Gooooooood morning, Hyperspace!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- The Ghost in the Machine: An AI Perspective on the Soul
- Does AI make strong tech companies stronger?
- 2018’s Top Python and R Packages for Data Science and AI
- This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task
- Street Fighter II: The AI Engine
- The AI Programmer’s Bookshelf
- The Commerce Department is considering national security restrictions on AI
- The Tsetlin Machine outperforms neural networks
- Stowbots – Sort image downloads automatically using deep learning
- Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
- AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis
- Pandas dropping Python 2 support
Blockchain and decentralization
- Dop: Distributed Object Protocol
- “In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”
- The Octal Small Form Pluggable (OSFP) implements 400Gb Ethernet
- Unsolved Problems in Blockchain Sharding
- A happy numeric coincidence
- Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent
- Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQs
- Ten Years of Bitcoin
- Grin – A private and lightweight mimblewimble blockchain
- Blockchain at CMU and Beyond
Woman computer scientist of the week
Tamara «Tammy» G. Kolda is an American applied mathematician and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. She is noted for her contributions in computational science, multilinear algebra, data mining, graph algorithms, mathematical optimization, parallel computing, and software engineering. She is currently a member of the SIAM Board of Trustees and serves as associate editor for both the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. She received her bachelors degree in mathematics in 1992 from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and her PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland College Park in 1997. She was a Householder Postdoctoral Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1997 to 1999 before joining Sandia National Laboratories. Kolda received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2003, best paper prizes at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining and the 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, and has been a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2011. She was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2015.
Cloud and architecture
Development and languages
- The math’s not pretty on digital advertising’s future revenues?
- How Facebook tracks you on Android
- ResearchCoders: Find ideas from the scientific community for coding projects
- Radical Digital Painting
- I built a puzzle / programming challenge with a 0.125 BTC prize
- Lua/LuaJIT with C/C++/Java/JavaScript syntax
- How to write PCIe drivers in Rust, go, C#, Swift, Haskell, and OCaml
- Operational Calculus for Differentiable Programming
- PANE: Programming with visible data
- OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects
- Business Programming Languages and the Legibility of Programming
- GitHub is returning 502
- GitHub: Partial System Outage
- Childhood’s End: The digital revolution has turned into something else
- Google’s Fuchsia OS Confirmed to Have Android App Support via Android Runtime
- Coconut: Pythonic functional programming
- Doom 3 in WebAssembly
- Big ol’ ball o’ JavaScript
- Matrixprofile-ts – A Python library for timeseries motifs and discords
- Matrixprofile-ts – A Python library for timeseries motifs and discords
- Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language
- An experimental data-flow analysis tool for JavaScript
- Sanos Operating System Kernel
Quote of the week
{ajh} I always viewed HURD development like the Special Olympics of free software.
Enterprises
- Google terminated our start-up Google Play Publisher Account
- Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers
- Auto Dealers, Startups Try Amazon-Style Ordering for Cars
- Rethinking how we interview in Microsoft’s Developer Division
- CS 188 – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- How Google Maps calculates the shortest distance
- Abusing Amazon‘s Look Inside feature to leak unreleased content
- Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
- Google is aware of you making purchases
- Netflix Takes Down Episode of Hasan Minhaj’s Show in Saudi Arabia
- Google wins U.S. approval for radar-based hand motion sensor
- Tesla cuts prices as Model 3 deliveries narrowly miss estimates
- Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon
- Really, Google? (Or Why We Can’t Have Nice Wireless Networks)
- Migrating from Google Analytics
- PyTorch passes Keras on Google Trends Metric in the USA – gains on Tensorflow
- Google shifted $23B to tax haven Bermuda in 2017
- Tesla haters are parking their pickup trucks at Tesla Supercharger stations
- Tesla Is Now America’s Number One Premium Automotive Company
- Work on using AI to brain activity into speech
- Tesla Autopilot HW3 details
- Security Researcher Cracks Google’s Widevine DRM
- Investigating Nvidia’s Jetson AGX: A Look at Xavier and Its Carmel Cores
- Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence
Other news
- Hybrid qubits solve key hurdle to quantum computing
- The year in post-quantum crypto
- Hackers Make a Fake Hand to Beat Vein Authentication
- Windows file access performance compared to Linux
- VW Solves Quantum Chemistry Problems on a D-Wave Machine
- Saudis paying Sudanese fighters $10,000+ to fight in Yemen
- Open Source IDE for FPGAs as QtCreator Learns Verilog
- Catholic Church Used Bankruptcy for Sexual-Assault Cases. Others Following Suit
- The Void (Linux) distribution
- The Best Way to Learn Anything
- Hacking how we see
- Introduction to Quantum Cryptography
- A foreigner’s guide to WeChat payments in China
- Companies controlled by PE firms use bankruptcy to shed pension obligations
- Court rules universities may have duty to block websites that harass students
- Autumn – A macOS window manager for (Type|Java)Script hackers
- Learning KVM – implement your own kernel
- Detroit’s Big Comeback: Out of Bankruptcy, a Rebirth
- Inside an Epic Hotel Room Hacking Spree
- Medicare for All – How Can We Pay for It?
- How Atari created the iconic Star Wars arcade game
- What I learned at work this year
- How to Use JSON Web Tokens
- How does the brain learn by talking to itself?
- Softbank’s Imminent Writedown: The Folly That Was Taking Saudi Money
- Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died
- Learn and practice modern JavaScript
- A thread for Junior Developers/Engineers
- How to learn more as a C++ software engineer?
- How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code
- Learn EBPF Tracing: Tutorial and Examples
- Learning a new skill by putting in 45 minutes a day for a month
- Scientists Have ‘Hacked Photosynthesis’ in Search of More Productive Crops
- German politicians targeted in mass data attack
- 800 GiB torrents with 1500k public domain paywalled papers from before 1923
- Shopify Payment Providers. Explained in Fewer Than 3 Min
- Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted
- Io_submit and Linux AIO – The epoll alternative you’ve never heard about
- Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Climate Plan
- Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at airports
- California utility PG&E explores bankruptcy filing
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