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How Light Of Hope Is Shaping The Future Of Education In Bangladesh, One Kid At A Time: An Interview With Waliullah Bhuiyan, CEO, Light Of Hope

Light Of Hope Founder, and CEO, Waliullah Bhuiyan, on his journey to the world of entrepreneurship, how his passion for literature, art, and culture shaped his outlook towards life and the world, talks about Light Of Hope’s journey from idea and a small team to a team of over 60 people, what went into building the initial operation of Light Of Hope, how Light Of Hope has managed to find a sustainable business model to scale, how Light Of Hope has used a combination of hard work, hustle and efficient execution to grow its business, the state of Light Of Hope’s business today, how Light Of Hope operates as an organization and how it has built an entrepreneurial culture, and how Light Of Hope plans to shape the future of education in Bangladesh, shares his on challenges of entrepreneurship and how he deals with stress of being a founder, the infinite importance of having right people around you while building a company and why you should ignore what other people think of you if you are into making something meaningful and be obsessed with a seamless execution over having a beautiful idea.

How Truck Lagbe Is Taking On An Age-old Transportation Industry: An Interview With Anayet Rashid, Founder and CEO, Truck Lagbe

Truck Lagbe Founder and CEO Anayet Rashid on the early days of Truck Lagbe, how it has evolved and grown from a mere idea to a team of over 25 people and 150 agents in a span of a year, how Truck Lagbe is using technology to change an age-old complex transportation industry, how Truck Lagbe works, its business model, challenges of Truck Lagbe, its business today and ambition going forward, the hard work and intricacies of scaling a business, the most critical aspects of transportation business, how Truck Lagbe operates as an organization and why having a good idea is a rather inconsequential part of building a company and why execution is what makes all the difference.

The Secret To A Successful Startup

Starting a new business can be satisfying but stressful. Among other tasks, entrepreneurs must raise enough funds for their ventures. But it turns out the type of funding matters, not just the amount. Start-ups funded via business loans tend to outperform those using personal loans or having no loans at all.

FS Weekly Digest: The Insights You Missed Last Week

Praava health, Japan Tobacco, Flight Expert, Styline, GD Assist and more

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ACM TechNews, Wednesday, August 8, 2018

New Tool Helps Users Control Which Countries Their Internet Traffic Goes Through
Princeton University
Molly Sharlach
August 2, 2018

Princeton University researchers have developed a tool that enables users to redirect their Internet traffic to avoid passing through a particular country by diverting traffic through intermediate points.

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AI May Put Private Data at Risk
Cornell Chronicle (NY)
Melanie Lefkowitz
August 2, 2018

Cornell Tech researchers have determined current models of machine learning are vulnerable to privacy leaks and other attacks.

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It’s Harder to Turn Off a Robot When It’s Begging for Its Life
The Verge
James Vincent
August 2, 2018

Researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany have found that people are very susceptible to social cues from machines, to the point that they will refrain from shutting off a robot that begs for its life.

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The Smarter City: Las Vegas Tunes IT Operations With AIOps
Government Computer News
Sara Friedman
August 3, 2018

The City of Las Vegas is enhancing its information technology (IT) operations by applying machine learning and advanced analytics to data from its IT systems using artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps).

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Beyond 3D Printers: Additive Folding Creates Artistic Animatronics
ZDNet
Greg Nichols
August 2, 2018

Researchers from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of York in the U.K. are collaborating on the creation of soft and actuated three-dimensional (3D) objects from printable two-dimensional (2D) materials that are folded.

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Amazon Makes $525,000 Donation to Canada Learning Code
IT World Canada
Meagan Simpson
August 1, 2018

Amazon says it will donate $525,000 to Canada Learning Code to improve and develop digital literacy programs across the country.

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Roboticist at OSU Uses Performing Arts to Make Robots More Social
Corvallis Gazette-Times (OR)
Lillian Schrock
July 30, 2018

Oregon State University’s (OSU) Heather Knight, director of the Collaborative Humans and Robots: Interaction, Sociability, Machine Learning, and Art (CHARISMA) Research Laboratory, is applying performing arts principles to the creation of more socially intelligent robots.

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Research Identifies Key Weakness in Modern Computer Vision Systems
Brown University
Kevin Stacey
July 30, 2018

Brown University researchers have demonstrated a flaw in modern computer vision algorithms that makes them consistently poor at differentiating between two objects in an image.

