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code-for-a-living June 28, 2021

What makes a great IT consultant – and how you can become one

7N is an international freelance agency that has been connecting the best IT consultants with leading organizations around the world for more than 30 years. Here's the five qualities that make the perfect consultant.

Pawel Zdziech, Recruitment and Communications Manager, 7N

code-for-a-living June 26, 2021

Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 6

In the sixth lesson of the series we’ll discuss some methods for data transformation to improve a linear regression model. In the process, we’ll learn to simulate data with known properties, review some of the assumptions of linear regression, and continue to practice our Python skills. Here are some Stack Overflow questions related to the…

Sophie Sommer

community June 25, 2021

Unpacking the user research behind Collectives™

We spent over a hundred hours in 1-on-1 interviews and collected thousands of survey responses to better understand what our community and customers wanted to see in this product. This feedback shaped everything from naming to moderation, and helped us evolve and iterate the concept into what it is today.

Ben Popper and Mithila Fox

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company June 23, 2021

Announcing the launch of Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

We're thrilled to be launching this new product with Google Cloud and Go.

Teresa Dietrich

code-for-a-living June 21, 2021

Can InnerSource bring open source practices to closed corporate bureaucracies?

Open source won. Now, the OSS way of working is making inroads into new territories: the corporate engineering department.

Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living June 19, 2021

Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 5

In the fifth lesson of the series we’ll learn how to build more flexible linear models by adding interaction and polynomial terms. We’ll fit and inspect our models both mathematically and visually to understand how they work. In the process, we’ll continue to practice our Python skills and discuss some of the merits (and drawbacks)…

Sophie Sommer

company June 16, 2021

State of the Stack Q2 2021

We have had an exciting couple of months here at Stack Overflow. That excitement doesn't change our plans for the future, detailed in this post.

Teresa Dietrich

code-for-a-living June 14, 2021

Let’s enhance: use Intel AI to increase image resolution in this demo

Across alien epics and procedural crime dramas, detectives and truth seekers have repeated the mantra: zoom and enhance. It’s passed into popular culture as a much-beloved meme, but in recent years, machine learning has increasingly made this fiction trope into an accessible reality. And we've got the demo to prove it.

Raymond Lo

code-for-a-living June 12, 2021

Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 4

In the fourth lesson of the series, we’ll talk about the matrix representation of the linear regression problem. In the process, we’ll discuss the basics of matrix multiplication. We’ll also see how this mathematical understanding can prepare us to make sense of error messages that we might encounter when fitting a model in Python. Here…

Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living June 9, 2021

Using low-code tools to iterate products faster

Many developers are skeptical of using low-code tooling to build software. Buying software instead of building it has advantages, especially when your goal is to iterate faster.

Karl Hughes

community June 7, 2021

Most developers believe blockchain technology is a game changer

But a little over one third disagree, viewing blockchain as mostly hype

Ben Popper and David Gibson