".NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications."
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
ASP.NET Core 1.0 released ==
Announcing .NET Core 1.0 | .NET Blog
".NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications."
"The Visual Studio team also released Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 today. You need that release to build .NET Core apps in Visual Studio."
".NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications."
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Monday, June 27, 2016
DMARC: Domain Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance (for Email)
dmarc.org – Domain Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance
"DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is an email authentication protocol. It builds on the widely deployed SPF and DKIM protocols, adding a reporting function that allows senders and receivers to improve and monitor protection of the domain from fraudulent email.
DMARC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"DMARC is built on top of two existing mechanisms, Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). It allows the sender of an email to publish a policy on which mechanism (DKIM, SPF or both) is employed when sending email and how the receiver should deal with failures. Additionally, it provides a reporting mechanism of actions performed under those policies. It thus coordinates the results of DKIM and SPF and specifies under which circumstances the From: header field, which is often visible to end users, should be considered legitimate."
"DMARC is built on top of two existing mechanisms, Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). It allows the sender of an email to publish a policy on which mechanism (DKIM, SPF or both) is employed when sending email and how the receiver should deal with failures. Additionally, it provides a reporting mechanism of actions performed under those policies. It thus coordinates the results of DKIM and SPF and specifies under which circumstances the From: header field, which is often visible to end users, should be considered legitimate."
Sunday, June 26, 2016
1000-core chip
World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip | UC Davis
"microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The energy-efficient “KiloCore” chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.
"microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The energy-efficient “KiloCore” chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.
...KiloCore chip was fabricated by IBM using their 32 nm CMOS technology.
...each processor is independently clocked
...can execute 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 0.7 Watts,
...executes instructions more than 100 times more efficiently than a modern laptop processor."
...can execute 115 billion instructions per second while dissipating only 0.7 Watts,
...executes instructions more than 100 times more efficiently than a modern laptop processor."
book: Procrastination Equation
Interview: The Procrastination Equation with Piers Steel - YouTube
"How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done"
About the Theory | Procrastination and Science
"...we are more likely to pursue goals or tasks that are pleasurable and that we are likely to attain. Consequently, we are more likely to put off, to procrastinate, difficult tasks with unenjoyable qualities. Even more important regarding procrastination is the effects of delay. We like our rewards not only to be large but also to be immediate. Consequently, we will most likely procrastinate any tasks that are unpleasant in the present and offer rewards only in the distant future"
Temporal motivation theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Procrastination Equation | Psychology Today
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Curriki: K12 Curriculum Wiki (free & open)
Curriki | Inspiring Learning Everywhere
"Curriki’s mission is to eliminate the Education Divide – the gap between those who have access to high-quality education and those who do not – in the U.S. and worldwide. It’s online community of educators, learners and committed education experts works together to build and share quality materials that benefit teachers, parents and students globally.
"Curriki’s mission is to eliminate the Education Divide – the gap between those who have access to high-quality education and those who do not – in the U.S. and worldwide. It’s online community of educators, learners and committed education experts works together to build and share quality materials that benefit teachers, parents and students globally.
- Share what you learn.
- Share what you know.
- Share your content.
- Together, we can make education more equitable."
Triangulation 253 Scott McNealy | TWiT
Curriki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The name Curriki is a portmanteau of the words "curriculum" and "wiki"."
Curriki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The name Curriki is a portmanteau of the words "curriculum" and "wiki"."
Friday, June 24, 2016
A self-driving car built by a single person
George Hotz Is Taking on Tesla by Himself
"The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage"
Google: ML-first business
How Google is Remaking Itself as a “Machine Learning First” Company — Backchannel
"If you want to build artificial intelligence into every product, you better retrain your army of coders. Check."
"For many years, machine learning was considered a specialty, limited to an elite few. That era is over, as recent results indicate that machine learning, powered by “neural nets” that emulate the way a biological brain operates, is the true path towards imbuing computers with the powers of humans, and in some cases, super humans. Google is committed to expanding that elite within its walls, with the hope of making it the norm."
AI, Apple and Google — Benedict Evans
"If you want to build artificial intelligence into every product, you better retrain your army of coders. Check."
