Month: November 2024

Advance environmental sustainability in clinical trials using AWS

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Traditionally, clinical trials not only place a significant burden on patients and participants due to the costs associated with transportation, lodging, meals, and dependent care, but also have an environmental impact. With the advancement of available technologies, decentralized clinical trials have become a widely popular topic of discussion and offer a more sustainable approach. Decentralized … Read more

Mastering Process Documentation: The Ultimate Guide to Building a High-Performing Team

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Why Process Documentation Matters Working in a company with well-defined processes and workflows is a common preference. While some thrill-seekers enjoy the chaos of early-stage startups, most people simply want to get their work done efficiently and have time left for their personal lives. It’s frustrating to miss out on a great evening with friends … Read more

How to make open source software more secure

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Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems.  The operation had started two years earlier when that someone, a person nicknamed JiaT75, started contributing to the XZ Utils repository on GitHub. A … Read more

You can now try Microsoft’s more modern Windows Hello UI

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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is modernizing how its Windows Hello authentication, which includes facial and fingerprint recognition, works in Windows 11. The revamp to the Windows Hello experience is now in beta testing with Windows Insiders, and includes visual changes, new iconography, and improvements to passkeys. Not only will this new UI appear on the Windows … Read more

Differentially Private Data Science - What, Why And How?

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Differential privacy has become a standard framework for applying strict individual privacy protection. It provides a controlled way to ingest calibrated noise into sensitive datasets so that any statistical analyses conducted align with current legal demands like GDPR or CCPA. The core idea behind DP is that the addition or removal of any individual from … Read more

This Shattered my Ego. and I’m Happy it Did

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What if the ego, the thing driving our ambition, might also be quietly sabotaging us? Man, I think I’m not full of myself, right!? Oh, I think I’m humble but…” I mumbled while reading this book It’s funny how we don’t always see ourselves clearly until we come across the uncomfortable truth. Having reached some … Read more

Why I Switched from Vim to Zed

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For years, Vim was my go-to code editor. I discovered it from a friend when I first started to write code during my second year in College and at first, it felt impossible to use. I struggled with even simple things, like figuring out how to quit! But over time, I got used to the … Read more