Entries from May 2016 ↓

• Dan Lyons (Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-up Bubble) in conversation with Chris DiBona – YouTube
• Book review: Disrupted: Dan Lyons v the startup bubble (at Hubspot) | The Overspill: when there’s more that I want to say
• Thomas A Caswell on Twitter: "matplotlib v2.0.0b1 has been tagged https://t.co/iFcSFhS27h conda install -c conda-forge/label/rc matplotlib prerelease on pypi coming"
• Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams – YouTube
• Brett Slatkin on Twitter: ".@zestyping’s tool for eliminating "from foo import *" from your codebase https://t.co/lvJsReETjB #pycon2016"
• Untitled (http://www.businessinsider.com/season-of-the-witch-san-francisco-history-in-the-1970s-2016-5)
  RT @BWLogan: This story is so good, I read it twice. Thanks @MattRosoff
• What Silicon Valley’s billionaires don’t understand about the first amendment | Nellie Bowles | Technology | The Guardian
• Graham Dumpleton: Python virtual environments and Docker.
• Kenya’s new front in poaching battle: ‘the future is in the hands of our communities’ | Environment | The Guardian
• The Code Switch Podcast Is Coming! Get A Sneak Peek! : Code Switch : NPR
• Guido van Rossum on Twitter: "Pep8 is dead, long live pycodestyle! https://t.co/q9GmX5bub9"
• Graham Dumpleton: Python virtual environments and Docker.
• George Kamau on Twitter: ".@gvanrossum announced (optional) static typing in #Python. #PyCon2016 #programming https://t.co/QT67pGJrJW"
• Brett Slatkin on Twitter: "Thanks all for coming to my talk! Slides and example code are here: https://t.co/cKtcCBqeCC"
• Using Kubernetes Health Checks – Ian Lewis
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is pure, joyful cinema | EW.com
• Inside Silicon Valley’s Spaces And Tabs Debate | Popular Science
• Hacker’s guide to Neural Networks
  Your calculus too rusty to understand backprop? Here’s a hacker’s explanation: http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/. #machinelearning #DeepLearning
• What-is-the-difference-between-Bayesian-and-frequentist-statisticians

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• NumFOCUS | Open Code = Better Science – Home
  NumFOCUS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports and promotes world-class, innovative, open source scientific software.
• Recipe: Docker Logs → Google Stackdriver Logging · 80%
• Happy Together – The New Yorker
  "Why give up dorm life?"
• Google Art Camera uses robotic system to take gigapixel photos of museum paintings: Digital Photography Review
• Why sons hold marriages together | 1843
• Jane Fawcett, British Decoder Who Helped Doom the Bismarck, Dies at 95 – NYTimes.com
• The Superbug Nightmare We Always Feared Is Upon Us | Mother Jones
• Romanian cave sealed for 5.5 million years is full of strange creatures | Science! | Geek.com
• Obituaries My Mother Wrote for Me While I Was Living in San Francisco in My Twenties – The New Yorker
• Scientists finally know what stopped Mongol hordes from conquering Europe – ScienceAlert
• Viridian | James Batchler
• Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War – The New Yorker
• In-Ear Device Translates Foreign Languages Almost Instantly – The New Stack
• Twitter
  RT @erikhinton: Figures that BuzzFeed went with "river" here and not "the post-humans of late capitalism"

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• Saying isn’t doing: Meet the individuals walking the talk on diversity | The Drum
• Harriet, what were you thinking? | Victoria Coren Mitchell | Opinion | The Guardian
• Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person – NYTimes.com
• Dr. C. Corbett Moran on Twitter: "Some pics of my home the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station #11monthsInAntarctica #auroras #milkyway #stars https://t.co/f12tclwoGz"
• Dr. C. Corbett Moran on Twitter: "The @sptelescope never gets less pretty #Antarctica #southpole #auroras https://t.co/J5dvUoihwk"
• Ethereum’s $150-Million Blockchain-Powered Fund Opens Just as Researchers Call For a Halt – IEEE Spectrum
• sarah jeong on Twitter: "Oracle v. Google, the Complete Tweets: https://t.co/G38hexlEh0"
• Secret German WW2 code machine found on eBay – BBC News
• The First Badass Female Guitarist: Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll – The Daily Beast
• First-stage landing | Onboard camera – YouTube
• The Quiet Crisis unfolding in Software Development — Medium
• Twitter
  RT @Feleaks:
• Google Cloud Platform @ I/O 2016 – YouTube
  Playlist of all @googlecloud related sessions from Google I/O — https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqJYl6ZPwwd7OM4Wt_SJsBHs #io16
• Open Open Source
• Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes | May 2016 | Communications of the ACM
• Presentation: Google: A whirlwind tour of Google Cloud services you can use – wherever your code runs! | PyCon 2016 in Portland, OR
  RT @jonparrott: If you’re going to be at @pycon on Sunday, come see me and @briandorsey talk about @googlecloud!
• Twitter
  RT @mipsytipsy: cannot be said enough — "it’s getting slower" is one of the funnest/hardest problems in distributed systems.
• Introducing Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins
• Dr Henry Heimlich uses Heimlich manoeuvre for first time at 96 | US news | The Guardian