AI, Apple and Google — Benedict Evans
Thursday, June 23, 2016
book:Black Hole Focus
Black Hole Focus by Isaiah Hankel | PhilosophersNotes - OPTIMIZE with Brian Johnson
Isaiah Hankel | Brian Johnson
www.isaiahhankel.com/book
Takeaways from Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create A Powerful Purpose For Their Lives – Corey Breier
Create Your Escape Plan | Create Your Escape Plan And Live The Life You Want
Start with the end in mind: Isaiah Hankel at TEDxLafayetteCollege - YouTube
Isaiah Hankel - YouTube
New File Systems: Apple APFS, Windows ReFS
A Look at APFS, Apple’s New File System for iOS and macOS @ InfoQ
"According to Apple, APFS supports all of HFS+ features and improves them in several ways:
APFS also provides a few advanced features that put it in the same category as modern file systems such as ZFS,"
Introduction @ Apple
"Apple File System is a new, modern file system for iOS, OS X, tvOS and watchOS. It is optimized for Flash/SSD storage and features strong encryption, copy-on-write metadata, space sharing, cloning for files and directories, snapshots, fast directory sizing, atomic safe-save primitives, and improved file system fundamentals."
"According to Apple, APFS supports all of HFS+ features and improves them in several ways:
- Contrary to HFS+, which uses 32-bit file IDs, APFS will support 64-bit inode numbers, which will allow to store over 9 quintillion files on a single volume.
- Whereas HFS+ is bound to initialize the entire storage of a file system at once, APFS sports an extensible block allocator that enables lazy initialization of its data structure, thus hugely improving performance with large volumes.
- APFS supports three models of encryption: no encryption, single-key encryption, and multi-key encryption to manage per-file keys and a metadata key.
APFS also provides a few advanced features that put it in the same category as modern file systems such as ZFS,"
Introduction @ Apple
"Apple File System is a new, modern file system for iOS, OS X, tvOS and watchOS. It is optimized for Flash/SSD storage and features strong encryption, copy-on-write metadata, space sharing, cloning for files and directories, snapshots, fast directory sizing, atomic safe-save primitives, and improved file system fundamentals."
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
WebGL: Babylon.js, WebGL 2, WebVR
Babylon.js 2.4 | Coding4Fun Blog | Channel 9
"Canvas2D is a HUGE addition to babylon.js. It is basically an entire 2D accelerated engine available out of the box. Indeed babylon.js is a full featured 3D engine, but the need to handle 2D content is often encountered when working on games or complex applications.
Canvas2D in a non HTML feature, 100% WebGL based, developed to serve the purpose of drawing, animating and interaction with 2D Content."
Samples demonstrating the raw power of this new feature:
http://babylonjs-playground.com/#1BKDEO#15
http://babylonjs-playground.com/#OWCCR#7
http://babylonjs-playground.com/#15C96V#4
http://babylonjs-playground.com/#1N9RJY#1
documentation: http://doc.babylonjs.com/overviews/Canvas2D_Home
"Tony Parisi offers practical knowledge about creating WebGL content and deploying applications on a variety of platforms and devices, including virtual reality."
three.js - Javascript 3D library
"Canvas2D is a HUGE addition to babylon.js. It is basically an entire 2D accelerated engine available out of the box. Indeed babylon.js is a full featured 3D engine, but the need to handle 2D content is often encountered when working on games or complex applications.
Canvas2D in a non HTML feature, 100% WebGL based, developed to serve the purpose of drawing, animating and interaction with 2D Content."
Samples demonstrating the raw power of this new feature:
http://babylonjs-playground.com/#1BKDEO#15
http://babylonjs-playground.com/#OWCCR#7
http://babylonjs-playground.com/#15C96V#4
http://babylonjs-playground.com/#1N9RJY#1
documentation: http://doc.babylonjs.com/overviews/Canvas2D_Home
three.js - Javascript 3D library
AI, ML, Deep Learning: A Primer
AI is suggested to be "next big thing" after "mobile" and "cloud";
Microsoft, Facebook popularize this as "bots"
AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer – Andreessen Horowitz
Data Newsletter - O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, September 26 - 27, 2016, New York
Why 2016 is shaping up to be the Year of the Bot - O'Reilly Media
Microsoft, Facebook popularize this as "bots"
AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer – Andreessen Horowitz
Data Newsletter - O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, September 26 - 27, 2016, New York
Why 2016 is shaping up to be the Year of the Bot - O'Reilly Media
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Tesla Motors += SolarCity ?
