We are engineers and designers, builders and makers delivering unrivaled products and services every day. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn. Join us.
In building an
#inclusiveworkplace
for our engineers, we commit to:
✅Removing technical terms with problematic origins or connotations from our vernacular & code over time
✅Changing default code branch names
✅Updating our training & documentation with more
#inclusive
language
WATCH: Pied Piper's Bertram Gilfoyle talks (rants) to
@EmilyChangTV
about the company's recent ICO and his opinion of banks, paper money and VCs (he's not a fan).
And... well... just watch.
#SiliconValleyHBO
WATCH:
@EmilyChangTV
interviews Jared Dunn and Richard Hendricks about why Gavin Belson should be afraid of Pied Piper's new internet.
Jared's answer: 🐎💩💩
#SiliconValleyHBO
WATCH:
@EmilyChangTV
recaps Pied Piper's growth to date:
-Closed Series A led by Bream-Hall ✔
-Settled into new offices ✔
-Acquired Sliceline ✔
Their next move?
-Promote Jared Dunn as COO ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#SiliconValleyHBO
A few weeks ago, we published our
#BloombergGPT
paper on arXiv. It's now been updated to include the training logs (Chronicles) detailing our team's experience in training this 50B parameter
#LargeLanguageModel
. We hope it benefits others.
#AI
#NLProc
#LLM
Preview Data for Good Exchange 2019's "Planet" track, which will look at the use of
#datascience
to tackle the
#SDGs
meant to protect the
#planet
from degradation so it can support the needs of the present & future generations
#D4GX
#SustainableDevelopment
We're excited to welcome
@kelseyhightower
, a software engineer & developer advocate known for his work with
@kubernetesio
&
#opensource
software, for a day-long visit to
@Bloomberg
HQ in NY today as part of our Distinguished Engineers Speaker Series.
Preview the panels, papers, workshops & presentations in the "People" track at Data for Good Exchange 2019 on Sunday, September 15th, that will look at the use of
#datascience
in tackling the
#SDGs
related to poverty & hunger
#D4GX
#SustainableDevelopment
Get a preview of the "Prosperity & Peace" track at Data for Good Exchange 2019 on Sunday, September 15th, which will look at the use of
#datascience
in tackling the
#SDGs
related to economic, social & technological progress
#D4GX
#SustainableDevelopment
Don't miss this month's
@Bloomberg
's
#Quant
(BBQ) Seminar Series on Wed., May 24 (5:30-7 PM EDT), feat. a keynote by
@nntaleb
entitled "Some Practical Problems in
#Probability
", plus lightning talks
-> LOCATION: 120 Park Ave
Register now:
#QuantFinance
At last week's Data for Good Exchange, this year's
#D4GX
Immersion Fellows presented the projects in which they used their
#datascience
skills to help 2 non-profits & 2 city governments unlock invaluable
#data
insights on a pro bono basis
#dataforgood
Congrats to Pradyun Gedam (
@pradyunsg
), an engineer w/ our Python Infrastructure team, on being promoted to
#CPython
core dev! 🎉
He's been active in the
#Python
🐍 packaging ecosystem since 2017, and works on pip,
@pypi
,
@ThePyPA
,
#Sphinx
, TOML, and more.
#bqplot
, the interactive plotting and charting library for
#JupyterNotebooks
, is becoming an independent
#opensource
project. As the first step in this process, we've moved it into its own organization on
#GitHub
.
Join us online next Thursday, June 25 (5:30-7 PM EDT) for
@Bloomberg
's
#Quant
(BBQ) Seminar Series, featuring a keynote by
@nntaleb
entitled "Fat Tails, Ellipticality & Diversification," followed by lightning talks.
Register now:
#fintech
#probability
We’re looking forward to TypeScript 3.8!
In addition to being a large user of
#TypeScript
, we make time to contribute back. Several Bloomberg software engineers collaborated with Microsoft’s
@TypeScript
team on the
#ECMAScript
Private Fields feature in this release.
#opensource
We just released TypeScript 3.8 Beta!
Try out our new features like type-only imports, and ECMAScript features like private fields, `export * as foo`, top-level 'await', and more!
Our C++ Guild welcomed Sean Baxter (
@seanbax
), author of the
#Circle
compiler for C++20, to Bloomberg HQ in New York this afternoon, where he talked with our software engineers about Circle/C++ Metaprogramming and how better features make better libraries.
#cpp
#cplusplus
#cpp20
With the support of our newest Visionary sponsor,
@TechAtBloomberg
, we are excited to be hiring a Project Manager for the Python packaging ecosystem.
Read more about position, it's goals, and how it came to fruition at
We are incredibly excited to welcome
@ThePSF
to Bloomberg London for this week's
#CPython
core developer sprint! Special thanks to
@PyLondinium
for donating this year's profits to the
#Python
🐍 Software Foundation to cover the core devs' travel and hotel costs!
