May 1, 2024

A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs | TechCrunch

The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at that scale, they’re still significant, driven by big names like Pixar, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and TikTok. It remains to be seen if this year’s layoff trends follow last year’s, in which layoffs slowed down in the summer, before cuts began ramping up yet again toward the winter. Momentum for a tech sector

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EXCLUSIVE: Tiger Global-backed Innovaccer in talks to raise $250 million in new funding, sources say

Innovaccer, a health tech startup that aggregates patient data across systems and care settings, is in advanced stages of talks with investors to raise as much as $250 million in a new financing round, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The deliberation for the new funding round is ongoing, and the current talks propose a value of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion for the nine-year-old company, the sources said, requesting anonymity, as

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Understand SQL Window Functions Once and For All

A step-by-step guide to understanding window functions Mateus Trentz · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 9 hours ago — Photo by Yasmina H on Unsplash Window functions are key to writing SQL code that is both efficient and easy to understand. Knowing how they work and when to use them will unlock new ways of solving your reporting problems. The objective of this article is to explain window functions

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My First Billion (of Rows) in DuckDB

First Impressions of DuckDB handling 450Gb in a real project João Pedro · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 9 hours ago — Duck blueprint. Generated by Copilot Designer. Introduction The fields of AI, Data Science, and Data Engineering are progressing at full steam. Every day new tools, new paradigms, and new architectures are created, always trying to solve the problems of the previous ones. In this sea of new

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What Exactly Is An Algorithm? Turing Machines Explained

A simple guide to Turing Machines, how they came to be, and how they helped us define what an algorithm is Thiago Rodrigues · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 6 days ago — Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash Introduction When we think of algorithms, we often describe them as similar to a recipe: a series of steps we follow to complete some task. We frequently use that definition

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Build a Data Science Portfolio Website with ChatGPT: Complete Tutorial

Create an engaging portfolio website from scratch with generative AI (+ a free prompt engineering crash course) Natassha Selvaraj · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 21 min read · 19 hours ago — Photo by Lee Campbell on Unsplash A few years ago, an employer found my portfolio website and hired me for an internship as a data analyst.

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