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Building with Palantir AIP: Semantic Search

Palantir

Algorithms

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Palantir

Summary:
  • AIP Logic is a no-code environment to build, test, and release functions powered by LLMs.
  • It enables you to build automated business processes that leverage the Ontology without the complexity typically introduced by development environments and API calls.
  • In this video, we use Workshop to construct our application, leveraging a widget that has access to an AIP Logic function.
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Canonical releases Charmed Kubeflow 1.8

Canonical

AI
Security

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Andreea Munteanu (Andreea Munteanu)

Summary:
  • Charmed Kubeflow 1.8 brings new enhancements that allow end users to customise their MLOps platform.
  • Users can add any image within their Jupyter Notebook.
  • This gives professionals freedom to choose preferred tools and libraries.
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Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason

Microsoft Research

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Alyssa Hughes

Summary:
  • and chat.lmsys.org, employing standard settings (temperature=0, top_p=1).
  • ChatGPT’s response was retrieved from chat.openai.com, providing a clear comparison of how each model approaches problem-solving.Opens in a new tabThe postOrca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reasonappeared first onMicrosoft Research.
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Creating a bespoke LLM for AI-generated documentation

Databricks

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Databricks

Summary:
  • We recently announced our AI-generated documentation feature, which uses large language models (LLMs) to automatically generate documentation for tables and columns in Unity.
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The 6 best social media management tools in 2024

Zapier

AI

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Harry Guinness

Summary:
  • As with most things, there's no one best way to manage social media.
  • These apps are all limited by the access the social media networks offer to third parties.
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What is a YubiKey and how does it work?

Zapier

DevOps
Security
Network

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Jessica Lau

Summary:
  • The YubiKey 5C Nano is a tiny USB-C dongle that I leave plugged into my laptop.
  • It's not so much a button as it is a thin strip of metal that triggers when touched.
  • If you accidentally paste your Yubico code into something like Slack or a text editor, that's not a reason to panic.
  • Every YubiKey code is unique and becomes invalid every time you use the device to log in to something.
  • If you're worried, though, you can manually invalidate codes.
  • Just paste your leaked code onthis website.
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How to capture leads from Facebook Lead Ads in RD Station

Zapier

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Khamosh Pathak

Summary:
  • How to add new leads from Facebook Lead Ads to RD Station.
  • Zapier lets you create automated workflows called Zaps, which send your information from one app to another.
  • This step will add the data from Facebook leads to your contact database.
  • Go to your RD Station dashboard and navigate toEngage>Lead Base>Leads.
  • If your Zap was set up correctly, you should see a brand-new entry on the top of theLeadstab.
  • Click on it to see the details for the contact.
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Blog: Spotlight on SIG Testing

Kubernetes

DevOps
Data Science

Published: 24th November, 2023

Author: Kubernetes

Summary:
  • SIG Testing is a Special Interest Group (SIG) within the Kubernetes project.
  • SIG Testing focus on creating and running tools and infrastructure that make it easier for the community to write and run tests.
  • Kubernetes is a gigantic project in every aspect, from contributors to code to users and more.
  • Testing and infrastructure have to meet that scale, keeping up with every change from every repo under Kubernetes.
  • I think another other challenge is staffing subprojects.
  • SIG Testing is looking for new members to join the community.
  • Patrick and Michelle share their top tips on how to join and contribute to the SIG.
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Netflix Original Research: MIT CODE 2023

Netflix

Algorithms

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Netflix Technology Blog

Summary:
  • Martin Tingley took us on a compelling and fun journey of complexity.
  • Apoorva Lal showed how partial identification of the dose-response function (DRF) under non-parametric assumptions can be used to provide more insightful analyses of experimental data.
  • We revisited a study that reduced like-minded content algorithmically.
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Introducing an Accessibility Linter for Marko: Shortening the Accessibility Testing Pipeline

Ebay

Web
UI/UX

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Luke LaValva

Summary:
  • The accessibility linter for Marko provides developers with accessibility feedback directly on source code, much like spell check in a word processor.
  • Prior to 2014, all accessibility testing was done manually.
  • eBay's accessibility team created a one-stop-shop for accessibility testing.
  • Web Accessibility Evaluator, or WAE, analyzes the HTML of a page and finds all of the bugs that can be identified with simple rules.
  • WAE has helped to decrease the load on manual testing.
  • eBay hopes tool will encourage developers to write for accessibility by default.
  • Marko is an open source tool that eBay hopes will raise developer awareness for accessibility.
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Building a comprehensive toolkit for machine learning