Musk takes $676 million bath on SolarCity bid
"Tesla is making the pitch hard to investors saying it will be able to turn the two combined companies into a one-stop shop for consumers looking to go electric with their cars. The combined company could not only cross-sell cars and solar panel installations, but lean on each others' expertise in batteries and design and share retail space."
"Tesla is making the pitch hard to investors saying it will be able to turn the two combined companies into a one-stop shop for consumers looking to go electric with their cars. The combined company could not only cross-sell cars and solar panel installations, but lean on each others' expertise in batteries and design and share retail space."
Monday, June 20, 2016
TOP 500 Supercomputers; Chinese microprocessors
Home | TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
China builds world’s fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips | Computerworld
"China on Monday revealed its latest supercomputer, a monolithic system with 10.65 million compute cores built entirely with Chinese microprocessors."
"ShenWei SW1600, aka SW-3, is the third generation CPU by Jiāngnán Computing Research Lab. Operating at 1.1 GHz, it achieves 140 GFLOPS floating point performance from its 16 cores RISC architecture, 65 nm
The ShenWei series of microprocessors was developed primarily for the use of the military of the People's Republic of China. The original microarchitecture is believed to be inspired by DEC Alpha"
65 nm technology is not as energy efficient as 14 nm used by Intel chips.
A brute-force solution to prove a point.
Could be used for brute-force breaking encryption....
China builds world’s fastest supercomputer without U.S. chips | Computerworld
"China on Monday revealed its latest supercomputer, a monolithic system with 10.65 million compute cores built entirely with Chinese microprocessors."
65 nm technology is not as energy efficient as 14 nm used by Intel chips.
A brute-force solution to prove a point.
Could be used for brute-force breaking encryption....
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Stack Overflow: The Architecture + ML
podcast: Herding Code 217: Nick Craver on Stack Overflow Engineering
Nick Craver - Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition
numbers per day:
server's memory: 768GB
Nick Craver - Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition
numbers per day:
- 66,294,789 (+30,199,477) of those were page loads
- 1,240,266,346,053 (+406,273,363,426) bytes (1.24 TB) of HTTP traffic sent
- 569,449,470,023 (+282,874,825,991) bytes (569 GB) total received
- 3,084,303,599,266 (+1,958,311,041,954) bytes (3.08 TB) total sent
- 504,816,843 (+170,244,740) SQL Queries (from HTTP requests alone)
- 5,831,683,114 (+5,418,818,063) Redis hits"
P2P Web: Microsoft's Thali project
Bluetooth/WiFi discovery + Node.js + Cordova + Pouch.db
Thali Project @ GitHub
Thali - Building the peer to peer web - Home @ CodePlex
"Postcard app which sends messages or 'postcards' across mobile devices equipped with Smart Bluetooth. Postcards can be added, updated and deleted and any changes will be automatically synchronized across devices."
Thali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Thali is an Indian and Nepalese meal made up of a selection of various dishes. It simply means a round platter used to serve food. The idea behind a Thali is to offer all the 6 different flavors of sweet, salt, bitter, sour, astringent and spicy on one single plate"
"Thali is an Indian and Nepalese meal made up of a selection of various dishes. It simply means a round platter used to serve food. The idea behind a Thali is to offer all the 6 different flavors of sweet, salt, bitter, sour, astringent and spicy on one single plate"
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Decentralized Web Summit: Locking the Web Open
Decentralized Web Summit: Locking the Web Open
The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web - IEEE Spectrum
"Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, says today's Web has strayed far from the original dreams for the technology
...in the former San Francisco church that now serves as the headquarters of the Internet Archive, pioneers of the Internet and the World Wide Web joined together to call for a new kind of Web—a decentralized Web. It was a call for change, a call for action, and a call to develop technology that would “lock the Web open.”"
The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web - IEEE Spectrum
"Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, says today's Web has strayed far from the original dreams for the technology
...in the former San Francisco church that now serves as the headquarters of the Internet Archive, pioneers of the Internet and the World Wide Web joined together to call for a new kind of Web—a decentralized Web. It was a call for change, a call for action, and a call to develop technology that would “lock the Web open.”"
