Gooooooood morning, Society!!! 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
- Zeta: Functional Neural Networks in Ocaml
- A Bottom-Up View of Kotlin Coroutines
- Audio pre-processing for Machine Learning: Getting things right
- The idea of a ‘robot tax’ is gaining steam
- Language Learning with Netflix extension
Works for lots of other foreign languages too! - HuggingFace fast tokenization library for deep-learning NLP pipelines
💥Fast State-of-the-Art Tokenizers optimized for Research and Production – huggingface/tokenizers - Challenges of real-world reinforcement learning – the morning paper
- Team Builds the First Living Robots
- Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution
- Dialogflow and Sendgrid = AI Mailbox
- A scalable pipeline for designing xenobots (reconfigurable organisms)
- Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
Daniel Kahneman is winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for his integration of economic science with the psychology of human behavior, judgment and decision-making. He is the author of the popular book “Thinking, Fast and Slow” that summarizes in an accessible way his research of several decades, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky, on cognitive biases, prospect theory, and happiness. The central thesis of this work is a dichotomy between two modes of thought: “System 1” is fast, instinctive and emotional; “System 2” is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The book delineates cognitive biases associated with each ty - How the U.S. military thinks about AI
- Using neural networks to solve advanced mathematics equations
- Programmatically Interpretable Reinforcement Learning
- DIPY: Library for computational neuroanatomy, focusing mainly on dMRI analysis
- Computational Power Found in the Arms of Neurons
- Why we’re writing machine learning infrastructure in Go, not Python
Blockchain and decentralization
- Pijul: a distributed version control system (written in Rust)
- An open-source distributed graph database written in C++
- Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++
- Ouroboros – A Decentralized Packet Network
- PyTorch 1.4: Custom mobile builds, distributed model parallel, Java bindings
- Feller’s coin-tossing puzzle: tidy simulation in R
Woman computer scientist of the week
Sarah Allen is an American software developer and entrepreneur. Allen attended Brown University in Rhode Island, where she majored in computer science and visual arts. Early in her career, she led the development of Adobe Shockwave Multiuser Server, Flash Media Server, and Flash video, and co-founded the company that created Adobe After Effects. In 2013, Allen was selected for the Presidential Innovation Fellows program working with the Smithsonian Institution.
Cloud and architecture
- Autonomous Rust Unikernels in Google Cloud
- Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Run is the perfect deployment system for all your side projects. It is dirt cheap, fully managed serverless and scalable. - AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
- Security Architecture Anti-Patterns
- Gitlab Switching CDN’s (Fastly – CloudFlare)
- Principles to help you design and deploy a zero trust architecture
Development and languages
- We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers
- Rete: JavaScript framework for visual programming and creating node editor
JavaScript framework for visual programming and creating node editor – retejs/rete - Wasm3 – A high performance WebAssembly interpreter in C
- DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Android in the EU
- Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?
- Trends for Social Networks, Messengers, and Digital Media
- Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3
- Highlights from Git 2.25
- CleverCSV: A Drop-In Replacement for Python’s CSV Module
- Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast
- Digital Twins Are Reinventing Innovation
- Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability
- Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
- Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
- Stack-Oriented Programming
- Pragmatic Array Oriented Functional Programming
- Windows Terminal Preview v0.8 Release
- Breaking Chains with Pipelines in Modern JavaScript
- Chain of Fools: What We Know So Far on Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability
- CrossHair – SMT Assisted Testing for Python
- A GitHub repo of jobs listings with bounties
Github Based Jobs Listings. Contribute to zcor/githubjobs development by creating an account on GitHub. - On Pair Programming
- DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing
DDSP: Differentiable Digital Signal Processing. Contribute to magenta/ddsp development by creating an account on GitHub. - Exploiting the Windows Cryptoapi Vulnerability
- A new browsing experience arrives in Firefox for Android Nightly
We tested Firefox Preview, the new Firefox experience for Android, together with our users for 6 months. Now it’s coming to Firefox for Android Nightly. - Microsoft Project Verona GitHub Repo
Research programming language for concurrent ownership – microsoft/verona - Centric, a Programmable Automation Server
- DigitalOcean is laying off staff
- Blazor Mobile, Uno Platform, and WebAssembly
- Inside the digital clock from a Soyuz spacecraft
- 1.5kb Microkernel for Ben Eater’s 6502 Computer
Micro Kernel / Bootloader for Ben Eater’s 6502 Computer – janroesner/sixty5o2 - OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative
Super Easy All-In-One DevOps Platform. Contribute to theonedev/onedev development by creating an account on GitHub.