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Five Questions With Will Sentance
The New York Times
Olivier De Meulder
August 2, 2018

In an interview, Codesmith’s Will Sentance discussed how he started the organization and why JavaScript is a useful programming language.

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A New Complex Network-Based Approach to Topic Modeling
Tech Xplore
Ingrid Fadelli
July 30, 2018

Researchers at the University of Bath in the U.K., the University of Sydney in Australia, and Northwestern University have developed a novel network approach to topic models, machine learning strategies that can find abstract topics and semantic structures within text documents.

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On-Chip Optical Filter Processes Wide Range of Light Wavelengths
MIT News
Rob Matheson
August 1, 2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed an optical filter on a chip that can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light at once, which could offer greater precision and flexibility for designing optical communication and sensor systems

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‘Blurred Face’ News Anonymity Gets an AI Spin
Simon Fraser University
August 1, 2018

Researchers at Canada’s Simon Fraser University (SFU) School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) have developed a method of employing artificial intelligence (AI) to better obscure the faces of anonymous individuals in news reports.

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ACM TechNews, Monday, August 6, 2018

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Network Demo
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Laura Ost
July 26, 2018

U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers say they have created a neural network-equipped silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature grid.

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Memory-Processing Unit (MPU) Could Bring Memristors to the Masses
The Michigan Engineer News Center
Kate McAlpine
July 26, 2018

The University of Michigan’s Wei Lu and his colleagues have developed a method for assembling memristors on a chip for use in general computing while reducing their energy consumption 100-fold.

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UCF Professor Discovers First-of-Its-Kind Material for the Quantum Age
University of Central Florida
Allison Hurtado
August 1, 2018

A University of Central Florida (UCF) researcher says he has discovered a material that could be used as a building block for quantum technology. required to power electronics.

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Greek Mathematician Constantinos Daskalakis Wins Prestigious Award
Greek Reporter
Philip Chrysopoulos
August 2, 2018

The International Mathematical Society has named Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Constantinos Daskalakis to receive this year’s Rolf Nevanlinna Prize.

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U of T Launches Canada’s First Engineering Undergraduate Program in Machine Intelligence
U of T News
Tyler Irving
July 25, 2018

The University of Toronto (U of T) has unveiled Canada’s first undergraduate engineering science program in machine intelligence, scheduled to launch in September with more than 40 students enrolled so far.

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The 2018 Top Programming Languages
IEEE Spectrum
Stephen Cass
July 31, 2018

IEEE Spectrum’s fifth annual interactive ranking of the top programming languages draws on metrics from multiple sources to rank 47 languages.

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ng AI Could Help the Deaf—or Spies
Science
Matthew Hutson
July 31, 2018

An artificial intelligence (AI) program from DeepMind can read lips better than professional lip readers, after reviewing thousands of hours of YouTube videos along with transcripts via machine learning.

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BMI System Lets Users Control Robotic Arm While Their Hands Are Busy
Tech Xplore
Bob Yirka
July 26, 2018

Researchers at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Japan have created a brain-machine interface (BMI) for manipulating a robotic arm without requiring the use of hands.

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SDSC’s Comet Supercomputer Extended Into 2021
HPCwire
August 1, 2018

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has received a supplemental grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) of nearly $2.4 million to extend operations of its Comet supercomputer through March 2021.

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UTA Technology Could Change Way Computers Dissipate Heat
University of Texas at Arlington
Herb Booth
July 31, 2018

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have developed a novel cold electron transistor that drastically reduces the amount of energy it requires to operate.

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3D Printing the Next Generation of Batteries
Carnegie Mellon University
Emily Durham
July 30, 2018

Carnegie Mellon University and Missouri University of Science and Technology researchers have developed a method of three-dimensionally (3D) printing battery electrodes that creates a 3D microlattice structure with controlled porosity.

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Trapping Light That Doesn’t Bounce Off Track for Faster Electronics
Purdue University News
Kayla Wiles
July 30, 2018

An international project led by Purdue University researchers has yielded a metamaterial "cladding" to block the leakage of light from computer chips, in a step toward faster electronics.

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Recent Announcements from AWS

Browse below to learn about the latest product, service, and feature announcements from AWS.

