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If you’re reading this, you’ve likely got a fantastic idea for starting an online business. One little problem: You already have a full-time job. Meshing a brilliant side hustle with your standard 40-hours-a-week bread-winning occupation might seem like a strong mixture to concoct. But done with careful planning, just enough transparency, and a commitment to
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When it comes to buzzwords, ‘machine learning’ is practically a senior citizen, first coined 59 years ago by American computer scientist Arthur Samuel. So why the nearly six-decade deep freeze? The idea of machines that could achieve “deep learning” and build their algorithms based on previous ones was quite simply not possible because computers weren’t
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