Azure offers market leading support for SAP HANA workloads | Blog | Microsoft Azure
"SAP HANA on Azure includes a new set of large instance types that delivers the most powerful SAP certified public cloud infrastructure to handle the largest SAP HANA workloads.
4 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3, 3 TB RAM, 12 TB Storage"
Azure: The best public cloud for SAP workloads gets more powerful | MilTech
Microsoft and SAP Partner for HANA on Azure
Windows VM sizes in Azure | Microsoft Docs
Windows Azure VM sizes - Memory | Microsoft Docs
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Microsoft Build 2017 links
Build 2017 Recap from the Channel 9 Stage! - MS Dev Show Podcast
Monday, May 29, 2017
Mobile AI: "Mobile first to AI first"
ARM’s new processors are designed to power the machine-learning machines - The Verge
"ML plus AI, AR, and VR — ARM is taking on the full set of trendy initialisms"
Google Announces Tensorflow Lite: A Neural Network Library for Mobile Phones
"Google, announced a new version of Tensorflow optimised for mobile phones.
This new library, called Tensorflow Lite, would enable developers to run their artificial intelligence applications in real time on the phones of users... the library is designed to be fast and small while still enabling state-of-the-art techniques. It will be released later this year as part of the open source Tensorflow project."
Google I/O Keynote (Google I/O '17) - YouTube
Waiting for the new new thing | TechCrunch
In the AI wars, Microsoft now has the clearer vision | TechCrunch
Microsoft Build 2017: Microsoft AI – Amplify human ingenuity - The Official Microsoft Blog
Faculty Summit 2017: The Edge of AI - Microsoft Research
Waiting for the new new thing | TechCrunch
"It’s like 1995, when everyone in tech knew the internet was going to be huge, utterly revolutionary — but not quite yet. Or the first iPhone demo, when those with eyes to see recognized that this would change everything — in a few years. Like that… times five.
It’s as if we’re standing on a beach, knowing that multiple simultaneous tsunamis have been set in motion on the opposite side of this ocean. One or two of them may falter and vanish beneath the waves, but at least a few of them will upend everything, when they hit."
The New New Thing - Wikipedia
"ML plus AI, AR, and VR — ARM is taking on the full set of trendy initialisms"
"ARM is responsible for designing the processor architecture of practically every mobile device"
Google Announces Tensorflow Lite: A Neural Network Library for Mobile Phones
"Google, announced a new version of Tensorflow optimised for mobile phones.
This new library, called Tensorflow Lite, would enable developers to run their artificial intelligence applications in real time on the phones of users... the library is designed to be fast and small while still enabling state-of-the-art techniques. It will be released later this year as part of the open source Tensorflow project."
Google I/O Keynote (Google I/O '17) - YouTube
Waiting for the new new thing | TechCrunch
In the AI wars, Microsoft now has the clearer vision | TechCrunch
Microsoft Build 2017: Microsoft AI – Amplify human ingenuity - The Official Microsoft Blog
Faculty Summit 2017: The Edge of AI - Microsoft Research
Waiting for the new new thing | TechCrunch
"It’s like 1995, when everyone in tech knew the internet was going to be huge, utterly revolutionary — but not quite yet. Or the first iPhone demo, when those with eyes to see recognized that this would change everything — in a few years. Like that… times five.
It’s as if we’re standing on a beach, knowing that multiple simultaneous tsunamis have been set in motion on the opposite side of this ocean. One or two of them may falter and vanish beneath the waves, but at least a few of them will upend everything, when they hit."
The New New Thing - Wikipedia
Valley Guy @ NYTimes
"Michael Lewis's profile of the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jim Clark is a window on late-20th-century capitalism."
"Michael Lewis's profile of the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jim Clark is a window on late-20th-century capitalism."
Sunday, May 28, 2017
book: Grid
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future: Gretchen Bakke: 9781608196104: Amazon.com: Books
podcast interview with the author:
Triangulation 298 Gretchen Bakke
Bill Gates on Twitter: The Grid by Gretchen Bakke is a book about mundane stuff that is actually fascinating
The Grid by Gretchen Bakke is a book about mundane stuff that is actually fascinating: https://t.co/2EXpdQXULM pic.twitter.com/UhobzmmJrx— Bill Gates (@BillGates) December 9, 2016
UWP: Windows Template Studio
Microsoft is investing in Windows 10 "Universal Windows Platform" (UWP),
but making UWP applications is mostly a manual process, no much help from "wizards".
It is much easier to make old style WinForms apps, or Windows 8 apps.
Even Visual Studio 2017 comes only with "blank template" for UWP.
With this new open source templates project this may improve.
video: Windows Template Studio - Build 2017 - Windows app development@channel9
Announcing Windows Template Studio - Building Apps for WindowsBuilding Apps for Windows
"...next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio –
Windows Template Studio" @ GitHub
"Template 10" is an alternative, also open source, not by Microsoft
Template 10 Template Pack - Visual Studio Marketplace
Home · Windows-XAML/Template10 Wiki @GitHub
but making UWP applications is mostly a manual process, no much help from "wizards".
It is much easier to make old style WinForms apps, or Windows 8 apps.
Even Visual Studio 2017 comes only with "blank template" for UWP.
With this new open source templates project this may improve.
video: Windows Template Studio - Build 2017 - Windows app development
"...next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio –
Windows Template Studio" @ GitHub
"Template 10" is an alternative, also open source, not by Microsoft
Template 10 Template Pack - Visual Studio Marketplace
Home · Windows-XAML/Template10 Wiki @GitHub
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Android Go for += billion
xlab/android-go: The android-go project provides a platform for writing native Android apps in Go programming language.
“Android Go” will strip Android down for ultra-low-budget phones | Ars Technica
Android Go is a lightweight version of Android for crazy cheap phones | TechCrunch
"There are 2 billion Android devices currently in use around the world. Google is now thinking about the next 2 billion devices. In order to do this, Google has a new project called Android Go. It’s a lightweight version of the upcoming version of Android (Android O) with optimized apps and Play Store."
Google is taking another shot at budget Android phones with Android Go - The Verge
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“Android Go” will strip Android down for ultra-low-budget phones | Ars Technica
Android Go is a lightweight version of Android for crazy cheap phones | TechCrunch
"There are 2 billion Android devices currently in use around the world. Google is now thinking about the next 2 billion devices. In order to do this, Google has a new project called Android Go. It’s a lightweight version of the upcoming version of Android (Android O) with optimized apps and Play Store."