Electric Truck by Nikola Motors
As a complement to Tesla Motors, not there is also Nikola Motors (to make Nikola Tesla :)
Electric Truck Startup Nikola Motors Claims $2.3 Billion in Preorders Before Prototype Is Even Ready - IEEE Spectrum
"US $375,000 hybrid electric semi truck, lease for $5,000 per month, but maintenance and fuel will be included at no additional cost for the first 1.6 million kilometers."
Electric Truck Startup Nikola Motors Claims $2.3 Billion in Preorders Before Prototype Is Even Ready - IEEE Spectrum
"US $375,000 hybrid electric semi truck, lease for $5,000 per month, but maintenance and fuel will be included at no additional cost for the first 1.6 million kilometers."
... compressed natural gas drive a 400 kilowatt turbine to generate electricity onboard. That electricity is fed into a 320 kilowatt-hour battery pack (triple the size of the pack in a Tesla Model S P90D"
Nikola Motor Company | Premium Electric Vehicles
Nikola Motor Company | Premium Electric Vehicles
"Low-Code Revolution": Salesforce, Microsoft
Leading the Low-Code Revolution - Salesforce Blog
"No longer is app development exclusively the territory of programmers. Now, visual app development tools allow non-technical employees to become “citizen developers” who can build apps without writing code.
...
A low-code platform allows non-technical developers to rapidly learn how to build apps with point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools. But does this mean that developers don’t need to code anymore? Are we seeing the end of code?
Not exactly. Visual app development tools can get you most of the way there when you’re building an app, but developers still need the flexibility to delve into code for complex customizations of logic, data integrations and UI. As business users get more involved in app development, the role of coders — and the definition of what it means to be a developer — will continue to evolve."
A never-ending quest to simplify "programming" is still missing a key component: simple shared "vocabularies", that is a common "semantic language platform" for both data and logic.
"No longer is app development exclusively the territory of programmers. Now, visual app development tools allow non-technical employees to become “citizen developers” who can build apps without writing code.
...
A low-code platform allows non-technical developers to rapidly learn how to build apps with point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools. But does this mean that developers don’t need to code anymore? Are we seeing the end of code?
Not exactly. Visual app development tools can get you most of the way there when you’re building an app, but developers still need the flexibility to delve into code for complex customizations of logic, data integrations and UI. As business users get more involved in app development, the role of coders — and the definition of what it means to be a developer — will continue to evolve."
"Microsoft joined Intuit, Salesforce and others who offer "low-code" application development solutions with the announcement of PowerApps, a low-code solution that empowers information workers and “power users” to create line-of-business applications without writing heavy code.
Details of PowerApps, formerly known as Project Siena while under wraps, can be found here."
(requires "work or school" email account)
A never-ending quest to simplify "programming" is still missing a key component: simple shared "vocabularies", that is a common "semantic language platform" for both data and logic.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Backyard Data Science (Azure ML etc)
blog, tutorials: Backyard Data Science | Precision Guesswork While You Wait
by Buck Woody
podcast interview: Getting into Machine Learning with Buck Woody - RunAsRadio
"Buck Woody works on the Microsoft Machine Learning and Data Science Team, using data and technology to solve business and science problems"
Azure Data Lake
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Kaggle: competitive machine learning (ML)
podcast interview: Competitive Machine Learning with Anthony Goldbloom @ NET Rocks! vNext
"How can competition teach machine learning? Carl and Richard talk to Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle about competitive machine learning. Kaggle hosts competitions provided by industry and academia to find machine learning solutions on different data sets. While the competitive aspects tend toward only particular types of data sets, Anthony talks about how two very different machine learning algorithms - Gradient Boosting Machine and Deep Recurrent Neural Networks - have risen to the top. Want to learn machine learning in a hurry? Join a competition!"
Kaggle: Your Home for Data Science
Kaggle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"As of May 2016, Kaggle had over 536,000 registered users, or Kagglers. The community spans 194 countries. It is the largest and most diverse data community in the world."
