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Functional programming? (Go Time #87) May 29, 2019

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Panelists Mat Ryer and Johnny Boursiquot are joined by guest panelist Aaron Schlesinger to ask/answer questions like; What is functional programming? Can you do functional programming in Go? Can we apply any learnings from functional programming languages as we write Go code today?

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Aaron Schlesinger – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Functional Programming in Go With dcode
go-functional/dcode - Decode JSON with Functional Decoders
go-functional/functy - Functional builders for vecty elements
[Talk] Functional Programming in Go - Aaron Schlesinger @ GopherCon 2017
Interesting reading about Erlang, functional programming and concurrency - by Joe Armstrong

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How to get plugged into the AI community (Practical AI #45) May 28, 2019

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Chris and Daniel take you on a tour of local and global AI events, and discuss how to get the most out of your experiences. From access to experts to developing new industry relationships, learn how to get your foot in the door and make connections that help you grow as an AI practitioner.

Then drawing from their own wealth of experience as speakers, they dive into what it takes to give a memorable world-class talk that your audience will love. They break down how to select the topic, write the abstract, put the presentation together, and deliver the narrative with impact!

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Featuring:

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

Show Notes:

Local Meetups - Great for first steps, local help and relationship building, job connections, involvement in local projects, etc. Mostly free!
- PyData
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Deep Learning
- etc.
Large industry conferences - Great to see what some of the larger companies and innovative startups are doing with AI, application and infra focused, etc. Expensive.
Smaller, topical events or events focused on particular tools - Great if you are heavily invested in particular tech or a topic like NLP. In general you have to look around quite a bit to find these.
- TensorFlow dev summit
- Spacy IRL
- PyTorch developers conference
- AllenNLP Summit
- Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference
- DataSciConhttps://datascicon.tech/
- Etc.
Research conferences - Meant to be an outlet for original research. Great to see how research orgs/institutions are pushing the boundaries and doing groundbreaking things. Hard to get into and very academic.
- NeurIPS
- EMNLP
- ICLR
- CVPR
- etc.

Some conference talks from the Practical AI hosts:

Chris Benson’s upcoming talk at LiveWorx 2019 in Boston on Wednesday, June 12, 2019: Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Digital Transformation Through Deep Learning
Examples of previous AI talks by Chris Benson
Building GPU-Accelerated Workflows with TensorFlow and Kubernetes
Fully Reproducible ML Deployment with Spark, Pachyderm, and MLeap

Join the community — it’s free! Connect with us in the #practicalai Slack channel. The community is here for you as a place to below, to bounce ideas around, or to get feedback on a conference to attend or talk you’d like to give.

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It’s just JavaScript®️ (JS Party #77) May 24, 2019

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Jerod, Kball, Divya, and Nick share their initial impressions of GitHub’s recently announced package registry, what JS skills are trending in job listings, and shout outs!

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

Show Notes:

GitHub’s package registry

Our “coverage” of GitHub’s Friday afternoon announcement
GitHub’s official package registry feature page
Remember when we had Jeff Lembeck on JS Party?
Something strange is going on at npm
Nobody Predicted Microsoft 😬
FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

JS job trends

Game of Frameworks: JavaScript trends of 2019
Engineering & design progression maps: progression.fyi
KBall’s megatrends post

Shout outs

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Creating and selling multiplayer online games (Changelog Interviews #347) May 24, 2019

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We’re talking with Victor Zhou about the explosion of the .io game genre. We talked through all the details around building and running one of these games, the details behind Victor’s super popular game called Generals — which he eventually sold, and we also covered the economics behind creating and selling one of these games.

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Victor Zhou – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

When Agar.io came out in 2015, it inspired a new .io game genre that has since exploded in popularity. I experienced the rise of .io games firsthand: I’ve built and sold 2 .io games in the past 3 years.

How to build a multiplayer (.io) web game - part 1
How to build a multiplayer (.io) web game - part 2
Generals
How I Became a Programmer - My unlikely origin story
iogames.space
agar.io
slither.io
diep.io
“kingz.io” was discussed but no longer has a web presence
Socket.io plays a crucial role in .io games

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Building a hardware/software product company (Founders Talk #64) May 23, 2019

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Colin Billings is the founder and CEO of Orro where they’ve built the first truly intelligent home lighting system. It knows when you’re in the room, and adjusts the lights automatically for you. But Colin’s path to starting this company wasn’t a straight line. Like most innovative products, Orro has an interesting beginning — after-all, they’re going up against the giants.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Orro - the first truly intelligent home lighting system
f.lux

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Go modules and the Athens project (Go Time #86) May 22, 2019

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Panelists Mat Ryer and Carmen Andoh are joined by guest panelists Marwan Sulaiman and Aaron Schlesinger to discuss Go modules and the Athens project.

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Marwan Sulaiman – Twitter, GitHub
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Carmen Andoh – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Here’s the computer Marwan talked about
Marwan attended App Academy
gomods/athens on GitHub
Athens download protocol
Go modules
Check out #athens in Gopher Slack
Maintaining module requirements
Go module services
Using Go Modules
The Go Modules Proxy Documentation
Checking Go Package API Compatibility
twitchtv/twirp - simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions
A nibble is half of a byte 💫

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AI adoption in the enterprise (Practical AI #44) May 21, 2019

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At the recent O’Reilly AI Conference in New York City, Chris met up with O’Reilly Chief Data Scientist Ben Lorica, the Program Chair for Strata Data, the AI Conference, and TensorFlow World.

O’Reilly’s ‘AI Adoption in the Enterprise’ report had just been released, so naturally Ben and Chris wanted to do a deep dive into enterprise AI adoption to discuss strategy, execution, and implications.

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Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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You don’t have to dress up (JS Party #76) May 18, 2019

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KBall, Emma, and Chris explain some things to each other like we’re five, bring stories of the week, and share some sweet pro tips.

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Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Emma Bostian – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

ELI5

Stories of the Week

Pro Tips

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Off the grid social networking with Manyverse (Changelog Interviews #346) May 18, 2019

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We’re talking with Andre Staltz, creator of Manyverse — a social network off the grid. It’s open source and free in every sense of the word. We talked through the backstory, how a user’s network gets formed, how data is stored and shared, why off-grid is so important to Andre, and what type of user uses an “off-the-grid” social network.

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Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Manyverse - A social network off the grid. Scuttlebutt for mobile.
Manyverse roadmap
Early days in the Manyverse
Manyverse bluetooth sync
Scuttlebutt.nz
Manyverse on Open Collective
Cycle.js - A functional and reactive JavaScript framework for predictable code
The Changelog #326: The insider perspective on the event-stream compromise with Dominic Tarr
License Zero - gainful open software development

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Go for beginners (Go Time #85) May 15, 2019

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How do beginners learn Go? This episode is meant to engage both non-Go users that listen to sister podcasts here on Changelog, or any Go-curious programmers out there, as well as encourage those that have started to learn Go and want to level up beyond the basics. On this episode we’re aiming to answer questions about how to learn Go, identify resources that are available, and where you can go to continue your learning journey.

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