Google is taking another shot at budget Android phones with Android Go - The Verge
AI HW: Google TPU vs Nvidia GPU
Google is giving a cluster of 1,000 Cloud TPUs to researchers for free | TechCrunch
"At the end of Google I/O, the company unveiled a new program to give researchers access to the company’s most advanced machine learning technologies for free. The TensorFlow Research Cloud program, as it will be called, will be application based and open to anyone conducting research, rather than just members of academia."
An in-depth look at Google’s first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog | Google Cloud Platform
"CPU, GPU and TPU performance on six reference workloads (in log scale)"
Nvidia claims Pascal GPUs would challenge Google's TensorFlow TPU in updated benchmarks - ExtremeTech
Cloud TPUs - ML accelerators for TensorFlow | Google Cloud Platform
Recommended System Configurations for TensorFlow | NVIDIA
"At the end of Google I/O, the company unveiled a new program to give researchers access to the company’s most advanced machine learning technologies for free. The TensorFlow Research Cloud program, as it will be called, will be application based and open to anyone conducting research, rather than just members of academia."
An in-depth look at Google’s first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog | Google Cloud Platform
"CPU, GPU and TPU performance on six reference workloads (in log scale)"
Nvidia claims Pascal GPUs would challenge Google's TensorFlow TPU in updated benchmarks - ExtremeTech
Cloud TPUs - ML accelerators for TensorFlow | Google Cloud Platform
Recommended System Configurations for TensorFlow | NVIDIA
"Musical Intelligence" (not AI) Composer Program
Emily Howell - Wikipedia
"Emily Howell is a computer program created by UC Santa Cruz professor of music David Cope.[1]Emily Howell is an interactive interface that "hears" feedback from listeners, and builds its own musical compositions from a source database, derived from a previous composing program called Experiments in Musical Intelligence (EMI).[2] Cope attempts to “teach” the program by providing feedback so that it can cultivate its own "personal" style.[1] The software appears to be based on latent semantic analysis.[3] Emily Howell’s first album[4] was released in February 2009 by Centaur Records (CRC 3023). Titled From Darkness, Light"
Thursday, May 25, 2017
GVFS: Git Virtual File System (by Microsoft)
Virtual File System may be an excellent solution for cloud based "drives" in general.
Microsoft/GVFS: Git Virtual File System @ GitHub (MIT license)
"GVFS stands for Git Virtual File System. GVFS virtualizes the file system beneath your git repo so that git and all tools see what appears to be a normal repo, but GVFS only downloads objects as they are needed. GVFS also manages git's sparse-checkout to ensure that git operations like status, checkout, etc., can be as quick as possible because they will only consider the files that the user has accessed, not all files in the repo"
Microsoft Has Moved the Windows Code Repo to Git @ InfoQ
"Windows repo is about 300GB, with ~3.5M files, 4,000 engineers, and ~1,700 daily builds across 440 branches. When one wants to clone a Git repo, he has to download everything, making the operation slow for large projects. The solution to the problem was virtualization, introducing the Git Virtual File System (GVFS). With GVFS Git behaves like all resources are local, but actually the system monitors user’s actions and brings some of the resources over the network when required. Using a virtual file system driver involved few changes to git.exe."
"A virtual file system (VFS) or virtual filesystem switch is an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system. The purpose of a VFS is to allow client applications to access different types of concrete file systems in a uniform way."
Azure Files Storage: a frictionless cloud SMB file system for Windows and Linux
Microsoft/GVFS: Git Virtual File System @ GitHub (MIT license)
"GVFS stands for Git Virtual File System. GVFS virtualizes the file system beneath your git repo so that git and all tools see what appears to be a normal repo, but GVFS only downloads objects as they are needed. GVFS also manages git's sparse-checkout to ensure that git operations like status, checkout, etc., can be as quick as possible because they will only consider the files that the user has accessed, not all files in the repo"
Microsoft Has Moved the Windows Code Repo to Git @ InfoQ
"Windows repo is about 300GB, with ~3.5M files, 4,000 engineers, and ~1,700 daily builds across 440 branches. When one wants to clone a Git repo, he has to download everything, making the operation slow for large projects. The solution to the problem was virtualization, introducing the Git Virtual File System (GVFS). With GVFS Git behaves like all resources are local, but actually the system monitors user’s actions and brings some of the resources over the network when required. Using a virtual file system driver involved few changes to git.exe."
Azure Files Storage: a frictionless cloud SMB file system for Windows and Linux
hook.io
Multi-cloud Virtual File System
Multi-cloud Virtual File System
- Amazon S3
- Google Cloud Files
- Microsoft Azure
- Rackspace Cloud Files
- Any SSH/SFTP enabled server
Google Jamboard vs Microsoft Surface Hub
"appliance whiteboard" vs "very large touchscreen computer"
($5K vs $9K)
Google made a $5,000 whiteboard — and it’s weirdly fun - The Verge
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Google’s Jamboard is the cutest collaborative whiteboard you’ll ever touch - The Verge
Microsoft announces 84-inch Surface Hub tailored for Windows 10 - The Verge
Microsoft seems to be serious about HW...
New Surface Pro Vs Surface Pro 4: What's The Difference?
Microsoft's new Surface Pro has 13.5 hours of battery life and LTE option - The Verge
Buy Surface Pro - Microsoft Store
Microsoft is placing a big bet on its new Surface family - The Verge
($5K vs $9K)
Google made a $5,000 whiteboard — and it’s weirdly fun - The Verge
Google’s Jamboard is the cutest collaborative whiteboard you’ll ever touch - The Verge
Microsoft announces 84-inch Surface Hub tailored for Windows 10 - The Verge
Microsoft seems to be serious about HW...
New Surface Pro Vs Surface Pro 4: What's The Difference?
Microsoft's new Surface Pro has 13.5 hours of battery life and LTE option - The Verge
Buy Surface Pro - Microsoft Store
Microsoft is placing a big bet on its new Surface family - The Verge
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Kotlin: Android Programming Language
Kotlin Programming Language
Kotlin Is Now a Supported Android Language @ InfoQ
"Google has added Kotlin to the short list of programming languages supported for Android development, which are Java and C++. Among reasons for choosing Kotlin, Google mentioned it being "concise, expressive, and designed to be type- and null-safe" and also "many Android developers have already found that Kotlin makes development faster and more fun." Another important reason was that Kotlin is a language fully interoperable with Java and running on the JVM."
