Leading the day is another story related to artificial intelligence. Google talks about AlphaGo, their new machine learning engine that can beat professional players in the game Go. This is a very interesting development given that Go was seen as an intractable problem for many years. Can skynet be far behind? On the Java product management blog, they announce the deprecation of the applet and Java browser plugin in version 9. This is not a huge announcement, but it is a good line in the sand for many companies still trying to use it. Datacritic MLDB shows us that sometimes the best machine learning model is not the best model in their post about machine learning meeting economics.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Design and Development
- Some Tips for Debugging in Deep Learning | Lab41
- The Unintentional side-effects of a bad concurrency model | Joe Armstrong
- The real reason to avoid jQuery | isle of code
- 4 Reasons Why Java is Still #1 | DZone Java
- My Reaction to React | pseudoconcurrentthought
- An Introduction to Spark, Your Next REST Framework for Java | DZone Integration
- Controlling Your Novelty-seeking Behavior | DZone Agile
- Are You Being Technology Agnostic? | DZone Agile
- Async Testing with Quick and Nimble | mokacoding
- Moving to a Plugin-Free Web | Java Platform Group, Product Management blog
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0 | Brendan Gregg
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Petuum: A New Platform for Distributed Machine Learning on Big Data | the morning paper
- AlphaGo: using machine learning to master the ancient game of Go | Official Google Blog
- Machine Learning Meets Economics | Datacratic MLDB
- Graph regularity and Laplace eigenvalues | John D Cook
- Implementing Your Own k-Nearest Neighbour Algorithm Using Python | KD Nuggets
- What is better: gradient-boosted trees, or random forest? | FastML
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1633 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – January 27, 2016 (#2175) | Morning Dew
- The Daily Six Pack: January 28, 2016 | Dirk Strauss
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