Nifty Things for Week of December 19

These are various and sundry interesting things I’ve come across during the week.

Random

• The Icelandic word for raccoon is þvottabjörn which means “laundry bear.” — @SamuelMoen

All the Pretty Things

• Christmas Experiments: Advent Calendar of Open Web Technologies

Cloud Computing

• StackStorm vs. AWS Lambda: Event-Driven Computing vs. Event-Driven Operations
• AWS Lambda
• Announcing Snappy Ubuntu Core

Data & Visualization

• Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining
• Hokusai — Sketching Streams in Real Time
• Probabilistic Data Structures for Go
• MetricsGraphics.js
• Self Organizing Map
• Data Visualization with JavaScript
• Mermaid — Generation of diagram and flowchart from text in a similar manner as markdown
• Anode — Utility for analyzing graphite metrics
• Use Random Forest: Testing 179 Classifiers on 121 Datasets

Programming and Development

• Artificial Intelligence for Ruby
• Introduction to IndexedDB: The In-Browser Database

Philosophy

• Do Artifacts have Ethics?
• Neil Postman’s 6 Questions (+1 from me)
• The Case for Slow Programming

Tools

• Astral — tag and organize starred Github repositories
• Big Picture — (almost) infinitely scrollable canvas for note taking and mind maps

Conferences

• Monitorama