Kotlin Is Now a Supported Android Language @ InfoQ
"Google has added Kotlin to the short list of programming languages supported for Android development, which are Java and C++. Among reasons for choosing Kotlin, Google mentioned it being "concise, expressive, and designed to be type- and null-safe" and also "many Android developers have already found that Kotlin makes development faster and more fun." Another important reason was that Kotlin is a language fully interoperable with Java and running on the JVM."
GitHub Desktop on Electron & TypeScript
GitHub Rewrites its Desktop Client Using Electron @ InfoQ
joins Atom, VS Code, Slack and many other apps, to reduce cost and complexity supporting multiple native platforms.
GitHub Desktop | Simple collaboration from your desktop
javascript - How does Electron differ from Cordova ? How do I implement/wrap Cordova APIs to use NodeJS APIs in electron? - Stack Overflow
joins Atom, VS Code, Slack and many other apps, to reduce cost and complexity supporting multiple native platforms.
GitHub Desktop | Simple collaboration from your desktop
javascript - How does Electron differ from Cordova ? How do I implement/wrap Cordova APIs to use NodeJS APIs in electron? - Stack Overflow
- "Cordova apps are web apps packaged as mobile apps with special API
- Electron apps are Node apps with windows that contain web apps"
- http://electron.atom.io/
- https://cordova.apache.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cordova
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)
XAML Standard: UWP + Xamarin Forms
Microsoft Standardizes XAML Across UWP and Xamarin @ InfoQ
"Announced during BUILD 2017, Microsoft has made public the first draft of the XAML Standard, a markup dialect meant to unify how user interface elements are defined.
Microsoft wants to unify some of the existing XAML dialects, planning to create version 1.0 some time later this year. After that, they plan on enhancing UWP and Xamarin.Forms (iOS, Android) to support the standard, making it possible to share UI definitions between the frameworks."
XAML was originally crated for WPF, but WPF is not part of unification plan. Instead, suggestion is to try converting WPF to UWP first.
All this is not even remotely close to usability of original visual controls and original Visual Basic.
There is just too much complexity now, since platforms are different. It is amazing that it works. And C# is a productive language and tool-set.
Web controls are also coming, in browsers, as well as in frameworks and libraries like React and Angular. Web and native can even be mixed by React Native, Appcelerator Titanium or Telerik NativeScript. The only possible common element seems to be JavaScript... Then there are "bots" with new class of text and voice based UI.
Ideally, extensible semantic web based controls, and TypeScript-like JavaScript could enable a whole new class of modular, transform-able & compose-able apps/services. Technically this is possible even now, just not simple.
"Announced during BUILD 2017, Microsoft has made public the first draft of the XAML Standard, a markup dialect meant to unify how user interface elements are defined.
Microsoft wants to unify some of the existing XAML dialects, planning to create version 1.0 some time later this year. After that, they plan on enhancing UWP and Xamarin.Forms (iOS, Android) to support the standard, making it possible to share UI definitions between the frameworks."
XAML was originally crated for WPF, but WPF is not part of unification plan. Instead, suggestion is to try converting WPF to UWP first.
All this is not even remotely close to usability of original visual controls and original Visual Basic.
There is just too much complexity now, since platforms are different. It is amazing that it works. And C# is a productive language and tool-set.
Web controls are also coming, in browsers, as well as in frameworks and libraries like React and Angular. Web and native can even be mixed by React Native, Appcelerator Titanium or Telerik NativeScript. The only possible common element seems to be JavaScript... Then there are "bots" with new class of text and voice based UI.
Ideally, extensible semantic web based controls, and TypeScript-like JavaScript could enable a whole new class of modular, transform-able & compose-able apps/services. Technically this is possible even now, just not simple.
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
IoT: GE "Geneva Assistant"
GE is IoT enabling most of their kitchen appliances, and unifying communication with them by a common "assistant" that they call "Geneva", to join Amazon's Alexa (and Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana etc).
Hopefully they put a serious effort in securing those appliances... Expert's recommendation: keep your IoT appliances of separate WiFi from your computers.
Episode 112: Google’s IoT Cloud takes on Amazon and Azure – IoT Podcast – Internet of Things
Kitchen Appliances, Refrigerators, Dishwashers | GE Appliances
The Smart Kitchen Summit
IoT Made Simple: GE First Manufacturer to Have Suite of Connected Appliances on IFTTT | Business Wire
GE Partners With Amazon For Connected Kitchen - HomeWorld Business
"The Alexa skill built for GE and Monogram appliances is called “Geneva,” and Alexa device owners can use and control their GE appliances, for example, by saying, “Alexa, tell Geneva I want hot water,” which will tell the connected refrigerator to get hot water ready, the company said.
Monday, May 22, 2017
AWS Chatbot Challenge: $10K
AWS Chatbot Challenge
"Build a chatbot that can engage your users with lifelike conversational interactions using Amazon Lex and AWS Lambda. Enter your bot to the AWS Chatbot Challenge for a chance to win prizes"
"Build a chatbot that can engage your users with lifelike conversational interactions using Amazon Lex and AWS Lambda. Enter your bot to the AWS Chatbot Challenge for a chance to win prizes"
fast.ai: Learning AI, ML, DL, DS
fast.ai · Making neural nets uncool again
Practical Deep Learning For Coders—18 hours of lessons for free
"This 7-week course is designed for anyone with at least a year of coding experience, and some memory of high-school math. You will start with step one—learning how to get a GPU server online suitable for deep learning—and go all the way through to creating state of the art, highly practical, models for computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation systems. There are around 20 hours of lessons, and you should plan to spend around 10 hours a week for 7 weeks to complete the material."
A unique path to deep learning expertise · fast.ai
"If you’re considering investing time in studying deep learning with fast.ai, then we want to give you all the information you need to decide whether you could benefit from this content. We believe that nearly everybody who can code should be able to benefit. For a start, the financial opportunities are extraordinary – there is a pricetag of $5 million-$10 million per deep learning expert for acquisitions in the Bay area. Much more importantly, deep learning experts can help to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges in nearly every area."
HOW TO SET UP YOUR AWS DEEP LEARNING SERVER
Download Anaconda Now! | Continuum
Bash on Ubuntu on Windows - Installation Guide
>pip install awscli
>aws configure
> ssh ...
$ nvidia-smi
$ jpyther notebook
web browser...
