Popular DevOps Tools

Popular tools to use at each phase of the DevOps process. The 8 phases of a DevOps pipeline: Dev Continuous Development Plan – Feature, Story and Backlog creations and their documentaion take place Scrum, Slack, Jira, Git, SVN, Mercurial, CVS Code – feature development and implementation Maven, Gradle, Apache Ant, Python Invoke, Ruby Rake, Packer…

The Dead

The Dead, by James Joyce, is a quick read.  At 58 pages you can finish it in one sitting.  Having a huge interest in how the mind works I recently started exploring psychology and philosophy.  The Dead was recommended to me after buying of few of those books. It was an interesting read for me…

Euthyphro

Euthyphro “Euthyphro, by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue whose events occur in the weeks before the trial of Socrates, between Socrates and Euthyphro. The dialogue covers subjects such as the meaning of piety and justice. As is common with Plato’s earliest dialogues, it ends in aporia.” Wikipedia   I read Euthyphro in one sitting tonight. …

The Intent Engine status update & Rasa in AWS

Rasa in AWS ECS https://medium.com/tech-that-works/running-rasa-bot-with-aws-ec2-c08ed3b02455 Choose EC2 > 16GB (preferable is 32GB) Rasa needs TensorFlow, spacy models that have a considerable footprint (~8GB) so I would suggest to use at least 16 GB memory. https://medium.com/graymatrix/rasa-in-aws-ecs-ab971c9cf5d3 The first week of this year has been spent creating a page for The Intent Engine on TrailSix.com.  I started…

Siri, Alexa, and similar technologies are “incredibly stupid” when it comes to understanding language

Siri, Alexa, and similar technologies are “incredibly stupid” when it comes to understanding language Siri, Alexa, and similar technologies are “incredibly stupid” when it comes to understanding languag Boris Katz has spent his career trying to help machines master language. He believes that current AI techniques aren’t enough to make Siri or Alexa truly smart.…

Why “Hook” by Blues Traveler is actually a pretty genius work of metafiction

Why “Hook” by Blues Traveler is actually a pretty genius work of metafiction The album may or may not be obsolete, but the fact remains: Listeners have long obsessed over individual songs. The Single File is The A.V. Club’s look at the deep cuts, detours, experiments, and anthems that make us reach for replay. Source:…