John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 17, 2015

The post Scaling Through Culture: WeWork and Blue Bottle (vs. Regus and Starbucks) appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. The way we work is changing. That statement seems self-evident to anyone involved in what I call the NewCo economy – work no longer has to be a duty, it can be a calling. For those blessed with the talent, education, connections, and skill to turn work into part of their self expression, work isn’t the thing you have to do so you can “have a lif

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 18, 2015

DB2 for z/OS is making increased use of the information that it keeps in the real-time statistics tables in the DB2 catalog. You should be doing likewise. Read on to learn more. For a long time, the only statistics to be found in DB2 "system" tables were those generated through execution of the RUNSTATS utility. Starting with DB2 Version 7 (around the 2000 time frame), DB2 could automatically and periodically (every 30 minutes, by default) write a variety of statistics about table spaces and ind

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 19, 2015

Legislators in New Hampshire and Oregon recently passed bills designed to protect the online privacy of students in kindergarten through 12th grade. On June 11, 2015, New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan (D-NH) signed H.B. 520 , a bipartisan bill that requires operators of websites, online platforms and applications targeting students and their families (“Operators”) to create and maintain “reasonable” security procedures to protect certain covered information about students.

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CGI

JUNE 18, 2015

What Kaggle taught us about predictive analytics. Anonymous. Thu, 06/18/2015 - 08:00. Last year, CGI’s data science team from Prague had the great honor of winning the Kaggle purchase prediction challenge sponsored by Allstate , competing against 1,500 teams worldwide, and I wanted to share some of our lessons learned. Kaggle is an open community where top data scientists can solve complex business problems and learn the latest techniques.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 18, 2015

Today, June 18, 2015, Bill S-4, the Digital Privacy Act was passed by Canada’s House of Commons vote. Bill S-4 […].

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 18, 2015

On June 16, 2015, the Consumer Federation of America announced in a joint statement with other privacy advocacy groups that they would no longer participate in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”) multistakeholder process to develop a code of conduct regarding the commercial use of facial recognition technology.

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CGI

JUNE 15, 2015

Banking on a digital future. p.butler@cgi.com. Mon, 06/15/2015 - 05:40. In my last blog I shared my views on the impact of the digital revolution and its far reaching impact on every one of us and the companies we work for. I read a recent article in the Financial Times about the race to the first true digital bank. This will /could mean the demise of the high street branch with some banks having no branches at all, operating online, and finding other solutions to meeting their physical requir

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 18, 2015

If you kids ask that one more time… Well, I think it’s only fair for us poor Data Protection kids […].

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 16, 2015

The Council of the European Union has agreed on a general approach to the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “Regulation”). This marks a significant step forward in the legislative process, and the Council’s text will form the basis of its “trilogue” negotiations with the European Parliament and the European Commission. The aim of the trilogue process is to achieve agreement on a final text of the Regulation by the end of 2015.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 13, 2015

On June 11 and 12, 2015, Asia Pacific Privacy Authority (“APPA”) members, invited observers and guest speakers from the government, private sector, academia and civil society, met in Hong Kong to discuss privacy law and policy issues at the 43rd APPA Forum. At the end of the open session on day two, APPA issued its customary communiqué , setting forth the highlights of the discussions of the open and closed sessions.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 18, 2015

On June 18, 2015, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) published letters regarding the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “Regulation”) addressed to representatives of the Council of the European Union , the European Parliament and the European Commission. Attached to each of the letters is an Appendix detailing the Working Party’s opinion on the core themes of the Regulation.

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