February 2017
12 links saved this month.
alex.smola.org
Course page for UC Berkeley's 2012 Scalable Machine Learning class, with lectures on distributed systems, data stream algorithms, convex optimization, kernels and graphical models.
wiki.python.org
Reference table of the time complexity of CPython operations on lists, deques, sets and dictionaries.
bonobo-project.org
Lightweight ETL toolkit for Python 3.5+ where each transformation is a plain callable and pipelines are built by connecting those callables in a directed graph.
rob-bell.net
Plain-language introduction to Big O notation, walking through O(1), O(N), O(N²), O(2^N) and O(log N) with a short code example for each.
philipwalton.com
Walkthrough of an opinionated Google Analytics setup: loading the tracker, custom dimensions, tracking errors and performance, and the reports that follow from it.
deeplearningbook.org
Free online edition of Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville's MIT Press textbook on deep learning, covering applied maths, modern practice and open research directions.
5pi.de
Argues that a company should keep its core and customer-facing software in-house, and that the teams building services should also operate them on self-service infrastructure.
firstround.com
Todd Jackson's framework for hiring product managers: the qualities to look for, the candidate profiles worth considering, and the interview questions that surface them.
medium.com
Presents mmake, a Go wrapper around Make that adds first-class help output for targets and recursive remote includes without replacing Make itself.
medium.com
Measures how JavaScript parse and compile time dominates web app start-up on mobile, and lists what developers and browser vendors can each do to shorten it.
css-tricks.com
Introduction to RxJS that builds up observables and the map, merge and scan operators by animating elements in response to mouse and touch events.
yclist.com
Directory of Y Combinator-funded companies grouped by batch, each with a one-line description and its current status.
