If you are leading a Software as a service (SaaS) startup, you’ll already know that SaaS companies usually focus on delivering centrally located software, licensed on a subscription basis. Also sometimes referred to as ‘on-demand software’ or ‘Web-based/Web-hosted’ software. SaaS has been the largest and fastest-growing market segment since 2019…

By 2030, all baby boomers in the US will be age 65 or older [1]. As the “Silver Tsunami” washes over the manufacturing industry, the question for manufacturing leaders is whether or not we’re prepared to fill the gap left behind. When workers retire en masse, it’s not just about…

The Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation, or LOOCV, procedure is used to estimate the performance of machine learning algorithms when they are used to make predictions on data not used to train the model. It is a computationally expensive procedure to perform, although it results in a reliable and unbiased estimate of model…

From alien lizard rulers to shark attacks instigated by spies and elaborate multi-billion-dollar hoaxes, the menagerie of conspiracy theories in existence is so bizarre, the reasons some take off — and others vanish without a trace — may seem almost random. …

China has been rapidly rolling out its Belt and Road Initiative to build new roads, ports and rail lines in mostly developing nations, extending the country’s reach across continents. China says the infrastructure will benefit countries while critics say China is extending unfair influence over others. Many nations have been…

The paper, led by Roger Chou, director of the Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center at OHSU and a professor of medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine, was a meta-study that analyzed the results of 64 separate studies about the impact of PPE on virus transmission. …

Artificial intelligence has become a focus of certain ethical concerns, but it also has some major sustainability issues. Last June, researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst released a startling report estimating that the amount of power required for training and searching a certain neural network architecture involves the…

If you followed the world of pop-culture or tech for some time now, then you know that advances in artificial intelligence are heating up. In reality, AI has been the talk of mainstream pop-culture and sci-fi since the first Terminator movie came out in 1984. These movies present an example…

The landscape is evolving quickly. —