Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Fintech World: to Financial Inclusion and Beyond
Financial technology companies, innovative by nature and since their beginnings, redefined the interaction between banking and stock market players with their clients and fulfilled the latter’s dream of being the self-managers of their purchases and finances. Fintechs tuned into masters accelerating financial inclusion and digital adoption, acting as the true protagonists of a phenomenon that…
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The Importance of Data Quality in Model Training
If the data does not adequately represent the context of the problem to be solved, the resulting models and systems can introduce many biases and complications. Imagine that in your business you want to know if a customer is about to leave in the short term, but you don’t have the information you need to…
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QA: When to start automating?
Today, the vast majority of projects use agile methodologies, but as sprints pass, it becomes increasingly difficult to perform regressions. Fortunately, automated testing exists! Imagine having to test new features in a sprint and then having to run 500 test cases in a 2-week cycle. This is a huge workload for manual QA, but there is…
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Agile vs. Traditional Methodologies
Traditional systems that focus on specific planning and emphasize factors such as cost, time, and scope are being challenged by agile project management that prioritizes teamwork, customer collaboration, and flexibility. Due to the instability of the environment and the constant changes that shake the business world, companies have been rethinking their processes, approaches and methodologies…
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Data is King: The Power of Data Science in Business Processes
Gone are the days of intuition and guessing in business decisions. Data is now the undisputed star in any digital transformation process, and businesses everywhere are taking notice. While Data Science as a specialized field is relatively new, it emerged in 2002 from the statistical analysis and data mining fields. Information handling became essential for…
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The Future is Now: Why Technology Adoption is Essential for Brands to Thrive
By Alejandro Lombardi, Communications Team Leader at Siltium. We live in a technological world that is constantly evolving. It is more important than ever for brands to adopt and integrate new technologies into their operations. Failure to do so can lead to missed opportunities and a loss of market share to tech-savvy competitors. Consider this:…
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On-demand programmers
They manage the logic and know about the specialized languages used in the systems. Companies are desperately looking for them. They are no longer the boys and girls who spend all day with codes and computers… maybe they are, but today they are the most sought-after professionals in the technology industry. The exponential growth of…
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The age of contactless payment and the e-wallet revolution
Around the world, Mobile payment has become very common among users to the level where cash has almost stopped circulating. Multiple E-wallets got developed with different features and functionalities. They all share the same objective: they have better management, security, and, above all, independence from physical money. Digital payments are no longer a captive bank…
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