Learn more about
#BlazingMQ
🔥, a new, scalable
#opensource
#messagequeue
system
@Bloomberg
published after 8 years of internal use. It provides persistence & strong message delivery guarantees in the face of transient software, hardware, or network issues
As we celebrate 🎉
#Python
's 🐍 30th anniversary, here are some facts about Python
@Bloomberg
:
⚒ 2,000+ of our software engineers use Python regularly
⌨ We've got 1M+ lines of Python code
🔥 We fired the Python interpreter over 3.7B times last month!
Thank you
@gvanrossum
!
Learn more about
#PyStack
, the amazing new
#opensource
debugging tool published by
@Bloomberg
. It can inspect the stack frames of a running
#Python
🐍 process or core file to determine what is happening -- all without having to understand CPython internals
Visit our new site to discover how we're using
#OpenSource
in our tech stack, the many ways our engineers are contributing to the open source ecosystem, and some of the
#OSS
projects born here
@Bloomberg
is the new home of
#opensource
at Bloomberg (
@TechAtBloomberg
). Learn more about the ‘Open Source First’ journey we’ve been on for the past two decades.
What an exciting day for the global
#Python
🐍 community -- and especially
@Bloomberg
's Python community, which has full production support for Python 3.10 from Day 1!
And special congratulations to
@pyblogsal
for his hard work successfully managing this milestone release!
🐍 Python 3.10 is finally released 🎉 Thanks to everyone who followed along with the release at the release party 😁. We are super excited to know what cool and exciting things you develop with this new version of the language 🧪. You can get it here:
We are excited to be hosting the
@openjsf
's 2024
@nodejs
Collaborator Summit in the
@Bloomberg
office in London this week (April 3-4)! We welcome all the participants and wish them a productive week discussing the future of
#Nodejs
!
#opensource
#JS
Guild Leaders from around the globe assembled in NYC this week to focus on increasing collaboration, impact, and engagement across our Guilds, technical "communities of interest" for our technologists that focus on advancing the adoption of specific technologies within Bloomberg
Today, our London Engineering Diversity & Inclusion team welcomes
@compassioncode
's
@aprilwensel
for a talk exploring the human side of software development, incl. practical ways to design, collaborate, code & perform more constructive code reviews
#techculture
#DiversityInAction
Congratulations to former
#D4GX
Immersion Fellow
@Yuan_Lai_
for being named to
@MIT
's faculty, where he'll be building a new undergrad major: Urban Science & Planning with
#ComputerScience
! Here's a look at the project he worked on for
@GCPBID
in 2017
We’ve signed a multi-year
#opensource
tech development & product integration agreement with
@ManGroup
around its
@ArcticDB
DataFrame database. The resulting product will enable key functionality in
@Bloomberg
’s BQuant: high-volume timeseries
#data
analysis
Our CTO
#DataScience
Speaker Series welcomes Ido Dagan of the
#NLProc
Lab
@BarIlanU
to
@Bloomberg
London. Today, this
@ACL_NLP
Fellow and 2018 Bloomberg Data Science Research Grant recipient will talk to our
#NLP
team about ways to consolidate and explore "open" textual knowledge
We're excited to host
@gregcons
at
@Bloomberg
London today as part of our Distinguished Engineers Speakers Series. She'll be talking with our software engineers about the importance of simplicity in
#coding
.
(1/6) Congratulations to the
#NLProc
researchers & engineers in our
#AI
Group who had 5 papers accepted for
#acl2020
, as well as their collaborators, many of whom are current and past
#DataScience
Grant recipients, Ph.D. Fellows and interns!
#acl2020nlp
Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards shares some background as to why
@Bloomberg
started the Data for Good Exchange (
#D4GX
) five years ago, with the goal of driving impactful change in the realm of social good using
#datascience
“I promise you, you don’t need to choose between your morality and your career. You can have both. Your
@Columbia
education challenged you to think in the moral sphere. Use that education.” —
@Bloomberg
CTO Shawn Edwards at
@CUSEAS
’ Class Day
#SEAStheWorld2019
#ROAR2019
Our CTO
#DataScience
Speaker Series welcomes
@UHouston
's
@thamar_solorio
for a talk via video with our
#AI
&
#NLProc
engineers & researchers about processing mixed-language data & her research around computational approaches for linguistic code-switching
Bloomberg Engineer &
#WG21
member Daniel Katz has led development on an experimental fork of the
#LLVM
#clang
compiler implementing support for
#reflection
in C++ as detailed in WG21 proposal P2996 (of which he's a co-author)
#cpp
#cplusplus
#cpp26
(1/3)
Our
#NLProc
Guild hosted a
#meetup
today in Mexico City with talks from local university researchers covering developments in
#NLP
analysis of news corpora in Spanish; Global Data's Ricardo Lezama &
#NLProc
Architect
@astent
also demonstrated how
@Bloomberg
applies NLP to news
Our London & NYC-based
#AI
researchers have developed a new approach to find more relevant, related facts in
#KnowledgeGraphs
; learn more about their efforts and
#SIGIR2018
paper