2021-07

The Netflix challenge. Fair or what? (Ep. 162)

Remember the Netflix challenge?
It was a ton of money for the one who would have cracked the problem of recommending the best possible movie.
Was it a fair challenge? Did it work?Let me tell you what happened...
 
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Artificial Intelligence for Blockchains with Jonathan Ward CTO of Fetch AI (Ep. 161)

In this episode Fetch AI CTO Jonathan Ward speaks about decentralization, AI, blockchain for smart cities and the enterprise.Below some great links about collective learning, smart contracts in Rust and the Fetch AI ecosystem.
Decentralised collective learning: https://github.com/fetchai/colearn
Smart contracting platform written in Rust https://docs.cosmwasm.com/docs/0.14/
Fetch.ai cosmwasm contracts for collective learning: https://github.com/fetchai/contract-learn
How the Colearn system works: https://vimeo.com/440365943

Apache Arrow, Ballista and Big Data in Rust with Andy Grove RB (Ep. 160)

Do you want to know the latest in big data analytics frameworks? Have you ever heard of Apache Arrow? Rust? Ballista? In this episode I speak with Andy Grove one of the main authors of Apache Arrow and Ballista compute engine.Andy explains some challenges while he was designing the Arrow and Ballista memory models and he describes some amazing solutions.
 
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References
 
https://arrow.apache.org/
 
https://ballistacompute.org/
 
https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista
 
 
 
 

GitHub Copilot: yay or nay? (Ep. 159)

It made already quite some noise in the news, GitHub copilot promises to be your pair programmer for life.In this episode I explain how and what GitHub copilot does. Should developers be happy, scared or just keep coding the traditional way?
 
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Pandas vs Rust [RB] (Ep. 158)

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