Canonical

AI

Published: 24th November, 2023

Author: Andreea Munteanu (Andreea Munteanu)

Summary:
  • A machine learning toolkit goes beyond the ML tools that are used.
  • To guarantee the smoothest path to production, you need a toolkit that can support you throughout the entire AI journey.
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Google Sheets vs. Excel: Which is right for you? [2024]

Zapier

Web
AI
Algorithms

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Luke Strauss

Summary:
  • Google Sheets is free for individuals, whereas Excel costs $159.99 per device.
  • Sheets allows multiple teammates to edit the same spreadsheet at once.
  • Excel's new Copilot AI feature maximizes these features.
  • Excel's Copilot AI is powerful and adaptable; Google Sheets' AI is playing catchup.
  • Copilot aims to transform your rows and columns into actionable insights.
  • Duet AI is about simplifying the setup, so you can focus on the collaboration that comes after.
  • Excel has everything you need built in; Google Sheets relies on third parties.
  • Both apps integrate with Zapier, which lets you connect your spreadsheets to thousands of other apps.
  • Google Sheets and Excel may look similar at first glance, but they are decidedly not the same.
  • Excel is best fit for those who work solo and need powerful data analysis tools.
  • Google Sheets is better for teams that need a simple spreadsheet solution with great collaborative features.
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How to create recurring tasks in Asana

Zapier

AI

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Khamosh Pathak

Summary:
  • You can set up recurring tasks in Asana.
  • To do so, create an Asana task and give it a due date.
  • You can also connect Asana to thousands of other apps.
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Part 2: Use Good Headings For Structure And Scanning

Squarespace

Web
Backend

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Anila Zaidi

Summary:
  • This is Part 2 of a five part tutorial on technical writing.
  • To learn why this tutorial is the way it is, and why technical writing in general, see theIntropost then.
  • The structure of headings in explanation guides tends to feel like a funnel, the first is usually very broad, the second less broad, and so on.
  • By the end, many explanation guides link to relevant guides such as how-tos and tutorials.
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What is HRIS? Human resources information systems, explained

Zapier

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Amanda Pell

Summary:
  • All HRIS tools are built to improve HR processes, but different systems focus on different functions.
  • Not all HRIS products offer the same suites of features or package them the same way.
  • HRISes can be gold mines for bad actors, so they have to be as secure as possible.
  • HRISes need to be accessible enough that employees don't have any issues using them.
  • Keeping all employee data in one central location minimizes opportunities for a security breach.
  • SAP and Oracle have their own HRIS products.
  • Small businesses can use limited-function tools to fix more specific problems.
  • Larger organizations should consider more comprehensive systems that tie processes together.
  • Zapier is the leader in no-code automation.
  • Build secure, automated systems for your business-critical workflows.
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The Framework We Use to Solve and Build for Impact on the Flywheel Design Team

Hubspot

DevOps

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Renann Devlin

Summary:
  • The Flywheel Design Team at HubSpot recently used the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework to understand the challenges our sales team are facing.
  • The JTBD framework is a user-centric approach to innovation that focuses on understanding customer needs.
  • A “job” to be done is basically a target that somebody is seeking to reach in any given context.
  • This activity helped us think inventively about techniques to handle our reps' primary difficulties.
  • The most important aspect was understanding the barriers and frustrations that hindered them from achieving their goals.
  • Designers used the satisfaction score method to rank jobs based on the level of pain associated with each job.
  • They then explored potential improvements that could enhance reps efficiency.
  • They used journey maps to visually represent the connections between the identified jobs.
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How not to write B2B emails: What I learned from studying 100+ brands

Zapier

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Esther-Grace Okonkwo

Summary:
  • Don't body-slam a new subscriber with sales pitches.
  • Ditch the single "Welcome to [insert brand name]" email mentality.
  • The Rule of One is important if you want towrite copythat resonates with your target audience.
  • Don't send emails with 99 calls to action (but your reader won't click one).
  • Too many choices, so they do nothing.
  • Esther-Grace Okonkwo is an email strategist and conversion copywriter for B2B & SaaS companies atCopyLift.
  • She says to avoid using a template.
  • Instead, learn one or twocopywriting frameworks.
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How to build a ChatGPT Slack bot with Zapier

Zapier

AI

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Will Harris

Summary:
  • Zapier's webhooks integration makes it easy to add slash commands to your Slack bot.
  • Just open Slack and type in your command followed by the prompt you'd like to send to ChatGPT.
  • Zapier will pull in your test prompt from Slack, as well as other information like the channel and username.
  • You can customize your message, as well as the name and icon of your bot.
  • Zapier will send a test message to your Slack channel for you to look at.
  • If your message looks good, you're ready to use your Zap.
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Causal Machine Learning for Creative Insights

