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Shift Left for Data

It’s hard to make it very far these days without hearing the phrase “Shift Left.” While some argue that Shift Left is just…

Software Escrow is Dead; Long Live AI Escrow!

The Theory of Escrow

Why You Really Need a Data BOM, Not a Software BOM

SBOMs: the Premise, the Promise, the Peril

Are software bills of material (SBOM) the solution to your software woes? While there…

Surveying scikit-learn usage — Part III: Clustering and Overall Popularity

Surveying scikit-learn usage — Part II: The (Un)reasonable Popularity of Random Forests

Surveying scikit-learn usage — Part I

In the world of machine learning and data science, few packages are better known than…

The exponentially zero valuation of IPython — or, why valuing software is so hard.

Snake JARs, Part III: Data Science Sssssss-security