Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting

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Lindsey Elliott is big into bolts. At last year’s Bolting Symposium — the 13th annual — she said the highlight was playing “Bolting Bingo” against the many self-proclaimed “torque dorks” who were in the room. A former engineer and planner at ExxonMobil, Elliott has spent years thinking about how to improve the infrastructure that moves … Read more

21 Marketers Share Their Best Tips for Networking as an Introvert at SEO Events

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Purna Virji  — Principal Consultant & Global Program Manager at LinkedIn I’ve spoken at conferences worldwide but still need to disappear into a bathroom stall to recharge between sessions.  People are always surprised when I tell them I’m an introvert. I’ve just gotten good at being “on” during events, so good that people assume I’m naturally … Read more

When to Quit – Leadership Freak

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When to Quit Persistence is noble until it’s stupid. Don’t quit because something is difficult. Everything meaningful is difficult. Quit because it’s no longer worthwhile. 5 Signs It’s Time to Quit #1. The goal no longer serves the purpose. Goals are tools, not gods. Reaching the summit isn’t success if you die on the way … Read more

Adaptive Confidence – Leadership Freak

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Adaptive Confidence Weak leaders demand certainty. Timid leaders cuddle with ambiguity. Adaptive confidence is the ability to move forward with conviction while remaining willing to change your mind. Alec Litowitz describes adaptive confidence as a “strong opinion, weakly held.” Read his book, The Adaptability Quotient. Why Adaptive Confidence Matters Uncertainty pushes you toward two extremes. … Read more

Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

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Snorkel AI, a startup that helps AI labs and corporations build training data sets and simulated environments, has raised a $350 million Series E at a $3.5 billion valuation. The new round, which was led by Insight Partners and S32, valued the seven-year-old startup at nearly triple the $1.3 billion valuation it garnered when it … Read more

Judgments Based on Fabrications – Leadership Freak

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Judgments Based on Fabrications Goethe said self-knowledge is elusive. No one has achieved it.* You haven’t figured yourself out. What makes you think you understand others? Don’t make judgments based on fabrications. Fabricated Motivations Listen for “that’s because” when you evaluate people. Judgments emerge from cooked-up fairy tales about why people do what they do. She … Read more

OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems

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On Monday, OpenAI announced a new independent advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Called the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, the group is meant to give mathematicians more input into the company’s math-oriented research. “This group will serve as a bridge to the mathematical community and … Read more