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DPL Reading List – February 12, 2021
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Alphabet’s Loon Failed to Bring Internet to the World. What…
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Parbaked (the 80% You’ve Been Looking For), Part 2 – Dynamic Forms
As I covered in my introductory post, parbaking is a concept where bread is baked to 80% of completion and then stopped. The remaining 20% is then finished where the bread will be sold. In many cases, this is a grocery store that wants to offer fresh bread but doesn’t have the staff required to…
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DPL Reading List – February 5, 2021
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own…
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Parbaked (the 80% You’ve Been Looking For)
If you’re into baking, you may have heard of parbaked bread. This is where you bake your bread to about 80% done and then rapidly freeze it for transportation or storage. When you finally need your bread, you complete that remaining 20% of baking. Parbaking is how many grocery stores can have fresh-baked bread without…
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DPL Reading List – January 29, 2021
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Tucows closes its once-popular software download site – In the…
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Given That, Then… — Building a QnA-style Chatbot, Part 2
In the first part of this series, we created a knowledge base for our chatbot. Now it’s time to consume that knowledge base. When we’re done, the chatbot can be hosted on a variety of solutions and ways. For example, we could embed it within Microsoft Teams, GroupMe, or Facebook. But for now, we will…
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DPL Reading List – January 22, 2021
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Good Leadership Is About Asking Good Questions – Asking questions…
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Nebraska Dev Lab Concludes First Cohort, Participants Transition to Sponsor Organizations
Don’t Panic Labs and Doane University are proud to announce that their software education initiative – called the Nebraska Dev Lab Pipeline Program – has completed its inaugural cohort, and its participants are transitioning to their sponsor organizations as software developers. The Pipeline Program is an immersive nine-month software development training experience, although the first…
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Given That, Then… — Building a QnA-style Chatbot, Part 1
Given that you want to create a QnA-style chat, then Azure has a solution for you. Chatbots are becoming more and more common, but building one from scratch seems terribly complicated. Just the natural language processing alone would be a monumental task. And when you are creating a chatbot, you probably don’t want to become…
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DPL Reading List – January 15, 2021
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found this week. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. 6 CEOs on the most unexpected lessons they learned in…
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