3 promising areas for AI skills development
O'Reilly survey results and usage data reveal growing trends and topics in artificial intelligence.
Ideas
What's on our radar.
A quick reminder on HTTPS everywhere
HTTPS "everywhere" means everywhere—not just the login page, or the page where you accept donations. Everything.
Four short links: 14 August 2018
Hyrum's Law, Academic Torrents, Logic Textbook, and Suboptimal Fairness
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3 core principles of design thinking
How design thinking works, and how it integrates with product development.
Skydeck turns research into reality
UC Berkeley’s startup accelerator takes university research discoveries and helps translate them into marketable products.
Collaborative design fuels shared understanding—the fundamental currency of Lean UX
Lean UX begins with the idea that user experience design should be a collaborative process.
Why we need to think differently about AI
General intelligence or creativity can only be properly imagined if we peel away the layers of abstractions.
5 findings from O'Reilly's machine learning adoption survey companies should know
New survey results highlight the ways organizations are handling machine learning's move to the mainstream.
Case studies in data ethics
These studies provide a foundation for discussing ethical issues so we can better integrate data ethics in real life.
5 things you should be monitoring
Achieve high-impact systems monitoring by focusing on latency, errors, throughput, utilization, and blackbox monitoring.
10 practical talks you won’t want to miss at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in New York 2018
Get advice and insight from speakers who have tackled the challenges you face.
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4 steps for creating design principles
Principles help you align your team quickly around a shared set of product guidelines.
How privacy-preserving techniques can lead to more robust machine learning models
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Chang Liu on operations research, and the interplay between differential privacy and machine learning.
4 personal and tool-based methods for creating strong feedback loops
Practical examples of how to integrate personal and tool-based feedback into your code review process.
How to design bot conversations
Tools to fine-tune the wording, formatting, and other aspects of conversation to render rich interactions.
The future of data storage lies in the foundation of biology
DNA holds the key to storing vast amounts of digital data
120+ live online training courses opened for August and September
Get hands-on training in blockchain, machine learning, Python, Java, management, and many other topics.
Data's day of reckoning
We can build a future we want to live in, or we can build a nightmare. The choice is up to us.
How companies can get started with AI
The program for our Artificial Intelligence Conference in London is structured to help companies that are still very much in the early stages of AI adoption.
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How information architecture facilitates information finding
Strategies for assisting users in their journey to find information.
9 critical tools for designing a product
Product design is not a linear process. It’s a set of tools.
The five Cs
Five framing guidelines to help you think about building data products.
How to take machine learning from exploration to implementation
Recognizing the interest in ML, the Strata Data Conference program is designed to help companies adopt ML across large sections of their existing operations.
Be smart with responsive web design
By being intentional and deliberate in your approach, you can build an excellent user experience that performs well regardless of screen size.
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O’Reilly Radar: Open source tool trends—What our users tell us
Roger Magoulas shares insights about the open source tools ecosystem based on analysis of usage and search data from O'Reilly's learning platform.
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Building with open source at the world’s largest home improvement retailer
Angie Brown explains how Home Depot uses open source in its stores, online search, order management, analytics, and more.
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Open source opens doors for vets
Jerome Hardaway explains how Vets Who Code uses open source to create job opportunities for veterans.
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The importance of community
Patricia Posey draws on her non-traditional journey into tech to illustrate how honest investments can build a sustainable community that is integral to the advancement of its members.
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O'Reilly Open Source Awards 2018
The O’Reilly Open Source Awards recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software.
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Better health insights by unlocking data
Mahdi Yusuf discusses new ways to unlock potential from the data you generate with smart health devices.
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20 years later, open source is as important as ever
Sarah Novotny outlines two reasons why open source continues to be important: choice and infrastructure.
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Open sourcing quantum: Get ready to help build a new future
Jay Gambetta explores Qiskit, an open-source framework that aims to make quantum computing accessible for everyone.
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How to use goals to improve a product’s UX
Measuring each stage of the user journey allows you to measure conversions and improve user experience.
Specialized hardware for deep learning will unleash innovation
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Andrew Feldman on why deep learning is ushering a golden age for compute architecture.
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Recognizing cultural bias in AI
Camille Eddy explains what we can do to create culturally sensitive computer intelligence and why that's important for the future of AI.
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Live coding: OSCON edition
Suz Hinton live codes an entertaining hardware solution in front of your eyes.
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The next big wave
Zaheda Bhorat explores the next wave of open source contributions.
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Christopher Ferris says Hyperledger was formed to help deliver blockchain technology for the enterprise. Two and a half years later, that goal is being realized.
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Drive innovation and collaboration through open source projects
Ying Xiong explains how Huawei collaborates with industry leaders and innovates through open source projects.
Highlights from the O'Reilly OSCON Conference in Portland 2018
Watch highlights covering open source, AI, cloud, and more. From the O'Reilly OSCON Conference in Portland 2018.
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Open source and open standards in the age of cloud AI
Tim O'Reilly looks at how we can extend the values and practices of open source in the age of AI, big data, and cloud computing.
Data collection and data markets in the age of privacy and machine learning
While models and algorithms garner most of the media coverage, this is a great time to be thinking about building tools in data.
Editing our world: CRISPR and the future of genomics
The basic technology behind gene editing and a conversation between Jennifer Doudna and Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Of oaths and checklists
Oaths have their value, but checklists will help put principles into practice.
MLflow: A platform for managing the machine learning lifecycle
An overview of the challenges MLflow tackles and a primer on how to get started.
How to choose and deploy a service mesh
O’Reilly Media Podcast: George Miranda discusses the benefits and challenges of a service mesh, and the best ways to get started using one.
Data engineering: A quick and simple definition
Get a basic overview of data engineering and then go deeper with recommended resources.
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Master card sorting for more effective information architecture
How to use research to organize information intuitively.
How to decide what product to build
Techniques for defining a product and building and managing a team.
What machine learning means for software development
“Human in the loop” software development will be a big part of the future.
Doing good data science
Data scientists, data engineers, AI and ML developers, and other data professionals need to live ethical values, not just talk about them.
Do you need a service mesh?
Learn why this new tool is a critical component in microservice-based architectures.
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Segueing into a product role
The clearest path to a product management role is at your current organization.
How to design a product at a startup
It's all about building an MVP.
Data regulations and privacy discussions are still in the early stages
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Aurélie Pols on GDPR, ethics, and ePrivacy.
120+ new live online training courses for July and August
Get hands-on training in machine learning, software architecture, Java, Kotlin, leadership skills, and many other topics.
TensorFlow Day is coming to OSCON
Explore TensorFlow’s applications and its community on July 17 at TensorFlow Day at OSCON.
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Career paths for product managers
Product managers are in hot demand and have myriad career options, from executive management to solutions consulting to just staying put.
Responsible IoT design
We should take the impact our designs have on others' lives as seriously as we take the need for profit and competitive advantage.
Why learning is the foundation of a solid talent strategy
Progressive organizations know that learning is as much about recruitment and retention as it is about development.
Testing machine learning interpretability techniques
The importance of testing your tools, using multiple tools, and seeking consistency across various interpretability techniques.
AI's desire
It’s easy to imagine an AI winning a game of Go, but can you imagine an AI wanting to play a game of Go?
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Use design sprints to reduce a product's risk of failure
How sprints can help separate the good ideas from the bad.