Gooooooood morning, World!!! 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
- Corrupt, sparse, irregular and ugly: Deep learning on time series
- Embed AI into Projects with Nvidia’s Jetson Nano
- Quickly search, build and share AI models
- Deep Learning from Scratch Part 3: Generalizing Gradient Descent
- HAMR-JR microrobot demonstrates dexterity
- Stop Sabotaging Your Career with Short Stints
- Don’t De-Anonymize Scott Alexander
- CHM Releases New Recordings and Personal Stories with AI Expert Systems Pioneers
- Cradle of Cantonese Cuisine Welcomes Robot Chef Overlords
- Building AI Trading Systems
- DeepMind AI reading list (new 26 June 2020)
Blockchain and decentralization
- Web3Torrent – Adding Ethereum Micropayments to WebTorrent
Peer-to-peer micropayments for torrenting. Built on ethereum using state channels. - Oculus sunsets Go, will add easier Quest app distribution
- Why CoinDesk Respects Pseudonymity: A Stand Against Doxxing
If you’re going to reveal someone’s personal information without their consent, you better have a damn good reason to do it, writes our executive editor. - Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin
Woman computer scientist of the week
Lisa Anthony is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the University of Florida. She is also the director of the Intelligent Natural Interaction Technology Laboratory. Her research interests revolve around developing natural user interfaces to allow for greater human-computer interaction, specifically for children as they develop their cognitive and physical abilities.
Cloud and architecture
- A-Cloud PR/FAQ
- cloudskew.com – draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s diagrams for free
- Bastions on demand in an AWS VPC
- PEP 622 – Structural Pattern Matching
- A Cloud for the Next Billion Ideas
- Deta – A cloud platform for building and deploying apps
- A World Without Clouds: early attempts to make photos look more like the world
- Query-Based Compiler Architectures
- The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture
- Xbox Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
Development and languages
- I made a small village using my JavaScript WebGL 3D engine
- How Does Git Know What a Python Function/Class Definition Looks Like?
- The Digital Maginot Line
- Hands-On Linear Programming: Optimization with Python
- Create No-JavaScript friendly sites
- Gitlab 13.1 Released
- Unreal Engine 4 .NET Core integration
- CashRegister in PyQt5 with barcode logon and 32 programmable buttons
- Archival Identifiers for Digital Files
- Robust Client-Side JavaScript
- I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
- The Problem with Git Flow
- How effective communication can be achieved in a digital work environment
- Windows Fax and Scan
- Splitgraph – Build and share data with Postgres, inspired by Docker/Git
- iPhone 6S getting iOS 14 is like the Galaxy S6 getting Android 11. Imagine that
- How to Write PureScript React Components to Replace JavaScript
- The largest city in each 10×10 degree latitude/longitude box
- A multiplayer board game in Rust and WebAssembly
- Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update ‘to prevent confusion’
- Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers Book
Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with GPU, CUDA, OpenCL, MKL, Java, and Clojure
basically…
* a book for programmers
* interactive & dynamic
* direct link from theory to implementation
* incredible speed
* Nvidia GPU (CUDA and cuBLAS)
* AMD GPU (yes, OpenCL too!)
* Intel & AMD CPU (MKL)
* Clojure (magic!)
* Java Virtual Machine (without Java boilerplate!)
* complete source code
* beautiful typesetting (see sample chapters below) - Taking Theatre Online with WebGL and WebRTC
- Driving a Responsible Digital Ecosystem in These Polarized Times
- HonKit: A Fork of GitBook
Quote of the week
Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than that which we possess ourselves.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Enterprises
- Facebook acquires Mapillary
- Sergey Brin has a secret disaster relief charity
- ARM Mac Impact on Intel
by Jean-Louis Gassée - The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup
- Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming
Microsoft will work with Facebook to integrate xCloud in the future - Important Things That You Should Take Care When Integrate of Stripe Connect
- Why did Facebook acquire Mapillary?
- A Google for Components
- Intel to Use Nanowire/Nanoribbon Transistors in Volume ‘In Five Years’
- Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows
- A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data
- Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO
- Microsoft duplicates data from Firefox without asking
- Apple Acquires Fleetsmith
Today we have some exciting news to share: Fleetsmith is now part of Apple. - Amazon Establishes New Counterfeit Crimes Unit
The global team will investigate crimes and bring legal action against counterfeiters to protect our customers and brands. - Apple Safari to Block Google Analytics from Collecting Data
- No, Safari 14 does not block Google Analytics
- Tesla lags auto industry in quality, finds new J.D. Power study
- Sourceful – a crowd-sourced list of the best public Google docs
- Tesla gave workers permission to stay home, then sent termination notices
- Google Will Delete Your Data by Default In 18 Months
- Amazon to pay $1B+ for Zoox
It’s not yet clear how Amazon hopes to use the technology. - Microsoft to permanently close nearly all of its retail stores
Other news
- Video Games Are the Future of Education
Persona - Teaching physics to neural networks removes ‘chaos blindness’
Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered that teaching physics to neural networks enables those networks to better adapt to chaos within their environment. The work has implications for improved artificial intelligence (AI) applications ranging from medical diagnostics to automated drone piloting. - Sugary drink tax models show health gains, cost reductions, but vary by design
- The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age
Like the entertainment industry, colleges will need to embrace digital services in order to survive. - Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
- Learn Regular Expressions with simple, interactive exercises
- Sysinternals ProcDump for Linux
- My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid. Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works
- Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook update: progress on multitouch
- Red Hat reports security issue in Linux Kernel which was fixed 17 months prior
- Journalist’s phone hacked: all he had to do was visit any website
Moroccan journalist Omar Radi investigates connections between politicians and business people, as well as social movements and human rights. In other… - Perceptions of musical octaves are learned, not wired in the brain
- Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux is now generally available
- WhatsApp payments suspended in Brazil by Central Bank
- Brazilian Authorities Suspend WhatsApp Payments
- Linux to Begin Tightening Up Ability to Write to CPU MSRs from User-Space
- We launched our MVP in 3 weeks (+ tips that we learnt)
- Real-time bandpass filter bank audio spectogram
- A Rebel Physicist Trying to Fix Quantum Mechanics
- Are Banks Still Using Perl in 2020? The answer is no
- Reducing search indexing latency to one second
- Ben Smith on the rise of Substack and independent journalists
- How to Learn JavaScript
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