Quote of the week
The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.
— Bram Cohen
Enterprises
- Paging Dr. Google: How the Tech Giant Is Laying Claim to Health Data
- Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4B acquisition
- Why I Quit Using Google
- Google vs. Oracle: The Supreme Court will decide software development’s future?
- Tesla Surges Above $500, Leaving Analyst Targets in the Dust
- Stripe launches Increment Magazine print subscription
- Even Google forgets to renew its domains
- Equinix is acquiring Packet
- Mute.vc – Mute Investors on Twitter
- Google acquires AppSheet
- Forced migration to Google Sheets API v4
When I read that Google is forcing developers to migrate from Google Sheets API v3 to v4, I was mad. Here’s why. - Toyota Camry Cheaper to Fuel Than a Tesla Model 3
- More Incidious Google Nonsense. Dump Chrome and Gulag Now
- Elon, your Customer Support at Tesla is even worse than I claimed last time
- Apple Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company Xnor.ai
- Google is killing off Chrome apps
They’ll stop working on Windows, macOS, and Linux first. - Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030
- How Tesla’s battery costs impact its gross margins
- Google Reaches 1T in market value
Google’s parent company joins Apple, Amazon and Microsoft as the only companies to hit a $1 trillion valuation, highlighting the technology sector’s steady market leadership. - Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund
- Google offers certificate to help IT career growth
Grow with Google announces IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate and new Google.org scholarships. - Gathering Intel on Intel AVX-512 Transitions
- PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon’s tactics before House committee
The CEO alleged a pattern of over-the-phone threats. - A “new” Amazon waffle maker came with an old crusty-looking waffle already in it
Other news
- How to Learn How to Surf
- Customizable Tiny Linux OS for Your Development Needs Optimized for Chromebooks
- FBI Surveillance Vendor Threatens to Sue Tech Reporters for Crime of Journalism
- Two women quietly reading books in an SF bar started an introvert revolution
- Soaring SUV sales keep carmakers on collision course with climate policy
- TBTK v2.0 – Second Quantization for C++
- Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
We should look at individuals—not national averages—as the unit of analysis, and ask: Are wages adequate for full-time workers? - Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
- The Horsewomen of the Belle Époque
- Education and Men without Work
- Map/Reduce for Mortals
- Back to Microsoft: Using Windows again so I can use Linux effectively
- Lessons Learned from Writing the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide
- Apple’s “monopsony” power, and the woman who named it
- Ariane is a 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux
- Reverse engineering course
Reverse engineering course by Z0F. Focuses on x64 Windows. – 0xZ0F/Z0FCourse_ReverseEngineering - An algorithm that learns through rewards may show how our brain does too
- SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy
Latest launch includes ‘DarkSat’ prototype to reduce reflection from fleets of broadband Internet satellites. - Rotten Stem: How Technology Corrupts Education
- What DoorDash pays, after expenses, and what’s happening with tips
- Study finds billions of quantum entangled electrons in ‘strange metal’
- Weleakinfo.com Domain Name Seized: Site Had Sold Access to Hacked PII and Logins
- An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to start your argument with ‘everyone knows,’ but in this case, I think we ought to make an… - An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to start your argument with ‘everyone knows,’ but in this case, I think we ought to make an… - California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio
The proposal would only apply to companies that post at least $10 million of taxable income from business conducted in California.
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