From WoW and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 to Stack Overflow and Wikipedia, we talk about building and maintaining healthy communities online. The post Podcast 330: How to build and maintain online communities, from gaming to open source appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
Comparing summary statistics like the mean and median can help us understand how these variables are related, but we can learn even more by using visualizations. The post Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 3 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/01/level-up-mastering-python-with-statistics-part-3/
Teaching AI to master games without knowing the rules may help to lay the foundation for more general intelligence in real world environments. The post Podcast 317: Chatting with Google’s DeepMind about the future of AI appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/02/podcast-317-deepmind-google-ai-deep-learning-muzero/
While many introductory statistics classes teach the CLT, very few actually attempt to prove it because that requires some complex math. In this session, we'll bypass all that math by using Python loops to simulate the CLT. The post Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 4 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/02/level-up-mastering-statistics-with-python-part-4/
In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices. The post Best practices can slow your application down appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/03/best-practices-can-slow-your-application-down/
Think of your code quality as if it will run forever, but adapt to change as if your code will be obsolete tomorrow. The post Podcast 318: What’s the half-life of your code? appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/05/podcast-318-whats-the-half-life-of-your-code/
Welcome to ISSUE #63 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week, Part 2 of our Level Up series digs into Python libraries, a passionate article argues Java is great for low latency systems, and the podcast team discusses the security… The post The Overflow #63: What I wish I had known about single page applications appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
IaC allows developers to supply IT environments with multiple lines of code and can be deployed in a matter of minutes (in contrast to manual infrastructure, which can take hours if not days to be deployed). The post Infrastructure as code: Create and configure infrastructure elements in seconds appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
A crack team of nerds trying to break through their employer's defenses. The post Podcast 319: Building a bug bounty program for the Pentagon appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/09/podcast-319-building-a-bug-bounty-program-for-the-pentagon/
Rather than dig into complex math or over-simplify by using a pre-written function, we'll write our own binomial test function, primarily using base Python. In the process, we'll learn more about how hypothesis testing works and build intuition for how to interpret a p-value. The post Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 5 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/03/09/level-up-mastering-statistics-with-python-part-5/