Category: Life At Novetta
A Transition to Civilian Work with DoD SkillBridge Fellowship
During the first 14 years of my military career, I served in the U.S. Air Force as an Aerospace Control and Warning Systems, Weapons Director, which entailed controlling ...
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Building Face Shields for Healthcare Professionals
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 ...
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My Experience With Deep Learning For Coders – Part II
In the Spring of 2019, Novetta sponsored a Diversity Fellowship at the University of San Francisco’s Data Institute for the Deep Learning Part II course led by Jeremy ...
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AWS Data Lab
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 ...
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Navigating Career Choices: Finding the Courage to Make Difficult Decisions
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 ...
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State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT
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 ...
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Work Mom – And Other Things You Would Never Call a Man
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 ...
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Introverts as Leaders
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 ...
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Novetta PyShops – Your Monthly Slice of Py
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 ...
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Surviving Advent of Code
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 ...
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Life as a Novetta Newb
Being a young adult is hard. After spending sixteen years (usually even more than that) in school, and four or five years waiting tables or folding clothes, the ...
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6 Secrets to Success from Female Leaders
There are numerous conversations about the lack of women in the technology industry and the factors stacked against them. With National Women’s History month coming to an end ...
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Build a Career You’re Proud of: Q&A with Tiffanny Gates
We work in a time where women make up 59% of the US labor force and earn 60% of all undergraduate and graduate degrees. However, women only hold ...
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The Veteran Difference in Novetta Culture
Highlighting the Value of a Veteran Workforce Most companies speak of or at least proclaim their core values - minimally they’re splashed somewhere on the corporate website. In ...
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