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2019's AI top 5 (Practical AI #71) Jan 06, 2020

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Wow, 2019 was an amazing year for AI! In this fully connected episode, Chris and Daniel discuss their list of top 5 notable AI things from 2019. They also discuss the “state of AI” at the end of 2019, and they make some predictions for 2020.

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Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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New Year's Party! 🎉 (JS Party #108) Jan 03, 2020

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Jerod, Divya, Chris, KBall, & Nick ring in the new year with our 2020 predictions, wish lists, & resolutions. Will Chrome’s browser market share decrease? Will Svelte (or a Svelte-alike) continue to trend? Will Jerod finally write some TypeScript?! Listen along and let us know your thoughts on the matters.

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Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Predictions

Wish lists

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What are you thinking? (Brain Science #7) Dec 30, 2019

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Mireille and Adam discuss the role of our thoughts, how they run our lives, and how they make us feel. We talk through alternative ways to think, the power we hold in starving our habitual neural networks, and the ways our thoughts help us to be our best selves. How aware are you of the quality of the soil of your mind?

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Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedIn
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Thoughts and the thinker – How do our thoughts affect how we do ourselves and live our lives?

The Role of Attention or Awareness: If we aren’t considerate or reflective of our thoughts, we ignore the environment in which we grow.

Maladaptive thoughts: Aaron Beck – 10 Cognitive Distortions

Catastrophic Thinking: Imagining the worst case scenario.
Context and gratitude as alternative options.

Thoughts affect feelings and feelings affect thinking.

All or nothing thinking: Thinking in binary or absolutes modes. This type of thinking perpetuates more cognitive rigidity and lends to feeling hopeless.
Reframing strategies – Use specifics in lieu of the generalities or extremes.
Building skills in new lanes…moving from expert to novice when you move the skill or knowledge into a new area or relationship.
Don’t SHOULD on yourself! Creating an external construct and imposing and applying it to oneself. These are within the context of your own internal self-talk and personal expectations.
Mental Filters: Focusing on one aspect or detail of a situation and obsessing over it.
Reframe – What else can you focus on…put on a different lens to see your world.

It isn’t just about NOT doing these things, it’s about being intentional and reflective around the thoughts we think and putting forth effort in the direction that you want to go.

Use the “Best Friend” test. Would you say to your best friend what you say to yourself?

Resources: Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage

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Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2) (Changelog Interviews #375) Dec 27, 2019

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Gerhard is back for part two of our interviews at KubeCon 2019. Join him as he goes deep on Prometheus with Björn Rabenstein, Ben Kochie, and Frederic Branczyk… Grafana with Tom Wilkie and Ed Welch… and Crossplane with Jared Watts, Marques Johansson, and Dan Mangum.

Don’t miss part one with Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma, Natasha Woods, & Alexis Richardson.

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Björn Rabenstein – GitHub
Ben Kochie – GitHub
Frederic Branczyk – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Tom Wilkie – Twitter, GitHub
Ed Welch – Twitter, GitHub
Jared Watts – Twitter, GitHub
Marques Johansson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Dan Mangum – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Prometheus

Grafana

Crossplane

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Bugs are in the air (Go Time #111) Dec 24, 2019

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Guests are catching the bug, so we decided to spend this episode talking about bugs! How do you find and fix your bugs? Do you sketch things out, whip out the debugger, or something else?

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GoCD + Kubernetes – With GoCD running on Kubernetes, you define your build workflow and let GoCD provision and scale build infrastructure on the fly. GoCD installs as a Kubernetes native application. Scale your build infrastructure elastically. Learn more at gocd.org/kubernetes

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Andy Walker – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Carmen Andoh – Twitter, GitHub
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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AI for search at Etsy (Practical AI #70) Dec 23, 2019

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We have all used web and product search technologies for quite some time, but how do they actually work and how is AI impacting search? Andrew Stanton from Etsy joins us to dive into AI-based search methods and to talk about neuroevolution. He also gives us an introduction to Rust for production ML/AI and explains how that community is developing.

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Andrew Stanton – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Modular software architecture (JS Party #107) Dec 20, 2019

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Jerod and Divya welcome npm CTO Ahmad Nassri to discuss modular architecture. What it is, why it matters, and how you can achieve it. Ahmad has been thinking deeply about this topic lately and we have a very fruitful discussion that should have takeaways for developers of all experience levels.

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Ahmad Nassri – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Listen to Ahmad’s epic backstory on The Changelog #185
Read Ahmad’s slide deck on modern patterns in modular architecture
Check out Framer

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Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 1) (Changelog Interviews #374) Dec 18, 2019

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Changelog’s resident infrastructure expert Gerhard Lazu is on location at KubeCon 2019. This is part one of a two-part series from the world’s largest open source conference. In this episode you’ll hear from event co-chair Bryan Liles, Priyanka Sharma and Natasha Woods from GitLab, and Alexis Richardson from Weaveworks.

Stay tuned for part two’s deep dives in to Prometheus, Grafana, and Crossplane.

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Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog
Square – The Square developer team just launched their new developer YouTube channel. Head to youtube.com/squaredev or search for “Square Developer” on YouTube to learn more and subscribe.

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Bryan Liles – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Priyanka Sharma – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Natasha Woods – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Alexis Richardson – Twitter, GitHub
Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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The fireside edition 🔥 (Go Time #110) Dec 17, 2019

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Grab a hot beverage and a warm blanket because it’s time for a fireside chat with the Go Time panel! We discuss many topics of interest: what we’d build if we had 2 weeks to build anything in Go, the things about Go that “grind our gears”, our ideal work environments, and advice we’d give ourselves if we were starting our career all over again.

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GoCD + Kubernetes – With GoCD running on Kubernetes, you define your build workflow and let GoCD provision and scale build infrastructure on the fly. GoCD installs as a Kubernetes native application. Scale your build infrastructure elastically. Learn more at gocd.org/kubernetes

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Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Escaping the "dark ages" of AI infrastructure (Practical AI #69) Dec 16, 2019

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Evan Sparks, from Determined AI, helps us understand why many are still stuck in the “dark ages” of AI infrastructure. He then discusses how we can build better systems by leveraging things like fault tolerant training and AutoML. Finally, Evan explains his optimistic outlook on AI’s economic and environmental health impact.

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