Netflix

Published: 25th November, 2023

Author: Netflix Technology Blog

Summary:
  • Mediation occurs when a third variable explains the relationship between an independent and dependent variable.
  • We can investigate suspected moderators to uncover Conditional Average Treatment Effects (CATE) Using the causal machine learning framework, we can potentially test and identify the various components of promotional artwork.
  • In the upcoming posts in this series, we will share alternative machine learning and computer vision approaches that can provide insights from a causal perspective.
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What is business intelligence and how does it simplify decision-making?

Zapier

Mobile
Database
DevOps
Backend

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Luke Strauss

Summary:
  • Data mining takes data from existing datasets and turns it into actionable information.
  • Operational intelligence provides real-time monitoring of business operations.
  • Online analytical processing (OLAP) is a powerful BI capability.
  • You don't need a PhD to get into business intelligence.
  • Start with some online courses that cover the basics, like data analysis and pattern recognition.
  • Integrate your BI process with the help of integrations.
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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

Netflix

Database
Data Engg

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Netflix Technology Blog

Summary:
  • Incrementally process the captured incremental change data and directly append them to the target table.
  • Use the captured range parameters in the business logic.
  • Use ICDC as a filter to speed up the processing.
  • Pipeline will always consume the past X number of partition data from the source table and then overwrite the target table in every run.
  • The drawback is the cost of computation and execution time.
  • It usually costs almost X times more than the pipeline without considering late arriving data.
  • With these small changes, the data pipeline efficiency is greatly improved.
  • In our sample run, the new IPS based pipeline overall needs around10%of resources (measured by the execution time) to finish.
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Announcing Postman’s Instagram account with Threads

Postman

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: The Postman Team

Summary:
  • InstagramwithThreads will serve as a one-stop shop for product news, educational content, tips and tricks, and more.
  • Follow our handle,@getpostman.
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Guest Post: Real-Time Fraud Detection in the Lakehouse

Databricks

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Databricks

Summary:
  • The costs of fraud are staggering.
  • In 2022, just one type of fraud, card-not-present fraud, resulted in almost $6bn in losses in the.
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The Power of a Flexible and Diverse Generative AI Strategy

DataRobot

AI

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Ted Kwartler

Summary:
  • With DataRobot’s generative AI offering, organizations can easily choose the right tools for the job.
  • You can easily extend their internal data to LLMs, while also measuring outputs for toxicity, truthfulness, and cost.
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Unwrapping the secrets of a data + AI career

Databricks

AI

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Databricks

Summary:
  • Upskilling through role-based pathways to accelerate your data + AI career Databricks has spent years crafting and iterating technical trainings for learners across.
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NVIDIA Collaborates With Genentech to Accelerate Drug Discovery Using Generative AI

Nvidia

AI

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Rory Kelleher

Summary:
  • Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, is pioneering the use ofgenerative AIto discover and develop new therapeutics and deliver treatments to patients more efficiently.
  • The collaboration will initially focus on optimizing Genentech’s drug discovery AI models in its “lab in a loop” framework.
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Optimizing Hiring Efficiency: Sprout Social’s Strategic Approach for a World Class Candidate Experience

Hackerrank

AI

Published: 23rd November, 2023

Author: Tanvi Sharma

Summary:
  • Sprout Social stands out in its efforts to create people-centric, data-driven candidate experiences.
  • To gain insights into their approach to enhancing candidate experience, we spoke with Miguel Zambrano, Recruitment Enablement Program Manager.
  • Sprout Social uses HackerRank to help candidates prepare for interviews.
  • The platform's centralized nature ensures a smooth interview process.
  • Sprout Social has observed a positive trend of candidates returning to the company.
  • Sprout Social's recruitment philosophy is a human-centric approach to hiring.
  • Interviewers and hiring managers undergo comprehensive interview training.
  • Sprout Social is committed to nurturing a culture rich in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Sprout Social’s EVP is ‘See Work Differently,’ and we’ve embraced creative methods to weave this into our processes.
  • For instance, we focus on communicating both to our candidates and our internal engineering team the significant impact they can make.
  • Sprout Social has found a balance between AI efficiency and human creativity.
  • Embracing AI strategically has improved our efficiency and our ability to attract top-tier talent.
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Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 2

Canonical

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Aaron Whitehouse (Aaron Whitehouse)

