Michael Levin's Blog – February 2011 Archive (3)

Demo and Startup City

Demo is a conference that showcases new ideas. The idea is that people with startup ideas get 6 minutes to pitch their ideas. What's the payoff for them? Investors, of course. What's the payoff for us? There's a website with a live feed and we can watch the action on the web! Surf to www.demo.com today beginning at 9:00AM PST and be a…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 28, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

The Making of Swampcast





The Making of Swampcast ::: A video documenting the history and production of Swampcast, a podcast about "Software development, emerging technology and everything else!"

 

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Added by Michael Levin on February 25, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

Net Neutrality ::: Updated!

"The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 23, 2011 at 4:30pm — 7 Comments

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How to Tame Technical Debt in Software Development

According to Marijn Huizenveld, discipline is key to preventing accumulating technical debt. In order to be disciplined you should make it difficult to ignore the debt. Heuristics like fixing small issues immediately, agreeing on a timebox for improvement, and making messy things look messy, can help tame technical debt.

By Ben Linders

xAI Opens Grok as an Open-Source Model

Elon Musk announced that xAI would make its AI chatbot Grok open source, and now the release is accessible on GitHub and Hugging Face. This move enables researchers and developers to expand upon the model, influencing how xAI evolves Grok in the face of competition from tech giants like OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others.

By Daniel Dominguez

Presentation: Portfolio Analysis at Scale: Running Risk and Analytics on 15+ Million Portfolios Every Day

William Chen discusses the importance of trimming your computational graph, storing data in multiple formats, leveraging open source, and considering multiple dimensions of modularization.

By William Chen

Redis Switches to SSPLv1: Restrictive License Sparks Fork by Former Maintainers

Redis has recently announced a change in their license by transitioning from the open-source BSD to the more restrictive Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). The move has promptly led to a fork initiated by former maintainers and reignited discussions surrounding the sustainability of open-source initiatives.

By Renato Losio

DigitalOcean Introduces CPU-based Autoscaling for its App Plaform

DigitalOcean has launched automatic horizontal scaling for its App Platform PaaS, aiming to free developers from the burden of scaling services up or down based on CPU load all by themselves.

By Sergio De Simone

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