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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

TechCrunch

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent. Contributor.

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

O'Reilly Media - Data

Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil has recently written an entire book filled with examples of poor interpretability as a dire warning of the potential social carnage from misunderstood models—e.g., There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance.

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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

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But while letter writing is a useful service, the team’s efforts have been focused on developing and testing the suite of digital products they hope to offer across the country starting next year. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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Leadership & Influence Summit | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I decided that rather than use an off the shelf presentation that I’d crowdsource the topic for my video from comments submitted via the blog. you could create a video on this and present Jason Oiler How to handle a team member who is your most talented and intelligent but who also has a horrible attitude.

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How to Launch a Successful Product: Timing, Roles, and Product Launch Checklist 

Altexsoft

Maybe a team didn’t prioritize the features and lost a lot of time and money fixing too many mistakes. Maybe a team didn’t prioritize the features and lost a lot of time and money fixing too many mistakes. Or a developer failed to test the app with real users to verify usage scenarios, hoping his idea will take off by itself.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing.

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Great Leaders Leverage Great Messaging | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A leader’s message has a direct impact on their personal and corporate brand equity, how they manage a crisis, marketing initiatives, investor relations, press and public relations, team building and employee engagement, and virtually any other mission critical area of chief executive responsibility.