"How can competition teach machine learning? Carl and Richard talk to Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle about competitive machine learning. Kaggle hosts competitions provided by industry and academia to find machine learning solutions on different data sets. While the competitive aspects tend toward only particular types of data sets, Anthony talks about how two very different machine learning algorithms - Gradient Boosting Machine and Deep Recurrent Neural Networks - have risen to the top. Want to learn machine learning in a hurry? Join a competition!"
Kaggle: Your Home for Data Science
Kaggle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"As of May 2016, Kaggle had over 536,000 registered users, or Kagglers. The community spans 194 countries. It is the largest and most diverse data community in the world."
book: Founder's Mentality
Founder's Mentality® - Bain & Company
"When companies miss growth targets, 85% of the time the reasons are internal. In The Founder's Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth, authors Chris Zook and James Allen explain why a "founder’s mentality"—an insurgent’s clear mission and purpose, an unambiguous owner mindset and a relentless obsession with the front line—is critical to sustainable growth"
podcast interview: Getting Growth Back at Your Company - HBR Ideacast - Bain & Company
Reigniting Growth @ HBR
Founder's Mentality
"1. Rediscover Your Insurgent Mission
2. Obsess over Your Business’s Front Line
3. Instill an Owner’s Mindset"
Founder's Mentality
"1. Rediscover Your Insurgent Mission
2. Obsess over Your Business’s Front Line
3. Instill an Owner’s Mindset"
projector VR: Igloo Vision
Igloo Vision
"Igloo is the 360º projection company.
We create shared VR environments."
6M Arc Dome from Igloo on Vimeo.
"Igloo is the 360º projection company.
We create shared VR environments."
Monday, June 13, 2016
NextVR: VR + Real-time Entertiment
NextVR
"NextVR has developed a custom lens-to-lens system for capturing and delivering
live and on-demand virtual reality experiences in true broadcast quality."
"NextVR has developed a custom lens-to-lens system for capturing and delivering
live and on-demand virtual reality experiences in true broadcast quality."
Microsoft += LinkedIn
Microsoft Corporation CEO's LinkedIn Corp Acquisition Letter
"This deal brings together the world’s leading professional cloud with the world’s leading professional network. ... LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business and an impressive network of more than 433 million professionals.
... this deal is key to ... bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes. Think about it: How people find jobs, build skills, sell, market and get work done and ultimately find success requires a connected professional world."
Salesforce Loses Out on LinkedIn, Twitter Speculation Mounts - MoneyBeat - WSJ
LinkedIn Corp Skyrockets On Microsoft Corporation Buyout Deal
Why Is Microsoft Buying LinkedIn? What Next? - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) | Seeking Alpha
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn | News Center
LinkedIn + Microsoft: Changing the Way the World Works | Jeff Weiner | LinkedIn
Microsoft and LinkedIn: Together Changing the Way the World Works | Official LinkedIn Blog
Microsoft Corporation's (MSFT) "Strategic" Cyanogen Partnership Manifests Into Platform Integration
Why Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26 billion, in one word: Cortana | PCWorld
"This deal brings together the world’s leading professional cloud with the world’s leading professional network. ... LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business and an impressive network of more than 433 million professionals.
... this deal is key to ... bold ambition to reinvent productivity and business processes. Think about it: How people find jobs, build skills, sell, market and get work done and ultimately find success requires a connected professional world."
Salesforce Loses Out on LinkedIn, Twitter Speculation Mounts - MoneyBeat - WSJ
LinkedIn Corp Skyrockets On Microsoft Corporation Buyout Deal
Why Is Microsoft Buying LinkedIn? What Next? - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) | Seeking Alpha
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn | News Center
LinkedIn + Microsoft: Changing the Way the World Works | Jeff Weiner | LinkedIn
Microsoft and LinkedIn: Together Changing the Way the World Works | Official LinkedIn Blog
Microsoft Corporation's (MSFT) "Strategic" Cyanogen Partnership Manifests Into Platform Integration
Why Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26 billion, in one word: Cortana | PCWorld
Diffbot: Web + WebKit + AI => global knowledge database ==
Another Stanford-related startup that could "change the world"...
"Semantic Web" vision may be realized after all, just in very different way, built by AI :)
very interesting podcast interview:
Using AI to build a comprehensive database of knowledge - O'Reilly Media
"Diffbot - a company dedicated to building large-scale knowledge databases. Diffbot is at the heart of many web applications, and it’s starting to power a wide array of intelligent applications.
