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Navigating Career Choices: Finding the Courage to Make Difficult Decisions

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Career changes are rewarding and terrifying, but like most things in life, there is little reward without risk. Finding the courage to take a chance is hard, but overcoming the fear of change can result in amazing opportunities and remarkable work experience. I began my career in government service with the CIA – completing impactful tours in R&D, applied research, and counterterrorism. I had an awesome job and was on an upwards trajectory supporting a high-impact mission, with a great team and effective management. I was doing something I loved, something I was good at, and making a difference. Ten...

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Part 3 in our Novetta Nexus International Women’s Day blog series, BE AUTHENTIC.

Introducing Metadata Enhanced ULMFiT

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by Matt Teschke, Brian Sacash

Introduction Since its release in 2018, Novetta’s Machine Learning Center of Excellence has evaluated the performance of Universal Language Model Fine-Tuning (ULMFiT)1 against many customer use cases. We have found that automated labeling of unstructured text helps analysts be more efficient, freeing them up to focus on higher-value tasks. We have been so impressed with its accuracy that we have deployed ULMFiT against a dataset in a production system, with plans to expand it to dozens of other datasets. While ULMFiT’s performance has been impressive on all the datasets we’ve tested, we thought it could do more. Our first use...

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State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT

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Novetta’s own Matt Teschke will be speaking at ODSC East – Boston in the session, “State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT” in room #103 at 5:15 PM on May 2. The rise of the internet has led to a faster flow of information, where news posted to a relatively obscure blog can be shared on social media and reach national publications within hours. The volume of information is such that humans alone cannot filter out noise, identify important new viewpoints, and determine how messaging trends are changing over time. At Novetta, we are constantly evaluating advances in deep...

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Work Mom – And Other Things You Would Never Call a Man

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I teach a Novetta “Intro to Python” class, and one evening as we were wrapping up, the students and I got into a discussion about my teaching style compared to the other instructor, who was a man. “Will is more matter-of-fact,” a student said, “And your style is more nurturing.” The student meant no harm with his comment, but I took issue with the term nurturing. I associated that word with someone who was soft, a pushover who couldn’t make tough decisions. I think of myself as a technical leader, someone who works to find an answer for every challenge...

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Part 2 in our Novetta Nexus International Women’s Day blog series, BE AUTHENTIC.

Introverts as Leaders

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Someone recently asked me how I became a leader, and I honestly didn’t have a good answer. I’m a reluctant leader, at best, so this isn’t a path that I intentionally forged. I had always envisioned leaders as very vivacious, outgoing and commanding of an audience ~ but that’s just not me. I’ve had a few decades to practice the outward roles of being a leader, but when balanced against my preconceptions of how a leader should behave, I’ve always felt like I fell short. It’s taken many years of introspection and affirmation, but I’ve come to realize that my...

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Novetta Nexus is proud to launch Part 1 of our International Women’s Day blog series, BE AUTHENTIC.

Novetta PyShops – Your Monthly Slice of Py

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Novettans like a challenge. Sometimes, that means learning something entirely new. Other times, it means we’re brushing up on our skills. One of the ways we do this is through our PyShops, a series of workshops aimed at teaching people with technological backgrounds, or people with no technological experience, how to use Python. When asked what Python is, Dave Roberts, Computer Scientist at Novetta, told me the programming language “places a heavy emphasis on human readability and usability…it’s super friendly for beginners, but is also extraordinarily powerful.” Python can be found in everything from streaming services to popular video games....

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Meet Us, Hear Us, Play with Us at ShmooCon 2019

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An annual east coast hacker convention, ShmooCon creates a rather interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, and open discussions on critical infosec issues. We look forward to exchanging brilliant, brain-melting ideas with other security professionals and adding to Shmoo Group’s razor-sharp sense of sarcasm, cybersecurity, and threat hunting. At this year’s ShmooCon there may be less moose than ever, but there is definitely MORE Novetta! Hear from our experts in our two speaking sessions, swing by our booth to see a Novetta Cyber Analytics demo, play CTF, and check out open positions because we are...

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Surviving Advent of Code

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Once again, my night’s sleep was interrupted by an insistent alarm. I sat up in a brief moment of panicked confusion and tried to make sense of what was going on. Had the Metadata Registry’s web server crashed again, requiring a midnight trip to the office? Was there an infant in the house in need of a night feed? It took a few more seconds before I reached clarity — I was up at this ungodly hour on a weekday intentionally, for Day 17 of Advent of Code. Created by Eric Wastl, Advent of Code is a series of programming...

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Deploying Machine Learning at the Edge

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by Kevin Heald, Matt Teschke

From the team that presented AWS re:Invent 2018 session WPS304 “Rapid Prototyping for Today’s Mission”.   Problem It’s imperative for warfighters to have actionable, up-to-date knowledge about their adversaries. This requires having the ability to quickly process and analyze new data when and where it is discovered. The current procedure for gathering, processing, and analyzing data can take weeks or months due to logistics, transport, and data handling complications. Using the AWS Snowball Edge, this entire process can be automated, delivering insights from data collected in the field within minutes or hours.   AWS Snowball Edge The Snowball Edge is...

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Novetta has BIG PLANS for AWS re:Invent 2018

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Novetta is excited to return to one of the world’s largest tech conferences, AWS re:Invent! This year there are even more ways to engage with us in Las Vegas. For the first time, Novetta will have leaders on stage in two speaking sessions, we are returning to our suite at the Venetian to give customized demos, and we are sponsoring two Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) events. As in all great partnerships, Novetta and AWS are better together.  Novetta’s advanced analytics technology is enhanced by AWS services and we are proud to offer our support, and contribute our expertise and innovation,...

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