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How to Start with Machine Learning
In this article, I'd like to tell you how to start with machine learning, and what to do to learn algorithms that will help you to build smart apps.
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Awk by Example
Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programming skills up to speed. As the series progresses, more advanced topics will be covered, culminating with an advanced real-world awk application demo.
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What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?
When an ACH return occurs, the payment is reversed. This means that if you had paid someone, the money will come back to your account. Or if you had charged someone, you will lose the money you thought you received. But how does that reversal happen?
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Go Module Mirror and Checksum Database Launched
The Go module mirror and checksum database provide faster, verified downloads of your Go dependencies.
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Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation
Aroma is a code-to-code search and recommendation tool that uses ML to make the process of gaining insights from big codebases much easier.
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CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
The latest report in EPI’s annual series analyzing current and long-term trends in CEO compensation.
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A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)
I work at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, where we use very big data to find cures for childhood cancers. To move data around the internet at very high speeds, we are forced to use a proprietary software suite called Aspera. If somebody could make a Free Software alternative, the future of the internet would be way…
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Just did the Y Combinator interview: here are my notes
I did the Y Combinator interview. It's for entry to the Winter 2020 batch. I'm excited, but also a bit divided. Here are my notes.
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How to Create the Apple Fifth Avenue Cube in WebGL
In September 2019 Apple reopened the doors of its historic store in the Fifth Avenue and to celebrate the special event
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Google faces first investigation by its European lead authority over GDPR
Today, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a major GDPR probe into “suspected infringement” by Google’s DoubleClick/Authorized Buyers advertising business. The probe was triggered by a formal complaint from Dr Johnny Ryan, Chief Policy Officer at Brave, the private web browser.
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Indexing Billions of Text Vectors
Optimizing memory-usage for approximate nearest neighbor search
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How I manage customer feedback for my bootstrapped SaaS
I experimented with different ways to get customer feedback for my SaaS. This blog post is about what worked during launch and later stages.
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Update from Chef
IT Automation for everything from configuration management to continuous delivery.
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Is Arm ready for server dominance?
AWS announced new servers with Arm-powered Graviton2 processors. How do they stack up vs. x86-powered instances, and is Arm ready for server domination?
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How Discord achieves native iOS performance with React Native
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Apple updates its iMac line
Apple today updated its iMac line with up to 9th-generation Intel 8-core processors for the first time and powerful Vega graphics options.
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Should I Resign from My Full Professor Job to Work Fulltime on Cocalc?
News and updates about CoCalc
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Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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DNS 101: An Introduction to Domain Name Servers
Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning — Peter PanAt the beginning of the ARPANET, there were only a few hosts that could be kept in a...
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Mozilla Raises Concerns Over Facebook’s Lack of Transparency
Today Denelle Dixon, Mozilla’s Chief Operating Officer, sent a letter to the European Commission surfacing concerns about the lack of publicly available
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It’s worth spending weeks on research before wasting years on a hopeless project
Launching a product without research rarely leads to success, unless you have 50-plus years experience in the market and in the niche of a product. To those who are not that old and not that wise, the following steps will help to reduce the risk of wasting your efforts.