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IT’s ‘war for talent’ is a losing battle

CIO Business Intelligence

In his 2001 best-seller, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t , author Jim Collins reminds us that “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” While this point may seem pedantic on its surface, given that many IT leaders carry the metaphor through to their hiring and retention strategies, it is anything but.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Given those two, plus SQL gaining eminence as a database strategy, a decidedly relational picture coalesced throughout the decade. Network security mushrooms with VPNs, IDS , gateways, various bump-in-the-wire solutions, SIMS tying all the anti-intrusion measures within the perimeter together, and so on. credit cards). It’s a mess.

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ML internals: Synthetic Minority Oversampling (SMOTE) Technique

Domino Data Lab

This renders measures like classification accuracy meaningless. propose a different strategy where the minority class is over-sampled by generating synthetic examples. note that this variant “performs worse than plain under-sampling based on AUC” when tested on the Adult dataset (Dua & Graff, 2017). References.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 12

Domino Data Lab

Their approach is to bombard “organoid” mini brains living in vats with potential cancer meds, to measure the meds’ relative effects. Consider the following timeline: 2001 – Physics grad students are getting hired in quantity by hedge funds to work on Wall St. Then rethink your hiring strategies w.r.t. The best words.