Four short links: 5 July 2016
Natural Language, Human Augmentation, Programming Mistakes, and Facebook Management
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The autonomous car as a driving partner
Computational approaches for creating machines at scale: An interview with Daniela Rus.
Four short links: 4 July 2016
Visualizing Traveling Salesman, Face Recognition, Single Repo, and Next Economy
Four short links: 1 July 2016
Interactive Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition Tutorials, AI Safety, and Decentralised Web
Sean Suchter on the promise and challenges of Spark
How Spark will fit into—and change—the current ecosystem of distributed computing tools.
Smart cities need to inject a dose of humanity to be truly great cities
The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Conversations with Daniele Quercia and Frank Cuypers.
Building intelligent applications with deep learning and TensorFlow
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Rajat Monga on the current state of TensorFlow and training large-scale deep neural networks.
Four short links: 30 June 2016
Connectome Data, AI Pilot, Seeing Sound, and Open Internet
Analytics are key to a strong startup business model
Learn how to create a business model that includes the right metrics and get an introduction to the Business Model Flipbook planning tool.
Technology and business as if people matter
Announcing the second annual Next:Economy Summit.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Mike Loukides and Ben Lorica examine factors that have made AI a hot topic in recent years, today's successful AI systems, and where AI may be headed.
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5 secrets for writing the perfect data scientist resume
No hype. No fluff. Just skills.
The call to ARTful leadership: Embracing adaptive capacity, resilience, and trust
Our VUCAST world calls for a new approach to leadership.
Four short links: 29 June 2016
Healthy Skepticism, VR Storytelling, Isolating Portraits, and Knowledge-Free Bots
Unikernel-powered transient services
Russell Pavlicek reviews unikernel systems and considers how microservices built on highly secure unikernels can remake the principles of solution architecture.
Analyzing data in the Internet of Things
This report dives into the IoT industry through a series of illuminating talks and case studies presented at 2015 Strata + Hadoop World Conferences in San Jose, New York, and Singapore.
Four short links: 28 June 2016
Data-Driven Dialogue, Crypto Storage, Organizing Data Sets, Life as a Robot
Making Sense of Stream Processing
Stream processing is finally coming of age. This report shows you how stream processing can make data storage and processing systems more flexible and less complex.
Four short links: 27 June 2016
Tracking Sports, Structural Mapping at Scale, Systems that Don't Suck, and Yak-Shaving-First Development
Don't underestimate "easy" when it comes to data access
The difference between failure and success may be the difference between making analytics possible and making it straightforward.
Modeling your big data enterprise architecture after the human body
How decoupling, optimization, and specialization resemble connective systems in our bodies.
Four short links: 24 June 2016
Science Fiction Economics, Behavioural Economics, Neural Recording, and Sensitive Alexa
Building an open platform for government innovation
Diego Lapiduz shows how the cloud.gov team is building tools that allow government agencies to achieve faster deployments and continuous compliance in a secure environment.
Turning high-velocity data into leverage for people
Ozan Turgut discusses how to use visualization and analytics to turn data into leverage for decision making.
You got your design team in my security team!
Eleanor Saitta on security design and three steps to a safer future.
Measuring what matters
Stephen Ludin offers an overview of the User Timing API and demonstrates how developers can use it to measure exactly the critical sections they want.
A young lady's illustrated primer to technical decision-making
Charity Majors explores how to evaluate major technology choices and explains when you should use boring technology.
Why DevOps is more than just automation
David Hayes on the role of DevOps in building a culture that unifies a team to be empathy-driven and customer-focused.
Performance is about more than time series charts
Buddy Brewer explores alternative ways of visualizing performance data and explains how changing your perspective can sometimes lead you to surprising discoveries.
The state of the W3C Web Performance Working Group
Todd Reifsteck and Philippe Le Hegaret on the W3C's new performance-related APIs and how you can help shape the future of web performance and the Web in general.
“Microsoft is irrelevant to me. I use a Mac": Is this you?
Volker Will on Microsoft's evolution and the DevOps behind its transformation.
Martin Charlier on progressive approaches to IoT design
The O'Reilly Design Podcast: Designing for the IoT, design's responsibility, and the importance of team dynamics.
How we amplify privilege with supervised machine learning
Michael Williams uses sentiment analysis to show that supervised machine learning has the potential to amplify the voices of the most privileged people in society.
Four short links: 23 June 2016
Velocity Keynotes, Learning Machine Learning, Diver's HUD, and Kickstarter's Dividends
Keynotes from Velocity in Santa Clara 2016
Watch full keynotes covering DevOps, performance, infrastructure, and more. From Velocity in Santa Clara 2016.
DDoS emotions
Artur Bergman explores how people react in the line of fire and why a DDoS attack is different than other challenges a company may face.
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Making bad ads sad. Rad!
Bruce Lawson explores how the whole advertising ecosystem can (hopefully) improve.
Jump-starting back-office connections
Harkeerat Bedi offers an overview of a tool that improves the efficiency of data-center-to-data-center communication.
So we hear you like papers
Ines Sombra and Caitie McCaffrey demonstrate how academic papers can radically change your perspective and introduce you to new ideas.
My cloud makes pretty pictures
Matthew Brender and Raj Dutt offer a demo of Snap, an open telemetry framework designed to gather an increasingly diverse amount of measurements from the cloud.
Building a system that never stops: New Relic at scale
Matthew Flaming on what it takes to (continuously) rebuild a system that can never stop.
Tackling consumption chaos in microservice architectures
Mike Dvorkin discusses the principles and benefits of the controlled consumption model and its implications on DevOps processes and security.
Poised to deploy: The C-suite and adaptive capacity
Richard Cook explains the value of adaptive capacity and explores its far reaching consequences.
Containers will not fix your broken culture, and other hard truths
Bridget Kromhout explains why no amount of industrial-strength job scheduling makes your organization immune to Conway’s law.
Ezra Spier on desktop milling machines
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Creating an accessible tool for professionals and makers.
Four short links: 22 June 2016
AI Goals, Progressive Web Apps, VR Scale, and a Spaceship Generator
3 of the most interesting things to come out of WWDC
The latest on Swift, an iPad live programming environment, the new App Review Guidelines, and more.
Solving a parallel streams puzzler in Java 8
Master simple guidelines for implementing the Streams API in practice
O'Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara 2016 livestream
Watch keynotes from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
Empathy: The key to a successful software project
Developers should dig deep to understand their project's stakeholders.
Jay Jacobs on the importance of statistical literacy in security
The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Statistical literacy, machine learning, and data visualization.
An interview with Pythonista Katharine Jarmul
Using Python, and other tools, for natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and data wrangling.
Machine Learning for Designers
This report introduces contemporary machine learning systems, but also provides a conceptual framework to help you integrate machine-learning capabilities into your user-facing designs.
Python’s pandas make data analysis easy and powerful with a few lines of code
The pandas library offers shortcuts for common data operations and Matplotlib graphics.
Encryption in the news
Brian Sletten explains why today's encryption technology has government authorities' attention, and is a hot topic for technology companies and the general public alike.
WebGL: The next generation
Tony Parisi offers practical knowledge about creating WebGL content and deploying applications on a variety of platforms and devices, including virtual reality.
Operation mode plumbing in the Junos system
Understanding management system internals and operational command flow.
Four short links: 21 June 2016
Data for Change, Computational Economy, Programming Language Usability, and Against Dashboards
Write your own custom tasks in Gradle
Learn how to customize the Gradle build process.
Learn Lua from JavaScript, part 3: Object-oriented behavior
JavaScript’s prototype-based classes compared to a Lua class pattern.