Same stats, different graphs: generating datasets with varied appearance and identical statistics through simulated annealing

October 31, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 5 Comments

Same stats, different graphs: generating datasets with varied appearance and identical statistics through simulated annealing Matejka & Fitzmaurice et al., CHI’17 Today’s paper choice is inspired by the keynote that Prof. Miriah Meyer gave at the recent Velocity conference in London, ‘Why an interactive picture is worth a thousand numbers.’ She made a wonderful and ... Continue Reading

Occupy the cloud: distributed computing for the 99%

October 30, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Occupy the cloud: distributed computing for the 99% Jonas et al., SoCC’17 ‘Occupy the cloud’ won the best vision paper award at the recent ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing event. In the spirit of a vision paper, you won’t find detailed implementation and evaluation information here, but hopefully you’ll find something to make you think. ... Continue Reading

Learning networking by reproducing research results

October 27, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 2 Comments

Learning networking by reproducing research results Yan & McKeown et al., SIGCOMM’17 Students taking Stanford’s Advanced Topics in Networking class have to select a networking research paper and reproduce a result from it as part of a three-week pair project. At the end of the process, they publish their findings on the course’s public Reproducing ... Continue Reading

The QUIC transport protocol: design and Internet-scale deployment

October 26, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 3 Comments

The QUIC transport protocol: design and Internet-scale deployment Langley et al., SIGCOMM’17 QUIC is a transport protocol designed from the ground up by Google improve the performance of HTTPS traffic. The chances are you’ve already used it - QUIC is deployed in Chrome, in the YouTube mobile app, and in the Google Search app on ... Continue Reading

Why does the neocortex have columns, a theory of learning the structure of the world

October 25, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 1 Comment

Why does the neocortex have columns, a theory of learning the structure of the world Hawkins et al., bioRxiv preprint, 2017 Yesterday we looked at the ability of the HTM sequence memory model to learn sequences over time, with a model that resembles what happens in a single layer of the neocortex. But the neocortex ... Continue Reading

Continuous online sequence learning with an unsupervised neural network model

October 24, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 1 Comment

Continuous online sequence learning with an unsupervised neural network model Cui et al., Neural Computation, 2016 Yesterday we looked at the biological inspirations for the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) neural network model. Today’s paper demonstrates more of the inner workings, and shows how well HTM networks perform on online sequence learning tasks as compared to ... Continue Reading

Why neurons have thousands of synapses, a theory of sequence memory in neocortex

October 23, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 5 Comments

Why neurons have thousands of synapses, a theory of sequence memory in neocortex Hawkins & Ahmad, Front. Neural Circuits 2016 It all began with a fascinating lunchtime conversation with Martin Thompson (@mjpt777), who mentioned to me a thought-provoking video he’d seen online from Jeff Hawkins regarding models of behaviour in the brain. A few days ... Continue Reading

Computing machinery and intelligence

October 20, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 9 Comments

Computing machinery and intelligence A.M. Turing, MIND 1950 This is most certainly a classic paper. We’ve all heard of the ‘Turing Test,’ but have you actually read the paper where Alan Turing defines it? I confess I hadn’t until recently, and there’s a whole lot more to it than I was expecting. Yes, it describes ... Continue Reading

Serverless computing: economic and architectural impact

October 19, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 18 Comments

Serverless computing: economic and architectural impact Adzic et al., ESEC/FSE’17 Today we have another paper inspired by talks from the GOTO Copenhagen conference, in this case Gojko Adzic’s talk on ”Designing for the serverless age.” It’s a case study on how serverless computing changes the shape of the systems that we build, and the (dramatic) ... Continue Reading

On understanding software agility – a social complexity point of view

October 18, 2017 ~ Adrian Colyer ~ 3 Comments

On Understanding Software Agility - A Social Complexity Point Of View Joseph Pelrine, E:CO 2011 With the background understanding of the Cynefin framework under our belts, today we turn our attention to the paper recommended by Linda Rising in her GOTO Copenhagen conference keynote earlier this month: “On understanding software agility - a social complexity ... Continue Reading

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Month: October 2017