An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming: a first-year graduate-level introduction to probabilistic programming. It not only provides a thorough background for anyone wishing to use a probabilistic programming system but also introduces the techniques needed to design and build these systems.
deequ : library built on top of Apache Spark for defining "unit tests for data", which measure data quality in large datasets.
Ali Wong structure of stand up comedy : fantastic and beautiful designed article analysing Ali wong stand up routine and how it is closer to a tv/movie script than a slapstick one-line joke comedy.
Data Transfer Project : open-source, service-to-service data portability platform. Not really sure who would want to transfer data between facebook - google and Microsoft from a privacy point of view... But there is probably a use case.
Veneur : distributed, fault-tolerant pipeline for observability data. This is a really cool project that allows to for aggregate metrics and sends them to downstream storage to one or more supported sinks. It can also act as a global aggregator for histograms, sets and counters. The key advantage of this approach is that you only maintain, store ( and pay for ) the aggregated data rather than the tons of separate data points.
Operating Systems - Three Easy Pieces : free operating system book centred around three conceptual pieces that are fundamental to operating systems: virtualization, concurrency, and persistence
How the economics profession got it wrong on Brexit : Economist got the economy wrong... News at 11 .. Anyway, it's a very good analyse of the pitfalls that the various group fell into. And a good read to get a better understanding of the UK economy and how to reacts to large socio-economic events.
BDD100K : want data for your driverless car ?? Berkeley got you covered. [data][paper]
CRDT @ redis : I love CRDT and this talk about their use in Redis.
