LocusPlay Newsletter September 2017
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Business plan plays a vital role especially when you are planning to start a lottery. I would like to share my thoughts on why and how important is the business plan. Business plan allows you to set up goals in a planned and organised way. When you have a business plan ready, you know the next objective to be achieved. You are aware of the situations and ready for the next move, it also helps you to keep track of progress made during each phase of the lottery.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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