SREcon25 Americas - Using Statistical Techniques to Automatically Detect Game-Breaking Issues: A bit of math and python and transformers (take a line of text with words and extract semantic meaning which seems like vectorizing that input into a list of floating point numbers that can be used to look for similarity?) to find interesting clusters of events in a huge amount of logs (netflix)

[Jane Goodall: Discussing Chimpanzee Behavior (Full Episode)

Startalk

National Geographic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztjcf7iR5DE): Brilliant pre-covid startalk episode with Jane Goodall

[How One Of NYC’s Best Chefs Makes Pancakes

Made to Order

Bon Appétit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rWNO3bM_BY): Fluffy pancakes from Golden Diner in new york. Added to our list of spots to check out if we ever make it there :)

Introducing MavenGate: a supply chain attack method for Java and Android applications: Maven dependencies can be vectors for attack when library authors stop working on the project and let the domain lapse.
Python 3.14: Looks like a nice update. Performance is better and a few other things have been added / improved.
Built for SF by SF: AI Solutions Helping Our City Thrive: OpenAI dev day video with a few local projects in san francisco described. My favourites are the first and third vides - cleansf, and a future projection app for how city planners can improve neighbourhoods for people that live there.

The clean architecture

Important ideas:

Layers
Directionality of dependencies
Isolate business entities from externalities like frameworks, databases, connected systems, etc
How information is passed between layers (simple dictionaries, dtos, etc)

Feels like a tasteful way to organize application logic (ie the code we write) for understanding and maintainability.