Friday, 20th October 2017
Serverless is a somewhat unhelpfully misleading term for “highly scalable stateless code”. All the times I’ve seen serverless stuff work really well it was workloads that were usually zero but occasionally 30k/sec without warning. I’ve run a company with that kind of workload and serverless stuff would have saved us a ton of money. Publishing to the [npm] registry could be done as a serverless app but there’s little benefit because we do not get huge spikes in publishing. We get huge spikes in *downloads* but serverless isn’t useful there because it’s a read-only case and very little processing is done. Serverless is a great solution to one type of problem. It’s very seldom the case that you can convert all your problems into that shape.
— Laurie Voss # 2:54 pm
Hey Siri: An On-device DNN-powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant (via) “The “Hey Siri” detector uses a Deep Neural Network (DNN) to convert the acoustic pattern of your voice at each instant into a probability distribution over speech sounds. It then uses a temporal integration process to compute a confidence score that the phrase you uttered was “Hey Siri”. If the score is high enough, Siri wakes up.” # 3:48 am
React is the new Dojo. In which Mikeal Rogers provides his perspective on the history of Dojo, the earliest break-out JavaScript framework, how jQuery eclipsed it and contemplates the same thing eventually happening to React. # 12:22 am