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The Learning Rate Finder Technique: How Reliable Is It?

Dataiku

To understand the evaluation process described in this blog post, we need to take a step back and understand what a hyperparameter in machine learning is. A hyperparameter is a parameter of the model whose value is set before the learning process begins. Finding the optimal values for the hyperparameters of deep models has been long considered “more an art than a science” and relied mainly on trial and error.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare Backup and Disaster Recovery

Arcserve

A backup and disaster recovery (BDR) plan can help healthcare providers satisfy many of the data privacy requirements outlined in The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA requires healthcare practices to secure electronic protected health information (ePHI) and requires them to properly assess and manage risk—important parts of any BDR strategy.

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The Business of Open Source

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In a recent Twitter thread, Adam Jacob (co-founder and former CTO of Chef ) talked about Chef’s switch from an “open core” model to a a “Red Hat” model for licensing their software. It was a fascinating discussion, with important implications for open source companies and their business models. I’ll reproduce the thread here, with Nat Torkington’s comments.

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Explaining Bias in Your Data

Dataiku

Over the last five years, unfairness in machine learning has gone from almost unknown to hitting the headlines frequently, and new cases of unwanted bias introduced in automated processes are frequently discovered. However, there is still no “one-size-fits-all” standard machine learning tool to prevent and assess such bias. In this article, we will deal with how to explain unfairness in a machine learning algorithm.

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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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Who?s Responsible for Security? Apparently, It Depends

DevOps.com

More than 10 years after organizations began implementing DevOps, responsibility for security still resembles the proverbial chicken and egg dilemma. GitLab’s 2020 Global DevSecOps Survey asked developers, security team members, operations pros and testers about sole responsibility for security in their organizations. About 28% of developers, 33% of security teams, 21% of ops pros and 23% […].

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Tableau certification guide: Kick-start your analytics career

CIO

Data visualization platform Tableau is one of the most widely used tools in the rapidly growing business intelligence (BI) space and individuals with skills in Tableau are in high demand. Market intelligence and advisory firm Mordor Intelligence forecasts the global data visualization market to achieve a compound annual growth rate of more than 9 percent between 2020 and 2025 as businesses seek to become more analytically driven.

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How To Help Your Team Process Tragedies Weighing On Their Hearts

Let's Grow Leaders

A note to our international readers: we recognize that we have readers from around the globe, but our home is in the United States and tragedies at home run deep. Whether you are reading from the US or elsewhere, we invite you […]. The post How To Help Your Team Process Tragedies Weighing On Their Hearts appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Large Scale Agile Transformation: What Doesn?t Work and Key Learnings

Agile Alliance

This week, I had Vanesa Tejada in our Agile Alliance series of interviews with Latin American Agile Luminaries. Vanesa is originally from Madrid, Spain but moved to Chile a couple of years ago to lead and Agile transformation for LATAM Airlines. Before moving to Chile, Vanesa has been a long time active contributor in the … Continued.

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Automated cross-browser testing with Playwright

Xebia

Introduction Automated browser testing is essential for asserting the quality of the code you deliver when developing web applications. Some defects only become visible at the point when you tie everything together in your application. You want to catch these defects as early as possible to minimize the cost of fixing them. There are a […]. The post Automated cross-browser testing with Playwright appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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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The biggest hacks, data breaches of 2020 (so far)

CTOvision

In January, Microsoft disclosed a data breach occurring through one of the tech giant’s internal customer support databases. Microsoft said anonymized user analytics, contained in roughly 250 million entries, were exposed. […].

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Why Your Team Won’t Trust You – and What to Do About It

Let's Grow Leaders

When your team won’t trust you, that’s job number one. If there’s one realization every leader can take to heart from the pandemic and social-political turmoil gripping the United States right now, it’s that you cannot lead without trust. When your team […]. The post Why Your Team Won’t Trust You – and What to Do About It appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Agile2020 Will Not Move Online

Agile Alliance

Our sincere thanks goes out to the Agile2020 Conference Chair, Program Committee, Track Chairs, Reviewers, Speakers, Sponsors, Volunteer Coordinators, Purple Shirt Volunteers, Agile Alliance members, and the Agile community as a whole for your patience and support as we have worked behind the scenes to determine how best to move forward during this unprecedented time. … Continued.

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8 ways to know when you’ve done agile well

TechBeacon

You'll find many measures of agile team performance and behavior out there, but the eight listed here are ones you don’t often hear much about—even though they're key to success.

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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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How are Big Data and IoT Interrelated?

