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Foreword This story relates my experience at a typical web startup. We are running hundreds of instances on AWS, and we’ve been doing so for some time, growing at a sustained pace. Our full o…

There is a widely reported threat to our economy: robots are going to replace human workers. It is nothing new… In 1930, Keynes, the famous economist introduced the term “technological unemployment”… We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they will … Continue reading The threat of technological unemployment

Farmer Chris Conder has led a broadband revolution in rural Lancashire.

Not long ago I mentioned that a joint export subsidy and import tax would be offset by an appreciation of the real exchange rate.  It’s worth pondering whether such results are the same for fixed and floating rates. In the simplest model, the choice of exchange rate doesn’t matter.  The real terms of trade adjust […]

A blog about deep learning, reinforcement learning, distributed computing and web technologies.

A reader contacted me recently to ask if it is better to use a load balancer to add capacity or to make a service more resilient to failure. The answer is: both are appropriate uses of a load balancer. The problem, however, is that most people who use load balancers are doing it wrong.

An introduction to the idea that code should be approached with a mindset towards compressing it semantically, rather than orienting it around objects.

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Jefferson Pooley on the unlikely career of Marshall McLuhan, and the Luddite message of “The Mechanical Bride.”...

eXtended RC4. Contribute to litereplica/xrc4 development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Verge’s Lauren Goode and Recode’s Peter Kafka decode streaming apps and services on Too Embarrassed to Ask.

I refuse to work overtime. In the five years I've been at my current company, I've worked overtime exactly once, and that was because our server was literally on fire. Overtime is just not worth it to me. I'm a salaried employee. A rather well-paid salaried employee, at least compared

Google's artificial intelligence division DeepMind has created a technique called WaveNet that generates raw speech audio in fine detail.

A TensorFlow implementation of DeepMind's WaveNet paper - GitHub - ibab/tensorflow-wavenet: A TensorFlow implementation of DeepMind's WaveNet paper

High-level programming languages may win most popularity contests, but the venerable C language isn't going away.

What happens when you cross snort, ossec and strace? You get a tool very much like Project Falco, an open source behavioral activity monitor for detecting anomalous activity within containerized applications. Falco is based on the Sysdig Project, an open source tool (and now a commercial service), built for monitoring container performance by way of tracking kernel…

Just to refresh our memories, micro service architecture is an evolution of the SOA architecture, whereas SOA was focused on integration of various applications, Micro services architecture (MSA) a…