Gooooooood morning, Folk!!! 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
- KarateClub a Python library for unsupervised machine learning on graphs
- Hospitals Deploy AI Tools to Detect Covid-19 on Chest Scans
- Why we do machine learning engineering with YAML, not notebooks
Notebooks are great for designing models, not deploying them. - A tool for your learning (it’s like Anki & WorkFlowy in one)
- The Unfriendly Robot: Automatically flagging unwelcoming comments
- First Robotics Competition: An International High-School Robotics Competition
Blockchain and decentralization
- A New York Power Plant Is Mining $50K Worth of Bitcoin a Day
- Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems
- AutoDapp: a proposal to decentralize existing web apps
- Git-bug – Distributed bug tracker, or what to do when GitHub is down
- Untangling microservices, or balancing complexity in distributed systems
Woman computer scientist of the week
Diana McSherry is an American computer scientist and biophysicist. She is known for her research in and development of computer-based systems to analyze heart function. Her system produced computer images of the circulation system and heart, allowing physicians to observe circulatory and heart functions without surgery. This system was developed in the 1970s and was revolutionary at the time, given that computational approaches to medicine was a burgeoning field.
Cloud and architecture
- Eclipse Dirigible 4.4: Cloud Development Platform
- Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws
- Like the Phoenix: The Discipline of Becoming (SaaS Adventure)
- Can’t find a good time to create an abstraction? Check out the 1, 2, n pattern
- rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers
«rsync for cloud storage» – Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files – rclone/rclone - Theia – Cloud and Desktop IDE
- Pricing Models and Page Designs from Top SaaS Products
- Evolutionary and adaptable ontology driven data architecture
- Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws
- Comparing Cloud Native Buildpacks to Herokuish
- Why is Multi-Cloud a Hard Problem?
Development and languages
- Deep Molecular Programming
- So you’ve just got Git basics? Here are some fun commands to know now
- New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system
- Verified Functional Programming in Agda
- Configs suck? Try a real programming language
Or yet another rant about YAML - GoJS – Interactive JavaScript Diagrams for the Web
- My unorthodox, branchless Git workflow
- Codeberg: a free, non-commercial GitHub alternative
- Git alias for printing recently-used branches
- QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten
- Free System Programming Textbook (Illinois CS241)
- Programming Servo: Workers at your Service
- Mobius – .NET runtime running on .NET Core
- The JavaScript Black Hole: A playbook for ethical engineering on the web
- Covid-19 Digital Rights Tracker
- Jax – Composable transformations of Python and NumPy programs
Composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs: differentiate, vectorize, JIT to GPU/TPU, and more – google/jax - Ext.net 7.0 Preview for Asp.net Core
- A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal
- I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer and made it – you will too
To all the young programmers worrying about this uncertain job market, I promise things will get better. - DeltaPy – Tabular Data Augmentation
- Swift: Google’s Bet on Differentiable Programming
Google’s plans on making Swift the first mainstream language with first-class language-integrated differentiable programming capabilities. What’s so cool about Swift? - Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter
- AinD: Android in Docker
- TalkBack – a braille keyboard for Android, no new hardware required
- From 48k lines of code to 10–the story of GitHub’s JavaScript SDK
- Understanding JavaScript module formats and tools
- COBOL programmers answer call
Quote of the week
The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.
— Dr. Pamela Zave
Enterprises
- Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax and other developers won’t
- Artificial intelligence is quietly disrupting the fragrance development process
- COBOL Is Trending on Twitter
- Exploring the CAN bus of my Tesla Model S
- Microsoft Edge Overtakes Mozilla Firefox to become second most-used browser
- Tesla Ventilator
- Shipping Delays? Out-of-Stock Items? Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
Massive order volume, fueled by the global coronavirus crisis, is causing a logistics backlog at Amazon. Retailers with temporarily closed bricks-and-mortar spaces are rivaling, and sometimes even beating, the e-commerce giant on shipping times. - Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t
- Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies
- Amazon to suspend delivery service that competes with UPS, FedEx
Amazon.com will halt a delivery service for non-Amazon packages, according to people familiar with the matter, as it re-evaluates the nascent offering that competes directly with FedEx and UPS. - Tesla to Cut Employees’ Pay as Much as 30% to Curb Costs
- Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation, from a Dutch perspective
- Stop using Google Analytics on your website
Here’s a look at why you should remove Google Analytics from your website and help create a more open, independent web that’s more friendly to the visitors. - New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems
- Google Wave’s failure is a great lesson for modern real-time collab tools
- Google bans Zoom from employees’ computers
Zoom has exploded in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic while also coming under fire over security issues. - Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Amazon EFS file systems
- Microsoft Teams breaks daily record with 2.7B meeting minutes, tops high by 200%
- Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
Apple and Google announce a joint effort to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy central to the design. - First look at Apple/Google contact tracing framework
- Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system
Other news
- Customers say Getaround has been slow to pay repair bills
- Deprecating Support for the Linux Kernel
- Xbox co-creator Rob Wyatt sues Atari for failure to pay for VCS console design
Xbox co-creator Rob Wyatt has filed a lawsuit against Atari for failing to pay him for the design work he did in creating the Atari VCS console. - Biggest companies pay the least tax, shows new research
- IKEA Frekvens LED box hack
- PayPal and Venmo are still letting SIM swappers hijack accounts
- Free CS Courses – Amazon Future Engineer
- Lessons learned the hard way in grad school (so far)
- Universities forced to face addiction to foreign students’ money
- WeWork sues SoftBank in intensifying crisis over canceled $3B tender offer
- A quiz for companies/people to learn about tools for remote work
- Airbnb Paying More Than 10% Interest on $1B Financing Announced Monday
Airbnb Inc. agreed to pay its new investors interest at a rate of more than 10%, and to strengthen its leadership, in return for the $1 billion in additional funding announced Monday, according to people familiar with the matter - “I, along with almost all of Disney Imagineering, am furloughed without pay”
- Redux – Not Dead Yet
- Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivism
- Simula: A VR window manager for Linux
- Quantifying the Adpocalypse
- Make Linux Fast Again
- Fed should pay every American, let hedge funds and billionaires ‘get wiped out’
- Minecraft Education Edition Worlds Available for Free
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