Summary:
  • Livepatch security-patches the version of the kernel running in memory.
  • This keeps you secure until you reboot in your next scheduled maintenance window.
  • If a restart is inconvenient, in many cases you can restart individual services instead of the entire system.
  • If you are running Ubuntu in production, it is crucial that you apply available security updates to your instances.
  • By default many of our public cloud images use rolling kernels.
  • This means that the kernel rolls to a later kernel version approximately every six months for the first two years.
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5 ways to automate Claude with Zapier

Zapier

AI

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Elena Alston

Summary:
  • Claudecan summarize documents, answer questions about complex topics, write copy, and code.
  • With Zapier, you can connect your favorite apps to Claude and automate anything from writing blog posts based on keywords to analyzing customer feedback forms at scale.
  • Use these Zaps to write snappy, engaging content based on a brief or trending topic.
  • With Claude and Zapier, you can automatically streamline your work processes to help you move forward, faster.
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data-mesh-in-practice-getting-off-to-the-right-star

Thoughtworks

Published: 23rd November, 2023

Author: Thoughtworks

Summary:
  • Data Mesh in practice: Getting off to the right start (Part I) Our learnings from implementing Data Mesh at Roche.
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How to send emails for new Airtable records

Zapier

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Daniel Kenitz

Summary:
  • Zapier lets you create automated workflows called Zaps, which send information from one app to another.
  • With a Zap, you can automatically send an email for new records added to your Airtable base.
  • Create effortless, real-time communication to update everyone.
  • Connect your Gmail account to Zapier, just as you did with Airtable.
  • Set up your action, which is the event your Zap will perform once it's triggered.
  • Add who you want to send the email to, who it's from, and add any CCs or BCCs you'd like.
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Augmenting our content moderation efforts through machine learning and dynamic content prioritization

LinkedIn

AI
Data Science
Algorithms

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Abhishek Chandak

Summary:
  • LinkedIn's Trust & Safety team works diligently to keep harmful content off the platform.
  • We created a new framework for content review prioritization, which uses AI models to score each piece of content in the review queue.
  • This helps our reviewers prioritize which content needs immediate attention.
  • The models leverage a set of real-time signals, orthogonal to those used by existing AI services for automated content restriction.
  • These models are built onProML which is the company-wide machine learning productivity platform.
  • The final model is chosen based on the highest recall at extremely high precision (R@P) This framework is also able to reduce the average time taken to catch policy-violating content by ~60%.
  • Due to this faster identification and subsequent removal of such content, we are able to reduction the number of unique members exposed to violative content significantly each week.
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Cloud backup: improve your disaster recovery plans

Canonical

Cloud

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Philip Williams (Philip Williams)

Summary:
  • Cloud backup is emerging as an increasingly viable alternative to traditional tapes.
  • Over the last few years there have been significant decreases in the cost of internet connectivity.
  • Cloud backup is more convenient than tape, more durable, and it can even be less expensive.
  • Restoring data from a cloud backup is faster.
  • Using an online type of storage system for your backups means that restores can be started instantly.
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Seven tips to make holiday shopping easier. Really.

Mozilla

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Rebecca Smith

Summary:
  • Remember when the holidays meant waking up early and going down and opening up presents? When the only gift list you had to worry about was the gifts you were asking for.
  • Last year, it was estimated that adults bought an average of nine presents and spent about $1500 on holiday gifts.
  • Buying gifts doesn’t […]The postSeven tips to make holiday shopping easier.
  • Really.appeared first onThe Mozilla Blog.
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Palantir and the NHS

Palantir

Cloud

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Palantir

Summary:
  • Palantir has been chosen by the NHS to help deliver a Federated Data Platform.
  • The FDP will improve patient care by bringing together the information needed to plan and deliver care, and reduce the administrative burden on staff.
  • Palantir strives to help critical institutions solve complex challenges.
  • During COVID, our software helped ensure that ventilators and PPE were delivered to the right place at the right time.
  • It then supported the vaccine rollout — widely acknowledged as the most successful in Europe.
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11 helpful Buffer features for better social media management

Zapier

AI

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Melissa King

Summary:
  • Use automation to share, engage, and cross-post without lifting a finger.
  • Start Page lets you make a single-page website right in Buffer.
  • Shopify's Buffer channel is dedicated to analytics only.
  • If you have social media copy you want to refine, highlight the text and click theRefine with AIbutton that appears to rephrase, shorten, or expand it.
  • It's like anAI writing tool,but built right into Buffer.
  • Buffer's publishing interface revolves around your posting schedule.
  • The answerstab in your analytics shares the best day to post, the best type of post to share, and the best posting frequency.
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API design interview questions

