A surprising number of the entries for AI are about generative models that don’t generate text or artwork—specifically, they generate human voices or music. Is voice the next frontier for AI? Google’s AudioPaLM, which unites speech recognition, speech synthesis, and language mode … | Continue reading
Hyperautomation may only be a buzzword, but automating business systems with AI is an important trend. | Continue reading
If you want to work in any computational or technical field, you need to understand linear algebra. As the study of matrices and operations acting upon them, linear algebra is … - Selection from Practical Linear Algebra for Data Science [Book] | Continue reading
While many resources for network and IT security are available, detailed knowledge regarding modern web application security has been lacking—until now. This practical guide provides both offensive and defensive security … - Selection from Web Application Security [Book] | Continue reading
How might Copilot’s descendants change the craft of programming? | Continue reading
It’s a communications medium. | Continue reading
We need to be talking about access | Continue reading
If you use Linux in development or operations and need a structured approach to help you dive deeper, this book is for you. Author Michael Hausenblas also provides tips and … - Selection from Learning Modern Linux [Book] | Continue reading
There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts--difficult problems or issues with no best practices--that force you to choose among various compromises. With this … - Selection from Software Architecture: The Hard Parts [Book] | Continue reading
Data pipelines are the foundation for success in data analytics. Moving data from numerous diverse sources and transforming it to provide context is the difference between having data and actually … - Selection from Data Pipelines Pocket Reference [Book] | Continue reading
What will you learn from this book? Many people who use Git rely on "recipes"--copying and pasting commands they find on the internet without really understanding how Git actually works. … - Selection from Head First Git [Book] | Continue reading
What O'Reilly Learning Platform Usage Tells Us About Where the Industry Is Headed | Continue reading
Among the text editors being used in the programming community, perhaps the most important family is vi and its derivatives. With this updated edition, Unix and Linux users will learn … - Selection from Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 8th Edition [Book] | Continue reading
When it comes to writing efficient code, every software professional needs to have an effective working knowledge of algorithms. In this practical book, author George Heineman (Algorithms in a … - Selection from Learning Algorithms [Book] | Continue reading
GPT-3: NLP with LLMs is a unique, pragmatic take on Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, the famous AI language model launched by OpenAI in 2020. This model is capable of tackling … - Selection from GPT-3 [Book] | Continue reading
Learn how to program the Internet of Things with this hands-on guide. By breaking down IoT programming complexities in step-by-step, building-block fashion, author and educator Andy King shows you how … - Selection from Programming the Internet of Things [Book] | Continue reading
Rethinking Where Programming Is Headed | Continue reading
Machine Learning’s deployment stack is maturing | Continue reading
As data management and integration continue to evolve rapidly, storing all your data in one place, such as a data warehouse, is no longer scalable. In the very near future, … - Selection from Data Management at Scale [Book] | Continue reading
Selling your CTO on the merits of OpenShift and Kubernetes is only the beginning. To operate and scale OpenShift, you also need to know how to manage and expose resources … - Selection from Hybrid Cloud Apps with OpenShift and Kubernetes [Book] | Continue reading
Observability is critical for engineering, managing, and improving complex business-critical systems. Through this process, any software engineering team can gain a deeper understanding of system performance, so you can perform … - Selection from Observability Engineering [Book] | Continue reading
Time is a precious commodity, especially if you're a system administrator. No other job pulls people in so many directions at once. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, preventing you … - Selection from Time Management for System Administrators [Book] | Continue reading
Data analytics may seem daunting, but if you're an experienced Excel user, you have a unique head start. With this hands-on guide, intermediate Excel users will gain a solid understanding … - Selection from Advancing into Analytics [Book] | Continue reading
The code that holds our systems together | Continue reading
The code that holds our systems together | Continue reading
Elon Musk isn’t superman. He does have supermoney. | Continue reading
Labeling training data is the one step in the data pipeline that has resisted automation. It’s time to change that. | Continue reading
How do we build devices that are shared by default? | Continue reading
Early system administration required in-depth knowledge of a variety of services on individual systems. Now, the job is increasingly complex and different from one company to the next with an … - Selection from Modern System Administration [Book] | Continue reading
Chapter 4. Algorithms and Flow Control The overall structure of your code is one of the main determinants as to how fast it will execute. Having a very small amount … - Selection from High Performance JavaScript [Book] | Continue reading
The Next Critical Talent Shortage Won’t Be Fortran | Continue reading
This practical book provides a comprehensive overview of troubleshooting and performance tuning best practices for Microsoft SQL Server. Database engineers, including database developers and administrators, will learn how to identify … - Selection from SQL Server Advanced Troubl … | Continue reading
Risks of autoregressive language models and the future of prompt engineering | Continue reading
If you're just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want--whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed "the Llama" by two generations of users, this … - Selection from Learning Perl, 8th Edition [Book] | Continue reading
Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. With the latest edition of this popular … - Selection from Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript, 6th Edition [Book] | Continue reading
Four ways the party may be coming to an end | Continue reading
Stakeholder Capitalism Deserves Clearer Metrics | Continue reading