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Call For Entries – Global Banking And Finance Awards 2020

Financial organizations and corporate entities are invited to participate in the 10th annual Global Banking & Finance Awards




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Estate Planning Trends in 2020

At the new year, many people resolve to make changes. Attorney Paul Black recommends adding a few estate planning items to your new year's resolution list.




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Angel Partners Reveals 'Fantastic' Year for Startups and Angel Investors in 2019 as Interest for Early Stage Startup Increases

Online angel investment platform, Angels Partners, announced this year had been exceptional in connecting entrepreneurs and investors across different locations (India, USA & EU) and industries.




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SerraeX Launches Indiegogo to Bring the Production of Essential Health Goods Like Masks & Respirators back to the USA

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has shown the dire need to have essential health goods manufactured in the United States, rather than places like China. Startup company SerraeX is aiming to change this with their ambitious new crowdfunding campaign




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LPL Financial Recognizes Wayne von Borstel as a Leading National Advisor

Wayne von Borstel has been recognized by LPL Financial as one of the country's best financial advisors for the past 18 consecutive years.




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Next Generation Sales & Marketing Director Shares Insights into Self-Directed Investing on #1 Leading Ladies Podcast

Brittany Melville Discussed Using Funds from Existing Workplace Retirement Plans or IRAs to Fund a New Self-Directed IRA, Take Advantage of Opportunities to Invest in Alternative Assets




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Insights into the Conflict Regarding COVID-19 Guidelines between the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and a New Interest Group of Fertility Centers, the Fertility Providers' Alliance

"Controversy" over COVID-19 and fertility treatment reveals investor-led interest pushing for more control in the IVF field




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Reily and Associates Announce Plans to Offer Assistance to the Local Community During the COVID-19 Crisis

Reily and Associates pledge to use their resources and experience to find ways to help the local community through funds, equipment, and logistical support, throughout this coronavirus crisis.




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TradeHerald Becomes The First 100x Leverage Cryptocurrency Exchange with Zero Trading Fees

A traders-friendly global leverage exchange with 100+ crypto trading pairs to make the trading experience simple & secure with faster execution than ever before.




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Ventana Research Begins New Dynamic Insights Research on Natural Language Processing

Latest research aims to understand advances in natural language capabilities and its impact on business




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Social Media for Goal Setting, Documenting Activities Progress and Video Resume. A Post Pandemic Branding Platform kickstarter Campaign

WorkParrrots brand people online persona as Goal Achievers by providing social tools to set goals, collaborate and track Schedule. Employers Swipe resume Video Pitch to hire




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Orlando Business Broker Michael Shea Awarded Top Broker Honors for Deal Volume and Co-Brokering by the Business Brokers of Florida

The Business Brokers of Florida Annual Awards Announced Michael Shea as Top Broker in Central Florida




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CUNA Mutual Group Launches Advanced Planning Resources Program To Help Advisors Solve Complex Retirement Planning Challenges

Announces Marshall Heitzman to Lead New Program Efforts




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Health and Wellness Company Launches Pre-IPO Funding Round with Brokers Crowdfunder.com




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CBD Sparkling Water Company Infuzed Brands Intends to Raise $28M in Reg A+ Launch

New funding round follows a successful Reg D round




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Xbox E3 Recap Part 2 (Avengers, 12 Minutes and More!)

We continue our Xbox E3 recap by discussing most of the rest of Xbox's press conference announcements, including Bleeding Edge, Ori 2, Minecraft Dungeons, Gears 5, Blair Witch, Battletoads, and Avengers (even though that last one wasn't in the Xbox conference).




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Is Streaming the Future of Gaming?

Miranda and Brandin host Unlocked 403 in what feels like a very summer episode, which you can interpret as you will. The two discuss Hideo Kojima's comments on game streaming, the Gears 5 Tech Test, and their thoughts on Netflix's The Witcher trailer. 




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Comings and Goings in the World of Xbox

Lots of industry news to cover on this week's Xbox show! The former head of DOOM developer id Software has landed in an unexpected new location. Plus: Hello Games mastermind Sean Murray has started thinking about what's next after No Man's Sky, Call of Duty won't be changing its business model anytime soon, a former PlayStation-exclusive developer will now be making games for Xbox, and more!




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Nintendo and Microsoft, Sitting in a Tree...

