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source{d} turns code into actionable insights (Changelog Interviews #330) Jan 16, 2019

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Adam caught up with Francesc Campoy at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the work he’s doing at source{d} to apply Machine Learning to source code, and turn that codebase into actionable insights. It’s a movement they’re driving called Machine Learning on Code. They talked through their open source products, how they work, what types of insights can be gained, and they also talked through the code analysis Francesc did on the Kubernetes code base. This is as close as you get to the bleeding edge and we’re very interested to see where this goes.

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2018 in review and bold predictions for 2019 (Practical AI #26) Jan 14, 2019

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Fully Connected – a series where Chris and Daniel keep you up to date with everything that’s happening in the AI community.

This week we look back at 2018 - from the GDPR and the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to advances in natural language processing and new open source tools. Then we offer our predications for what we expect in the year ahead, touching on just about everything in the world of AI.

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Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

2018 in Review

Focus on more challenging ML problems
Semi-supervised learning
Domain adaptation
Generative models
Reinforcement learning
NLP
ELMO
BERT
Fear about AI
GDPR, trust and privacy
Cambridge analytica
Facial recognition
Tons of open sourced tooling, models

Predictions for 2019

Focus on trust and transparency
Bias
Regulation
GDPR and transparency, interpretability
What will other countries do regarding regulation?
AI for good
Better voice and conversational results
AI assistants
Voice interfaces
NLP advances
More focus on product development, less on research
Deep learning will explode in production product / service development
Computer vision, NLP, speech recognition will be table stakes
Increased accessibility of DL to software engineers / developers
More testing/tooling
Better training for data scientists
Better integrations and infrastructure
AutoML
Organizational / Cultural Shifts
New roles for data-based leadership - CDO, CAIO, etc.,
Strategy - AI becoming first-class concern
Competitive Analysis - AI and data assessments mandatory
Fragmentation into distinct subfields - AI, analytics, data science, prognostics
A changing relationship between humans and automation
AI + robotics - first steps
Pervasive AI + IoT - first steps
The importance of creative expertise for humans
How to school your child today to prep for tomorrow
Narrowly-scoped, highly-specific job functions at most risk

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Real JavaScript, not too much, stage three and above (JS Party #58) Jan 11, 2019

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KBall and Nick meet up with Jory Burson and Amal Hussein at Node+JS Interactive. Together we open up the black box of the JavaScript standards process, talk about how to get involved, and then dig into the use of ASTs to transform and analyze JavaScript.

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Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Standards & Opening the Black Box

On the distribution of stakeholders

Representing Web Developers in W3C

On testing the JavaScript spec with JavaScript

On the Boundaries of the Spec

ASTs

Other

Bocoup

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Perspectives on Kubernetes and successful cloud platforms (Changelog Interviews #329) Jan 09, 2019

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Adam caught up with Brendan Burns (co-creator of Kubernetes and Partner Architect at Microsoft Azure) at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 in Seattle, WA to talk about the state of Kubernetes, the importance of community, building healthy cloud platforms, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

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

Show Notes:

The Commons Clause
Brendan’s talk at KubeCon — !go, Interacting with and Extending Kubernetes in a Polyglot World
Read The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes — Here’s a link to a pdf version of it
Metaparticle is a standard library for cloud native applications on Kubernetes.
cncf/artwork — CNCF related logos and artwork

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Leading data-driven software teams and products (Founders Talk #60) Dec 21, 2018

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For the final show of 2018 I’m talking with Travis Kimmel, the CEO of GitPrime. Travis has spent years as an engineering manager. Travis’s mission at GitPrime is to bring crystal clear visibility into the software development process and bridge the communication gap between engineering and stakeholders. This communication gap is often an ongoing plague in product development lifecycle. We talked through focus, tech debt, leading teams, predictability, and more.

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

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Check out GitPrime
Subscribe to Engineering Impact, GitPrime’s weekly newsletter

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Jumping off the Edge into Chromium (JS Party #57) Dec 21, 2018

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Nick, KBall, and Chris respond to follow up on the State of JavaScript survey, discuss Chromium, Edge, and the future of the web, and reminisce about the past year in the final JS Party of 2018!

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

Show Notes:

State of JavaScript survey follow up

Sacha Grief responds to our previous discussion on the State of JS survey
JS Party: 52 - Original discussion on the survey
Changelog: 252 - GitHub’s Open Source Survey

Jumping off the Edge into Chromium

It’s official. The future of Microsoft Edge is Chromium
They’re also dropping ChakraCore in favor of V8.

JavaScript in 2018 and Beyond

TypeScript is 🔥🔥🔥
Vue 3.0 and TypeScript
JS Party is back!
Dojo 2 released!
npm: This year in JavaScript
Project Gutenberg from WordPress
The rise of VSCode
Netflix: Our learnings from adopting GraphQL
Deno - JavaScript and TypeScript outside the browser

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Maria Boland Ploessl found her home in technology (Away from Keyboard #10) Dec 20, 2018

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In our last episode of the year, I talk with Maria Boland Ploessl. Maria’s path to technology has been interesting to say the least. A Saint Paul native, she studied Spanish and Latin American studies in college. In 2016, after living in a few different cities (even a year-long stint in Brazil), she moved back to Minnesota. Now, she’s the Executive Director of Minnestar, a non-profit organization with the aim of supporting and growing Minnesota’s tech community.

Maria talks to me about what Minnestar does, the work they’re doing to bring more people of underrepresented groups into tech, married life and how she’s grown from it, and parenthood.

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Tim Smith – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Maria and her husband welcomed baby William Otis in early December
She’s the Executive Director for Minnestar
Minnestar puts on quite a few events, two of them being Minnebar and Minnedemo
I actually did a talk on CSS Grid at Minnebar 2017
Twin Cities Startup Week
The 5 Love Languages

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State of the "log" 2018 (Changelog Interviews #328) Dec 19, 2018

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On this year’s “State of the ‘log’” episode we’re going behind the scenes to look back at 2018 as we prepare for 2019 and onward. We talk through our most popular episodes, most controversial episodes, and even some of our personal favorites. We also catch you up on some company level updates here at Changelog Media. We hired Tim Smith earlier this year as our Senior Producer, we retired Request for Commits, started some new shows…

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

Show Notes:

Before we officially head into the year end I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your time and attention, it means the world to us. We work very hard to produce this podcast and we do it for you, the listeners — so thank you. Please be safe over the holiday break. Enjoy your time with family, friends, and loved ones. We’ll see you again in 2019!

Most controversial

Staff favorites

Adam: Drupal is a pretty big deal
Jerod: A call for kindness in open source

New shows!

You can listen to Backstage on the web or subscribe via Master
You are subscribed to Master, right? 😉
Listen to the new and improved JS Party
Founders Talk is back in a big way!
Tim Smith’s Away from Keyboard is a must-listen
Maybe start with episode #4?
We didn’t talk too much about Practical AI, but it’s rad too

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Finding success with AI in the enterprise (Practical AI #25) Dec 17, 2018

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Susan Etlinger, an Industry Analyst at Altimeter, a Prophet company, joins us to discuss The AI Maturity Playbook: Five Pillars of Enterprise Success. This playbook covers trends affecting AI, and offers a maturity model that practitioners can use within their own organizations - addressing everything from strategy and product development, to culture and ethics.

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

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We're dependent. See? (JS Party #56) Dec 14, 2018

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KBall, Chris, Nick, and Safia discuss how they keep a healthy relationship with dependencies in their codebase. Listen to learn how they decide when to use third-party dependencies, how they verify and validate dependencies, and how to support the ecosystem of open source libraries.

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