: import theano
: import keras
Lesson 1: Practical Deep Learning for Coders - YouTube
fastai/courses: fast.ai Courses @ GitHub
Jeremy Howard (entrepreneur) - Wikipedia
The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn | Jeremy Howard - YouTube
Providing a Good Education in Deep Learning · fast.ai
A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart (PDF)
"...a nightmare world where children are not allowed to listen to or play music until they have spent over a decade mastering music notation and theory, spending classes transposing sheet music into a different key. In art class, students study colors and applicators, but aren’t allowed to actually paint until college. Sound absurd? This is how math is taught–we require students to spend years doing rote memorization, and learning dry, disconnected “fundamentals” that we claim will pay off later, long after most of them quit the subject"
TOP 25 QUOTES BY PAUL LOCKHART | A-Z Quotes
Intro to Machine Learning Course | Udacity
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python — scikit-learn 0.18.1 documentation
link from:
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence with Edaena Salinas Jasso on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers
Practical Deep Learning For Coders—18 hours of lessons for free
"This 7-week course is designed for anyone with at least a year of coding experience, and some memory of high-school math. You will start with step one—learning how to get a GPU server online suitable for deep learning—and go all the way through to creating state of the art, highly practical, models for computer vision, natural language processing, and recommendation systems. There are around 20 hours of lessons, and you should plan to spend around 10 hours a week for 7 weeks to complete the material."
A unique path to deep learning expertise · fast.ai
"If you’re considering investing time in studying deep learning with fast.ai, then we want to give you all the information you need to decide whether you could benefit from this content. We believe that nearly everybody who can code should be able to benefit. For a start, the financial opportunities are extraordinary – there is a pricetag of $5 million-$10 million per deep learning expert for acquisitions in the Bay area. Much more importantly, deep learning experts can help to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges in nearly every area."
HOW TO SET UP YOUR AWS DEEP LEARNING SERVER
Download Anaconda Now! | Continuum
Bash on Ubuntu on Windows - Installation Guide
>pip install awscli
>aws configure
> ssh ...
$ nvidia-smi
$ jpyther notebook
web browser...
: import theano
: import keras
Lesson 1: Practical Deep Learning for Coders - YouTube
fastai/courses: fast.ai Courses @ GitHub
Jeremy Howard (entrepreneur) - Wikipedia
Providing a Good Education in Deep Learning · fast.ai
A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart (PDF)
"...a nightmare world where children are not allowed to listen to or play music until they have spent over a decade mastering music notation and theory, spending classes transposing sheet music into a different key. In art class, students study colors and applicators, but aren’t allowed to actually paint until college. Sound absurd? This is how math is taught–we require students to spend years doing rote memorization, and learning dry, disconnected “fundamentals” that we claim will pay off later, long after most of them quit the subject"
TOP 25 QUOTES BY PAUL LOCKHART | A-Z Quotes
Intro to Machine Learning Course | Udacity
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python — scikit-learn 0.18.1 documentation
link from:
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence with Edaena Salinas Jasso on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Azure Cosmos DB Graph APIs, Microsoft Graph API, SQL Graph
Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB Graph APIs | Microsoft Docs
"Azure Cosmos DB can be queried using Apache TinkerPop's graph traversal language, Gremlin, and integrates with other TinkerPop-compatible graph systems."
Build an Azure Cosmos DB .NET application using the Graph API | Microsoft Docs
Not to be confused with "Microsoft Graph API" that is superset of Azure AD and O365 APIs.
Overview - Documentation - Microsoft Graph
Also not to be confused with new Graph features in SQL Server 2017
SQL Graph Architecture | Microsoft Docs
It will be interesting to see performance comparisons with native Graph databases like Neo4j
Usually to keep high performance graph databases run on single node with very large memory...
Microsoft so far implemented Gremlin language, while Neo4j has very good Cypher query language.
"Azure Cosmos DB can be queried using Apache TinkerPop's graph traversal language, Gremlin, and integrates with other TinkerPop-compatible graph systems."
Build an Azure Cosmos DB .NET application using the Graph API | Microsoft Docs
Not to be confused with "Microsoft Graph API" that is superset of Azure AD and O365 APIs.
Overview - Documentation - Microsoft Graph
Also not to be confused with new Graph features in SQL Server 2017
SQL Graph Architecture | Microsoft Docs
It will be interesting to see performance comparisons with native Graph databases like Neo4j
Usually to keep high performance graph databases run on single node with very large memory...
Microsoft so far implemented Gremlin language, while Neo4j has very good Cypher query language.
moon rockets: LEGO; China & EU
LEGO Ideas - Blog - Introducing LEGO® Ideas 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V
"You'll be able to find the 1 meter high (approximately 1:110 scale) icon of space exploration in stores from the 1st of June, 2017 for a recommended retail price of just USD 119.99 / EURO 119.99 / GBP 109.99. With 1969 LEGO elements the 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V rockets its way into LEGO Ideas history as the tallest LEGO Ideas set, as well as the one containing most elements. "
Chinese and European space agencies in talks to build a moon base | TechCrunch
"...working together to build a human-occupied “moon village” from which both agencies can potentially launch Mars missions, conduct research, and possibly explore commercial mining and tourism projects.
"You'll be able to find the 1 meter high (approximately 1:110 scale) icon of space exploration in stores from the 1st of June, 2017 for a recommended retail price of just USD 119.99 / EURO 119.99 / GBP 109.99. With 1969 LEGO elements the 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V rockets its way into LEGO Ideas history as the tallest LEGO Ideas set, as well as the one containing most elements. "
Chinese and European space agencies in talks to build a moon base | TechCrunch
"...working together to build a human-occupied “moon village” from which both agencies can potentially launch Mars missions, conduct research, and possibly explore commercial mining and tourism projects.
...
China’s upcoming projects in space include a mission to collect samples from the moon via an uncrewed craft by the end of this year, and to also launch an exploratory mission to the far side of the moon next year, with the similar aim of returning samples for study."
China’s upcoming projects in space include a mission to collect samples from the moon via an uncrewed craft by the end of this year, and to also launch an exploratory mission to the far side of the moon next year, with the similar aim of returning samples for study."
Open Data: Business & Culture
What Facebook learned when it opened its data to every employee - O'Reilly Media
"Facebook was one of the first companies to give its employees access to data at scale...All of the major web companies soon followed suit. Being able to access data through SQL became a mandatory skill for those in business functions at organizations like Google and LinkedIn."