Postman

Web
DevOps
Backend

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Melinda Gutermuth

Summary:
  • An HTTP status code is a three-digit numeric code that a server returns as part of an HTTP response.
  • A successful request usually returns a 200 OK status code, while an unsuccessful request might return a 404 Not Found status code.
  • The payload is what goes in the body of the request or response.
  • Using pagination in API responses helps clients retrieve and display large amounts of data in smaller, more manageable chunks.
  • Use cursor-based pagination for optimal performance, where an API consumer navigates the data by making a request, then uses the opaque cursor from the response to make their next request.
  • “Do something” operations are those that need to be performed on a system or application but don’t correspond to a typical CRUD operation.
  • Long-running operations are typically handled asynchronously with REST APIs.
  • There are many best practices for designing effective RESTful APIs.
  • These guidelines bring clarity, consistency, and scalability to API design.
  • To increase performance, make the API cacheable and stateless.
  • When sending and receiving data over HTTP, the client and server must first agree on a common format and language.
  • Content negotiation is crucial because it helps account for the various client preferences and requirements.
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Medical Imaging AI Made Easier: NVIDIA Offers MONAI as Hosted Cloud Service

Nvidia

Web
AI
Backend

Published: 26th November, 2023

Author: Prerna Dogra

Summary:
  • NVIDIA launches cloud service for medical imaging AI.
  • It will streamline the creation of ground-truth data and training of specialized AI models.
  • Medical imaging is critical across healthcare, making up approximately90% of healthcare data.
  • Flywheel has integrated MONAI through NVIDIA AI Enterpriseand is now offering NVIDIA MONAI cloud APIs to accelerate medical image curation, labeling analysis and training.
  • MLOps platform builders including Dataiku, ClearML and Weight & Biases are also investigating the use of NVIDIA MON AI cloud APIs.
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How Postman uses Postman: E2E testing, feedback loops, and collaboration

Postman

Backend

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Melinda Gutermuth

Summary:
  • Divyanshu is a member of the Workspaces squad at Postman.
  • The squad uses Postman's built-in collaboration features, including commenting, the activity feed, and workspaces.
  • By making extensive use of Postman’s collaboration tools within their own team, the squad has achieved some major milestones.
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Photoshop alternatives: The 9 best free photo editors in 2024

Zapier

AI
Backend

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Michelle Martin

Summary:
  • Krita is a powerful drawing app that can handle professional workflows.
  • It also does a great job with photo editing, though adjusting things like exposure and colors isn't as straightforward as photo-specific apps like Lightroom.
  • Krita's built-in noise reduction effect is better at cleaning up high ISO than some paid app options.
  • Graphic designers will find even more to love about Inkscape, with advanced path, stroke, vector illustration, calligraphy, and typography tools.
  • The most recent update was in November 2023.
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Mozilla Ventures Invests in Sendmarc, Global Leader in Email and Domain Security

Mozilla

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Kevin Zawacki

Summary:
  • The investment will help Sendmarc provide essential DMARC protection to thousands of customers around the world (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER  21, 2023) – Today, Mozilla Ventures is announcing an investment in Sendmarc, an industry leader in email and domain cybersecurity.  Sendmarc specializes in preventing email impersonation (i.e.
  • phishing and spoofing), the root cause of more than 90% […]The postMozilla Ventures Invests in Sendmarc, Global Leader in Email and Domain Securityappeared first onThe Mozilla Blog.
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Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 3

Canonical

Cloud
DevOps
Backend

Published: 24th November, 2023

Author: Aaron Whitehouse (Aaron Whitehouse)

Summary:
  • New snapshot service is integrated into APT in Ubuntu 23.10.
  • Microsoft is using this service to enable Safe Deployment Practices on Azure.
  • Managing updates in a distributed environment can be a challenge.
  • Landscape includes features to help you manage Ubuntu updates across any public or private cloud.
  • Combined with automation, monitoring and automated health checks, this can increase stability.
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How to choose a metric for a FinOps report

Thoughtworks

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Sagar Trivedi

Summary:
  • How to choose a metric for a FinOps report.
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Company Spotlight: Boosty Labs

Replit

AI

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Replit

Summary:
  • Boosty Labs' 50+ developers adopts Replit Core to increase collaboration and productivity with AI Boosty Labs, a leading Ukrainian development studio with over 50 developers, has embraced Replit Core, increasing collaboration and productivity with AI. Vitalli Yatskiv, CTO of Boosty Labs, chose Replit for its fast environment setup and collaborative features: "Setting up a development environment on Replit is impressively quick, as Replit eliminates the tedium of dependency installation.".
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Tuning Go Garbage Collection