… Roughly, what happens when our robot first encounters a page is we render the page in our own customized rendering engine, which is a fork of WebKit that's basically had its face ripped off. It doesn't have all the human niceties of a web browser, and it runs much faster than a browser because it doesn't need those human-facing components. … The other difference is we've instrumented the whole rendering process. We have access to all of the pixels on the page for each XY position. … [We identify many] features that feed into our semi-supervised learning system. Then millions of lines of code later, out comes knowledge."
"Semantic Web" vision may be realized after all, just in very different way, built by AI :)
very interesting podcast interview:
Using AI to build a comprehensive database of knowledge - O'Reilly Media
"Diffbot - a company dedicated to building large-scale knowledge databases. Diffbot is at the heart of many web applications, and it’s starting to power a wide array of intelligent applications.
… Roughly, what happens when our robot first encounters a page is we render the page in our own customized rendering engine, which is a fork of WebKit that's basically had its face ripped off. It doesn't have all the human niceties of a web browser, and it runs much faster than a browser because it doesn't need those human-facing components. … The other difference is we've instrumented the whole rendering process. We have access to all of the pixels on the page for each XY position. … [We identify many] features that feed into our semi-supervised learning system. Then millions of lines of code later, out comes knowledge."
More interesting interviews from this space
Topics - O'Reilly Media (new web site)
Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google’s ‘Knowledge Graph’ | WIRED
Diffbot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diffbot announced it was working on its version of an automated "Knowledge Graph" by crawling the web and using its automatic web page extraction to build a large database of structured web data.
Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google’s ‘Knowledge Graph’ | WIRED
Diffbot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diffbot announced it was working on its version of an automated "Knowledge Graph" by crawling the web and using its automatic web page extraction to build a large database of structured web data.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions @ edX
Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions | edX
"Learn Microsoft Azure solution design from architects at Microsoft."
How edX Works | Anant Agarwal on edX - YouTube
link from Azure Podcast: Episode 130 - Mapping the Google Cloud Platform capabilities to Azure
related course:
Windows Azure IaaS Deep Dive Training for IT Pros - Microsoft Virtual Academy
Application Architecture on Microsoft Azure
Download Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol / Icon Set - Visio stencil, PowerPoint, PNG from Official Microsoft Download Center
"Learn Microsoft Azure solution design from architects at Microsoft."
How edX Works | Anant Agarwal on edX - YouTube
link from Azure Podcast: Episode 130 - Mapping the Google Cloud Platform capabilities to Azure
related course:
Windows Azure IaaS Deep Dive Training for IT Pros - Microsoft Virtual Academy
Application Architecture on Microsoft Azure
Download Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol / Icon Set - Visio stencil, PowerPoint, PNG from Official Microsoft Download Center
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Azure += Apache Spark
Microsoft bets on Apache Spark to power its big data and analytics services | TechCrunch
"Microsoft ... announced that it is making a serious commitment to the open source Apache Spark cluster computing framework. After dipping its toes into the Spark ecosystem last year, the company today launched a number of Spark-based services out of preview and announced that the on-premises version of R Server for Hadoop (which uses the increasingly popular open source R language for big data analytics and modeling) is now powered by Spark."
Friday, June 10, 2016
hybrid mobile: Xamarin, NativeScript, React Native, Ionic, Cordova...
Cross-Platform Native Development with Javascript
NativeScript: TypeScripe + Angular2 + Native APIs
Native apps using NativeScript with Jen Looper on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers
4 Xamarin Misconceptions Debunked (aka What Even Is Xamarin)
Native vs Ionic vs Nativescript vs React Native | TrustedHousesitters.com
Google’s Angular 2 Release Pushes JavaScript Beyond the Browser | WIRED
Thursday, June 09, 2016
.NET thread-safe collections
BlockingCollection Overview
"BlockingCollection
An implementation of the Producer-Consumer pattern.
Concurrent adding and taking of items from multiple threads.
Optional maximum capacity.
Insertion and removal operations that block when collection is empty or full.
Insertion and removal "try" operations that do not block or that block up to a specified period of time.
