The Curious Engineer

Radar

2010–2015

105 posts

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2015 73

December 2015

  1. Investing in big data technologies
  2. How to think like a data scientist
  3. The artist in the age of online media
  4. Building a scalable platform for streaming updates and analytics
  5. P-values not quite considered harmful
  6. The current state of machine intelligence 2.0
  7. Programming, oaths, and users
  8. A new infrastructure for biology
  9. Graph databases are powering mission-critical applications

November 2015

  1. Exploring the process of insight generation
  2. Machine learning in the wild
  3. What to look for in a data scientist
  4. Choice bits from Next:Economy 2015, Day 2
  5. Jai Ranganathan on architecting big data applications in the cloud
  6. Choice bits from Next:Economy 2015, Day 1
  7. Big science problems, big data solutions
  8. Building systems for massive scale data applications
  9. Platform economies
  10. The five shouts of good programmers
  11. Optimizing between motivation and coordination

October 2015

  1. Escaping the superstar syndrome
  2. Do one thing…
  3. Turning big data into actionable insights
  4. Building an automated future
  5. Serving workers in the gig economy
  6. Stories, not transactions
  7. Beyond algorithms: Optimizing the search experience
  8. How intelligent data platforms are powering smart cities
  9. Resolving transactional access and analytic performance trade-offs
  10. Five principles for applying data science for social good

September 2015

  1. Contrasting architecture patterns with design patterns
  2. Being data-driven: It’s all about the culture
  3. On Leadership
  4. We’ve got this whole unicorn thing all wrong!
  5. Building enterprise data applications with open source components
  6. Improving Uber’s surge pricing
  7. Designing delivery: From industrialism to post-industrialism
  8. How on-demand logistics could save brick and mortar retail
  9. Amazon, boredom, and culture
  10. From search to distributed computing to large-scale information extraction
  11. A world of continous partial employment

August 2015

  1. The cloud-native future
  2. The rise of networked platforms for physical world services
  3. Imagining a future biology
  4. Streaming 101: The world beyond batch

July 2015

  1. 6 reasons why I like KeystoneML
  2. The WTF Economy
  3. Flattening organizations

June 2015

  1. Innovation Nation – Megan Smith & Tim O’Reilly interview
  2. Will Planned Obsolescence Kill Silicon Valley?
  3. Building self-service tools to monitor high-volume time-series data
  4. An introduction to immutable infrastructure
  5. How the new hardware movement is even bigger than the Internet of Things
  6. Artificial intelligence?

May 2015

  1. Data science makes an impact on Wall Street
  2. The tensor renaissance in data science
  3. How Data Science Is Transforming Health Care
  4. Life: Sustainable, Programmable, Bottom-Up Manufacturing

April 2015

  1. Building big data systems in academia and industry
  2. 4 reasons why microservices resonate

March 2015

  1. Turning Ph.D.s into industrial data scientists

February 2015

  1. Topic models: Past, present, and future
  2. Software engineers must continuously learn and integrate
  3. What is DevOps (yet again)?

January 2015

  1. Blockchain scalability
  2. What containers can do for you
  3. Striking parallels between mathematics and software engineering
  4. Understanding the blockchain
  5. Beyond lab folklore and mythology
  6. A brief look at data science’s past and future
  7. What is the Internet of Things?
  8. The Internet of Things has four big data problems
  9. The computing of distrust

2014 19

December 2014

  1. Apache Spark’s journey from academia to industry
  2. Physical and virtual are blurring together
  3. The revolution in biology is here, now

November 2014

  1. Uber is breaking bad
  2. The Internet of Things and Humans
  3. The infinite hows
  4. Artificial intelligence: summoning the demon

October 2014

  1. The next industrial revolution
  2. Big data’s big ideas

September 2014

  1. What Amazon, iTunes, and Uber teach us about Apple Pay
  2. By People, For People
  3. Small brains, big data

August 2014

  1. #IoTH: The Internet of Things and Humans

July 2014

  1. What is deep learning, and why should you care?
  2. Questioning the Lambda Architecture

June 2014

  1. AI’s dueling definitions
  2. Untapped opportunities in AI

April 2014

  1. The crowdfunding conundrum

January 2014

  1. Web application development is different (and better)

2013 5

October 2013

  1. Building a Business on Data

September 2013

  1. How I failed

May 2013

  1. Steering the Ship that Is Data Science

April 2013

  1. Leading Indicators

March 2013

  1. Industrial Internet

2012 5

July 2012

  1. Overfocus on tech skills could exclude the best candidates for jobs
  2. The Clothesline Paradox and the Sharing Economy

April 2012

  1. Operations, machine learning, and premature babies

March 2012

  1. Designing great data products

January 2012

  1. What is big data?

2011 2

September 2011

  1. The evolution of data products

July 2011

  1. What is Node.js?

2010 1

June 2010

  1. What is data science?

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