politics
ProLinks #65 – North Korea, Cryptocurrencies, Propaganda and more
Tech The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army He was right. As the newspapers soon reported, more than sixteen million dollars was withdrawn from roughly seventeen hundred 7-Eleven A.T.M.s across Japan that morning, using data stolen from South Africa’s… Read More »ProLinks #65 – North Korea, Cryptocurrencies, Propaganda and more
ProLinks #63 – Machine Learning, Hyperinflation, Red Bull and more
Tech Machine Learning: The Great Stagnation Any fundamental discovery involves a significant degree of risk. If an idea is guaranteed to work then it moves from the realm of research to engineering. Unfortunately, this also means that most research careers… Read More »ProLinks #63 – Machine Learning, Hyperinflation, Red Bull and more
ProLinks #62 – AI, Statistics, Tarkovsky and more
Tech Are Deep Neural Networks Dramatically Overfitted? The fundamental idea in MDL is to view learning as data compression. By compressing the data, we need to discover regularity or patterns in the data with the high potentiality to generalize to… Read More »ProLinks #62 – AI, Statistics, Tarkovsky and more
ProLinks #61 – Brains, data, hackers and more
Tech What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go? Clearview has now raised $17 million and, according to PitchBook, is valued at nearly $109 million. As of January 2020, it had been used by at least 600 law-enforcement… Read More »ProLinks #61 – Brains, data, hackers and more
ProLinks #59 – Terrible men, Facebook and SOCOM
Tech You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype What is less obvious is why Shoshana Zuboff, an emerita professor of Harvard Business School, so uncritically repeats the digital industry’s marketing materials, nor why she never points to… Read More »ProLinks #59 – Terrible men, Facebook and SOCOM
ProLinks #58 – Evangelicals, Screen time and BASE Jumping
Tech The technical interview practice gap, and how it keeps underrepresented groups out of software engineering MIT gave me was a big stamp on my forehead that, to this day, makes strangers think I’m smart. But there was another, more… Read More »ProLinks #58 – Evangelicals, Screen time and BASE Jumping
ProLinks #43 – Lessons for Product Managers, Recruiters, Coders and more
IT Write clean code and get rid of code smells with real life examples – It is common that developers are kind of lazy, which is very good in so many ways; however, being lazy and copy/past lines of code… Read More »ProLinks #43 – Lessons for Product Managers, Recruiters, Coders and more
ProLinks #42 – Enterprise Archtecture, Jordan Peterson, squirrel attack and more
IT Cloud architecture: The end of multi-tenancy? – The key benefit of a multi tenant system is the immediacy of a new (logical) customer instance. Pseudo Localization @ Netflix – As we add language support for our members residing in… Read More »ProLinks #42 – Enterprise Archtecture, Jordan Peterson, squirrel attack and more
ProLinks #41 – Do we need standups?, why to keep a changelog, how to make friends and more
IT You don’t need standup – Up until January I was a developer who was upset at how many meetings I had. Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everything – Following “Don’t Repeat Yourself” might lead you… Read More »ProLinks #41 – Do we need standups?, why to keep a changelog, how to make friends and more