Encapsulates any collection type that implements IProducerConsumerCollection
Cancellation with cancellation tokens.
Two kinds of enumeration with foreach (For Each in Visual Basic):
"BlockingCollection
An implementation of the Producer-Consumer pattern.
Concurrent adding and taking of items from multiple threads.
Optional maximum capacity.
Insertion and removal operations that block when collection is empty or full.
Insertion and removal "try" operations that do not block or that block up to a specified period of time.
Encapsulates any collection type that implements IProducerConsumerCollection
Cancellation with cancellation tokens.
Two kinds of enumeration with foreach (For Each in Visual Basic):
- Read-only enumeration.
- Enumeration that removes items as they are enumerated."
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
"intelligent, real-time data applications"
podcast interview: a comprehensive overview of current trends in (big) data and AI
Ben Lorica on the emergence of intelligent, real-time data applications - O'Reilly Media
"Ben Lorica, O'Reilly's chief data scientist and host of the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast. Lorica talks about emerging themes in the data space, from machine learning to deep learning to artificial intelligence, and how those technologies relate to one another and how they're fueling real-time data applications. Lorica also talks about how the concept of a data center is evolving, the importance of open source big data components, and the rise in interest of big data ethics."
Ben Lorica on the emergence of intelligent, real-time data applications - O'Reilly Media
"Ben Lorica, O'Reilly's chief data scientist and host of the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast. Lorica talks about emerging themes in the data space, from machine learning to deep learning to artificial intelligence, and how those technologies relate to one another and how they're fueling real-time data applications. Lorica also talks about how the concept of a data center is evolving, the importance of open source big data components, and the rise in interest of big data ethics."
infographics: Cloud Hypervisor Platfroms
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Xen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If hypervisor is commodity, why is VMware still on top? • The Register
Is VMware headed the slow painful death of Novell – VirtualizedGeek
How Azure VMs Differ From Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Hypervisor 101: VMWare, VirtualBox & Hyper-V Infographic (a little bit dated)
Xen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If hypervisor is commodity, why is VMware still on top? • The Register
Is VMware headed the slow painful death of Novell – VirtualizedGeek
How Azure VMs Differ From Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Hypervisor 101: VMWare, VirtualBox & Hyper-V Infographic (a little bit dated)
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
virtual event: dotnetConf 2016
dotnetConf 2016
Discover the World of .NET
Virtual event
June 7-9, 2016
dotnetConf 2016 | Channel 9
.NET - Powerful Open Source Cross Platform Development
.NET Core 1.0 RC2 - Upgrading from previous versions - Scott Hanselman
Announcing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1 | .NET Blog
Discover the World of .NET
Virtual event
June 7-9, 2016
dotnetConf 2016 | Channel 9
.NET - Powerful Open Source Cross Platform Development
.NET Core 1.0 RC2 - Upgrading from previous versions - Scott Hanselman
Announcing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1 | .NET Blog
Monday, June 06, 2016
visual data maps
Global inequalities in population, wealth, and religious origin shown in six maps. | Big Think
50% of Canada's 35 million inhabitants live south of the line, 50% north of it.
90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.
maps game: GeoGuessr
Very interesting "location guessing" game, integrated with Google maps and street view:
view street view and guess the location.
GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
view street view and guess the location.
GeoGuessr - Let's explore the world!
Sunday, June 05, 2016
free ebook: Microservices vs. Service-Oriented Architecture
By Mark Richards
Publisher: O'Reilly
Released: April 2016
"Right now, the microservices architecture pattern is a rising star in the IT industry. For many, these small, highly decoupled services are a welcome alternative to the big, expensive, complicated Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) style that came to prominence a decade ago. But just how different are microservices from SOA?"
The Evolution of Services with Juval Lowy @ .NET Rocks! vNext
The biggest cloud VM instances
AWS Launches Massive X1 Instances Targeting High Memory Workloads @ InfoQ
"AWS recently added a new instance type with nearly 2 terabytes of memory and 128 virtual CPUs. This is the largest virtual server available today in the public cloud, and is a target for memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA.
The instance specifications are:
"AWS recently added a new instance type with nearly 2 terabytes of memory and 128 virtual CPUs. This is the largest virtual server available today in the public cloud, and is a target for memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA.
