Category: Tech Talk
YQL: An Introduction
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Mirek Grymuza and Josh Gordineer are members of the team that brings you YQL, the remarkable Yahoo data service that turns the internet into a database accessible via familiar SQL-style syntax. In this talk from YUICo...
Douglas Crockford: Programming Style & Your Brain
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In this talk from JaxConf 2012, Douglas Crockford discusses programming style and your brain, the relationship between the two and the importance of adopting a more rigorous programming style in your strive for loweri...
Machine Learning: The Basics, with Ron Bekkerman
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Stephen Woods: Creating Responsive HTML5 Touch Interfaces
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At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Stephen Woods shared his hard-won advice for building responsive touch-based interfaces using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. He also revealed how S...
Designing Data Visualizations with Noah Iliinsky
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In this talk, Noah lays out a great framework for how to determine what question you are actually trying to answer, what data you need (and what you don't) in order to answer that question, and the steps to take throu...
“Why Pi?” – from Donald Knuth’s Computer Musings
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http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/index.jsp Professor Donald Knuth discusses recent discoveries that have uncovered a fascinating relationship between circles and the theory of trees.
Machine Learning and Intelligence in Our Midst
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The creation of intelligent computing systems that perceive, learn, and reason has been a long-standing and visionary goal in computer science. Over the last 20 years, technical and infrastructural developments have c...
Going Native 2012 Keynote Stroustrup
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Going Native 2012, Bjarne Stroustrup. Move to 3:15 to jump straight into the talk.