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KDnuggets™ News 20:n17, Apr 29: The Super Duper NLP Repo; Free Machine Learning & Data Science Books & Courses for Quarantine

Also: Should Data Scientists Model COVID19 and other Biological Events; Learning during a crisis (Data Science 90-day learning challenge); Data Transformation: Standardization vs Normalization; DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm in Machine Learning; Find Your Perfect Fit: A Quick Guide for Job Roles in the Data World




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Top KDnuggets tweets, Apr 22-28: 24 Best (and Free) Books To Understand Machine Learning

Also: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference: The Free eBook; ML Ops: Machine Learning as an Engineering Discipline; Learning during a crisis (#DataScience 90-day learning challenge) ; Free High-Quality Machine Learning & Data Science Books & Courses: Quarantine Edition




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Optimize Response Time of your Machine Learning API In Production

This article demonstrates how building a smarter API serving Deep Learning models minimizes the response time.





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Beginners Learning Path for Machine Learning

So, you are interested in machine learning? Here is your complete learning path to start your career in the field.




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Explaining “Blackbox” Machine Learning Models: Practical Application of SHAP

Train a "blackbox" GBM model on a real dataset and make it explainable with SHAP.




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Top KDnuggets tweets, Apr 29 – May 5: 24 Best (and Free) Books To Understand Machine Learning

What are Some 'Advanced ' #AI and #MachineLearning Online Courses?; 24 Best (and Free) Books To Understand Machine Learning; Top 5 must-have #DataScience skills for 2020





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Will Machine Learning Engineers Exist in 10 Years?

As can be common in many technical fields, the landscape of specialized roles is evolving quickly. With more people learning at least a little machine learning, this could eventually become a common skill set for every software engineer.




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Top April Stories: Mathematics for Machine Learning: The Free eBook

Also: Introducing MIDAS: A New Baseline for Anomaly Detection in Graphs; The Super Duper NLP Repo: 100 Ready-to-Run Colab Notebooks; Five Cool Python Libraries for Data Science.




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How personalization helps marketers humanize their brand and break though the noise

Aprimo CMO says marketers are currently struggling with what he calls “digital sameness” — where everyone is doing the same thing online.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.




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Have we hit bottom yet? What new earnings reports say about COVID’s impact on digital advertising

The hit in mid-March was sudden and dramatic, but there appear to be signs, including from media buyers, that the worst is over.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.




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Shopify launches post-COVID POS, Yelp rolls out omnichannel tools for SMBs

The companies are part of a shift toward deeper integration between online and offline operations.

Please visit Marketing Land for the full article.




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Community update from CEO Dale Dickson - 1 April 2020

The City of Gold Coast continues to take action in line with the advice being provided at a State and Federal level to minimise the spread of the Novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Our staff are part of a larger front line team including health workers and police, keeping the city running and the community safe in these difficult times.

They are working around the clock to ensure essential services such as water and waste services and traffic management continue.

We are implementing necessary changes to protect the health and safety of the public with our cleaning and maintenance teams increasing their level of service in public spaces.

We thank you for your patience in allowing our staff to go about their daily work with respect, while practising social distancing.

There will be no tolerance for abuse, aggression or violence against our staff, who, like you, are undergoing personal stress at this difficult time.

Please remember we are all in this together.

Additionally, the City is asking everyone to change the way you do business with us.

I urge everyone to access our services online – you can do the following on-line at you own convenience:

 

  • register your dog
  • apply for a licence, permit or development application
  • make service requests and track their progress
  • perform property searches
  • lodge and track licence and permit applications

 

Register for MyAccount on our website – a secure one-stop shop for all our services.

 

Visit cityofgoldcoast.com.au/myaccount

 

You can also access MyAccount from your mobile device through your internet browser, save it as a website shortcut for quick access.

 

For urgent enquiries you can phone our customer service staff 1300 GOLDCOAST

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Dot & Key Water Drench Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Serum Concentrate

As usual, my dilemma for finding the perfect moisturizer has not yet solved. So, after using the hyaluronic acid serum (Marine Hyaluronics) from The Ordinary, this is my second hyaluronic acid serum and I was and was completely unsure of what to expect. The best part is I am writing the review almost a month […]

The post Dot & Key Water Drench Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Serum Concentrate appeared first on Perfect Skin Care for you.




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Positive Root Therapy + Advanced Onion Hair Oil

For all its greasy texture, the positive onion hair oil does wash off pretty well in just two washes. I have been using this hair oil for last one month once a week for around 4-5 hours. After washing, the hair does get a lot of volume and bounce. And, it lasts for a good two days which I absolutely love.

The post Positive Root Therapy + Advanced Onion Hair Oil appeared first on Perfect Skin Care for you.




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Trudeau warns premature reopening could send Canada ‘back into confinement’

By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned that if provinces move too quickly to reopen their economies, a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic could send Canada "back into confinement this summer." Trudeau, who represents a Montreal, Quebec riding, said on Saturday that he is concerned about the virus' spread in that province, the country's epicenter. Canada's death toll rose 3.5% to 4,628 from a day earlier, while cases approached 67,000.

