Sunday 1 May 2022

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What Is a Hybrid Resume, and Do You Need One?

Hybrid resumes can make you stand out from the crowd and appeal to hiring managers. But do you really need one? Find out here!

https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-hybrid-resume/

What Is the Difference Between a Technical Writer and a UI/UX Writer

There are different online writing careers you can aspire to. Let's learn the difference between a technical writer and a user-interface writer.

https://www.makeuseof.com/difference-between-technical-writer-and-uiux-writer/

Building the Bridge for India’s Digital Dream – A Vision Document

In the author's view the 6 important levers of Digital transformation that can help India hit the target of a $ 1 Trillion Digital economy that we aspire to be by 2025 are as follows:

https://industry4o.com/2022/04/23/digital-india/

Researchers Build AI That Builds AI

By using hypernetworks, researchers can now preemptively fine-tune artificial neural networks, saving some of the time and expense of training.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-build-ai-that-builds-ai-20220125/

Algorithms, Lies, and Social Media

Achieving a more transparent and less manipulative online media may well be the defining political battle of the 21st century.

https://www.openmindmag.org/articles/algorithms-lies-and-social-media

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-break-traveling-salesperson-record-20201008/

What is Data and Analytics: Everything you need to know

Data and analytics (D&A) refers to the ways data is managed to support all uses of data, and the analysis of data to drive improved decisions, business processes and outcomes, such as discovering new business risks, challenges and opportunities.

https://www.gartner.com/en/topics/data-and-analytics

Over 100 Data and Analytics Predictions Through 2025

Data and analytics leaders must consider these strategic planning assumptions to enhance their vision and delivery.

Gartner annual data and analytics predictions provide the varied importance of data and analytics across an ever-widening range of business and IT initiatives:

Core data and analytics

IT infrastructure 

Applications 

Data security and privacy 

Digital business/commerce and business function 

Industry predictions for banking and investment services, education, government, healthcare, insurance, life sciences, oil and gas, and retail

https://www.gartner.com/en/doc/100-data-and-analytics-predictions-through-2025

Why business futures depend on a modern IT infrastructure

IT infrastructure is what enables a company to build and run the applications that run the business. While traditional infrastructure is expensive, hardware-oriented and manually configured and maintained, modern infrastructure is in the cloud. But what even is IT infrastructure? What are the components? What are the opportunities and challenges? And how do you start modernizing today?

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/cloud/it-infrastructure-index

The real cost of cloud computing

The public cloud is growing rapidly and the market for the technology is expected to reach $1.3 trillion by 2025. The cloud has revolutionized the computing industry and enabled many applications, business models and enterprises, which otherwise wouldn’t have been possible. Immediate availability, scalability, minimal capital expenditure and streamlined developer experience are its main advantages — but it comes at a cost.

https://venturebeat-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/venturebeat.com/2022/04/28/the-real-cost-of-cloud-computing/amp/

Cloud foundations: Ten commandments for faster—and more profitable—cloud migrations

For many companies moving to the cloud, a focus on short-term gain leads to long-term pain and prevents them from capturing a much bigger portion of cloud’s estimated $1 trillion of value potential. It happens when IT departments, usually with the assistance of systems integrators, migrate a set of applications to the cloud as quickly as possible to capture initial gains. That short-term focus frequently has significant consequences.

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/cloud-foundations-ten-commandments-for-faster-and-more-profitable-cloud-migrations

Computational storage and the new direction of computing

Computational storage is part of an emerging trend to make datacenters, edge servers, IoT devices, cars and other digitally-enhanced things more productive and more efficient by moving data less. In computational storage, a full-fledged computing system — complete with DRAM, I/O, application processors, dedicated storage and system software — gets squeezed into the confines of an SSD to manage repetitive, preliminary, and/or data-intensive tasks locally. 

https://venturebeat.com/2022/04/30/computational-storage-and-the-new-direction-of-computing/

What are Hearables?

Odds are, you’ve heard of wearables—think fitness trackers, smart clothing, smartwatches, and display glasses. But what about hearables? We have all the info on what they are, who should use them, how they can help you, and where you can get them.

Upon first hearing the word, you might think that hearables are a type of hearing aid or a new fancy-schmancy type of wireless earbud. But while they can look like either (and reap many of the benefits of either), they’re actually neither.

https://www.reviewgeek.com/114421/what-are-hearables/

10 Automation Mistakes to Avoid

Automation, if executed poorly, can have negative impacts on data usage, processes, employee morale and customer satisfaction.

Leaders must treat automation as a principle to be embraced, rather than as a project to be done and ought to be aware of common mistakes that can lead to failures,

https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/10-automation-mistakes-to-avoid

5 Ways to Safely Remove a USB Drive on Windows 11

As a matter of good practice, you should always safely remove your USB drive on your Windows PC. Otherwise, the data on your USB may become corrupt. Not sure how to safely remove your USB? Here are five ways.

https://www.howtogeek.com/776373/safely-remove-usb-drive-on-windows-11/

How to Search Gmail by Date

One of the many good things about Gmail is the ability to search your emails by date. You can find emails received after or before a specific date, find emails newer or older than certain days, and so on. We’ll show you how.

You can search Gmail by date on both your desktop and mobile devices. On desktop, you will use the Gmail site. On mobile, you will use the official Gmail app. Additionally, you can use these date search filters in conjunction with your other filters. This makes finding emails even easier.

https://www.howtogeek.com/768514/how-to-search-gmail-by-date/

How to Determine the Best Length for Your Email Subject Lines

As a marketer, you work hard to write great copy and create compelling emails. But if you aren’t writing subject lines that encourage subscribers to read your messages, your campaigns could fall short.

