When I learned math in elementary school, I would reach for my calculator. But my father stopped me: “You only get to use the calculator when you can...
0 replies - 2817 views - 02/04/13 by Johannes Brodwall in Articles
Over the last 18 months or so I’ve worked on a variety of different projects in different organisations and seen some patterns around the way that automation...
0 replies - 926 views - 02/04/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
Download the MP3Date: January 31, 2013By: Aaron Delp and Brian GracelyDescription: Brian talks with Doug Hairfield (@knucklesandwich, Manager of...
0 replies - 937 views - 02/04/13 by Brian Gracely in Articles
Cloudera's Josh Wills discusses the life of a data scientist:
Data scientists-- the people who straddle the line between statistician and software...
0 replies - 1946 views - 02/04/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
I recently ran across a tip from Mark Hepburn that caught my eye. The content of the tip isn’t important here but rather his justification of the...
0 replies - 1981 views - 02/03/13 by John Cook in Articles
From Airbnb Tech Talks 2012, a guide to big mistakes and how to make them from former Facebook infrastructure engineer Aaron Priestley:
A practical...
0 replies - 4403 views - 02/03/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
The excellent “Artificial Intelligence for Robotics” class on Udacity starts with a Python example on teaching a robot to determine where it is, given...
0 replies - 2498 views - 02/02/13 by Gary Sieling in Articles
Last week I gave a talk at the SFRails meetup.
It was by far the largest group I've spoken to and a truly enjoyable
experience. I titled the talk...
0 replies - 2539 views - 02/02/13 by Jeff Dickey in Articles
This morning, Stéphane asked me tricky question about extracting coefficients from a regression with categorical explanatory variates. More precisely, he...
0 replies - 1394 views - 02/01/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
Yesterday I found an incredible post on creating a one line browser notepad by Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga. The idea is using your browser as a minimal,...
7 replies - 3153 views - 02/01/13 by Vladimir Carrer in Articles
…is that most of what people share is terrible. That picture of Fluffy might be meaningful to my random college friend Jim, but it’s boring to me. I...
0 replies - 1618 views - 02/01/13 by George London in Articles
Last couple of days, I found some time to work on my individual research project for the degree course. The topic area I selected for my project was on...
0 replies - 1034 views - 02/01/13 by Lakshan Perera in Articles
Just yesterday, Tuesday, our team was stuck on the wrong side of a very tight deadline. We needed to reach a significant milestone by the end of the day...
0 replies - 1372 views - 02/01/13 by Peter Schuh in Articles
Technical debt is a fact of life for anyone working in software development: work that needs to be done to make the system cleaner and simpler and cheaper...
0 replies - 1913 views - 01/31/13 by Jim Bird in Articles
This morning Dave Richeson posted a humorous fake proof that depends on the famous approximation 22/7 for pi. It occurred to me that nearly everyone knows a...
1 replies - 1505 views - 01/31/13 by John Cook in Articles
