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Would you pay $4,000 to solve your streaming movie problems?

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Let’s say you were spending tens of thousands of dollars to build yourself a fancy home theater. Stansbury, a former Intuit CTO who took the helm at Kaleidescape after getting hooked on the system himself, says he’s on a mission to revitalize the company and reach new audiences after years of stagnant product development.

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D-Wave says it achieved ‘quantum supremacy,’ using a computer to solve a problem that would otherwise take a million years

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The quantum computing firm announced on Wednesday that, for the first time, it was able to successfully simulate the properties of magnetic materials using its Advantage2 annealing quantum computer, which allows us to invent and evaluate new materials without needing to build them in the lab, D-Wave CEO Dr. Alan Baratz tells Fast Company.

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Beyond the Rainbow—Build a Diverse Board of Independent Thinkers

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From the National Bureau of Economic Research—companies with more diverse workforces are more likely to innovate and bring new products to market. Cognitive diversity, or a range of opinions, problem-solving styles, and experience, is an important quality that associations need to consider in a leadership group.

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Building an Effective Partner Ecosystem for Your Grant Management System

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Here are tips for building an effective partner ecosystem for your grantmaking organization, including some common integration challenges to avoid. Define Your Needs What is the problem you are really solving for? This is the first question you need to answer when building an effective partner ecosystem around your GMS.

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

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Build Relationships The IT Department can’t be an island. Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? If her supervisor had recognized Sue’s weaknesses, she could have been coached to build the strengths she needed to succeed. We tend to focus more on what employees do than on how or why they do it.

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4 questions to ask before building a computer vision model

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Before Eric Landau co-founded Encord , he spent nearly a decade at DRW, where he was lead quantitative researcher on a global equity delta one desk and put thousands of models into production. Below are four factors that founders should consider when deciding to build computer vision models. He holds an S.M.

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