Jio Cinema

Hardware
Algorithms

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Kamlesh Gupta

Summary:
  • Go was running its GC too frequently which was spiking our CPU resulting in poor performance.
  • We started tuning the GOGC percentage value with different values.
  • Once we finalised this value that worked for us, the CPU usage reduced to more than 90%.
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3D Artist Cooks Up Stunningly Photorealistic Food Renders This Week ‘In the NVIDIA Studio’

Nvidia

AI

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Gerardo Delgado

Summary:
  • This week's featured artist is Ravissen Carpenen, who creates photorealistic 3D food renders.
  • His delectable time-lapse videos are featured on his YouTube channel, CG Realism.
  • RTX-accelerated OptiX ray tracing in Blender Cycles delivers the fastest final-frame render.
  • “Raw Details” feature refines the fine color details of high-resolution RAW images.
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AI-Powered Tech Company Helps Grocers Start Afresh in Supply Chain Management

Nvidia

AI

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Kristen Yee

Summary:
  • Afresh is an AI startup that helps grocery stores and retailers reduce food waste by making supply chains more efficient.
  • The company also recently launched inventory management software that allows grocers to save time and increase data accuracy.
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Ideas in Action: An Interview with Michael Pfaffenberger — MLOps and LLMs

Walmart

Cloud
AI
Backend

Published: 28th November, 2023

Author: Jiazhen Zhu

Summary:
  • For LLM-specific applications, I recommend starting with the best available model for your task.
  • I believe the original transformer era (BERT) is likely over.
  • I expect GenAI to break into other areas like time-series forecasting within the next 1–5 years.
  • MLOps has significantly improved LLM performance or efficiency.
  • Perfecting RAG-based question answering systems can be challenging since the generative results’ quality depends on the retrieval step.
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Improving Efficiency Of Goku Time Series Database at Pinterest (Part — 1)

Pinterest

Backend
Hardware
Algorithms

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Pinterest Engineering

Summary:
  • GokuL leverages RocksDB for time series data storage, and the data is tiered into buckets based on its age.
  • Queries start hitting a host as soon as a shard has less than some threshold of kafka lag.
  • This is even if the host was actively recovering data for other shards.
  • Each host would ingest around a couple of 1000s of GB worth of data when it bootstrapped.
  • This is due to the fact that each host would hold approximately 100–120 shards.
  • Compaction is a process that consolidates 2 higher level files into a larger lower level file and also deletes any unwanted keys during this process.
  • An SST file in a single bucket can contain multiple key types.
  • RocksDB will try to sort the SST files based on the last and first key in each file.
  • The bootstrap time was reduced to 2 hours (from 6–12 hours).
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How to change your passwords in 6 steps

Zapier

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: David Hartshorne

Summary:
  • The right tool lets you create strong, unique passwords for all your online accounts.
  • It auto-fills the details every time you revisit the site (on any device) And whenever you need to update a password, it only takes a couple of clicks.
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Teenage Dream: Aspiring Computer Science Major Experiences NVIDIA Life With Make-A-Wish Visit

Nvidia

AI
Backend
Hardware

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Samantha Zee

Summary:
  • Luca Lofranco, 18, has Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • His greatest wish was to experience what it’s like to work at NVIDIA.
  • His visit was supported by Make-A-Wish.
  • Lofranco learned firsthand from Huang that while NVIDIA has evolved from being the underdog to a leading tech company, it still feels “like a family.” Huang gifted L ofranco aGeForce RTX 4090Founders Edition GPU.
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UX vs. DX in Python Web Servers

Agoda

Web
Backend
Coding

Published: 24th November, 2023

Author: Agoda Engineering

Summary:
  • FastAPI, Django, and Flask are currently the most used frameworks in the market, followed by Tornado and some other less known libraries.
  • No of the top 5 most used Python libraries score in the highest performance ratings.
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6 ways to automate Copy.ai with Zapier

Zapier

Web
AI

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Elena Alston

Summary:
  • Copy.aican and Zapier can help you create and schedule email newsletters.
  • You can also generate new blog ideas based on a prompt.
  • Copy.ai can also analyze customer feedback forms.
  • Copy.ai and Zapier can help you do more in less time.
  • They can enrich lead information and generate personalized content.
  • You can also use them to assess and categorize customer feedback.
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Anonymesh: Data sharing meets privacy and security

