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Of Checklists, Ethics, and Data with Emily Miller and Peter Bull (Cross Post from Podcast.__init__) - Episode 53

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary As data science becomes more widespread and has a bigger impact on the lives of people, it is important that those projects and products are built with a conscious consideration of ethics. Keeping ethical principles in mind throughout the lifecycle of a data project helps to reduce the overall effort of preventing negative outcomes from the use of the final product.

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Singleton Types

Zalando Engineering

A Scala 3 Experiment I'll start this post by admitting that I’ve never gone deeply into any kind of Scala coding on the typelevel. It's not what I, as a common application (or microservice) developer, usually need. Having stated that, of course, I might be missing out on a whole world of opportunities for better code without knowing. And because of that, I put some effort into trying to understanding the features of Scala that might sound strange, overly-theoretical, and maybe even useless, at f

Scala 40