would cost $30,000? Choosing the best option often takes often a lot of time and resources. Unfortunately, decisions like these can’t be rushed.

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Chinese Intelligence Operations In America

CTOvision

In part 2 of our Cyberwar series we’ll take a look at how the Chinese government utilizes the US’s open business environment to stage intelligence operations on American soil. Reconnaissance: While there has been a lot of recent press on Cambridge Analytica, the reality is there’s a giant industry that sells information on individuals who play […].

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Python Multithreading and Multiprocessing Tutorial

Toptal

Threading is just one of the many ways concurrent programs can be built. In this article, we will take a look at threading and a couple of other strategies in building concurrent programs in Python, as well as discuss how each is suitable in different scenarios.

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The Slow Death of Internet Explorer and the Future of Progressive Enhancement

A List Apart

My first full-time developer job was at a small company. We didn’t have BrowserStack, so we cobbled together a makeshift device lab. Viewing a site I’d been making on a busted first-generation iPad with an outdated version of Safari, I saw a distorted, failed mess. It brought home to me a quote from Douglas Crockford, who once deemed the web “the most hostile software engineering environment imaginable.”.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Learning Roadmap that helps your Scrum Masters to grow

Evolution4all

Why learning roadmap for Scrum Masters is needed? Often, after completing the Scrum Master certification, Scrum Masters have not much idea where to start. This article presents several activities that Scrum Masters can perform when they join an organisation. With these tips you can provide Scrum Masters a guidance to help you build a great company. and have the biggest organisational impact.

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Toot Your Own Horn

Career Advancement

“If you don’t toot your own horn, don’t complain that there’s no music.”. ~Guy Kawasaki~. Janet Asks: I feel like my accomplishments go unnoticed at work and I’m not comfortable bringing them up. I want others to see my strengths and achievements, but I don’t want to come across as bragging. What should I do? Joel Answers: No one wants to sound like they’re bragging about their own accomplishments.

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Leveraging Mental Models in UX Design

Toptal

Users form mental models around how products should work through use. In order to design for maximum usability, designers need to understand and leverage users’ mental models.

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Iran’s Hacker Hierarchy Exposed: The Islamic Republic of Iran Makes Maximum Use of Contractors and Universities to Conduct Cyber Operations

CTOvision

On 9 May Levi Gundert, Sanil Chohan, and Greg Lesnewich of Recorded Future provided a detailed assessment on the nature of the cyber threat from Iran titled: Iran’s Hacker Hierarchy Exposed. This report was widely cited in the press and immediately raised the bar for quality in strategic cyber threat intelligence (I saw several other […].

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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How to use Roslyn with.NET Core?

Michal Komorowski

When we started PlatformX project, we were using full.NET Framework and it was natural to use Roslyn in order to read and analyse C# code. I have to admit that Roslyn, despite some initial problems (see other posts about Roslyn), managed to do the job. However, later on we decided to migrate PlatformX to.NET Core. There were a few reasons behind this decision: We anticipated that in future we may want move to Linux server for example to reduce costs.NET Core is faster.

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5 Tips to Get Your Coworking Space Ready for Business

Women on Business

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Intro to Python Image Processing in Computational Photography

Toptal

Computational photography is about enhancing the photographic process with computation. While we normally tend to think that this applies only to post-processing the end result (similar to photo editing), the possibilities are much richer since computation can be enabled at every step of the photographic process—starting with scene illumination. In this article, Toptal OpenCV Expert Radu Balaban walks us through two examples of computational photography: low light and high dynamic range.

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Don’t Get Distracted: The Equifax Breach Might Not The Big Issue Here

CTOvision

I am not happy about the massive Sep 2017 Equifax breach (or any other breach). All of us have a right to be angry with this leadership failure. But I worry, emotions like anger at this breach might be distracting us from bigger issues. Like do we want companies that aggregate data on U.S. citizens […].

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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How a Simple Mantra Can Improve Your Leadership

Next Level Blog

One of the things I love about leading our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program is hearing leaders’ stories about how they’re following through on their most important development opportunities. As I’ve written here before, when they’re mapping out how to follow through, I always encourage them to look for repeatable actions that are relatively easy to do and likely to make a difference.

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Creating the Confident and Influential Employee

Women on Business

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Applications of Statistics for Measuring Company Growth

Toptal

Eyeballing the top-line figures of company growth is unlikely to uncover anything particular radical. To understand the trends that lead to user growth, retention, and/or engagement, statistical tools should be employed to test the underlying drivers behind performance.

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Facebook gives sensitive user information to advertisers, White House emails not protected, Discounted cyber insurance, Intel’s unethical conduct

CTOvision

These are some of the cybersecurity stories CTOvision is tracking. For others see our portal into all things cybersecurity and cyberwar. Facebook lets advertisers target users based on sensitive interests CTOvision has been tracking the Facebook data issues for quite a while and will continued to keep you in the loop (see The Ethics Of […].

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.

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Detect WebVR Support with JavaScript

David Walsh

It’s been two years since I was heavily involved with WebVR at Mozilla but, despite not contributing every day, I can see VR making leaps and bounds, from Firefox making an increased effort to Chrome pushing VR and Oculus and HTC (Vive) improving their offerings. Native games are getting better but, more importantly, browsers are getting faster and three.js and aframe are empowering incredible VR experiences with JavaScript.

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Conducting a Public Product Launch? Hire an Event Planner

Women on Business

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Mobile App Design Best Practices and Mistakes

Toptal

Following some basic mobile app design best practices and avoiding the most common mistakes will help designers create apps that live past the crucial 90-day mark when 71% are abandoned.

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