Data Driven: Creating a Data Culture - O'Reilly Media
free ebook...describe the importance of democratizing data—making sure that employees who might need data have access to it, and making sure they have the resources to interpret it
DJ Patil - Wikipedia
Former Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy
"Facebook was one of the first companies to give its employees access to data at scale...All of the major web companies soon followed suit. Being able to access data through SQL became a mandatory skill for those in business functions at organizations like Google and LinkedIn."
Data Driven: Creating a Data Culture - O'Reilly Media
free ebook...describe the importance of democratizing data—making sure that employees who might need data have access to it, and making sure they have the resources to interpret it
DJ Patil - Wikipedia
Former Chief Data Scientist of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Software => AI => $1T
Nvidia CEO: Software Is Eating the World, but AI Is Going to Eat Software - MIT Technology Review
"(Nvidia CEO) Jensen Huang predicts that health care and autos are going to be transformed by artificial intelligence.
"I am telling you, the world's first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters AI and all its derivatives and applies it in ways we never thought of," Cuban said."
The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI - MIT Technology Review
"(Nvidia CEO) Jensen Huang predicts that health care and autos are going to be transformed by artificial intelligence.
...
Tech companies and investors have recently been piling money into artificial intelligence—and plenty has been trickling down to chip maker Nvidia. The company’s revenues have climbed as it has started making hardware customized for machine-learning algorithms and use cases such as autonomous cars."
Software is still eating the world | TechCrunch
"Marc Andreessen penned his famous “Why Software Is Eating the World” essay in The Wall Street Journal five years ago. Today, the idea that “every company needs to become a software company” is considered almost a cliché....
"Marc Andreessen penned his famous “Why Software Is Eating the World” essay in The Wall Street Journal five years ago. Today, the idea that “every company needs to become a software company” is considered almost a cliché....
Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale.”
"More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not."
The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI - MIT Technology Review
Microsoft Bot Framework:Adaptive Cards
Microsoft/AdaptiveCards: A new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way.
"Adaptive Cards are a new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way."
"Adaptive Cards are a new way for developers to exchange card content in a common and consistent way."
Friday, May 19, 2017
Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer
Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer (preview) available in the Azure portal
"Data Explorer, now in preview, provides a rich and unified developer experience for inserting, querying, and managing Azure Cosmos DB data within the Azure portal and the Emulator.
Data Explorer consolidates many of the database management tools available in the Azure Cosmos DB portal, such as Document Explorer, Query Explorer, and Script Explorer, so that they can all be done without switching blades."
Azure Cosmos DB
"Data Explorer, now in preview, provides a rich and unified developer experience for inserting, querying, and managing Azure Cosmos DB data within the Azure portal and the Emulator.
Data Explorer consolidates many of the database management tools available in the Azure Cosmos DB portal, such as Document Explorer, Query Explorer, and Script Explorer, so that they can all be done without switching blades."
Azure Cosmos DB
security: 2 factor authentication, no password (Microsoft Accounts)
Microsoft turns two-factor authentication into one-factor by ditching password | Ars Technica
"... for Microsoft accounts, Redmond is offering something new: getting rid of that first password and using just the phone to authenticate. With phone-based authentication enabled, after entering your Microsoft Account e-mail address, you'll receive an alert on your phone. From that alert, you can either approve or reject the authentication attempt—no password necessary."
link from
Microsoft Cloud Show - Microsoft Azure News & Build Plans - Win a Surface Book or XBOX!
Microsoft meets expectations with $23.6B in revenue, Azure revenue up 93% | TechCrunch
"Cloud: Total revenue from Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” business hit $6.8 billion this quarter. Microsoft expects its cloud-computing business to hit a $20 billion run rate by 2018.
...Azure revenue was up 93 percent,"
"... for Microsoft accounts, Redmond is offering something new: getting rid of that first password and using just the phone to authenticate. With phone-based authentication enabled, after entering your Microsoft Account e-mail address, you'll receive an alert on your phone. From that alert, you can either approve or reject the authentication attempt—no password necessary."
link from
Microsoft Cloud Show - Microsoft Azure News & Build Plans - Win a Surface Book or XBOX!
Microsoft meets expectations with $23.6B in revenue, Azure revenue up 93% | TechCrunch
"Cloud: Total revenue from Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” business hit $6.8 billion this quarter. Microsoft expects its cloud-computing business to hit a $20 billion run rate by 2018.
...Azure revenue was up 93 percent,"
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Microsoft AI
Microsoft AI | Products, Services, Research | Artificial Intelligence
AI platform
"Innovate and accelerate with powerful tools and services that bring AI to every developer."
Business solutions
"Drive your digital transformation with accelerators, solutions, and practices to empower your organization with AI."
Intelligent apps
"Experience the intelligence built into Microsoft products and services you use every day."
Digital assistant
"Learn how Cortana is helping you stay on top of it all so you can focus on what matters most."
AI platform
"Innovate and accelerate with powerful tools and services that bring AI to every developer."
Business solutions
"Drive your digital transformation with accelerators, solutions, and practices to empower your organization with AI."
Intelligent apps
"Experience the intelligence built into Microsoft products and services you use every day."
Digital assistant
"Learn how Cortana is helping you stay on top of it all so you can focus on what matters most."
Google I/O 2017: "Mobile first => AI first"
Google I/O 2017
Google I/O 2017 - All Sessions - YouTube
Google’s latest platform play is artificial intelligence, and it’s already winning - The Verge
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Google isn’t building the ultimate VR headset. It’s setting the foundation for one - The Verge
Google I/O 2017 - All Sessions - YouTube
- "Mobile first => AI first"
- voice and vision as UI
- "Google Lens" (in Google Assistant and Photos first)
- computers understanding images and videos
- Re-thinking computer architecture for "AI-first data centers"
- TPU used in all Google products now (HW accelerated AI)
- Next-gen "cloud TPU" optimized for training and inference
- now available on GCE (Google Compute Engine)
- Google.ai
- Tools
- Research
- "AutoML": neural nets optimizing neural nets
- Applied AI
- Google search
- Google assistant
- "AutoDraw"
Google’s latest platform play is artificial intelligence, and it’s already winning - The Verge
Google isn’t building the ultimate VR headset. It’s setting the foundation for one - The Verge
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Teaching Computer Graphics with WebGL
The Case for Teaching Computer Graphics with WebGL: A 25-Year Perspective | IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Magazine
"While OpenGL has been the standard API for teaching computer graphics, the author argues that WebGL is the version best suited for an introductory course in computer graphics."
