Scaling data: Data informed to data driven to data led
https://www.reforge.com/blog/scaling-data Instead, *data needs to be seen as a strategic lever for growth*. Viewing data from this perspective leads to different answers on the questions we started with around team and tools. What does it look like when data is treated as a strategic lever for growth? I recommend walking...
[Book] Probabilistic machine learning: An introduction
https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html Key links Draft pdf file. CC-BY-NC-ND license. (Please cite the official reference below.) All the figures (png files) Code to reproduce all the figures Teaching resources Code accompanying the book Code to recreate all the figures can be found in a series of colabs, one per chapter, stored here....
Finding language/market fit: How to make customers feel like you've read their minds
https://review.firstround.com/finding-language-market-fit-how-to-make-customers-feel-like-youve-read-their-minds Here’s a quick test: Which one of these headlines converted 10X better? Option B converted visitors to signups 10X better (30%) than the first version (3%). Dozens of times now in my career as an operator, investor and advisor, I’ve seen changes in a handful of words yield jaw-dropping...
GitLab handbook career development
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/learning-and-development/career-development/ Individual Growth Plan The Individual Growth Plan (IGP) is a great way to take initiative of your career growth. Maybe you aren’t sure where to start or you are having trouble filling out your IGP, we recommend watching the How to Develop your Career Plan course on LinkedIn Learning....
The (minimal) persuasive advantage of political video over text
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/47/e2114388118 Concerns about video-based political persuasion are prevalent in both popular and academic circles, predicated on the assumption that video is more compelling than text. To date, however, this assumption remains largely untested in the political domain. Here, we provide such a test. We begin by drawing a theoretical distinction...
The missing analytics executive
https://benn.substack.com/p/the-missing-analytics-executive There’s a treadmill at the mountain top. Among the data leaders I know, many of their stories are the same. After rising up the ranks of their organizations, from junior analysts and data scientists, through positions as team leads and managers, and eventually to directors and VPs, their data...
For better coffee, start with fewer beans
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/for-better-coffee-start-with-fewer-beans The conventional coffee-brewing technique—grinding large amounts of beans as finely as possible—may actually deliver an inferior beverage, and waste grounds in the process. To provide a consistently high-quality drink, coffee producers should instead grind beans more coarsely and use fewer of them, according to a 2020 study published in...
Shuffling homework problems helps college students learn introductory physics
https://npjscilearncommunity.nature.com/posts/shuffling-homework-problems-helps-college-students-learn-introductory-physics “Interleaving” between different problem types improves learning Concentrating periods of practice on individual topics, which researchers call “blocking,” seems sensible because it allows the learner to focus their cognitive effort on mastering one thing at a time. That characteristic may explain the popularity of blocking of homework assignments by...
Text-to-drawing synthesis with artistic control | CLIPDraw & StyleCLIPDraw
https://www.louisbouchard.ai/clipdraw/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.03133.pdf This new model by Peter Schaldenbrand et al., called StyleCLIPDraw, which is an improvement upon CLIPDraw by Kevin Frans et al., takes an image and text as inputs and can generate a new image based on your text and following the style in the image. CLIP is a...
How to have radically candid career conversations to retain your team
https://www.radicalcandor.com/how-to-have-career-conversations/ Each individual person is on their own growth trajectory. Career Conversations will guide you through career planning with your direct reports so you can learn what is important to them, understand where they want to go and work collaboratively with them to build the best possible plan of action...
About
a collection of excerpts from interesting research, blogs, events, etc...