Checklist

May as well get it finished before Tears of the Kingdom As we look toward the future, and the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom next May, a lot of folks I’ve spoken to recently are reflecting on the past. Zelda: Breath of the Wild, that is! Some have taken to cleanup runs to try and clear out some final tasks once and for all, and this Breath of the Wild companion book is a great way to do that. Crafted by RowanFN1 on Reddit, this cute little journal is reminiscent of old school instruction manuals:…

Learn first-party data management strategies that keep your customers' data safe and your business booming. What’s best for you? A CDP out-of-the-box? Building a customer data solution yourself? There’s merit in both options, and this webinar is here to help you narrow down what’s best for your business. Register today for “How to Decide to Build or Buy: A Customer Data Management Checklist,” presented by Acquia.…

By J.D. Biersdorfer, The New York Times Company After a summer of horror stories about flying, the thought of airline travel might make you queasy. What can you do if your journey is disrupted en route? Here’s a plan for using your smartphone as a travel aid while you hope for the best — but prepare for the worst. 1. Check Your Apps If you haven’t done so, download the official apps for the airlines you’ll be using on your trip. You may have signed up for travel alerts by text or email when you booked your flight, but you…

This checklist will help you successfully compete for a data science job in industryPhoto by Joshua Sortino on UnsplashData science is a unique discipline that can take you from academia to industry and back.While many of you get your training and perhaps even your first jobs in academia, it may not be where you want to stay for the rest of your career. Therefore, it’s important to begin preparing for how you plan to leave academia and enter a data science job in industry. These jobs could involve business projections,…

A Guideline for Optimizing Cloud Based TrainingPhoto by Jake Weirick on UnsplashThere are many advantages to training in the cloud. These include accessibility to a wide variety of training instance types, the ability to scale training to multiple instances and multiple parallel experiments without limitation, and the rich ecosystem of features and services facilitating ML workloads. However, if not managed properly, cloud ML can run up some pretty high costs. While the primary responsibility for developing and enforcing…

This checklist will help you write clean and easy-to-manage Python codePhoto by Austin Lowman on UnsplashI never really understood why software engineers or data scientists from computer science backgrounds would complain about the code that data scientists write until I began reading the code from other data scientists.Then, I discovered the kryptonite of the data scientist.Data science isn’t a field that naturally stems from computer science, and it’s reflected in the wide variety of backgrounds that data scientists…

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, a fraud case on a business can make the company have a median loss of around $117,000. Hence, we need to have our business fraud prevention checklist and go through it regularly. If you would like to create your checklist, we have several actions you can do to add to the list. 1. Communicate The first thing you ought to do is develop communication in the office. The development can start by creating a code of conduct that employees must understand and…

So you’re thinking of expanding your fintech company to another market? Congratulations, you’re in for an interesting ride. While 2022 has seen a slight slowdown in fintech investments, Q1 investments were still up 27% from Q1 2021. Even so, fintech giants like Klarna have laid off part of their staff in expectation of a more difficult future financial environment. This slowdown puts more pressure on fintechs to build resilience by expanding both in product and in markets, while keeping a…

Neutral and Contradiction Biases in Premise-Hypothesis sentencesPhoto by Possessed Photography on UnsplashMotivationNatural language inference (NLI) is a widely-studied natural language processing task to determine the entailment relation between two statements: a premise and a hypothesis.The Stanford NLI corpus (version 1.0) is a collection of 570k human-written English sentence pairs manually labeled for training NLP models on NLI task. Although there are state-of- the-art NLP models that can achieve high accuracy on…