My recent spate of physical activity is starting to get to me, so this weeks set of links comes from an invalid. Enjoy.
Uber Driver Deemed Employee By California Labor Commission – I’m all for disruptive companies, but if those companies abuse their customers or their own employees it’s high time they get penalised for it.
Going Deeper into Neural Networks – Do search indexes dream of electric sketches? The practicalities of this are lost for the moment, just enjoy watching a computer learn.
Machine Learning for Video Games – Computers may be dumb, but they can be dumb thousands of times a second. You leave a computer alone and it can accomplish a lot of tasks. Reminds me of the Quake bots that refused to play.
Opening the Instapaper API – This is nice to see on two fronts. A. Instapaper is stable enough they don’t need to hold back features to entice pro users and B. this should hopefully cause an explosion in apps.
The Early Days of Web Analytics – After saying goodbye to SEO Tom yesterday, it was humorous to see an article on the history of web analytics. Pretty sure I’m still running awstats on Digi27.
How to receive a million packets per second – They’re not doing much, but it’s pretty cool seeing it in action. Everything at scale becomes a case of finding the next bottleneck.
Traffic Jams in Javascript – Bit of maths, some visualisations and code, what more could you want? Didn’t realise how badly adding new edges to a network could affect the overall performance.
When Solid State Drives are not that solid – This is one the greatest banes of my existence; even things that should be the same are not always the same. Servers, and the hardware that makes them, vary so much you’re bound to get caught out sooner or later.
Optimizing An Important Atom Primitive – I’m still yet to give Atom a proper go, like most devs I fall into the tribalism pattern, but it looks like they’re taking the complaints of dealing with big files seriously.
It really is the future – I love the analogy of pets vs cattle for servers. We’re finally starting to move away from setting up servers by hand, and this article just goes to show what’s possible.
Introducing Empire: A self-hosted PaaS built on Docker & Amazon ECS – And speaking of deployments, this looks like a very nice tool for managing infrastructures across nodes ala kubernetes.
Go has a debugger—and it’s awesome! – This is beautiful. Take the AST of an app and just fill it with debugging code. We’ve all done it ourselves, a call to Println or console.log, but now you can let the machine do the hard work.