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AI not only helped in data gathering but also in data processing, data analyses, number crunching, genome sequencing, and making the all-important automated protein molecule binding prediction.
AI’s use will not end with the vaccine’s discovery and distribution; it will be used to study the side effects in the billions of vaccinations
Since the global pandemic turned up on our doorsteps, the world has noticed drastic changes. In many different ways, things have changed dramatically. Societal norms and economic challenges have impacted people in many ways after the emergence of COVID-19.
There is no way we can sweep away the differences the time has caused and move back to the life we had in the past.
In recent years, machine learning has found applications in new and often unexpected areas. With the novel coronavirus outbreak in 2019 and 2020, it makes sense that many have tried to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence to various problems relating to the disease. From modeling the spread of the disease to searching for possible drugs and vaccines, machine learning has been integral to understanding many of the problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A simple internet search will lead you to hundreds of dashboards showing the current number of coronavirus cases around the world. This stems from how easy it is to access data relating to the virus, especially from reputable sources like Kaggle or Johns Hopkins. This data, along with sophisticated models for disease dynamics has, for example, enabled predictive modeling for the number of people who actually have the virus and the risk of hosting an event in any county in the US.
The COVID-19 pandemic we’re all facing this year is transforming the workforce throughout the whole world. As it doesn't seem like we're going back to the office any time soon, looks like companies are going to need DevOps more than ever.
The COVID-19 pandemic we’re all facing this year is transforming the workforce throughout the whole world. In fact, according to Stanford University research, the US has become a work-from-home economy. 42% of the workforce now working from home full-time. While some businesses are finding it difficult to adjust to this modern lifestyle, others went on immediately. Looking ahead, for a large number of organizations, the inability to adapt could be fatal.
In this episode of the Quality Sense podcast, host, Federico Toledo, interviews Janet Gregory, co-author of three highly influential books: "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams”, “More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team”, and “Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Intro.”
Gregory is also a consultant who specializes in helping companies promote agile quality processes and is co-founder of Agile Testing Fellowship.
With the recent downturn on public stock markets due to COVID-19, a recession or depression is almost inevitable. It’s likely we see mass failures across retail, travel, entertainment, and other industry sectors. The spillover from coronavirus disease and the following shelter-in-place can have drastic consequences in the startup world. Small brick and mortar businesses that were shuttered due to shelter-in-place rules will no longer are spending money on Facebook or Yelp to promote their business nor will they maintain their SaaS subscriptions. Large enterprises will pull back spending in sales and marketing in anticipation of a recession. This could cause reduction in seat counts or usage for SaaS contract.s Similarly, sales teams may find CFOs and financial controllers are blocking many more purchases than before forcing deals to be stuck in procurement or legal review.
The good news is that many developer platforms and APIs have tricks that make them more resilient to a recession. However, if you’re not doing these items today, now is the time to reconsider to ensure the longevity of your product and/pr company.
2020 had long been forecast by industry experts as the ‘year of remote work’, but very few could have anticipated the central role that working from home (WFH) has played in keeping businesses afloat and markets open as the new decade became hampered by the emergence of COVID-19.
As a result, what was supposed to be three months of what many expected to be slow adoption of new conferencing and delegation technologies became what Forbes’ Laurel Farrier described as “the world’s largest WFH experiment”.
Many governments issued mandatory work-from-home policies due to the spread of COVID-19. As a result, virtual communication tools and online platforms became an everyday necessity. Digital businesses that had integrated some elements of the digital transformation in their organization models continued providing services to their customers. But other non-digital businesses were not immune to the repercussions of this pandemic. Therefore, what guaranteed the survival of a business was its ability to carry out a digital transformation.
This reality made a lot of businesses aware of the importance of a digital transformation and the role of DevOps in that process. That’s why DevOps is a nonstop movement that cannot be impeded by the coronavirus.
The world has come to a standstill with the near-exponential escalation of coronavirus pandemic. According to the World Health Organization, Coronavirus disease (COVID -19) is an infectious disease caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2). First reported in China on 31 December 2019, the dread of the Covid-19 has spread across the globe quickly. As of now, the total number of Covid 19 infections has crossed one million globally, with 51,000 fatalities and 2,10,000 recoveries.