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• The (fizz) buzz around TensorFlow and machine learning | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog  |  Google Cloud Platform
• Where’s my PCollection.map()?
• New Grads: Midstage Startups Are Your Best First Job in Tech | Hunter Walk
• Dr. Henry Heimlich uses Heimlich maneuver for first time – NY Daily News
  RT @ikepigott: Well, it’s ABOUT TIME.
• I’m Voting For The Democrat In November Because I’m Not A Human Tire Fire — Medium
• Google AI expert explains the challenge of debugging machine-learning systems | Network World
• AWS Integration in Auth0

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• Jeff Barr on Twitter: "In the works – Flourish – a Runtime App Model for #AWS Lambda – https://t.co/8wgx3zQjM2 – Coming soon to GitHub https://t.co/eS1QHVqPRz"
• Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub · GitHub
• Marconi Society | Stanford Professor Bradford Parkinson, Father of GPS, to Receive the 2016 Marconi Prize
• A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
• Andrew Gerrand on Twitter: "The new Autechre album is absolutely superb, and totally justifies its length (4 hours!) https://t.co/fDFv2efvq0"
• Watch This Interface Replicate The Movements of Water | Popular Science
• What Happened After I Left the Best Job in the World to Become an Engineer? — The Startup — Medium
• Inside The College That Abolished The F And Raked In The Cash
• The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S. – The Washington Post
• Great Barrier Reef: UN report lead author ‘shocked’ all Australian references removed | Environment | The Guardian
• Greg DeMichillie on Twitter: "Fantastic news for NPR in Seattle. Thanks to efforts of community, KPLU will stay independent and not sold to KUOW. https://t.co/x87rz89mRV"
• The TSA is failing spectacularly at cybersecurity
• Donald Trump’s Energy Plan: More Fossil Fuels and Fewer Rules – The New York Times
• Parker Higgins on Twitter: "Great point from @doctorow. The only real winners in Oracle v Google are the lawyers. https://t.co/s2LQfKclrF https://t.co/5uodDdk7dN"
• The Humility-Confidence SeeSaw: The Untold Secret of Great Leaders – Open
• Hillary Clinton, Melissa Harris-Perry and the Opposite of Imposter Syndrome
• Google’s artificial intelligence chief says ‘we’re in an AI spring’
• A toxic web: what the Victorians can teach us about online abuse | Technology | The Guardian
• Josh Gordon on Twitter: "Machine Learning meets art in #TensorFlow. Beautiful! Works out of the box, too. https://t.co/ackmPW6X5F https://t.co/IINoqjrkbx"
• Intelligent Crowdsourcing: Combining Machine Learning & Human Intelligence Tickets, Tue, May 24, 2016 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite
• brendandburns on Twitter: "Cool post on bringing hypervisor level security to containers at scale with hypernetes: https://t.co/MZZAVtmnEo"
• Kubernetes: Hypernetes: Bringing Security and Multi-tenancy to Kubernetes
• Wesley Chun on Twitter: "Last week was #Google I/O #io16 where we had a ton of announcements. Miss any of them? I’ve got you covered,… https://t.co/LqLX7xtdaA"
• Tech firms roll out Kubernetes in production
• On Gawker and Peter Thiel — Medium
• Sandeep Dinesh on Twitter: "Using @weavescope and kube-ui with @kubernetesio and #GKE is really easy. https://t.co/qW0NBm5vkV https://t.co/Ru9YDBmDVt"
• sarah jeong on Twitter: "Here’s a link to tip me via PayPal: https://t.co/32QdQPnwGo"
• GitHub – brendandburns/ksql

  KSQL – A simple tool for interactive database queries on Kubernetes resources.

