This talk is by , Software Engineer at Spotify and was recorded at the Mobile Development meetup at Spotify in New York earlier this month. Mikael will cover how they build dynamic user interfaces on Android.
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Mar 152013
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Feb 132013
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A List of Data Science and Machine Learning Resources 15 mins Recently, we’ve been going big on big data tech around here and this article turned up in some of our research. In his talk yesterday at USV, Mike Abbott (former VP Eng at Twitter) commented on his justification for ‘big data’ enablement: “It’s now more cost effective to do machine learning on larger sets of data than ever before.” Who can disagree?. |
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Styling Android: Multiple displays . 10 mins
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