Picking Winners : the authors propose a framework for venture capital investment. However, I feel that there is a major flaw in the approach as it is designed to correlate previous success with future investment success. This assumes a high degree of repeatability with clear identifiable elements. The model can suffer from the purple cow effect where higher growth opportunities are located in underserved segments. As a result, quite often by following the model, you might suffer from diminishing returns.
Aftershocks in a complex system : the authors look at the behaviour of a complex system ( currency market) after a catastrophic event. They discovered that often such system follows a similar pattern to the one exist in earthquake's aftershock. In extenso, after an initial catastrophic event, most systems suffer a series of gradually diminishing aftershock spaced in time.
ISC Workshop 2017 : all about container and optimisation for high-performance workloads.
Classic Papers : a collection of highly-cited papers in their area of research that has stood the test of time. For each area, we list the ten most-cited articles that were published ten years earlier.
Operating Model Canvas : a set of tools and model to help to align operations and organisation with strategy.
Origami anything : New algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.
An Introduction to BeeGFS : Fraunhofer distributed parallel file system for HPC system. Mainly a concurrent of Lustre I would say. This had potential and they are making a foray into the business side of storage. Let's see how well they fare. [website]
Kubernetes Production Patterns and anti-patterns : a lot of common sense, actually a lot of the patterns and anti-patterns can be applied to the other environments. But still a good refresher.
Large-Scale Analysis of the Ripple Cryptocurrency Network : an overview of the paper analysing the Ripple p2p blockchain based money transaction network. Turns out it suffer the same issue that "old school" p2p network. Take out the highly connected nodes and you can bring down / split the network. Nothing new, but still a good read and reminder that small network tends to be resilient to attack. But, if their resiliency diminishes with the increased reliance on a small number of highly connected nodes.
Spellbook of Modern Web Dev : like an awesome list for javascript development but with more thought and structure. Must read for front end javascript devs.
Microdot : not a .net guy but here is a framework for easily creating .NET Microservices with Orleans
Rust Optimization : a lot of stuff can be applied to any language. But, there is some nugget of information for Rust language in this document.
Lectures on Statistics : 2003 lecture note on statistics, pretty much cover all the basics of what you need to know about stats.
Highly Available Transactions : the authors looks at the state of the database transactions system and well like any good scientist their conclusion is that there is more research to be done. But more seriously, highly available transactions and system need to be perfected and new semantics with hybrid systems are required to be developed in order to ensure the availability of transactions.
Capability Models for Manycore Memory Systems : Programming for manycores system is hard, optimising them is even harder. In this paper, the authors try to design models that help programmers to deliver efficient software for these type of hardware architecture. [slides]
