Though one size never fits all, this seems like a very solid framework to build upon.
Category Archives: Software
July 4, 2019
June 18, 2019
How a struggling airline went soaring through the cloud
An interesting story on what an API-first approach can enable.
May 19, 2019
Real-world reinforcement learning
Slides on my introductory talk on immediate-reward RL. Covers the basics, ML reductions & evaluation.
December 20, 2017
Why Computer Scientists Can’t Explain How Their Machine Learning Algorithms Actually Work
A pretty good high-level explanation of the black-box problem found in e.g. neural networks.
November 5, 2017
The Improbable Origins of PowerPoint
With PowerPoint as well as its predecessors, the motif of the slide was, of course, lifted directly from the world of photography. Some presentation programs actually generated 35-mm slides for display with a slide projector. In most cases, though, the early programs created slides that were printed on paper for incorporation into reports, transferred to transparencies for use on overhead projectors, or saved as digital files to be displayed on computer monitors.
October 15, 2017
How does Ethereum work, anyway?
The best explanation I’ve ever read on blockchains.