I was a Posterous user. I didn't rely on the platform for anything. It was just yet another endpoint in my world of content production. So I was not that...
0 replies - 2290 views - 05/02/13 by Kin Lane in Articles
At Strata 2013, Microsoft's Dave Campbell talks about how the Xbox leverages big data:
0 replies - 1770 views - 05/02/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
I was playing around with SymPy, a symbolic math package for Python, and ran across nsimplify. It takes a floating point number and tries to simplify...
0 replies - 1560 views - 05/01/13 by John Cook in Articles
Today, Olivier Scaillet gave a great talk on fast recursive projections. The idea was great, and the talk was amazing. A great plenary...
0 replies - 2794 views - 05/01/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
It seems big data means something different to everyone. In the great debate/hype about big data, there’s no lack of opinion on the topic and it seems to...
0 replies - 1970 views - 05/01/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
My previous post looked at rolling 5 six-sided dice as an approximation of a normal distribution. If you wanted a better approximation, you could...
0 replies - 1048 views - 05/01/13 by John Cook in Articles
I gave a talk recently at the Mathematical Finance Days, organized in HEC Montréal Monday and Tuesday, on Advanced methods in trees with...
0 replies - 1064 views - 05/01/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles
If you’re a mobile developer, you know there a many challenges to getting your app to market. How will your app be used? Do you need a native...
0 replies - 4417 views - 05/01/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles
Short answer: everything! But we need some good directory structures and source control configuration to make that a really practical answer, so this article...
5 replies - 3890 views - 05/01/13 by Lorna Mitchell in Articles
Author Gene Kim has a lot to say about the DevOps Movement. He recently published The Phoenix Project as his treatise on exactly how technology...
0 replies - 1485 views - 05/01/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles
The average lifespan for a software engineering job is 4 years. Okay, I've never actually seen proof (or contradiction), but that's the general feeling in the...
0 replies - 2842 views - 05/01/13 by Jay Fields in Articles
Silicon Valley builds amazing apps!
We need customers to use our apps
Hopefully we get lots of customers who use our...
0 replies - 1707 views - 05/01/13 by Kin Lane in Articles
Source-control backing is a decade-long obsession of mine. Now I'm thinking about “open data.” If something can be represented by a textual document, is...
0 replies - 3935 views - 04/30/13 by Paul Hammant in Articles
A few agos I wrote a post about treating servers as cattle, not as pets in which I described an approach to managing virtual machines at uSwitch...
0 replies - 6302 views - 04/30/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
In the last few years, we see the advent of highly distributed systems. Systems that have clusters with lots of servers are no longer the sole realm of the...
0 replies - 3613 views - 04/30/13 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in Articles
