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Zubale bags new capital to match gig workers with LatAm e-commerce fulfillment jobs

TechCrunch

Today, the company is competing with the likes of Rappi, iFood and Cornershop and working with retailers, including fashion brands, supermarkets, specialty stores and pharmacies, to fulfill e-commerce orders using independent workers who pick and pack the order from a retailer’s store or warehouse and then deliver the order to the customer.

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Sequoia’s Surge reveals 15 India, SEA startups in seventh cohort

TechCrunch

These founders include the former CFO of fashion e-commerce platform Nykaa, machine learning engineers who worked on conversational AI at Meta and the first set of engineers of Uber in India. “We continue to be deeply impressed by the ambition and diversity of ideas, as well as the calibre of founders with each cohort.

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Turing nabs $32M more for an AI-based platform to source and manage engineers remotely

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On one hand, it has built a new way to source and run teams of people, specifically engineers, on behalf of others. That then moves into matching people with opportunities, and onboarding those engineers. It starts with an AI platform to source and vet candidates.

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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

Finally, their results need to be given to the business in an understandable fashion. A data scientist can create a data pipeline after a fashion. In this case, the data scientist solved the problem after a fashion, but didn’t understand what the right tool for the job was. You also met a new position, machine learning engineer.

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Climate and Sustainability Hackathon—Meet the Judges!

Cloudera

With a background spanning from corporate giants like Marsh & McLennan Companies and Verizon to fashion retailer ANN INC., Previously, he managed global Social Impact initiatives for 21st Century Fox and led News Corporation’s Global Energy Initiative, helping them to become the first carbon-neutral global media company in 2010.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

Netflix Tech

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN. Thursday?—?December

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

For example, an AI product that helps a clothing manufacturer understand which materials to buy will become stale as fashions change. Unlike traditional software engineering projects, AI product managers must be heavily involved in the build process. You can’t stop watching metrics just because the product has been deployed.

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