2021

• A Parrot Trainer Eats Crow
• Why don't developers give much cred to low-code/no-code tools?
• Embedded Binaries for Go

2020

• Tailored Learning
• The Rise of Small Data (aka Delegated Literacy)
• Thrifty Machine Learning
• Why UX will Get Worse Before it Gets Better
• Subplots with Yellowbrick
• The Music and Mayhem of Machine Translation

2019

• Designing Democratic APIs
• Sharding the Shards
• Model Selection Tutorial with Yellowbrick
• Module Main has No Attribute... (on Pipelines and Pickles)
• The Georeplication Bake-off
• Boxing and Unboxing - Kubernetes for ML
• On Style and Choices - PEP8 and Beyond
• Pop Distributed Systems
• Visual Diagnostics at Scale
• Converting Python 2 Pickles to Python 3

2018

• Finding Needles in Haystacks with Orca
• Distributed Hide and Seek
• Laissez-Faire in Distributed Systems
• The Old Block and Chain
• Trust and Consistency in Distributed Systems
• Playing Fast and Loose with RAM
• Parallel Snapshot Isolation
• Riddles of Consensus
• The Shared Log Abstraction
• Wimpy Nodes, Wise Nodes
• Predestination in Distributed Transactions
• Latency vs. Linearizability
• Slightly More Consistent
• Sinfonia and Dynamo
• Global Data Storage and Distributed Hashing
• Bolt-on Availability with Salt
• No Free Lunch, but Brunch All Day
• CMSC 818e Day 13
• Replication and Consistency for Social Media
• CMSC 818e Day 12
• CMSC 818e Day 11
• CMSC 818e Day 10
• The Algorithm Becomes the Teacher
• The Pains of Bureaucracy
• CMSC 818e Day 8
• Nuts and Bolts Consistency
• How Stale is too Stale?
• CMSC 818e Day 7
• Eventually Consistent Distributed Systems
• CMSC 818e Day 6
• What are Protocol Buffers?
• CMSC 818e Day 5
• Everything Old is New Again
• CMSC 818e Day 4
• Optimizing cloud storage (but sacrificing privacy?)
• The Elephant file system
• CMSC 818e Day 3
• A Low-Bandwidth Network Filesystem
• A Log-Structured Filesystem
• What is a Filesystem?
• CMSC 818e Day 2
• CMSC 818e Day 1
• Lessons Learned from Effective Go, Part 2
• Notes on Immutability
• Lessons Learned from Effective Go, Part 1
• The Actor Model, for Actors and Models
• A System Health Check in Go
• Words in Space
• Getting Started with Go
• SPARQL Queries for Local RDF Data
• SPARQL from Python
• RDF Basics
• Introduction to Document Similarity with Elasticsearch
• Visualizing High-Performance Gradient Boosting with XGBoost and Yellowbrick
• Creating Categorical Values from Continuous Values

2017

• Colorizing text based on part-of-speech tags
• Comparing machine learning models with Scikit-Learn and Yellowbrick
• Making Interactive Visualizations with Python Using Bokeh
• Hello World