The Cambridge Analytica scandal and ethics in data science
Earlier this month, Stack Overflow published the results of its 2018 developer survey. In it, there was an interesting set of questions around the...
5 polarizing Quotes from Professor Stephen Hawking on artificial intelligence
Professor Stephen Hawking died today (March 14, 2018) aged 76 at his home in Cambridge, UK. Best known for his theory of cosmology that...
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018: A Quick Overview
Stack Overflow recently published their annual developer survey in which over 100,000 developers and professionals participated. The survey shed light on some very interesting...
What is ensemble learning?
Ensemble learning explained
There are many instances when a single machine learning model simply isn't good enough - you need to use multiple models. Here...
FAT Conference 2018 Session 3: Fairness in Computer Vision and NLP
Machine learning has emerged with a vast new ecosystem of techniques and infrastructure and we are just beginning to learn their full capabilities. But...
FAT* 2018 Conference Session 2 Summary: Interpretability and Explainability
This session of the FAT* 2018 is about interpretability and explainability in machine learning models. With the advances in Deep learning, machine learning models...
What is ASP.NET Core?
This is a guest post by Jason De Oliveira, the author of Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0.
ASP.NET Core is a new cross-platform open-source framework for...
Stack Wars: The epic struggle for control of the tech stack
The choice of tech stack for a project, team or organisation is an ongoing struggle between competing forces. Each of the players has their...
The great unbundling of the tech stack and developer learning
The nineties: the large software vendors dominate
When I started my first tech publisher, Wrox, back in 1994, tech was dominated by a few large IT...
Comparing .NET products
This is an extract from the third edition of C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 - Modern Cross-Platform Development by Mark Price.
Understanding the .NET framework
Microsoft's...
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Understanding the Foundation of Protocol-oriented Design
When Apple announced Swift 2 at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2016, they also declared that Swift was the world’s first protocol-oriented...