As the numbers keep on rising exponentially, world leaders have shut down their countries and are asking their citizens to stay at home. In fact, all the major cities have entered into hibernation as the public spaces remain deserted. Classrooms, landmarks, bars, shops, clubs, and restaurants remain closed while train tracks, airports, and roads appear eerily empty.
While we're still adapting to the onset of Covid-19, the world's still turning. And fortunately, developers are used to working in just about any environment and while overcoming plenty of diversity.
About a month ago, we put out a call for interesting coronavirus stories — and you did not disappoint.
Just about everyone who can be working from home now. And while we're lucky to work in an industry that already works from home regularly and easily, there are still some aspects of being in an office that is difficult to replace. One of them is the stand-up meeting.
Every Monday we have a quick stand-up status meeting with our partner, Heroku. (If you aren't familiar with Heroku, they are a PaaS company that helps you to deploy, manage, and scale apps.) I'm on the opposite side of the country as Jennifer, my counterpart at Heroku, and we typically use Zoom or Google Hangouts for our meeting.
The outbreak of coronavirus globally has had a major impact on the global economy. Many countries have gone into lockdown, and there is no industry left that hasn't felt the impact. Even the programming world is facing some major setbacks because of it. However, if we talk about individual programmers, they might also be facing social or physical problems after being in quarantine or working from home for 2 or 3 weeks. But we can turn this time in our favor by learning some new skills online. All you need is a computer and a good internet connection.
Though the programming world may not be facing too many problems, the overall IT industry is. If we look at the stats of developer hiring in the USA, in February, the hiring of developers fell by nearly 70,000, which was up 52,000 in January. This decrease in developer hiring has had a huge impact on demands on developers and affects organizational strength as well.
With the Coronavirus economic crash, companies are scrambling to reduce costs. For many online and technology companies, however, the shift to online work and online learning and streaming media means their services are more in demand than ever. So how do you address the need to scale back your spending and at the same time scale up your services? Here are some suggestions:
Personnel costs may be your largest expense right now, but they are also the only way of driving down all your other costs. You will need to reduce your technology costs through your engineering team and its core competencies, so you need to understand those competencies clearly as you construct your plan to reduce costs. Before you start laying people off, make sure you understand what your teams are capable of, and who will be instrumental in helping you weather the economic storm. You need to have a team that will fit your technology, and vice versa.
With outbreaks like coronavirus putting governments and administrations under the spotlight to see how they deal with the pandemic, the role of artificial intelligence to detect, prevent, and assist governments in public health emergencies is becoming more prominent.
Rarely does something travel faster than news. However, when updates of the rapid spread of coronavirus reached the world, scientists, administrations, and enterprises were met with an escalation of public concern and requests for further information.
Well folks, here we are. Word came down over the weekend that all schools here in the Great Bold North (otherwise known as Minnesota) would close for a few weeks. Maybe longer. Our district has been prepping a remote learning plan, and while that’s being finalized, the kids basically get some bonus snow days. But my husband and I? No snow days for us. We’ll need to be working from home as normal – or as close to normal as we can manage.
Fortunately for us, working from home is our normal, as we’re both full-time remote employees. So we’ve had some practice dealing with the kiddos being at the house with us on days school is closed for parent-teacher conferences, curriculum development, and, y’know, actual snow. If, like us, you’re suddenly a stay-at-home parent and stay-at-home employee, here are a few ways to make this experience less stressful.
The rapid global spread of Coronavirus has compelled many teams to become "virtual" teams. Google, Microsoft, NTT, Amazon and tens of thousands of companies have advised their employees to work from home in affected parts of the world.
While some companies, especially tech companies, already offer the "telecommuting" option, it is a completely new experience for many teams. This is reflected in the surge in people searching for phrases like "telework" just in the last month.
Natural disasters and disease epidemics create a tsunami of knowledge gaps, fake or inaccurate news, with more opinions rather than actual facts and analysis. Much of this is underpinned with feelings of helplessness and fear. In response, two French expats based in Taiwan have created an app to track the coronavirus in real-time.
Kevin Basset and Maxime Michel spent an initial on coronavirus.app with the goal of informing people about the epidemic. I spoke to Kevin who explained, "We realized that although the coronavirus was all over the news, there wasn't an easy way to track the toll. We thought we could build something useful, so we went ahead and developed the app.