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Building Face Shields for Healthcare Professionals

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A few weeks ago, one of Novetta’s principal computer scientists (we’ll call him “Dave”) saw that John Saunders of Saunders Machine Works and NYC CNC was making badger shields on the fly and had an a-ha moment. Badger shields are a type of personal protective equipment (PPE) used by healthcare professionals to defend against Coronavirus. They consist of a clear plastic shield covering the wearer’s whole face and a headband to secure it in place. Saunders was using a laser cutter to create the clear PET sheets, but Dave reasoned he could use a computer numerical control router he had...

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My Experience With Deep Learning For Coders – Part II

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This Spring, Novetta sponsored a Diversity Fellowship at the University of San Francisco’s Data Institute for the Deep Learning Part II course led by Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas, the co-founders of fast.ai. We were happy to support Shawn Tsosie, a veteran who loves deep learning and fast.ai as much as we do. You can hear from him below in his own words describing why he took the course and what he hopes to do with what he learned.   My wife, Claire, had gone into labor with our first child the day this course began. I planned on missing...

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AWS Data Lab

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by Matt Johannessen As a follow up to a very successful re:Invent in 2018, Novetta was invited by AWS to attend a Data Lab in Seattle. This four-day event hosted by AWS gives customers and partners the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with specific AWS services. Amazon coordinators work with AWS product teams to ensure critical engineering, DevOps, and other technical resources are available to support the team. Novetta was invited to the Data Lab to build prototypes with Amazon Neptune, Amazon’s managed distributed graph database service. Novetta was represented by a group of highly skilled data scientists, machine learning...

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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.

State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT

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Novetta’s Matt Teschke spoke at ODSC East – Boston in the session,”State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT” on May 2, 2019.         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 learning to help our customers...

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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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