This was first published on January 19th, 2018 at Subir Mansukhani’s Mailing List, Subirority Complex.
General
Data as jet fuel: An interview with Boeing’s CIO | McKinsey & Company
It isn’t always comfortable, but data analytics is helping Boeing reach new heights.
Don’t Dismantle Data Silos, Build Bridges
Dismantling data silos sounds like a fine aim. But after years of trying and failing, the author suggests a new approach: build bridges
Competing with BigCo: 2018 Edition — Learning By Shipping
Conventional wisdom for 2018 is focused on mega-cap tech and many seem to say startups are in a bit of a lull. History tells us now s the best time to create innovative companies and products.
Machine Learning
Welcoming the Era of Deep Neuroevolution — Uber Engineering Blog
Square off: Machine learning libraries — O’Reilly Media
Top five characteristics to consider when deciding which library to use.
ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile
Introduction to Various Reinforcement Learning Algorithms I (Q-Learning, SARSA, DQN, DDPG)
Reinforcement Learning (RL) refers to a kind of Machine Learning method in which the agent receives a delayed reward in the next time step to evaluate its previous action. It was mostly used in games…
eCommerceGAN : A Generative Adversarial Network for E-commerce
Yann LeCun — OK, Deep Learning has outlived its usefulness… | Facebook
OK, Deep Learning has outlived its usefulness as a buzz-phrase.
Deep Learning est mort. Vive Differentiable Programming! Yeah, Differentiable…
Technology
Applied Machine Learning at Facebook: A Datacenter Infrastructure Perspective — Facebook Research
Building data infrastructure in Coursera — Zhaojun Zhang — Medium
I’ve been working on building data infrastructure in Coursera for about 3.5 years. This week, I had an opportunity to speak at Data Engineering in EdTect event at Udemy about our data infrastructure…
CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
This year’s electronics expo promised a ‘better life’ and ‘better world.’ It instead offered a folding machine that can’t fold sweatshirts.
This is what a 50-qubit quantum computer looks like
DataViz/UI/UX
Here’s How Amazon’s Alexa Hooks You — Startup Pulse
Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Darren Austin, Partner Director of Product Management at Microsoft. Last year we added a new member to our household. I must admit that upon first meeting her, our…
A Year of Learning and Leading UX at Google — Google Design — Medium
I joined Google as a Vice President of User Experience (UX) a little over a year ago. To be frank, Google wasn’t at the forefront of my mind for a next career step. I even passed on a job offer in…
Visualizing the Uncertainty in Data | FlowingData
The Art of Effective Visualization of Multi-dimensional Data
Descriptive Analytics is one of the core components of any analysis life-cycle pertaining to a data science project or even specific research. Data aggregation, summarization and visualization are…