AWS Release Notes

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Compute Introducing Amazon EC2 R5 Instances, the next generation of memory-optimized instances
Compute Introducing Amazon EC2 z1d Instances with a sustained all core frequency of up to 4.0 GHz
Compute Amazon ECS Adds Console Support for T2 Unlimited EC2 Instances
Compute Amazon VPC CNI Plugin Version 1.1
Compute AWS Batch Is Now Available in South America (São Paulo) Region
Compute AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Customization of Health Monitoring
Databases Copying Amazon RDS Encrypted Snapshots across Regions now Completes Faster with Less Storage
Databases Amazon RDS now Provides Best Practice Recommendations
Databases Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 10.4, 9.6.9, 9.5.13, 9.4.18, and 9.3.23 for Commercial Regions
Databases Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables Now Available in Three Additional Asia Pacific Regions
Databases Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) r4 Instance Types Available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Database Amazon Redshift now provides customized best practice recommendations with Advisor
Networking Amazon CloudFront announces nine new Edge locations globally across major cities in North America, Europe, and Asia
Networking Amazon Route 53 Expands Into Africa With New Edge Locations in Cape Town and Johannesburg
Networking Elastic Load Balancing Announces Support for Redirects and Fixed Responses for Application Load Balancer
Management Tools AWS Service Catalog Launches Support for CloudFormation Change Sets
Media Services AWS Elemental MediaTailor Now Available in US West (Oregon) Region
Security Introducing the Serverless Bot Framework
Machine Learning New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: Optimized TensorFlow 1.9, Apache MXNet 1.2 with Keras 2, and More
Machine Learning AWS Deep Learning AMIs now Support Framework Interoperability Using ONNX
Application Integration Amazon MQ is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Business Amazon WorkDocs iOS Files Integration
IoT AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management Now HIPAA Eligible
IoT New AWS Greengrass Version Deploys Executable Code Written in C, C++, and Other Languages That Import C Libraries, and More
Government Amazon GuardDuty Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS News Blog
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Events & Webinars
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Tech Talk Follow Up: Best Practices for Security in Amazon S3

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Tech Talk Follow Up: Introduction to Amazon QuickSight: Business Analytics for Everyone

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Databases (AWS or Not): What to use When?

Purpose Built Databases:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnz4oVaGlY

Which Database to Use When

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWOSGVtHWqA

Applying AWS Purpose-Built Database Strategy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3VmcWlIp84

Databases and what are available on Amazon
https://aws.amazon.com/products/databases/

Sayed Ahmed

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Linkedin: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sayedjustetc

Blog: http://sitestree.com, http://bangla.salearningschool.com

Readings for Today : July 25th, 2018

Business

Millennials Are Making a Costly Investment Mistake

Almost 1 in 3 millennials say they prefer cash instruments for long-term investments—but the generation is least likely to earn interest on such savings.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/millennials-are-making-a-costly-investment-mistake

Four stocks likely to struggle when interest rates rise

http://cawidgets.morningstar.ca/ArticleTemplate/ArticleGL.aspx?culture=en-CA&id=874152

The evolution of the Chinese market


As they open their doors to foreign investors, Chinese capital markets are entering the next stage of their evolution.

http://cawidgets.morningstar.ca/ArticleTemplate/ArticleGL.aspx?culture=en-CA&id=873100

Take your first steps in the Lightsail console

Once your Lightsail instance is up and running, here are a few ways to get started in the Lightsail console:

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1. Set up your IP Address
Create a free static IP in the console and attach it to your Lightsail instance.
How to create a static IP »
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2. Set up your domain
Once you have registered your domain name, create a DNS zone in the console.
How to create a DNS zone »
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3. Secure your Lightsail instance
Set up port mappings and firewalls to enhance your instance security.
How to set up additional security »
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4. Access your Lightsail instance
Easily and securely access your instance terminal from the console using SSH.
How to set up SSH »

Sayed Ahmed
sayedum

Linkedin: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/sayedjustetc

Blog: http://sitestree.com, http://bangla.salearningschool.com

Machine Learning Bangla Course 1, Part 2: Machine Learning Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCTNknJYUAw
What is Machine Learning? Machine learning is a field of computer science that uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to

Machine Learning Bangla Course 1, Part 2: Machine Learning Example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCTNknJYUAw
What is Machine Learning? Machine learning is a field of computer science that uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to