Category: Artificial Intelligence
DPL Reading List – April 29, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. How Changing WebFonts Made Rubygems.org 10x Faster (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “WebFonts are awesome and here to stay. However, if used improperly, they can also impose a huge performance penalty. In this post, I explain how…
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DPL Reading List – April 8, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. The Linux Foundation And edX Offer Free Cloud Infrastructure MOOC (Thanks to Matt Babcock for recommending this article) – “Let’s be honest. Do you often feel like you really don’t know the cloud that well? I know I do, and I…
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DPL Reading List – January 29, 2016
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google – “The company has open sourced the artificial intelligence framework it uses to power speech recognition in its Cortana digital assistant and Skype Translate applications. This means that anyone in the world…
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DPL Reading List – December 30, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. How To Fix A Bad User Interface (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “Have you ever experienced a user interface that feels lifeless? Have you created a UI that just seems to be missing…something? If that’s the case,…
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DPL Reading List – September 4, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Technology Has Created More Jobs Than It Has Destroyed, Says 140 Years Of Data – “In the 1800s it was the Luddites smashing weaving machines. These days retail staff worry about automatic checkouts. Sooner or later taxi drivers will be fretting…
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DPL Reading List – July 17, 2015
Here are some of the articles we’ve been reading around this office this week. Making Companies Competitive By Expanding Design’s Role (Thanks to Jarrod Wubbels for recommending this article) – “It’s not good enough to delight your direct customers. You have to delight all the customers and employees down the supply chain. Your methods for…
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Taking on a BIG Storage Challenge
As IT Manager of Nebraska Global (including Don’t Panic Labs), I – along with Ted Larsen who is the other half of our entire IT department – face unique technology challenges every day. Sometimes they’re relatively simple, like recovering data after a hard drive failure. Sometimes they require a fair amount of physical agility, like…
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Why We Love Microsoft
So, I recently sent out a company-wide email regarding our firm’s favorite apps. I expected to see some obscure technical responses or maybe a couple Spotify-like cultural ones, but I did not expect to hear so much about Microsoft. Actually, I was shocked by what was returned. Of the responses, almost all of them referenced…
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500,000 Reps and Counting
In March, the EliteForm team celebrated a major milestone: 500,000 reps tracked by our PowerTracker system. If you’re not familiar with EliteForm, it’s a company we launched in 2012 that provides coaches a way to create workout designs in a web-based application (StrengthPlanner) and publish them to touchscreen based units mounted on weight racks (PowerTracker)….
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Bauerwulf: The Unit Test Accelerator
The EliteForm team recently faced a tough problem, and perhaps you’ve experienced something similar. We’re currently amassing loads of athlete workout video for further refinement of our PowerTracker product. PowerTracker, in short, is a hardware/software solution that uses video to analyze an athlete’s form in real time at the rack. This provides never-before-seen athletic analysis….
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