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Survival of the Fittest Variation: Evolutionary Algorithms in Optimization

ConversionXL

And though there are many forms in AI, in this post we’ll dive into the specific one we built Sentient Ascend with: evolutionary algorithms. A Primer on Evolutionary Algorithms. So, what are evolutionary algorithms? Key to the evolution of algorithms and the selection of good genes is a notion of fitness.

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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

Way back in 2002, Jeff Bezos at Amazon issued an ultimatum to completely institute internal APIs within the company, and later to their millions of suppliers. Uber’s algorithms match car and driver, minimizing wait times and making mapping calculations in ways that no human dispatcher could match.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07. And so too will be Factual.

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24 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

Look at, for example, how fast an average 10-year old can manage to learn a complex video game (which is, after all, essentially just a complex decision algorithm), yet how difficult the teaching of basic algebra seems to be in our schools. The SARS outbreak in 2002 leads to the tremendous growth of online marketplace platforms in China.

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What is Wrong With Today's CMS

www.readwriteweb.com

In the early days of the CMS we had major players such as OpenText (which didn't really have true CMS functionality until around 2002 ), Vignette (which was a separate company before being acquired by OpenText in 2009), and Fatwire (which was acquired by Oracle this past summer), among others. The modern CMS is still in a state of flux.

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Why and When to Learn to Program

Spencer Fry

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. Who wants to stare at a terminal all day just to get an algorithm to compile properly? I wanted to build real-world projects for the Web. My head just wasn't in it.

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The Morning After. What Have We Done?

Both Sides of the Table

The were exonerated after an admission by the real perpetrator confessed in 2002 and DNA evidence proved it. I even want to blame Facebook for creating an algorithm the feeds people self-reinforcing lies and half truths to people in self-confirming circles of like-minded people. They served between 6 and 12 years in prison.