Tag: Miscellaneous
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Neurons act not as simple logic gates, but as complex, multi-unit processing systems
Posted on May 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
A study published in the journal Science has upended 80 years of conventional wisdom in computational neuroscience that has modeled the neuron as a simple point-like node in a system, integrating signals and passing them along.? By William Brown, resonance science research scientist.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous leadership-and-career product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure
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The 10 best practices for remote software engineering
Posted on May 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At face value, when we think of developer productivity we might think of effectiveness in time management, communication, and task completion. By Vanessa Sochat.
Tags leadership-and-career software-engineering miscellaneous
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Putting digital at the heart of strategy
Posted on May 23, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
When everyone is digital, strategy is the differentiator. Before long, every business will be a digital business. CEOs must make explicit choices about their strategy to win in a digital economy. By Ragu Gurumurthy, Rich Nanda, David Schatsky @deloitte.
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Good mental health practices for entrepreneurs
Posted on May 14, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
While it's essential that everyone pays attention to their mental health no matter their age, job title, or gender, entrepreneurs have a unique lifestyle that may require them to pay even closer attention. By Tycoonstory.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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Flow efficiency: Powering the current of your work
Posted on May 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
How can we be more efficient? What's holding us back from delivering great customer value, sooner? By Sonya Siderova.
Tags leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering
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Defenseless: UVA engineering computer scientists discover vulnerability affecting computers globally
Posted on May 7, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. Since Spectre was discovered, the world's most talented computer scientists from industry and academia have worked on software patches and hardware defenses, confident they've been able to protect the most vulnerable points in the speculative execution process without slowing down computing speeds too much. By Audra Book @virginia.edu.
Tags security-and-privacy leadership-and-career miscellaneous software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech
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What is the Circular Economy?
Posted on April 30, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The World Economic Forum's circular economy definition is "an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design." As opposed to the traditional linear model that transforms raw materials into products that are used once and discarded, the circular model closes the loop by bringing products back into the cycle after use so they can be reused, recycled, or repurposed.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career how-to
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When does reinventing the wheel make perfect sense?
Posted on April 28, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Electrification of road transport promises environmental and commercial gains. At the threshold of an evolution in transport, the environmental consequences are huge. So too are the commercial gains for the earliest and fastest movers. By Serge Colle, Randall Miller, Thierry Mortier, Marc Coltelli, and Andrew Horstead @ey.com.
Tags miscellaneous data-and-analytics how-to leadership-and-career
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The myth of the young startup founder
Posted on April 27, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
While the story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook has undoubtedly inspired an entire generation of young entrepreneurs and reshaped their imaginations about what's possible, people too easily forget that a big part of what makes the story compelling is that it's so unusual. Mark Zuckerburg is not only an outlier — he's an outlier among outliers. By Ian Hathaway.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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Trapped on technology's trailing edge
Posted on April 20, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
We're paying too much to deal with obsolete electronic parts. Keeping aging systems on their feet is a daunting and resource-intensive task. By Peter Sandborn.
Tags miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career software-engineering
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PyTorch – How to apply Backpropagation with Vectors and Tensors
Posted on April 19, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
In Machine learning, a backpropagation algorithm is used to compute the loss for a particular model. The most common starting point is to use the techniques of single-variable calculus and understand how backpropagation works. However, the real challenge is when the inputs are not scalars but of matrices or tensors. By Strahinja Stefanovic.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics leadership-and-career business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous software-engineering
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How can we fix the data science talent shortage?
Posted on April 17, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Data science might just be the most buzzed-about job in tech right now, but its pop culture sheen conceals some of the harsh realities of being a fresh graduate in the industry. By Kindra Cooper.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career miscellaneous