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Found Frozen and Almost Perfectly Preserved in Permafrost, this 18,000-Year-Old Puppy Could Be a Huge Deal

The little critter doesn’t seem to fit the genetic profile of a dog or a wolf, and it quite possibly represents an intermediary stage during the domestication of dogs. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/11/found-frozen-and-almost-perfectly-preserved-in-permafrost-this-18000-year-old-puppy-could-be-a-huge-deal/
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Voices in AI – Episode 101: A Conversation with Cindi Howsen

[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode On Episode 101 of Voices in AI , Byron speaks with Cindi Howsen of Thoughtspot about the direction of explainable AI and where we are going as an industry. Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com Transcript Excerpt Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm and I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Cindi Howson. She is the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot. She holds a degree in English from the University of Maryland and an MBA from my alma mater, Rice University. Welcome to the show, Cindy. Cindi Howson: Thank you, Byron. Yes Rice, where they had more trees than students. That is one of the things that was in the original charter, that it’d always be that way and it makes a real difference on the campus, doesn’t it? It does. It’s a beautiful campus. And you know a lot of people aren’t big into living in Houston. But the part where we lived had those beautiful oaks that hang over a
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A Conversation with Brett Hurt

Brett Hurt Bio Brett is a General Partner at Hurt+Harbach, a seed-stage venture capital firm. Prior to Hurt+Harbach, Brett worked at Austin Ventures from November of 2012 to August of 2013 and focused on early-stage software investing. Prior to AV, Brett founded Bazaarvoice (NASDAQ: BV) and served as CEO and President for seven years, leading the company from bootstrapped concept to almost 2,000 clients worldwide and through its successful IPO. He subsequently guided the company through a successful follow-on offering, and two acquisitions, PowerReviews and Longboard Media. Brett continues to actively support Bazaarvoice as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to Bazaarvoice, Brett founded Coremetrics and helped grow the company into a global, leading marketing analytics solution for the eCommerce industry before its acquisition by IBM. Brett holds an MBA in High-Tech Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Management Infor
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The Importance of User Interfaces in IT Infrastructure Management

IT is all about APIs and Automation now, but I think that sometimes we forget we are humans. I totally understand why everybody is trying to program and automate every single part of their IT and last week, at Tech Field Day 20 we attended a few sessions that were crazy cool about automation. The one that I liked the most was with Cisco about their NSO (more on this in future podcasts and articles) but, at the same time, visualization is a fundamental aspect to get a glimpse of what is really happening in your infrastructure. Doing data visualization right is really hard, and not getting the right information when needed can seriously compromise the efficiency of several processes, including day-to-day system administration and troubleshooting. Wasting time to understand what is happening in the system slows down reactions and can easily compromise the total time necessary to remediate to issues or, even worse, SLAs. Different perspectives When it comes to IT infrastructures and w
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Edge Computing is the New Black

The IT industry has been living a big transformation for quite some time now. Most enterprises are focusing their investments in hybrid cloud solutions while on-premises core data center infrastructures are shrinking in favor of public cloud. At the same time, many have already realized that most of the data is created and consumed at the edge, which is now a fundamental component of every IT strategy. What and Where is the Edge? The definition of edge in edge computing is more complex than you might think. In general terms we talk about bringing compute and data storage close to the edge of your network with the goal to improve response times while avoiding unnecessary data movements between the clients and the cloud. In practice, depending on who you speak with, edge computing is becoming a general term to also describe mobile computing and, up to a certain extent, IoT. And, to be honest, there is some truth in it. IoT devices are becoming smarter and better able to create small ne
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Watch Saladin Ahmed Talk About His Love For Marvel and His Work on Miles Morales: Spider-Man and The Magnificent Ms. Marvel

Ahmed is doing work that could easily shape the future of one of the Marvel Universe’s most interesting corners. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/11/watch-saladin-ahmed-talk-about-his-love-for-marvel-and-his-work-on-miles-morales-spider-man-and-the-magnificent-ms-marvel/
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