• brendandburns on Twitter: "Today at #gluecon I demo’d my new alpha project ksql query kubernetes resources via SQL. Come play and help build: https://t.co/SJUMtozcNi"

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• How Can We Make You Happy Today, Peter Thiel? | WIRED
• William Vambenepe on Twitter: "There’s now a free version of Google Data Studio! Learn about it (https://t.co/HQXolyQdcC) or just start using it (https://t.co/ecXiwlanuT)."
• The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump – The New Yorker
• Meet the Brains Behind the Effort to Get the Supreme Court to Rethink Civil Rights | Mother Jones
• 6 Signs That Your Company’s “Diversity” Initiatives Are Just Covering Up A Hostile Work Environment by Anonymous Author | Model View Culture
• Gab Scanu (@gabscanu) • Instagram photos and videos
  Great drone photos from around Sydney and elsewhere:
• Instagram of the Week: Sweeping Drone Aerials Prove Australia Is Officially Too Big | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @dsilverman: The creator of the GIF gets a lifetime achievement award, and settles the silly disagreement over pronunciation.
• Dropbox Wants More Access To Your Computer, and People Are Freaking Out | Motherboard
• MTV News on Twitter: "Why does pop culture see Asian women as "sexy" but not Asian men? @chescaleigh gives us the lowdown. https://t.co/9UjvGN2E00"
• Why the Very Silly Oracle v. Google Trial Actually Matters | Motherboard
• Twitter
  RT @tpryan: We held a hackathon at OSCON for Kubernetes last week. Here’s what went down:
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cultivating Kubernetes Kollaborators at OSCON 2016
  RT @tpryan: We held a hackathon at OSCON for Kubernetes last week. Here’s what went down:
• My father warned Exxon about climate change in the 1970s. They didn’t listen | Claudia Black-Kalinsky | Opinion | The Guardian
• Open Sourcing Twitter Heron | Twitter Blogs
• Twitter
  RT @robinsloan: Finally got this running: snappy in-editor "autocomplete" powered by a neural net trained on old sci-fi stories.
• Using (bio)metrics to predict code quality online
• TensorFlow PULSE on Twitter: "Many thanks to @rajcs4 for your great talk and discussion! Thanks to @here & @TensorHub for sponsoring the event! https://t.co/8rumasQoHx"
• Teaching Recurrent Neural Networks using Tensorflow
• Reviving a Sluggish iPhone – NYTimes.com

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• Autoencoding Blade Runner — Medium
• anishathalye/neural-style: Neural style in TensorFlow! • http://www.anishathalye.com/2015/12/19/an-ai-that-can-mimic-any-artist/ • https://git.io/style
• An AI That Can Mimic Any Artist · cat /var/log/life
• Google’s artificial intelligence chief says ‘we’re in an AI spring’
• How cracking down on America’s painkiller capital led to a heroin crisis | Science | The Guardian
• Artificial Intelligence ideas and resources
• Twitter
  RT @googlecloud: The Explorer demo for our Cloud Vision API is now available for everyone. Start exploring:
• Explore the Galaxy of images with Cloud Vision API | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog  | 

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  RT @googlecloud: The Explorer demo for our Cloud Vision API is now available for everyone. Start exploring:
• Robot queen Simone Giertz on inventions, the internet, and not winning a Darwin Award | The Verge
• Announcing Apache Kafka 0.10 and Confluent Platform 3.0
• Ali Afshar on Twitter: "IoT devices should be secure and degrade when the network fails. My thoughts. https://t.co/7aHFdUxdz3"
• So you wanna go on-prem do ya – blog dot lusis
• 7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science — The Startup — Medium
• Kubernetes Seattle meetup recap: Building systems and containers management | ElasticBox
  RT @kubernetesSEA: #kubernetes Seattle meetup recap: Building Systems & Container Management @stackpointcloud @kubernetesio @evandbrown
• The Myth Of In-Memory Computing

