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Government, private sector invest $1B in information technology in Montreal

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on hand to make the announcement in Montreal Wednesday. The federal and provincial governments along with Canadian tech company CAE have teamed up to invest about a billion dollars over five years into training...

MIT researchers make advances with sensor implants

The technology, in progress at the university's CSAIL institute, could help locate cancer and guide deployment of internal treatments. MIT's CSAIL institute is located in the Stata Center. Credit: Google Maps ReMix, a new technology in the works at...

Oracle offers GraphPipe spec for machine learning data transmission

GraphPipe is intended to bring the efficiency of a binary, memory-mapped format while being simple and light on dependencies. Oracle has developed an open source specification for transmitting tensor data, which the company wants to become a standard for machine...

Video Interviews and Personalized Hiring in the World of Automation

LinkedIn, for its 2018 Global Recruiting Trends report, surveyed 8,815 talent acquisition professionals and hiring managers about their recruitment activities, their recommendations and the prominent, effective trends they were seeing. Four best-practice trends driving the future of recruiting dominated responses:...

What is TensorFlow? The machine learning library explained

TensorFlow is a Python-friendly open source library for numerical computation that makes machine learning faster and easier. Machine learning is a complex discipline. But implementing machine learning models is far less daunting and difficult than it used to be, thanks to machine...

How to Use the STAR Interview Response Technique

Do you struggle to give concise answers to interview questions? Are you unsure how to share your accomplishments during an interview without sounding boastful? The STAR interview response technique can help. Using this method of answering interview questions lets you...

5 Mistakes Candidates Make When Speaking With Recruiters

With insight into the process, you can leverage your skills and set yourself aside from the competition that is still shooting blindfolded. Like any journey, you can’t get anywhere without knowing point A, where you are, and point B, where you...

Here’s exactly what to do if you leave a job interview and realize you totally flubbed a question

[caption id="attachment_46138" align="aligncenter" width="840"] E8DCWR Nervous executives waiting for interview[/caption] Job interviews are stressful, and sometimes you may not give the best answer to a question. At The Cut, workplace advice columnist Alison Green suggests that the best way to...

Python, Scala climb the ranks of language popularity

Python’s rise has been steady, while Scala’s rise this time may last longer than before Python has scaled to the top of the monthly PyPL language popularity index, overtaking Java. Also on the rise, in the rival Tiobe index, is...