Our Xbox crew gives in-depth impressions of Gears 5's multiplayer as well as Borderlands 3. Plus: a surprising departure at Bethesda/Zenimax, a bit more on the next Resident Evil project, and the awesomeness that is Banjo and Kazooie appearing in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.




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Talking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare With One of its Stars

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Chad Michael Collins joins us in the second half of the show this week for an interview about acting in one of the biggest games of the year. That interview starts at 42:04 if you'd like to skip straight to it. In the first half of the show, we give our Modern Warfare campaign and multiplayer impressions, detail a fantastic new program from Microsoft that might help ease the sting out of Scarlett's next-gen launch price tag, discuss Fallout 76's new $100 per year service option, and more!




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Xbox Scarlett Games List Gets Longer + Diablo 4 Impressions

Lots of huge Xbox news to discuss this week, from Ubisoft games that are now coming to Xbox Scarlett (Watch Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Quarantine, and Gods & Monsters) to Scarlett games we'll have to wait a bit longer for (Battlefield 6, Battlefront 3). Plus: our hands-on impressions of Diablo 4 (!!) and Overwatch 2, and more!




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If the KOTOR Rumors Are True, Who’s Making It?

We finally get a look at the back of the Xbox Series X - for real, this time - and discuss why someone might be in biiiiiiig trouble. Plus: a new rumor about a sort-of remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic has us hyped - but also wondering who would be given the assignment.




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Perfect Dark Reboot Rumors Heating Up

It may still be winter but Xbox Series X talk is heating up! We discuss the "old thing" Microsoft's new studio, The Initiative, might be working on. Plus: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is a hit, EA talks up the Xbox Series X, the mystery port on the back of the Series X might not be for diagnostics, and more!




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Big Changes for GTA, Gears, and Anthem

Grand Theft Auto, Anthem, and Gears of War will be changing moving forward thanks to key staffing changes at the top for two of those and a major gameplay overhaul for the other. Plus: Activision is looking to its past for its 2020 product lineup, Cliff Bleszinski had an intriguing Aliens game that almost got made, and more!




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Microsoft Isn’t Messing Around With Series X’s Power

We are EXCITED about the new Xbox Series X technical details, including the whopping 12 teraflops of computing power that the next-gen Xbox is packing. Plus: EA canceled another Star Wars project, March's Games With Gold have been announced, and more!




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Clarifying Xbox Series X’s Power

Our Xbox crew discusses the recently revealed Xbox Series X tech specs in more detail after some added context arrives in our inbox from a software developer. Plus: Bleeding Edge is another new first-party release this week, we try to decode Konami's denial of the Silent Hill reboot rumor, and more!




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Interview: Head of Xbox Phil Spencer, Talking Xbox Series X

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer makes his long-awaited return to Unlocked for an exclusive one-hour interview. We talk about Xbox Series X price, whether coronavirus could delay the console, the first-party launch lineup, why there's no optical out port on Series X, xCloud, cross-play, the fates of Sunset Overdrive, Ryse and Scalebound, which Microsoft IP Phil would like to see brought back, and more!




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Cyberpunk 2077 Will Be Around for a Long Time

Our Xbox team deep-dives on CD Projekt Red's big post-release DLC expansion plans for Cyberpunk 2077, the value of the ESRB's new loot box descriptor, a rumor about Mafia 2 and 3 remasters and the cyclical nature of remasters, and more!




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Temporary Road Closure - Coolangatta

Streets affected: Lord Street (full road closure local traffic access only) between Musgrave Street and Winston Street

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Duration: 5am – 6:30pm

Reason: To facilitate large concrete pour - 1 day only between above dates




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A Key Missing Part of the Machine Learning Stack

With many organizations having machine learning models running in production, some are discovering that inefficiencies exists in the first step of the process: feature definition and extraction. Robust feature management is now being realized as a key missing part of the ML stack, and improving it by applying standard software development practices is gaining attention.




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Livestream Deep Learning World from your Home Office!

Livestream Deep Learning World Munich 2020 from the comfort and safety of your home on 11-12 May 2020.




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The Benefits & Examples of Using Apache Spark with PySpark

Apache Spark runs fast, offers robust, distributed, fault-tolerant data objects, and integrates beautifully with the world of machine learning and graph analytics. Learn more here.




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Announcing PyCaret 1.0.0

An open source low-code machine learning library in Python. PyCaret is an alternate low-code library that can be used to replace hundreds of lines of code with few words only. This makes experiments exponentially fast and efficient.




