Devops, Docker and CD. Java Veteran. Financial Services System Engineering. Author. Mastodon: juliansgamble@techhub.social

Sydney, Australia
Joined December 2007
YOW Conference Sydney 2024 – Conference Review juliangamble.com/blog/2024/1… #YOW24
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Hey @Apple, I fixed it for you (sound on)
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DOOM on a Toothbrush? Sure!
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We just released our work on robot soccer. I've been working on this for quite some time with my amazing colleagues at DeepMind. It's exciting how deep RL can produce such beautiful behaviors with low-cost robots. Full paper is available at arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653 Enjoy!
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I was privileged to attend Simon Peyton Jone's Order of the British Empire (OBE) investiture. The medal was presented by HM Lord-Lieutenant Mrs Julie Spence OBE QPM on behalf of The King for his services to computing and his leadership of the UK computing at schools initiative.
RT @glennf …I couldn’t help thinking of Douglas Adams: “…the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” wired.com/story/god-did-us-a…
LEUKOCYTE: a complete musical overview of the human immune system hope @bts_bighit don't mind :)
From @GlennF Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking - TidBITS by @glennf@twit.social tidbits.com/2023/01/27/masto…
Lars Klint @larsklint at #YOW22 Are you truly happy? What are your goals? Be intentional. Do it. (and don't watch Netflix). juliangamble.com/blog/2022/1…
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Alison Rosewarne & Stewart Gleadow - Fighting Software Entropyat #YOW22 Insightful look at applying principles from physics in reversing entropy in product IT systems. juliangamble.com/blog/2022/1…
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James Lewis @boicy at #YOW22 Whenever you see hierarchies - you expect sublinear scaling (y less than x) - whether physical or informational - this is due to the shape of the network itself. juliangamble.com/blog/2022/1…
Simon Brown @simonbrown at #YOW22 demonstrates a system for individual teams maintaining a generated diagram of their system, and then loading that into an organisation view of all the integrated systems juliangamble.com/blog/2022/1…
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Sara Achour at #YOW22 leaves the room with their mouths open as she describes a compiler that can take an equation describing a dynamical system and output a hardware description for *non-digital logic* but still get your answer. juliangamble.com/blog/2022/1…
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Astrid Atkinson at #YOW22 "Every single action to help with decarbonisation matters - to have an impact is full of meaning and opportunity." "Applying the methods used to solve large-scale computing problems, like load balancing, to the challenges of the electricity grid"
Shout out to Aino Vonge Corry @apaipi for 20 Years of serving in the YOW, GOTO and QCON conferences. Thankyou! #YOW22
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Aino Vonge Corry at #YOW22 - "Gandalf was a manager who gave a high degree of autonomy. He will leave you to figure it out, and then turn up the last minute to deal with the dragon." juliangamble.com/blog/2022/1…
Fred George at #YOW22 "To be a change agent - you have to be willing to create a stink. Escalate and escalate. Don't be afraid to get a consultant to do this, when they say a crazy thing, you look reasonable." juliangamble.com/blog/2022/1…
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Michelle Gleeson at #YOW22 - you need sensible defaults for management to defend against decisions of inexperienced managers and to provide equitable decision making. juliangamble.com/blog/2022/1…
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Insights from Matt Ranney at #YOW22 "If you're using the phrase 'source of truth' then I know you're not committed to an 'always on' migration'". juliangamble.com/blog/2022/1…
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Shoutout to #Thoughtworks for their Lunchtime Smoothies using Pedal Power #YOW22