"While OpenGL has been the standard API for teaching computer graphics, the author argues that WebGL is the version best suited for an introductory course in computer graphics."
Release Year
OpenGL 1.0 1992
...
WebGL 1.0 2011
OpenGL 4.5 2014
Vulcan 1.0 2016
WebGL 2.0 2016
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
ASP.NET Core 2.0 - .NET 4.x
Evolving platforms is difficult. Breaking changes in particular are challenge.
Naming is also a challenge. A big challenge.
Google moved from Angular.js to Angular 2.0 to just "Angular" (version 4, skipping 3).
Good look searching for compatible code.
Microsoft's ASP.NET is based on .NET (1, 2, 3, 4... )
ASP.NET Core 1.x is based on .NET Core as well as on .NET 4.x.
Now ASP.NET 2.x is based on only .NET Core 2.0.
So switch to .NET Core one must, period.
At least it will be fast, and there i a good reason for calling it 2.0, it is a breaking change.
ASP.NET Core 2.0 Drops Support for .NET Framework 4.x @InfoQ
ASP.NET Core 2 Preview Released @InfoQ
BUILD 2017 Conference Rollup for .NET Developers - Scott Hanselman
Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 | Build 2017 | Channel 9
Managing dotnet Core 2.0 and dotnet Core 1.x versioned SDKs on the same machine - Scott Hanselman
Naming is also a challenge. A big challenge.
Google moved from Angular.js to Angular 2.0 to just "Angular" (version 4, skipping 3).
Good look searching for compatible code.
Microsoft's ASP.NET is based on .NET (1, 2, 3, 4... )
ASP.NET Core 1.x is based on .NET Core as well as on .NET 4.x.
Now ASP.NET 2.x is based on only .NET Core 2.0.
So switch to .NET Core one must, period.
At least it will be fast, and there i a good reason for calling it 2.0, it is a breaking change.
ASP.NET Core 2.0 Drops Support for .NET Framework 4.x @InfoQ
ASP.NET Core 2 Preview Released @InfoQ
BUILD 2017 Conference Rollup for .NET Developers - Scott Hanselman
Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 | Build 2017 | Channel 9
Managing dotnet Core 2.0 and dotnet Core 1.x versioned SDKs on the same machine - Scott Hanselman
Google’s IoT Core service
Google’s new IoT Core service helps businesses manage their IoT data and devices | TechCrunch
"Google Cloud launched a new Internet of Things management service today called Google Cloud IoT Core that provides a way for companies to manage IoT devices and process data being generated by those devices.
A transportation or logistics firm, for example, could use this service to collect data from its vehicles and combine it with other information like weather, traffic and demand to place the right vehicles at the right place at the right time."
"Google Cloud launched a new Internet of Things management service today called Google Cloud IoT Core that provides a way for companies to manage IoT devices and process data being generated by those devices.
A transportation or logistics firm, for example, could use this service to collect data from its vehicles and combine it with other information like weather, traffic and demand to place the right vehicles at the right place at the right time."
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Saturday, May 13, 2017
cloud: FPGA: Azure, AWS
Inside the Microsoft FPGA-based configurable cloud | Build 2017 | Channel 9
"Microsoft has been deploying FPGAs in every Azure server over the last several years, creating a cloud that can be reconfigured to optimize a diverse set of applications and functions. This configurable cloud provides more efficient execution than CPUs for many scenarios without the inflexibility of fixed-function ASICs at scale. Today, Microsoft is already using FPGAs for Bing search ranking, deep neural network (DNN) evaluation, and software defined networking (SDN) acceleration. Azure’s FPGA-based accelerated networking reduces inter-virtual machine latency by up to 10x while freeing CPUs for other tasks."
The moonshot that succeeded: How Bing and Azure are using an AI supercomputer in the cloud - Next at Microsoft
Programmable chips turning Azure into a supercomputing powerhouse | Ars Technica
EC2 F1 Instances with FPGAs – Now Generally Available | AWS Blog
Mark Russinovich (@markrussinovich) | Twitter
fpgas_for_dummies_ebook.pdf @ Altera (Intel)
Resource Center - Overview
design.altera.com/New2FPGAeBook
"Microsoft has been deploying FPGAs in every Azure server over the last several years, creating a cloud that can be reconfigured to optimize a diverse set of applications and functions. This configurable cloud provides more efficient execution than CPUs for many scenarios without the inflexibility of fixed-function ASICs at scale. Today, Microsoft is already using FPGAs for Bing search ranking, deep neural network (DNN) evaluation, and software defined networking (SDN) acceleration. Azure’s FPGA-based accelerated networking reduces inter-virtual machine latency by up to 10x while freeing CPUs for other tasks."
The moonshot that succeeded: How Bing and Azure are using an AI supercomputer in the cloud - Next at Microsoft
Programmable chips turning Azure into a supercomputing powerhouse | Ars Technica
EC2 F1 Instances with FPGAs – Now Generally Available | AWS Blog
Mark Russinovich (@markrussinovich) | Twitter
fpgas_for_dummies_ebook.pdf @ Altera (Intel)
Resource Center - Overview
design.altera.com/New2FPGAeBook
Friday, May 12, 2017
AI gadget: Cortana "Invoke" smart speaker (Microsoft+Samsung)
The Invoke Smart Speaker Brings Microsoft’s Cortana AI to Your Living Room | WIRED
Microsoft to take on Amazon's Alexa and Google Home - CNET
Microsoft's 'Me Too' Smart Speaker - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) | Seeking Alpha
Microsoft's Invoke, powered by Cortana and built by Samsung
Harman Kardon Invoke – Voice Activated Speaker with Cortana
COMING FALL 2017
Harman Kardon’s Invoke speaker is a Cortana-powered take on an Amazon Echo - The Verge
Cortana's coming to your living room via HP, Intel partnerships | PCWorld
Microsoft to take on Amazon's Alexa and Google Home - CNET
Microsoft's 'Me Too' Smart Speaker - Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) | Seeking Alpha
Microsoft's Invoke, powered by Cortana and built by Samsung
Harman Kardon Invoke – Voice Activated Speaker with Cortana
COMING FALL 2017
Cortana's coming to your living room via HP, Intel partnerships | PCWorld
Microsoft "Fluent Design"
Microsoft’s design video features a completely redesigned desktop and email app - The Verge
Microsoft introduced its new Fluent Design System at Build, which it believes will usher the company into the future with a whole new look and feel for its products. The design language focuses on five areas: light, depth, motion, material, and scale.
