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Why Your Open Source Project Needs A Content Strategy

Explore the benefits of technical content strategy and how having one can improve the user and contributor experience of your open source community projects. If you search for content strategy in your favorite search engine, I bet that you find that it is a term more strongly associated with marketing content than with technical content. However, a technical content strategy is a powerful way to align stakeholders around content goals for your open source project. In this article, I explore the benefits of technical content strategy and how having one can improve the user and contributor experience of your community…

Effective Strategies To Closing The Data-Value Gap

We have been going through a phenomenal amount of technological advances in the space of big data and cloud, driven by the organizations’ needs to get value out of data. It’s a given that data drives innovation, but business needs are changing more rapidly than processes can accommodate, resulting in a widening gap between data and value. Luckily, there are proven strategies that organizations can utilize to close the data-value gap. According to McKinsey, top performing organizations who see the highest returns from Artificial Intelligence (AI) are more likely to follow strategy, data, models, tools, technology and talent best practices.…

My First Pull Request At Age 14

Age is not a barrier for contributing to open source. My name is Neil Naveen, and I’m a 14-year-old middle schooler who’s been coding for seven years. I have also been coding in Golang for two years. Coding isn’t my only passion, though. I’ve been practicing Jiu-Jitsu for four years and have competed in multiple competitions. I’m passionate about coding and Jiu-Jitsu, as they teach me important life lessons. Codecombat I started coding on Codecombat, which taught me many fundamental coding skills. One of the most exciting moments in my coding journey was when I ranked 16th out of around 50,000 players in…

The 5 Podcasts To Check If You Want To Get Up To Speed On AI

The Lex Fridman Podcast Apart from the many episodes on physics, history and art, Lex Fridman frequently discusses Artifical Intelligence on his podcast. There have been many episodes in 2022 with top AI researchers and experts from other fields discussing AI. Here are my favorite ones: Demis Hassabis: DeepMind – AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299 On this episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, Lex and Demis discuss AlphaFold, Solving intelligence and Conscious AI. Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333 This is one of my…

Peacock: Tackling ML Challenges By Accelerating Skills

At Peacock, we are acutely aware of global trends and changes in adopting machine learning (ML) techniques, particularly in the field of media and entertainment. We anticipate that, within several years, most software applications will have an element of ML and will require fine tuning of a model, putting increasing demand on ML training infrastructure. As the Director of Analytics Tooling at Peacock, I head up a team of engineers whose primary aim is to build scalability into our tools and processes, enabling us to keep up with the ever-changing field of ML engineering and create a better user experience.…

BigQuery Under The Hood: Behind The Serverless Storage And Query Optimizations That Supercharge Performance

Customers love the way BigQuery makes it easy for them to do hard things — from BigQuery Machine Learning (BQML) SQL turning data analysts into data scientists, to rich text analytics using the SEARCH function that unlocks ad-hoc text searches on unstructured data. A key reason for BigQuery’s ease of use is its underlying serverless architecture, which supercharges your analytical queries while making them run faster over time, all without changing a single line of SQL. In this blog, we lift the curtain and share the magic behind BigQuery’s serverless architecture, such as storage and query optimizations as well as…

The Next Generation Of AI For Developers And Google Workspace

We’re bringing the power of generative AI to developers and businesses through Google Cloud and MakerSuite. And we’re introducing new AI-powered features in Google Workspace. Google has been investing in AI for many years and bringing its benefits to individuals, businesses and communities. Whether it’s publishing state-of-the-art research, building helpful products or developing tools and resources that enable others, we’re committed to making AI accessible to everyone. We’re now at a pivotal moment in our AI journey. Breakthroughs in generative AI are fundamentally changing how people interact with technology — and at Google, we’ve been responsibly developing large language models so we can safely bring them to…

Sumitovant More Than Doubles Its Research Output In Its Quest To Save Lives

Here at Sumitovant, we’re developing next-generation therapies for treating cancer, life-threatening immune disorders in infants, women’s health issues, and other medical conditions. Thankfully, increasing access to anonymized medical data, pharmaceutical studies, clinical trial results, and other third-party data sources gives our medical teams and physician customers more information than ever before about treatments’ efficacy and adoption. However, as we’ve added data sources, we’ve learned that more data doesn’t automatically translate into better insights. We can’t expect anyone to look at 80 million rows in a spreadsheet to answer a question. But with Looker, we can give anyone a dashboard that…

Built With BigQuery: How Sift Delivers Fraud Detection Workflow Backtesting At Scale

Sift is one of the leaders in digital trust and safety, that empower digital disruptors of Fortune 500 companies to unlock new revenue without risk using machine learning to provide fraud detection services. Sift dynamically prevents fraud for many abuse categories through industry-leading ML-based technology, expertise, and an impressive global data network of over 70 billion monthly events. Sift’s platform offers customers to configure workflows using an intuitive UI to automate fraud detection, accommodating highly critical business actions like blocking a suspicious order, applying additional friction (such as requesting MFA) to a transaction, or processing a successful transaction. Customers can…

Linux Foundation Training & Certification & Cloud Native Computing Foundation Partner With Corise To Prepare 50,000 Professionals For The Certified Kubernetes Administrator Exam

Free Enrollment is Now Open. SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2023 – The Linux Foundation Training & Certification and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced a partnership with CoRise to support its newest learning path designed to significantly increase the number of qualified and certified DevOps professionals worldwide by 50,000 over the next two years. The curriculum consists of three instructor-led courses, the first of which is free, that prepare professionals to sit for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam. The courses are: The demand for Kubernetes proficient DevOps professionals has increased significantly in recent years due to the explosive growth…

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