ISSUE 299 ·   August 18, 2020        

Insight

Adventures in Improving AI Economics

There are enormous opportunities for AI-driven businesses but AI businesses are hard to build efficiently. In this post, Martin Casado and Matt Bornstein from Andreessen Horowitz explore some of the key challenges and how they're being tackled by top teams in industry.
a16z 

Opinion - Data Scientists Should Be More End-to-End

Should you be a generalist or a specialist? Not everyone will agree but Eugene Yan makes a great case in this post that generalists are more effective on data science teams.
Eugene Yan

Profiles

Production machine learning for agriculture

Most people don't realize it but farming has become a data-driven tech industry. In this tour, Chris Padwick walks through the capabilities of the coming generation of smart AG machines and if you're not already familiar with this space, it's impressive!
PyTorch Blog | Blue River Technology

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Tools & Techniques

Computational Causal Inference at Netflix

This announcement on the Netflix Tech Blog introduces a new field to watch! Computational Causal Inferences aims to develop software specializing in causal inference that can analyze massive datasets with a variety of causal effects, in a performant, general, and robust way.
Netflix Tech Blog

Announcing the new Jupyter Book

Jupyter Book is an open source project for building interactive websites and publication-quality documents using computational content. This new version uses the Sphinx Documentation Engine and offers a souped-up version of Markdown, smarter builds and more output types.
Jupyter Blog

Announcing the Consortium for Python Data API Standards

This new initiative aims to develop API standards for n-dimensional arrays and dataframes to help fix software fragmentation.
Data APIs

danfojs: powerful javascript data analysis toolkit

DanfoJS is a new open-source, JavaScript library that provides high-performance, intuitive, and easy-to-use data structures for working with structured data. It's inspired by the Pandas library and provides a similar interface and API. 
GitHub | opensource9ja

How to Create a Mind-Blowing Presentation

For anyone who might have an important presentation coming up, this framework by Grace Teoh is next-level. It's not just that her approach is incredibly well organized and thorough, check out her online meeting setup in part 3. Wow.
Lightdotlab

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