Quanta Magazine
How Lossless Data Compression Works
7 min · · One student’s desire to get out of a final exam led to the ubiquitous algorithm that shrinks data without sacrificing information. · Shared by 1194, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Pascal Sulser
medium.com
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
20+ min · · A large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated… · Shared by 461, including Mike Tamir, PhD, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Matthias Lampe, Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン, Bryan Onel, Stefan Weber, Eliska Hutnikova, Balda, @brianleroux@indieweb.social 💙, Fabrizio Bianchi, Clemens
The Atlantic
The Remote-Work Revolution Will Be Bigger Than We Think
8 min · · The past year has offered a glimpse of the nowhere-everywhere future of work. · Shared by 457, including Christian Surchi, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Steve Case, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Mathew Ingram, Jessica Lessin, Katja Evertz, Chadwick Hagan, Amicitia, Matthias Lampe, Stowe Boyd, Neil Hart 💙, Alex Rainert 🤦🏻♂️, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Chris Dancy 🌈🧠🧙🏼♂️🤖
Towards Data Science
Intuitively, How Do Neural Networks Work?
15+ min · · The term “Neural Networks” may seem mysterious, why is an algorithm called Neural Networks? Does it really mimic real neurons, and how? · Shared by 452, including Yves Mulkers, Katja Evertz, Vinod Sharma, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Christian Surchi, Stephan Woodtli, Prof. Sally Eaves, Ronald van Loon, rohit, Tom Connor, Nige Roberts-Willson, Birgit Schefer, Andreas Staub, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸
vadimkravcenko.com
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
16+ min · · Project estimates are a crucial part of project management, helping to predict the time and resources needed for successful completion. Accurate estimates can be achieved through experience,… · Shared by 420, including Jakub Chodounsky
wired.com
There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
Summary · 8 min · · Are blockchain currencies the future of money or just a temporary hype? Cryptographer and computer security expert Bruce Schneier believes the latter is the case. In fact, he questions the validity of what bitcoin advocates have long seen as the cryptocurrency’s winning asset: that it makes trust superfluous. Investors and technology professionals will find Schneier’s intelligent and well-argued opinion piece thought-provoking. · Shared by 231, including getAbstract, 瑞拿頭, Backchannel, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Johannes Lenz, Charles Baldwin, Gerd Leonhard, Oliver Reichenstein, Thomas Byttebier, Michael Seemann, Bjorn Larsen, fernand0, Thomas Knüwer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tauno, ...und meine Frau ist auch Elon Musk!, Bertrand Maltaverne
Martin Fowler
Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches
· Mainline, Feature Branching, Continuous Integration, Release Branch and a clutch of other handy patterns. · Shared by 227, including Pete Skomoroch, Linus Basig, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Harsha Mv, Pixel
Werner Vogels
Monoliths are not dinosaurs
3 min · · Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must. · Shared by 177, including Mark Birch AWS Startup Advocate
Knowable Magazine
Why scientists need to be better at data visualization
18+ min · · The scientific literature is riddled with bad charts and graphs, leading to misunderstanding and worse. Avoiding design missteps can improve understanding of research. · Shared by 144, including Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Carla Gentry 🎶, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Miguel Angel Escotet, Oscar MacDonald, Evan Sinar, PhD, diesire, Katja Evertz, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Dominik Grolimund, Esther Schindler
tls.ulfheim.net
The Illustrated TLS Connection
20+ min · · The session begins with the client saying "Hello". The client provides the following: protocol version client random data (used later in the handshake) an optional session id to resume a list of… · Shared by 133, including Massimiliano Aroffo, yawniek 📯, ashley 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦, Philippe, omg! ubuntu, Balda, francesc, Vojtěch Hýža, Martin Steiger 🦈, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Michael Duergner, Nils Hitze, Beni Buess, fernand0
IEEE
50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
11+ min · · The Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973, is uncannily familiar today, because we are living in a world of computing that the Alto created. Here's how the Alto came to be. · Shared by 127, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Erico Guizzo
KDnuggets
10 Free Must-read Books on AI
11+ min · · Artificial Intelligence continues to fill the media headlines while scientists and engineers rapidly expand its capabilities and applications. With such explosive growth in the field, there is a great… · Shared by 121, including Matthias Lampe, Yves Mulkers, Howard Getson, Craig Brown, PhD, Terence Mills, Tom Connor, Francesco Corea, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Talkwalker, Marcus Borba, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Danie
Towards Data Science
Why are neural networks so powerful?
12+ min · · The universal approximation theorem · Shared by 102, including Elena Neira, Andreas Staub, Lillian Pierson, PE 👩🎤 GTM & Growth Queen, Yves Mulkers, MIT CSAIL, Harold Sinnott, Katja Evertz, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸
clig.dev
CLI Guidelines
20+ min · · An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day. · Shared by 100, including Bryan Onel, Ian Johnson 💻🔥, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Guillermo Rauch, Dion Almaer, Jesús Torres 👩💻, @brianleroux@indieweb.social 💙, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Brett Errington, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe
InfoQ
Technical Leadership: The Often Overlooked Skills and Responsibilities of a Technical Team Leader
6 min · · A Technical Team Leader should demonstrate capability in three main areas which are often overlooked: Team Support, Technical Excellence, and Innovation. In the course of preparing TTL's,… · Shared by 99, including Pat Kua, Massimiliano Aroffo, Ricardo Yasuda, andre hollstein, Evan (he/him)
InfoQ
Why the Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
7 min · · Are traditional servers dead? Far from it. This article looks at why, despite serverless models finding great utility in specific circumstances, there's a barrier to more widespread adoption. · Shared by 96, including Ⓓarío Macchi, Massimiliano Aroffo, Jose Carlos Mendoza Sosa, Zack Kanter, DHH, Francis DB