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• 7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science — The Startup — Medium
• Class Matters | It’s not "them" – it’s us!
  It’s not "them" — it’s us!
  By Betsy Leondar-Wright
• Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source Software (OSCON 2016)
  Sumana Harihareswara
• Joel Grus – Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
  Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
• Swarms of Octopus Are Taking Over the Oceans
• How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
• GitHub – googlesamples/mugo: Sample on how to transpile a small subset of go to Arduino sketches
  Ok, this is insane. @proppy and @marcaruel are working on a transpiler to target Arduino chips with #golang. https://github.com/googlesamples/mugo
• The Brutal Romantic – The New Yorker
  Sharon Horgan
• Time Converter and World Clock – Conversion at a Glance – Pick best time to schedule conference calls, webinars, online meetings and phone calls.
• A Look at the New Firebase: A Powerful Google Platform | Scotch
• Twitter
  Led by @_askcarter and @kelseyhightower!
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Up your DevOps chops with this online Kubernetes class
• Ingestible origami robot can patch wounds inside your stomach! | MIT CSAIL
• all that jazz – Eventual Consistency is not safe and that’s ok
• Lynn Langit on Twitter: "ROFL ‘Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow’ https://t.co/hhRkcSCV0p https://t.co/VmEnJUkWSN"
• How to forecast demand with Google BigQuery, public datasets and TensorFlow | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog  |  Google Cloud Platform
  TensorFlow + BigQuery = a match made in [big data] heaven. https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/05/how-to-forecast-demand-with-google-bigquery-public-datasets-and-tensorflow
• Kelsey Hightower on Twitter: "Like the Docker workflow, but require VM level isolation, check out Hyper. Support for Kubernetes in the works. https://t.co/3nuDy4e6sd"
• Google is working on a project that will test the artistic ability of AI | The Verge
• solnic.eu – My time with Rails is up
• Summer of Code on Twitter: "#GSoC2016 by the numbers: 1,206 students from 67 countries. Learn more in part one of our two part blog post: https://t.co/0eP3caFnsx"
• Your Own Personal Google – BuzzFeed News
• Applying the Kappa architecture in the telco industry – O’Reilly Media
  "Applying The Kappa Architecture in the Telco Industry" with @apachekafka and @ApacheFlink https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/applying-the-kappa-architecture-in-the-telco-industry
• Getting Started with the Firebase Realtime Database on iOS – Firecasts – YouTube
  Build an iOS app with the new @Firebase in less than 10 minutes.

  https://youtu.be/joVi3thZOqc http://twitter.com/_davideast/status/734776706817490944/photo/1

• may142016/README.md at master · ftrain/may142016 · GitHub
• 1 year, lessons learned from a 0 to Kubernetes transition – Antoine Cotten
• Machine Bias: There’s Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And it’s Biased Against Blacks. – ProPublica
• Why Google beat Yahoo in the war for the Internet | TechCrunch
• Basic Concepts and Manipulations with TensorFlow – Blog on All Things Cloud Foundry

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• Young Forests Can Store ‘Enormous’ Amounts of Carbon | Climate Central
• Google’s Firebase cleans up the mess Facebook left by killing Parse | The Verge
• 3 Reasons AWS Lambda Is Not Ready for Prime Time | @datawireio
• Accidentally Blue « Terra Magazine
• How this guy used Watson to tune out of conference calls May 19
• LICKI Brush, A Tongue-Shaped Silicon Brush That Lets Humans Lick Their Cats
• An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death – NYTimes.com
• Experimenting with Google’s Cloud Vision API + Intel Edison — Medium
• segmentation fault · Issue #2034 · tensorflow/tensorflow
  apt-get install python-scipy
• Billionaire throws tantrum after being denied entry to ‘Hamilton’ | New York Post
• Across Africa, the worst food crisis since 1985 looms for 50 million | Global development | The Guardian
  RT @guardianeco: Across Africa, the worst famine since 1985 looms for 50 million
• Google I/O 2016 – YouTube

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• Just What Were Donald Trump’s Ties to the Mob? – POLITICO Magazine
• Kubernetes API in depth with a custom autoscaler (Ray Tsang) – YouTube

  Video of Kubernetes API in depth with a custom autoscaler by @saturnism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgrVPMYmvqI at #devoxxfr

• Men in STEM – 5 things you need to know
• Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by new Pentagon source | US news | The Guardian
• Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a Digital Divide – The New York Times
• Here’s the Real Reason We All Underrated Trump — NYMag
• Linux Performance in Cloud: 2 Million Packets Per Second on a Public Cloud Instance
  Impressive – 2 Million Packets Per Second on a Public Cloud [#EC2] Instance – http://bit.ly/1TjqNpn #AWS #HowTo http://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/733650495647154177/photo/1
• Can Microbes Heal Your Gut And Mind? | FiveThirtyEight
• Big Dead Place: Nicholas Johnson: Trade Paperback: 9780922915996: Powell’s Books
• Navneet Joneja on Twitter: "This is a pretty fascinating development: https://t.co/8YabhCEkAs"
• F5 Networks Fuses Node.js with Load Balancing for Workflow Orchestration – The New Stack
• Announcing: a Golang kernel for Jupyter notebooks!

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