The instance specifications are:
- 128 vCPU via four Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 processors
- 1,952 GiB of DDR4-based RAM
- 3.84 TB of local SSD storage, capable of up to 126,000 random-read IOPS
- 10Gbps of network bandwidth"
| Cloud Provider | Number of Instance Types | Maximum RAM Available |
|---|---|---|
| AWS EC2 | 40 (current generation) / 55 (overall) | 1,952 GB |
| Microsoft Azure | 40 | 448 GB |
| Google Compute Engine | 18 | 208 GB |
| Digital Ocean | 9 | 64 GB |
| CenturyLink Cloud | configurable | 128 GB |
| IBM Softlayer | configurable | 64 GB |
| Joyent | 25 | 110 GB |
| Rackspace | 19 | 240 GB |
SAP Solutions | Microsoft Azure
"...with purpose-built hardware that is specifically tuned for SAP HANA, you can scale your SAP HANA workloads up to 32 TB on multimode configurations."
"...with purpose-built hardware that is specifically tuned for SAP HANA, you can scale your SAP HANA workloads up to 32 TB on multimode configurations."
Saturday, June 04, 2016
Deep Learning Trends @ ICLR 2016
Tombone's Computer Vision Blog: Deep Learning Trends @ ICLR 2016
"International Conference of Learning Representations, known briefly as ICLR 2016, and commonly pronounced as “eye-clear,” could more appropriately be called the International Conference on Deep Learning."
"International Conference of Learning Representations, known briefly as ICLR 2016, and commonly pronounced as “eye-clear,” could more appropriately be called the International Conference on Deep Learning."
Amazon's secrets of invention
Amazon's secrets of invention: Jeff Bezos explains how to build an innovative team - GeekWire
"It’s not an experiment if you know in advance it’s going to work.
If you want to be inventive, you have to experiment a lot, which means you will fail a lot."
"Bezos admitted that invention is “very, very hard” because it requires expertise in a given domain area, along with the ability to refrain from being “corrupted by that domain knowledge.”
“You still need a beginner’s mind,” Bezos said. “So, you need all of that domain knowledge and expertise, but you still need to be able to step back and look at something as if it’s your first day on the job. That is so hard and some people are good at it, so you can select for that.”"
In annual letter, Jeff Bezos says Amazon is an 'invention machine' defined by failure - GeekWire
EX-99.1
"This year, Amazon became the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in annual sales. Also this year, Amazon Web Services is reaching $10 billion in annual sales … doing so at a pace even faster than Amazon achieved that milestone."
"It’s not an experiment if you know in advance it’s going to work.
If you want to be inventive, you have to experiment a lot, which means you will fail a lot."
“You still need a beginner’s mind,” Bezos said. “So, you need all of that domain knowledge and expertise, but you still need to be able to step back and look at something as if it’s your first day on the job. That is so hard and some people are good at it, so you can select for that.”"
In annual letter, Jeff Bezos says Amazon is an 'invention machine' defined by failure - GeekWire
EX-99.1
"This year, Amazon became the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in annual sales. Also this year, Amazon Web Services is reaching $10 billion in annual sales … doing so at a pace even faster than Amazon achieved that milestone."
Docker Architecture
video: A tour of Docker's components: Machine, swarm, compose, and more - O'Reilly Media
"Docker has grown from a convenience wrapper to encompass an entire architecture. Learn how Docker's major components are related to each other."
8 | Docker Best Practices & Industry Future | DevOps Dimension | Channel 9
Patrick Chanezon | LinkedIn
Unikernel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Docker has grown from a convenience wrapper to encompass an entire architecture. Learn how Docker's major components are related to each other."
course: Learning Docker - O'Reilly Media
By Rick Fast8 | Docker Best Practices & Industry Future | DevOps Dimension | Channel 9
Patrick Chanezon | LinkedIn
Unikernel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Friday, June 03, 2016
Thursday, June 02, 2016
book: Lean Analytics
"The Lean movement has revolutionized how we create products and companies. It focuses on customer development, tackles the risky parts first, and focuses on finding real, unmet needs.
At the core of this is iteration—a cycle of learning and adapting that’s driven by data. Lean Analytics gives you blunt, practical advice and proven approaches for learning from the abundance of data all around you."
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