CTOvision

There has been rapid growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data technologies amongst organizations and individuals. According to Forbes, it’s predicted that the amount of data generated […].

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How DevOps Powered by AI and Machine Learning Is Delivering Business Transformation

DevOps.com

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is fundamentally changing the way we think about DevOps. Most notably, it is delivering a new form of DevOps that recognizes the need to have systems that are intelligent by design and underpinned by comprehensive security (DevSecOps). For many, this will be the crucial next […].

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Don?t Waste Your Team?s Courage

Let's Grow Leaders

If it takes courage to show up for work every day, your people won’t have the energy, creativity, or courage they need to solve bigger problems or better serve your customer. This episode challenges leaders to find their own courage to […]. The post Don’t Waste Your Team’s Courage appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. If it takes courage to show up for work every day, your people won’t have the energy, creativity, or courage they need to solve bigger problems o

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Security Is Everybody's Job (Part 2)

Dzone - DevOps

Application Security is every action you take towards ensuring the software that you (or someone else) create is secure. This can mean a formal secure code review, hiring someone to come in and perform a penetration test, or updating your framework because you heard it has a serious security flaw. It doesn't need to be extremely formal, it just needs to have the goal of ensuring your systems are more secure.

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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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Enterprises Facing Up to The Challenge: Security for the Internet of Things

CTOvision

Read Gordon Feller take a look at the security aspects of the Internet of Things on Technology Networks : Just a few years ago, Samsung’s first push into providing smart […].

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AWS Looks to Accelerate Windows Migrations to the Cloud

DevOps.com

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ratcheting up pressure on Microsoft by devoting more resources to enable IT organizations to migrate Windows workloads to the cloud. Fred Wurden, general manager for enterprise engineering at AWS, said a Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows, now generally available, provides IT teams with prescriptive guidance, consulting support, tools, training […].

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The Good and the Bad of.NET Framework Programming

Altexsoft

NET is a software development framework and ecosystem designed and supported by Microsoft to allow for easy desktop and web application engineering. It’s a popular free platform currently used for a lot of different types of applications as it provides the programming environment for most software development phases.NET best suits businesses that look for a wide range of features like web-based services, desktop software, and cloud infrastructure support.

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Your passwordless future: Make it sooner rather than later

TechBeacon

Recent research reminds us that managing unique passwords is hard. For sure, you’re more than capable of doing it, but for the vast majority of “normal” users, it’s basically impossible.

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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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Police Reform and Systems Design in 5 Clear Points

Scott Berkun

Patrisse Cullors , co-founder of Black Lives Matter, has said that police culture has long been detached from the needs of the communities they are supposed to serve and that it needs to be transformed. Police racism and abuse of power are well documented, but why have so many attempts at reform failed? At one obvious level if the culture in an organization is still unchanged, what should we expect?

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DevSecOps vs. Agile Development: Putting Security at the Heart of Program Development

DevOps.com

Despite most developers and managers being well aware of the concept of DevSecOps, it is still often confused with a number of related processes and concepts. This is particularly true for the Department of Defense (DoD) contractors because they have long been encouraged to use a related process known as agile development. Since agile development […].

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Love Letter to Conferences (And What Makes Some Truly Amazing)

Dzone - DevOps

I share everything I've learned about what makes my favorite conference experiences so great and meaningful, and try to understand which elements are universal, applying to both physical and virtual events, and which ones can be changed. I share the experiences of having run an incredible three-day virtual event for 50 people, and share why I'm now incredibly confident that we'll be able to replicate the magic of the best conferences at the upcoming Virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit -our goal is

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How to Choose the Right DevOps Tools?

Kovair - DevOps

Historically, the delivery of the software occurred in silos. The development and the operations team used to operate separately, thus resulting in twice the amount.

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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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Stream Processing with IoT Data: Challenges, Best Practices, and Techniques

Confluent

The rise of IoT devices means that we have to collect, process, and analyze orders of magnitude more data than ever before. As sensors and devices become ever more ubiquitous, […].

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5 Reasons Why Your App Needs an Error Monitoring System

DevOps.com

All software applications have errors. Bugs are simply part of software development. That’s why engineering organizations need to know exactly what errors are occurring so decisions can be made around which bugs to fix. The fastest way to identify and fix application errors is to implement error monitoring software. However, not all solutions are created […].

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The Many Applications of Gradient Descent in TensorFlow

Toptal

TensorFlow is one of the leading tools for training deep learning models. Outside that space, it may seem intimidating and unnecessary, but it has many creative uses—like producing highly effective adversarial input for black-box AI systems.