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Microsoft introduced its new Fluent Design System at Build, which it believes will usher the company into the future with a whole new look and feel for its products. The design language focuses on five areas: light, depth, motion, material, and scale.
Inspired by Google's "Material Design"
NVIDIA Volta for AI & Toyota autonomous driving
NVIDIA Goes Beyond The GPU For AI With Volta
Toyota is using Nvidia’s supercomputer to bring autonomous driving to the masses - The Verge
Nvidia announces ‘supercomputer’ for self-driving cars at CES 2016 - The Verge
"A power of 150 Mac Book Pro computers in a car, supercomputer size of a lunchbox"
"Humans are the least reliable part of the car"
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Toyota is using Nvidia’s supercomputer to bring autonomous driving to the masses - The Verge
Nvidia announces ‘supercomputer’ for self-driving cars at CES 2016 - The Verge
"A power of 150 Mac Book Pro computers in a car, supercomputer size of a lunchbox"
"Humans are the least reliable part of the car"
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Tesla's Solar Roofs "Infinity Warranty"
Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roofs Will Be Cheaper Than Regular Roofs & Have "Infinity Warranty"
Tesla Solar | Tesla
"Made with tempered glass, Solar Roof tiles are more than three times stronger than standard roofing tiles. That's why we offer the best warranty in the industry - the lifetime of your house, or infinity, whichever comes first. Watch our hail test video to see how we take durability to a whole new level."
Tesla Solar | Tesla
"Made with tempered glass, Solar Roof tiles are more than three times stronger than standard roofing tiles. That's why we offer the best warranty in the industry - the lifetime of your house, or infinity, whichever comes first. Watch our hail test video to see how we take durability to a whole new level."
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
Keynote - Windows Build 2017 - Windows app development
Azure goes database crazy with one new NoSQL and two new SQL services | Ars Technica
With Cosmos DB, Microsoft wants to build one database to rule them all | TechCrunch
Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB | Microsoft Docs
"Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database. With the click of a button, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure's geographic regions. It offers throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs), something no other database service can offer.
...
Azure Cosmos DB contains a write optimized, resource governed, schema-agnostic database engine that natively supports multiple data models: key-value, documents, graphs, and columnar. It also supports many APIs for accessing data including MongoDB, DocumentDB SQL, Gremlin (preview), and Azure Tables (preview), in an extensible manner."
Microsoft introduces Azure Cosmos DB, a new database with a broad money-back guarantee - GeekWire
Microsoft debuts Azure Cosmos DB, a superset of its DocumentDB service | ZDNet
Foundations of Azure Cosmos DB with Dr. Leslie Lamport, short - YouTube
Azure Cosmos DB: API for MongoDB | Build 2017 | Channel 9
Introducing Azure Cosmos DB
CosmosDB | Build 2017 | Channel 9
Azure goes database crazy with one new NoSQL and two new SQL services | Ars Technica
With Cosmos DB, Microsoft wants to build one database to rule them all | TechCrunch
Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB | Microsoft Docs
"Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database. With the click of a button, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure's geographic regions. It offers throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs), something no other database service can offer.
...
Azure Cosmos DB contains a write optimized, resource governed, schema-agnostic database engine that natively supports multiple data models: key-value, documents, graphs, and columnar. It also supports many APIs for accessing data including MongoDB, DocumentDB SQL, Gremlin (preview), and Azure Tables (preview), in an extensible manner."
Microsoft introduces Azure Cosmos DB, a new database with a broad money-back guarantee - GeekWire
Microsoft debuts Azure Cosmos DB, a superset of its DocumentDB service | ZDNet
Foundations of Azure Cosmos DB with Dr. Leslie Lamport, short - YouTube
Azure Cosmos DB: API for MongoDB | Build 2017 | Channel 9
Introducing Azure Cosmos DB
CosmosDB | Build 2017 | Channel 9
Microsoft Build 2017: "Intelligent Cloud + Edge"
Microsoft Build 2017 - Microsoft Build 2017: Session Catalog
Build 2017 | Channel 9
Microsoft Build 2017: what to expect from this week’s conference - The Verge
Microsoft Build 2017: The lessons learned on Windows, Azure, Dynamics | ZDNet
The takeaway from Build 2017: Competitive businesses must start developing for the cloud... or else - TechRepublic
Microsoft Build 2017: The lessons learned on Windows, Azure, Dynamics | ZDNet
Watch Microsoft's Build 2017 day two keynote right here!
Microsoft Build 2017: the latest news and announcements from the conference - The Verge
Microsoft's new plan for mobile relevance: Use Windows to make other devices better | ZDNet
Build 2017 | Channel 9
Microsoft Build 2017: what to expect from this week’s conference - The Verge
Microsoft Build 2017: The lessons learned on Windows, Azure, Dynamics | ZDNet
The takeaway from Build 2017: Competitive businesses must start developing for the cloud... or else - TechRepublic
Microsoft Build 2017: The lessons learned on Windows, Azure, Dynamics | ZDNet
Watch Microsoft's Build 2017 day two keynote right here!
Microsoft Build 2017: the latest news and announcements from the conference - The Verge
Microsoft's new plan for mobile relevance: Use Windows to make other devices better | ZDNet
Tuesday, May 09, 2017
gadget: Amazon Echo Show
Amazon officially unveils touchscreen Echo Show - The Verge
"Amazon has officially unveiled its latest Echo product: a touchscreen device with built-in Alexa called the Echo Show now available to preorder from Amazon for $229.99."
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"Amazon has officially unveiled its latest Echo product: a touchscreen device with built-in Alexa called the Echo Show now available to preorder from Amazon for $229.99."
IoT home: IKEA
Episode 110: IKEA’s smart home plans and will you buy an Amazon Look? – IoT Podcast – Internet of Things
Ikea launches an affordable smart lights line for IOT homes
IKEA Is Launching Their Own Line Of IoT Home Lighting
turn off sound for next video :)
IKEA Smart belysning – Styr ljuset med TRÅDFRI app - YouTube
Ikea moves into the smart home space - Business Insider
Ikea Smart Lighting vs Philips Hue: the weigh-in | Stuff
Smart lights
Smart Lighting Solutions | LinkedIn
Ikea launches an affordable smart lights line for IOT homes
IKEA Is Launching Their Own Line Of IoT Home Lighting
turn off sound for next video :)
IKEA Smart belysning – Styr ljuset med TRÅDFRI app - YouTube
Ikea moves into the smart home space - Business Insider
Ikea Smart Lighting vs Philips Hue: the weigh-in | Stuff
Smart lights
Smart Lighting Solutions | LinkedIn
new visualization tool: d3.express
A Better Way to Code – Mike Bostock – Medium
"Introducing d3.express: the integrated discovery environment.
