Meaningful Availability : google folks propose a different interpretation of availability in this paper. The authors propose a new metric called "windowed user-uptime". The objective of this metric is to measure user perceived uptime combined with calculating the availability over many windows in order to identify transient vs long periods unavailability.
riskquant : Netflix Python library for quantifying risk
Does legalizing retail marijuana generate more benefits than costs ? : the authors look at the impact of legalizing marijuana in Colorado and tries to quantify its impact by analysing the change in the housing market. Spoiler: it seems that there was a significant positive impact from the legalization of the house price due to a strong increase in housing demand.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb technical Incerto: A mathematical parallel version of the Taleb's Incerto books
Automation memory lapse danger : forgetting how to do things after automating everything is one of the major risk. Relearning , making the same mistake again when you need to upgrade / change or worse fix the system after a major breakdown becomes a major challenge.
Dis-aggregating disk : well its all about trade off but slowly the classic storage paradigm is moving away from the current models. However it will take some times until all the different pieces fall into place enabling seamless dis-aggregation. In the mean time the idea is slowly percolating throughout the community.
Mirador : tools for visual exploration of complex datasets