In this post, we’ll share some actionable tips for finding the correct email subject line length for your email marketing strategy.

https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/best-email-subject-line-length/

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them At Your Own Risk! 

If there are laws of the jungle and laws of the universe, there should also be laws that marketing professionals follow. These are few of the  22 laws of marketing.

Marketing is a battle of perceptions, not products or services.

It’s better to be first than it is to be better.

Create a category that you can be first in — and make sure that the category is supported by a singular word.

For the rest read

https://link.medium.com/IZyshcppFpb

16 Best Graduation Speeches That Leave a Lasting Impression

Some of the most impactful and inspiring sentiments are shared during graduation speeches delivered by the leaders we look up to. Graduation speeches from celebrities, entrepreneurs, authors and other influential thinkers are motivational, inspiring, thought-provoking and just might make you reach for the nearest tissue. After four years of hard work, stress, and exhausting self-discovery, lucky graduates are privy to a life-changing speech to top it all off.

Here, we rounded up up 16 of the best graduation speeches of all time, including words of wisdom from Natalie Portman, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and more.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/best-graduation-speeches-examples-ideas

8 Tips for Taking Meeting Notes that Make Sense to Everyone

It’s the start of a new week, and there’s a kick off meeting to start your workday. Today, you’re responsible for taking the meeting notes. But what precisely do you need to record? Do you take detailed notes or just offer a shorthand version of what happened at the meeting? Read on to discover what needs to go in your meeting notes, as well as eight helpful tips for taking meeting notes.

https://fellow.app/blog/meetings/tips-for-taking-meeting-notes-that-make-sense-to-everyone/

If you can answer these Mensa quiz questions, you’re probably a genius

Here's a fun way to put your IQ through its paces. Try these sample questions!

Mensa is a society for bright people and the only qualification to get in is to have a high IQ. Test your IQ with this tricky Mensa practice test. Get a pencil and paper ready because you’re going to need to write out your thoughts to find the answers to these questions. How many Mensa questions can you get correct?

https://www.rdasia.com/true-stories-lifestyle/thought-provoking/if-you-can-answer-these-mensa-quiz-questions-youre-probably-a-genius

What Is the Wayback Machine, and Why Is It Important?

The Wayback Machine lets you view older versions of a website, see content that’s changed, troubleshoot your own site, and even view content that no longer “exists” on the web. The Wayback Machine is important for preserving Internet history.

https://www.howtogeek.com/789504/what-is-the-wayback-machine-and-why-is-it-important/

Website: AVIXA Xchange

The AVIXA Xchange is a global collaboration platform connecting thought leaders, industry-leading solution providers and innovative manufacturers with today’s technology buyers. The AVIXA Xchange is where expertise and experience are shared, knowledge and connections are gained, news and education are readily available, and communities across every segment of the industry thrive and interact.

This channel offers tips and training to help you make the most of AVIXA Xchange community involved in the Audio & Video Industry. You'll find how-to videos and advice on everything from setting up your personal or company profile to running a video panel. If you can't find what you're looking for in the channel, you can type your topic into the site search or visit the Q&A, found via the left-hand navigation, and post your question there.

https://xchange.avixa.org/

ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile

ACM Takes Major Step in Its Transition To Become a Fully Open Access Publisher. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery,  announced that its first 50 years of publications, from 1951 through the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library. ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains more than 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics. In addition to articles published between 1951 and 2000, ACM has also opened related and supplemental materials including data sets, software, slides, audio recordings, and videos.

https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/april/50-years-backfile

Videos: TED Talks: 8 ways to fuel innovation

Feel like you're running low on fresh ideas? Get creative with these thought-provoking TED Talks to inspire new and experimental thinking. 8 talks

https://www.ted.com/playlists/672/8_ways_to_fuel_innovation

Forthcoming Events

14th May 2022 at 2 pm IST. CSI, IEEE CS, ACM Webinar on Game Theory and AI for Industrial Management Systems. For details & to register  https://bit.ly/3umAiv6

28th May 2022 at 6 pm IST. CSI, ACM, IEEE CS Webinar on Quantum Computing and Machine Learning. For details & to register   https://bit.ly/3LFLBUW

11th Jun 2022 at 6 pm IST. IEEE CS, ACM, CSI Webinar on Edge Intelligence for IoT Applications. For details & to register  https://bit.ly/3uHEHIY

IEEE Computer Society Region 10 is hosting  EIGHT Mega Distinguished Visitor Program Talks in May 2022. For details and to register https://asiapacific.computer.org/r10-cs-mega-dvp-program/

For other events in May 2022https://bit.ly/3Lv8sTx

IRAI Quiz -- 220501

1. Mastodon is an open-source microblogging social network similar to Twitter where people can make profiles, post messages (up to 500 characters)  that are known as  ------------  which is Mastodon’s version of a “tweet”

2. Bulbapedia is an encyclopedia about the game -------------- to which anyone can contribute.

3. The world's first permanent NFT art museum has been opened in ---------, aiming to "pull back the curtain" on blockchain-based digital art.

4. ------------ are defined as “electronic in-ear devices designed with hearing-aid-like features.”

5. Information Overload Day is observed on ---------- every year.

6. It is suggested that resumes need to be ATS compatible. Expand ATS

7. The Eat the Frog technique is a ---------- management skill that motivational speaker Brian Tracy named in 2001

8. -------------- allow people who discover security flaws in computer software and services to be rewarded with money

9. Plastic In Old Computers Yellows Because Of The Presence Of the element ----------

10. Bitcoin: BTC = Ether: ETH = Ripple: ------

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