Thoughtworks

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Rajat K. Jain

Summary:
  • Anonymesh: Data sharing meets privacy and security.
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GPT-4’s potential in shaping the future of radiology

Microsoft Research

AI
Backend
Data Science

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Brenda Potts

Summary:
  • In recent years, AI has been increasingly integrated into healthcare, bringing about new areas of focus and priority.
  • GPT-4 has demonstratedpotential utility in medical consultations, providing a promising outlook for healthcare innovation.
  • This research paper is being presented at the2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
  • GPT-4 structures and standardizes radiology report findings into a knowledge graph.
  • It performs tasks such as disease classification, disease progression classification, or impression generation.
  • It can also translate medical reports into moreempathetic and understandable formats.
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Demystifying the Elastic search indexing and synonym search

Walmart

Algorithms

Published: 24th November, 2023

Author: divya sharma

Summary:
  • Elastic search expands the terms both during indexing and querying using the synonyms stored for a particular word.
  • Elasticsearch also allows expanding queries with synonyms using a special query type called multi_match.
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The 15 best productivity extensions for Chrome in 2024

Zapier

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Allisa Boulette

Summary:
  • Remember, the productivity extensions for Chrome that I shared here stem from personal preference.
  • The journey to becoming a task-conquering warrior could very well begin with a simple browser add-on.
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Writing and linting Python at scale

Facebook

Backend

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Facebook

Summary:
  • Pascal Hartig and Amethyst Reese, a production engineer at Meta, discuss all things Python at Meta.
  • They discuss how Meta’s Python Foundation Team works to improve the developer experience of everyone working with Python.
  • They also discuss Fixit 2, Meta's recently open-sourced linter framework.
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Download our brand-new mobile game, “Postman: API-First Journey”

Postman

Mobile
Backend
Hardware

Published: 28th November, 2023

Author: Shruthi Venkatesh

Summary:
  • Postman: API-First Journey is a game for Android and iOS.
  • It combines our twin passions of software development and gaming.
  • Play as our endearing Postmanaut, who’s struggling to build software in the monolith.
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Maya Cakmak builds teachable robots to help humans

Amazon Science

Robotics

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Amazon Science

Summary:
  • Maya Cakmak is an associate professor at the University of Washington.
  • Her research focuses on how robots and humans can assist one another with challenging tasks.
  • She is helping tackle one of the most challenging parts of the fulfillment process.
  • Cakmak was born in Belgium and grew up in Turkey.
  • She moved to the U.S.
  • in 2007 to pursue a PhD in robotics at Georgia Tech.
  • Her early research at UW focused on developing robots that could be taught or programmed by end-users.
  • Maya is a robot that can grasp and remove individual items from Amazon's shelves.
  • It uses a human operator to help it complete more complex tasks.
  • The team is working on developing new methods to enable robots to learn from human operators over time.
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The 9 best rank tracker tools in 2024

Zapier

DevOps

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Bryce Emley

Summary:
  • Google Search Console (GSC) could technically make this list as an SEO rank tracker.
  • GSC doesn't show performance for non-Google search engines like Bing.
  • Many rank trackers also integrate with GSC directly.
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5 popular ways to use Zapier's ActiveCampaign integration

Zapier

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Danielle Antosz

Summary:
  • These Zaps move leads from your favorite ad and conversion tools to ActiveCampaign automatically.
  • Connecting ActiveCampaign with your eCommerce platform lets you add new customers to your contact list or update contact information automatically.
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Building Mature Content Detection for Mod Tools

Reddit

Performance
AI
DevOps
Backend
Data Science

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: /u/sassyshalimar

Summary:
  • In September 2023, Reddit Safety introducedMature Content filters.
  • This feature allows mods to automatically filter NSFW content into a community’s modqueue for further review.
  • In this blog post, we’ll delve into how we built a real-time detection system.
  • The goal is to have a viable model that we can use in production to classify content using the datasets we created in the previous annotation phase.
  • This phase also involved exploratory data analysis to figure out what features to use, which ones are viable in a production setting, and experimenting with different models.
  • During user media upload, Reddit’s Media-service notifies Content Classification Service (CCS) CCS collects different levels of signals of images/videos in real-time, and sends the assembled feature vector to our safety moderation models hosted by Gazette.
  • If the ML models detect X (for sexual) and/or V (for violent) content in the media, the service.
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Hungry for Gaming: 18 New Games to Join GeForce NOW

