Tuesday, February 03, 2015

mobile: thinnest phone

The thinnest phone you can buy in America is $199 unlocked, and it's beautiful | The Verge

BLU Products Debuts New Smartphones at 2015 International CES in Las Vegas -- MIAMI, Jan. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Amazon.com: BLU Vivo Air Smartphone - Unlocked - White Gold: Cell Phones & Accessories

"The slimmest Smartphone in the world at only 5.1 mm, made entirely out of solid aluminum and glass with remarkable 4.8 inch HD Super Amoled display and Octa-Core CPU.^4.8" Super AMOLED LCD with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection on front and back: 8MP Camera with LED Flash with HD video recording (1080p), 5MP Front Camera^16GB internal with 1GB RAM, 1.7GHz Octa-Core Processor with MALI 450 GPU, Android 4.4 Kit Kat 4G HSPA+ "

Amazon.com: BLU

web: wow.js

Reveal Animations When Scrolling — WOW.js
Reveal Animations When You Scroll. Very Animate.css Friend :-) 
Easily customize animation settings: style, delay, length, offset, iterations...


matthieua/WOW @ GitHub (MIT license)

video course: Responsive Websites With Bootstrap 3 @ Pluralsight

data, ML: GraphLab & Dato

The O'Reilly Data Show Podcast:
The evolution of GraphLab - O'Reilly Radar
"Carlos Guestrin on the early days of GraphLab and the evolution of GraphLab Create."
...chat with Carlos Guestrin, co-founder/CEO of Dato, a start-up launched by the creators of GraphLab.
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Many of the machine learning projects and start-ups I interact with find initial traction in automatic recommender systems. GraphLab is no exception.

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GraphLab’s tabular data structure (SFrames) ... caught the attention of many attendees... particularly Pydata users. With an API similar to Pandas, and a growing library of algorithms that are as easy to use
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there are other emerging frameworks — like Apache Spark — that are targeting Pydata users

"Your app drives business. From inspiration to production, build intelligent apps fast with the power of Dato's machine learning platform. Data science at scale has never been easier."