O'Reilly

JANUARY 6, 2020

Like reading, some people learn how to code with little training, and others don’t. Minecraft has unwittingly taught a generation of grade-schoolers how to program in Java. There are jobs for people who design plumbing fixtures, but you wouldn’t want them working in your bathroom. We need to think about how programming is taught.

Programming 98

Programming Artificial Intelligence Education Games 98

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. After several years of steady climbing—and after outstripping Java in 2017—Python-related interactions now comprise almost 10% of all usage.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” Each step has been a twist on “what if we could write code to interact with a tamper-resistant ledger in real-time?” But in its early form of a Hadoop-based ML library, Mahout still required data scientists to write in Java. Mental contortions led to code contortions led to frustration.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99