What happens when machines learn to manipulate us by faking our emotions? Judging by the rate at which researchers are developing human-like AI agents, we’re about to find out. Researchers around the world are trying to create more human-li
The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.19.0, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
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This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.
An MIT Sloan Ph.D. candidate discovered what turned skilled hobbyists into entrepreneurs.
A Dutch gallerist made thousands of forgeries and passed them off as the work of real artists. When he was caught, a new con began.
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As your sales team grows, your tech stack almost always does too. But figuring out which sales tools you should buy can be a daunting task.
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Increasingly, companies are using experiments to guide them in their decision making—but many are still missing opportunities, or are failing to implement experiments well. When it comes to the rollout of new products, one particularly effective new kind of experiment involves…
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As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by…
Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual reports. All these data and data sources only add value if put to use. And that typically means that the data is incorporated into a…
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This tutorial will give you a firm grasp of Python’s approach to async IO, which is a concurrent programming design that has received dedicated support in Python, evolving rapidly from Python 3.4 through 3.7 (and probably beyond).
Eric Klinenberg is the author of a book called Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life. The phrase “palaces for the people” actually comes from Andrew Carnegie who was known as a titan of the Gilded…
When desperate storeowners want to convince passersby to stop in, they hire fun, happy people to pose as shoppers. They’re actually out-of-work actors, retirees, and me.
How does Netflix get away with releasing its movies in theaters on the same day it makes them available for “free” on its streaming platform? The answer is that Netflix is pursuing a fundamentally different business model from everyone else in the industry. Netflix is not in the…
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In this tutorial you will learn how to use Keras, Mask R-CNN, and Deep Learning for instance segmentation (both with and without a GPU).
Many of you might have heard of the concept “Wisdom of the Crowd”: when many people independently guess some quantity, e.g. the number of marbles in a jar glass, the average of their guesses is often pretty accurate – even though many of the guesses are totally off. The same…
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Quick tip: The new software package, Storyboarder, makes it 'easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures.' You can create a story idea without actually making a full-blown movie and see how it looks. Storyboarder is free. It's open source.
Want to ask for a raise, lower your rent or haggle for the best price on a new car? Understanding how your brain works is the first step.
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Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead. That is what the following strategies are designed to do.
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Next.js 8 introduces Serverless Mode, smaller bundles, performance improvements, and more.