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Failure - learning or leavening?

Jeffrey Phillips

Most learning is based on trying and failing and having the willingness to try again and to learn. Without failure, the individual or the company is not trying hard enough and certainly isn't learning. It took people who were willing to try, to learn, to adapt and who weren't bound by the existing norms to make the idea work.

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Learning How to Learn

Rmukesh Gupta

We live in a world which is constantly changing and if we really want to stay relevant, we need to find a way to learn new things (technology, process, business models, behaviours, skills, etc) all the time. So, it pays to get better at learning or get better at learning how we learn. Some of us learn better by reading.

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Learned Helplessness in creativity

Idea to Value

It all has to do with a psychological condition known as learned helplessness. This is the condition where is someone (human or also animal) is put through a negative situation which they cannot control for so long, that they learn there is no point in fighting it anymore, even if later on they are shown a way to stop the negative effects.

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4 Things I’ve Learned About Ideas

Digital Tonto

The post 4 Things I’ve Learned About Ideas first appeared on Digital Tonto. Ideas must combine and recombine so that they can memetically evolve. For our ideas to succeed, we need to serve them well. As Daniel Dennett put it, ““A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.”

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How Automation is Driving Efficiency Through the Last Mile of Reporting

Speaker: Jamie Eagan

Leveraging automation for efficiency and accuracy: Learn how automation tools and technologies can streamline repetitive tasks, reduce manual errors, and free up valuable resources for more strategic initiatives. 📅 April 24, 2024 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT

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The Principles of Learning from Prototypes: 5 Lessons

IdeaScale

Prototypes are a great way to get customer feedback about elements of your proposed innovation before you have to invest a ton of resources in them. But there is a bit of science to how you draw the lessons a prototype can teach you. Image Source Prototyping is an integral part of the design

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Why Unlearning Is At Least As Important As Learning

Digital Tonto

I had some experience selling national radio time in New York and thought I could teach the Poles who, after 50 years of communism, hadn’t had much opportunity to learn how a modern ad market functioned. When I thought about it though, many of the things I had learned as immutable laws were merely conventions that had built up over time.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order.

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How Personalized Customer Experiences Drive Retail Growth and Revenue

Speaker: Shaunna Bruton - Associate Director of Product Strategy at Orium | Sam Panzer - Director of Industry Strategy at Talon.One | Frank Passantino - Director of Product Management at Bloomreach

Join us to gain a better understanding of the current retail landscape and learn what you can do to translate personalization strategies into practical implementation. So what are the potential solutions?

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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

In this webinar, you will learn: How to effectively evaluate LLM powered apps 📊 How to set up a CI pipeline for an LLM app 🚀 Strategies to improve LLM apps over time 🌐 Don't miss this exclusive session! These strategies are critical to ensure reliability and efficacy in real-world applications.

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The Future of Customer Loyalty: Rewards, Retention, Appreciation, and More

Speaker: Jennifer Hileman - Director, Retail Data & Technology at Orium, and Zach Ettelman - Solutions Partner Team in North America at Talon.One

Key Insights: Retail Agility with Composable Solutions: Learn how adopting a composable approach can help your business thrive, through the holiday frenzy and the entire year of 2024. Mastering Loyalty in Modern Retail: Explore the art of loyalty and promotional strategies that engage today’s shoppers.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy for the future.

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How to Find and Test Assumptions in Product Development

Watch this webinar with Laura Klein, product manager and author of Build Better Products, to learn how to spot the unconscious assumptions which you’re basing decisions on and guidelines for validating (or invalidating) your ideas. You'll learn: Why every product leader goes into a new project with untested, hidden assumptions.

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The High Cost of a Bad Hire

Check out this infographic to learn how much these bad hires are costing you! 74% of organizations admit to making bad hires every year.

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7+ Graphics Libraries to Enhance Your Embedded Analytics

You’ll learn: Seven graphics libraries developers can use to enhance in-app analytics Easy-to-use wireframe tools to help the design and approval process The importance of modernizing your embedded analytics Download the e-book to learn about the seven-plus graphics libraries to enhance your embedded analytics.