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KDnuggets™ News 20:n16, Apr 22: Scaling Pandas with Dask for Big Data; Dive Into Deep Learning: The Free eBook

4 Steps to ensure your AI/Machine Learning system survives COVID-19; State of the Machine Learning and AI Industry; A Key Missing Part of the Machine Learning Stack; 5 Papers on CNNs Every Data Scientist Should Read




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Free High-Quality Machine Learning & Data Science Books & Courses: Quarantine Edition

If you find yourself quarantined and looking for free learning materials in the way of books and courses to sharpen your data science and machine learning skills, this collection of articles I have previously written curating such things is for you.




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Math and Architectures of Deep Learning

This hands-on book bridges the gap between theory and practice, showing you the math of deep learning algorithms side by side with an implementation in PyTorch. You can save 40% off Math and Architectures of Deep Learning until May 13! Just enter the code nlkdarch40 at checkout when you buy from manning.com.




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Fighting Coronavirus With AI: Improving Testing with Deep Learning and Computer Vision

This post will cover how testing is done for the coronavirus, why it's important in battling the pandemic, and how deep learning tools for medical imaging can help us improve the quality of COVID-19 testing.




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Data context and how to get started with understanding COVID-19 data

If you are already applying your Data Science skills or getting ready to contribute to analyzing COVID-19 data, then be sure to take sufficient time to appreciate the context of the numbers to focus on what's most important as we collaborate on this global battle.




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3 Reasons Why We Are Far From Achieving Artificial General Intelligence

How far we are from achieving Artificial General Intelligence? We answer this through the study of three limitations of current machine learning.




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DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm in Machine Learning

An introduction to the DBSCAN algorithm and its Implementation in Python.




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Learning during a crisis (Data Science 90-day learning challenge)

How can you keep your focus and drive during a global crisis? Take on a 90-day learning challenge for data science and check out this list of books and courses to follow.




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Google Open Sources SimCLR, A Framework for Self-Supervised and Semi-Supervised Image Training

The new framework uses contrastive learning to improve image analysis in unlabeled datasets.




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Top Stories, Apr 20-26: The Super Duper NLP Repo; Free High-Quality Machine Learning & Data Science Books & Courses

Also: Should Data Scientists Model COVID19 and other Biological Events; 5 Papers on CNNs Every Data Scientist Should Read; 24 Best (and Free) Books To Understand Machine Learning; Mathematics for Machine Learning: The Free eBook; Find Your Perfect Fit: A Quick Guide for Job Roles in the Data World




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10 Best Machine Learning Textbooks that All Data Scientists Should Read

Check out these 10 books that can help data scientists and aspiring data scientists learn machine learning today.




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Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing

The book Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing by Ron Kohavi (Microsoft, Airbnb), Diane Tang (Google) and Ya Xu (LinkedIn) is available for purchase, with the authors proceeds from the book being donated to charity.




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KDnuggets™ News 20:n17, Apr 29: The Super Duper NLP Repo; Free Machine Learning & Data Science Books & Courses for Quarantine

Also: Should Data Scientists Model COVID19 and other Biological Events; Learning during a crisis (Data Science 90-day learning challenge); Data Transformation: Standardization vs Normalization; DBSCAN Clustering Algorithm in Machine Learning; Find Your Perfect Fit: A Quick Guide for Job Roles in the Data World




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Coronavirus COVID-19 Genome Analysis using Biopython

So in this article, we will interpret, analyze the COVID-19 DNA sequence data and try to get as many insights regarding the proteins that made it up. Later will compare COVID-19 DNA with MERS and SARS and we’ll understand the relationship among them.




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Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Interactive Visualizations

Interactive visualizations are an effective method for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents a repository filled with just such insightful interactions.




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Introducing Brain Simulator II: A New Platform for AGI Experimentation

A growing consensus of researchers contend that new algorithms are needed to transform narrow AI to AGI. Brain Simulator II is free software for new algorithm development targeted at AGI that you can experiment with and participate in its development.




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Top KDnuggets tweets, Apr 22-28: 24 Best (and Free) Books To Understand Machine Learning

Also: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference: The Free eBook; ML Ops: Machine Learning as an Engineering Discipline; Learning during a crisis (#DataScience 90-day learning challenge) ; Free High-Quality Machine Learning & Data Science Books & Courses: Quarantine Edition