The post Trudeau warns premature reopening could send Canada ‘back into confinement’ appeared first on Firstpost.




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UK test-and-trace app trial on Isle of Wight "going well" – minister

LONDON (Reuters) - A trial of Britain's proposed coronavirus test-and-trace app being conducted on the Isle of Wight off the coast of southern England is going well, Transort Secretary Grant Shapps said on Saturday. "The trial in the Isle of Wight of that tracking app, the NHSX app designed to help assist people, is going well

The post UK test-and-trace app trial on Isle of Wight "going well" – minister appeared first on Firstpost.




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Senior UK medic confident "R" contagion number below 1 across country

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's deputy chief medical officer said on Saturday he was confident the coronavirus "R" number, a measure of the rate of contagion, was below 1 across the United Kingdom. "I am confident that our R is less than 1 overall," Jonathan Van-Tam said at the government's daily news briefing

The post Senior UK medic confident "R" contagion number below 1 across country appeared first on Firstpost.




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Online Nations Cup: India finish fith after suffering consecutive defeats at hands of China, Russia

In the final round encounter against Russia, India's Vidit Gujrathi was beaten by Vladislav Artemiev, while B Adhiban was tamed by Dmitry Andreikin.

The post Online Nations Cup: India finish fith after suffering consecutive defeats at hands of China, Russia appeared first on Firstpost.




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Opening Up Your Innovation

Henry Chesbrough, author of "Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology."




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Retaining Talented Women

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy and author of "Off-Ramps and On-Ramps."




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Redefining Global Strategy

Pankaj Ghemawat, IESE Business School professor and author of "Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter."




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Learning Organizations

David Garvin and Amy Edmonson, Harvard Business School professors and coauthors of the HBR article "Is Yours a Learning Organization?"




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Retaining Employees When Money Is Tight

Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay, editor of Harvard Management Update.




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Singapore Airlines’ Winning Strategy

Rohit Deshpande, Harvard Business School professor.




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A Silver Lining to the Financial Crisis

Scott Anthony, president of Innosight.




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Redesigning Health Care

Richard Bohmer, physician, Harvard Business School professor, and author of "Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care."




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Winning in a Turbulent Economy

Darrell Rigby, partner at Bain & Company and author of "Winning in Turbulence."




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Wall Street from Buttonwood to Bernie Madoff

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."




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Copenhagen’s Unofficial Cleantech Carnival

Nicholas Eisenberger, managing principal of GreenOrder, joins us from Copenhagen.




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Avoid These Career-Planning Fallacies

Monika Hamori, professor at IE Business School in Madrid and author of the HBR article "Job-Hopping to the Top and Other Career Fallacies."




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Manage Your Organization’s Energy

Bernd Vogel, assistant professor of leadership and organizational behavior at the Henley Business School and coauthor of "Fully Charged."




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Planning Your Post-Retirement Career

Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures and author of "The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife."




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Tenacious Leadership on the Mountain and in the Organization

Rick Ridgeway, vice president of environmental initiatives at Patagonia.




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Designing Spaces for Creative Collaboration

Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft, co-directors of the Environments Collaborative at the Stanford University d.school and authors of "Make Space."




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Winning in the Intention Economy

Doc Searls, alumnus fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and author of "The Intention Economy."




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Unilever’s CEO on Making Responsible Business Work

Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever.




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China and India Are an Opportunity, Not a Threat

Michael Silverstein, cofounder of The Boston Consulting Group's global consumer practice and coauthor of "The $10 Trillion Prize."




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Why You Should Cannibalize Your Company

James Allworth, regular contributor to HBR and coauthor of the Nieman Reports article "Breaking News: Mastering the Art of Disruptive Innovation in Journalism."




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Why Organizations Are the Way They Are

Tim Sullivan, editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press and coauthor of "The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office."




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Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Transformation

Jorge Cauz, president of Encyclopaedia Britannica.




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Why Some Companies Last and Others Don’t

Michael Raynor, director at Deloitte Services LP and coauthor of the HBR article "Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great."




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How to Schedule Time for Meaningful Work

Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen, coauthors of the HBR article "Make Time for the Work that Matters."




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Clay Christensen and Dominic Barton on Consulting’s Disruption

The HBS sage and McKinsey head discuss how to stay on top in a rapidly changing industry.




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Salman Khan on the Online Learning Revolution

The founder of the Khan Academy talks with HBR senior editor Alison Beard.




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How Companies Can Embrace Speed

John Kotter, author of "Accelerate," on how slow-footed organizations can get faster.




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Succeeding Quietly in Our Recognition-Obsessed Culture

David Zweig, author of "Invisibles," on employees who value good work over self-promotion.




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How to Change Someone’s Behavior with Minimal Effort

Steve J. Martin, coauthor of "The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence," on the little things that persuade.




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Learning What Wiser Workers Know

Dorothy Leonard, author of "Critical Knowledge Transfer" ​and Harvard Business School professor, on retaining organizational expertise.