Nvidia

Published: 23rd November, 2023

Author: GeForce NOW Community

Summary:
  • available on Microsoft Store)Supraland: Six Inches Under(Xbox, available on PC Game Pass)The Surge 2(Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)Thymesia(Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)Tropico 6(Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)West of Dead(Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)What are you looking forward to streaming? Let us know onTwitteror in the comments below.tell us a device you have that you're grateful forbonus points for pictures—NVIDIA GeForce NOW (@NVIDIAGFN)November 22, 2023.
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Canonical announces the general availability of chiselled Ubuntu containers

Canonical

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Canonical (Canonical)

Summary:
  • off and chisel.
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Home automation with MQTT

Postman

Backend

Published: 27th November, 2023

Author: Joyce

Summary:
  • Send and receive messages with the Home Assistant MQTT broker.
  • theMessagetab, send data to a specified topic.
  • Under theTopicstab, subscribe to topics.
  • And observe the inbound and outbound messages at the bottom.
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Indian Women in Tech: 7 Key Strategies for Elevating Your Salesforce Career

Salesforce

Published: 21st November, 2023

Author: Scott Nyberg

Summary:
  • Rise’s goal is to enable career development and address cultural obstacles encountered by women in tech in India.
  • The program features four levels, each catering to specific personas.
  • Read on to explore seven key strategies these programs convey.
  • Women comprise36% of India’s IT workforce, but only 25% of managerial positions.
  • Salesforce programs like Rise tackle workplace inequality by promoting equal opportunities and nurturing a culture where women flourish.
  • Knowing yourself and what you desire to accomplish crystallizes your career path, transforming it into a customized, actionable, and effective plan.
  • Using strategic thinking, relationship-building skills, and leveraging career programs like Rise, you can chart a course towards long-term success.
  • Women comprise36% of India’s IT workforce, but only 25% of managerial positions.
  • Salesforce programs such as Rise tackle workplace inequality by promoting equal opportunities and nurturing a culture where women flourish.
  • Women comprise36% of India’s IT workforce, but they only hold 25% of managerial positions.
  • Salesforce programs like Rise tackle workplace inequality by promoting equal opportunities and nurturing culture where women can flourish.
  • Rise is a career program designed to help technologists grow their careers at Salesforce.
  • All levels share a similar objective: Enable technologists to improve their leadership expertise.
  • Read on to explore seven key strategies these programs convey.
  • In Salesforce’s fast-paced environment, it is impossible to solely complete your tasks at speed and scale.
  • Instead of juggling 100 tasks and dealing with the associated stress, learn how to delegate and leverage your internal relationships for collaboration.
  • Practice Self-compassion in Salesforce’s fast-paced environment.
  • Negotiate for Successful Agreements.
  • Shape Your Professional Identity with Your Personal Brand.
  • Possessing a strong personal brand spotlights you as an important asset to your organization.
  • By confidently crafting and building your brand, you align leaders’ perceptions about you with your aspirations.
  • In Salesforce’s fast-paced environment, it is impossible to solely complete your tasks at speed and scale while delivering perfect results.
  • Instead of juggling 100 tasks and dealing with the associated stress, learn how to delegate and leverage your internal relationships.
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Research Focus: Week of November 22, 2023

Microsoft Research

Backend
Data Science

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Alyssa Hughes

Summary:
  • Researchers from Microsoft present the Confidential Consortium Framework: Secure Multiparty Applications with Confidentiality, Integrity, and High Availability.
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Pipedrive vs. HubSpot: Which CRM is right for you? [2024]

Zapier

AI

Published: 22nd November, 2023

Author: Miguel Rebelo

Summary:
  • Pipedrive specializes in empowering sales teams.
  • The sales pipeline is very intuitive.
  • The contact page is detailed and complete, but it feels a little cluttered by comparison.
  • HubSpot covers a wide range of use cases, increasing the overall learning curve and platform complexity.
  • Pipedrive focuses on fewer circumstances, pays attention to details, and may turn out to be easier to adopt in the end.
  • Pipedrive lets you set up your own automations with its intuitive visual builder.
  • While the builder is solid, it still lacks some functionality and polish.
  • HubSpot has its ownAnalyticssection, letting you take a deep look into service or content analytics.
  • Pipedrive doesn't have a free plan and has per-user pricing.
  • This makes it more expensive for larger teams.
  • If you want more advanced features, Pipedrive's Essential plan is actually cheaper.
  • Pipedrive is a better fit for small and medium businesses that can no longer rely on a free CRM solution.
  • It's a highly specialized platform that aims to solve sales problems.
  • HubSpot is better for people who need a free and versatile tool right now.
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