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Watching Google AlphaGo play vs Humans
Cade Metz is watching Google’s AI engine take on human “Go” champions. He feels sad and elated at the same time. [Wired]
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Werner & A Decade of Amazon Cloud
Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of Amazon and the face of Amazon Web Services in a recent blog post reflected on the decade of Amazon Web Services and the ten lessons he has learned. Most importantly, when you go through the list, you realize that it is the template for modern software architecture.
What I love about Werner is that he can switch from talking about technology to philosophical and economic implications of technology and the cloud. I have had a chance to interview him on multiple times — all Structure Videos are somewhere on the web — and have had deeper discussions, many of them private. Getting a chance to learn from him was one of the highlights of my journalistic career.
Here are some articles I wrote about AWS over past decade:
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7 Stories to read this weekend (03.12.2016)
It was one of the wettest weeks in many years in San Francisco and that meant staying at home more often than usual. That also gave me an opportunity to get caught up with my emails, do some writing, finish a lot of work and of course read a ton. Here are seven of the most interesting stories from this week:
A century of fakers: A reported essay on the counterfeit goods trade and the global culture which drives up demand for these fake goods. [Hazlitt] A Marine’s conviction: A Naval Academy instructor makes a case that he is innocent and investigation into charges of sexual misconduct was wrong. One of the better pieces from the Washington Post. [The Washington Post] Too much TV: Television has a business model problem, and it is killing TV. [MediaRedef] The Rise & Fall of the King of Fracking: Chesapeake Energy… Continue readingContinue reading 7 Stories to read this weekend (03.12.2016)
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Watching Google AlphaGo play vs Humans
Cade Metz is watching Google’s AI engine take on human “Go” champions. He feels sad and elated at the same time. [Wired]
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Werner & A Decade of Amazon Cloud
Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of Amazon and the face of Amazon Web Services in a recent blog post reflected on the decade of Amazon Web Services and the ten lessons he has learned. Most importantly, when you go through the list, you realize that it is the template for modern software architecture.
What I love about Werner is that he can switch from talking about technology to philosophical and economic implications of technology and the cloud. I have had a chance to interview him on multiple times — all Structure Videos are somewhere on the web — and have had deeper discussions, many of them private. Getting a chance to learn from him was one of the highlights of my journalistic career.
Here are some articles I wrote about AWS over past decade:
Amazon CTO: Cloud & SaaS going global fast. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on… Continue readingContinue reading Werner & A Decade of Amazon Cloud