...
The purpose of a visualization tool is to construct visualizations.
"Introducing d3.express: the integrated discovery environment.
...
The purpose of a visualization tool is to construct visualizations.
But what is the purpose of visualization? Per Ben Shneiderman:
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures."
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures."
Monday, May 08, 2017
Google’s “Fuchsia” OS
Google’s “Fuchsia” smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI | Ars Technica
"Unlike Android and Chrome OS, Fuchsia is not based on Linux—it uses a new, Google-developed microkernel called "Magenta." With Fuchsia, Google would not only be dumping the Linux kernel, but also the GPL: the OS is licensed under a mix of BSD 3 clause, MIT, and Apache 2.0. Dumping Linux might come as a bit of a shock, but the Android ecosystem seems to have no desire to keep up with upstream Linux releases.
Armadillo, the Fuchsia System UI..."
...
Fuchsia is impossible to talk about without mentioning a hundred other related projects that also have code names. The interface and apps are written using Google's Flutter SDK, a project that actually produces cross-platform code that runs on Android and iOS. Flutter apps are written in Dart, Google's reboot of JavaScript which, on mobile, has a focus on high-performance, 120fps apps. It also has a Vulkan-based graphics renderer called "Escher" that lists "Volumetric soft shadows" as one of its features, which seems custom-built to run Google's shadow-heavy "Material Design" interface guidelines.Armadillo, the Fuchsia System UI..."
containers: Docker Moby Project, LinuxKit
Microsoft Cloud Show - Office 365, GCP, AWS and DockerCon News + Client Side Dev with Mark Rackley
DockerCon 2017 - YouTube
Introducing Moby Project: a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement - Docker Blog
"The Moby Project is a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement and help the ecosystem take containers mainstream. It provides a library of components, a framework for assembling them into custom container-based systems and a place for all container enthusiasts to experiment and exchange ideas."
Announcing LinuxKit: A Toolkit for building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems - Docker Blog
"LinuxKit includes the tooling to allow building custom Linux subsystems that only include exactly the components the runtime platform requires. All system services are containers that can be replaced, and everything that is not required can be removed. All components can be substituted with ones that match specific needs. It is a kit, very much in the Docker philosophy of batteries included but swappable. Today, onstage at Dockercon 2017 we opensourced LinuxKit at https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit."
Since Windows already supports some Linux APIs (Windows Subsystem for Linux), it is possible that it will be extended to be able to run "native" Linux containers on Windows. And if essential Windows APIs are included in "Linux subsystem for Windows (Wine)" some Windows containers may be able to run on Linux containers!
DockerCon 2017 - YouTube
Introducing Moby Project: a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement - Docker Blog
"The Moby Project is a new open-source project to advance the software containerization movement and help the ecosystem take containers mainstream. It provides a library of components, a framework for assembling them into custom container-based systems and a place for all container enthusiasts to experiment and exchange ideas."
Announcing LinuxKit: A Toolkit for building Secure, Lean and Portable Linux Subsystems - Docker Blog
"LinuxKit includes the tooling to allow building custom Linux subsystems that only include exactly the components the runtime platform requires. All system services are containers that can be replaced, and everything that is not required can be removed. All components can be substituted with ones that match specific needs. It is a kit, very much in the Docker philosophy of batteries included but swappable. Today, onstage at Dockercon 2017 we opensourced LinuxKit at https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit."
Since Windows already supports some Linux APIs (Windows Subsystem for Linux), it is possible that it will be extended to be able to run "native" Linux containers on Windows. And if essential Windows APIs are included in "Linux subsystem for Windows (Wine)" some Windows containers may be able to run on Linux containers!
web components: SharePoint Framework
SharePoint Framework reaches general availability—build and deploy engaging web parts today - Office Blogs
"The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a page and web part model that provides full support for client-side SharePoint development, easy integration with SharePoint data and support for open source tooling. With the SharePoint Framework, you can use modern web technologies and tools in your preferred development environment to build productive experiences and apps on SharePoint that are responsive and mobile-ready from day one!
For more details, be sure to check out our full blog post announcing the SharePoint Framework last May."
"The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a page and web part model that provides full support for client-side SharePoint development, easy integration with SharePoint data and support for open source tooling. With the SharePoint Framework, you can use modern web technologies and tools in your preferred development environment to build productive experiences and apps on SharePoint that are responsive and mobile-ready from day one!
For more details, be sure to check out our full blog post announcing the SharePoint Framework last May."
podcast discussion about SPFx
Sunday, May 07, 2017
TED interview with Elon Musk
Elon Musk: The future we're building -- and boring | TED Talk | TED.com
The future we're building -- and boring | Elon Musk - YouTube
2-4 new "Gigafactories" to be announced later this year...
The future we're building -- and boring | Elon Musk - YouTube
2-4 new "Gigafactories" to be announced later this year...
Intel Optane Memory (cache, 10x faster than SSD)
Intel Optane Memory 32GB Review - Faster Than Lightning | PC Perspective
"The big deal about Optane is that it uses XPoint Memory, which has fast-as-lightning (faster, actually) response times of less than 10 microseconds. Compare this to the fastest modern NAND flash at ~90 microseconds, and the differences are going to add up fast."
Amazon.com: Intel Optane Memory Module 16 GB PCIe M.2 80mm MEMPEK1W016GAXT: Computers & Accessories
$54 (32GB: $76)
works only with 7th Gen Intel Corei3 processor and above
podcast: This Week in Computer Hardware 412 Opting for Optane
"The big deal about Optane is that it uses XPoint Memory, which has fast-as-lightning (faster, actually) response times of less than 10 microseconds. Compare this to the fastest modern NAND flash at ~90 microseconds, and the differences are going to add up fast."
Amazon.com: Intel Optane Memory Module 16 GB PCIe M.2 80mm MEMPEK1W016GAXT: Computers & Accessories
$54 (32GB: $76)
works only with 7th Gen Intel Corei3 processor and above
podcast: This Week in Computer Hardware 412 Opting for Optane
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