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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The author of This Is Your Brain on Music talks about the very human ways the mind and body keep the beat.
The laws of physics stay the same no matter oneâs perspective. Now this idea is allowing computers to detect features in curved and higher-dimensional space.
📫 A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES – 0x4447/0x4447_product_s3_email
The latest Goldman Sachs IT survey of 100 execs at big companies showed that 56 executives are using Azure for cloud infrastructure, versus 48 using AWS. Microsoft’s lead has been increasing since December 2017, according to the analysts.
:floppy_disk: hobby x86 kernel zig. Contribute to jzck/kernel-zig development by creating an account on GitHub.
Realizing the promise of digital lidar: Announcing a new family of 128 channel lidar sensors available in long-range, mid-range, and ultra-wide view.
Intel tipped its hand that PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs are already sampling
Jan 1, 2020 Cost-efficiency and performance are critical for big data analytics. For this reason a recent blog post from ScyllaDB guys caught our attention. They collected over 500 billion data points and were able to query it with 1B rows/sec query scan performance. The test rig was a beefy and
We’re asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm the importance of the software interoperability that has allowed developers to write millions of applications for billions of devices.
Apple’s AirPods have become a global hit since their launch in late 2016. But what can investors learn from their success? Are they just an iPhone accessory? Or the formation of a new app ecosystem?
_The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed._ 
Disaster loomed for the hard-pressed U.S. Strategic Command team and the nascent U.S. Space Force. Negotiators toiled to maintain an international
It keeps bailing on deals, leaving companies in the lurch.
The changes come after ProPublica’s reporting showed how TurboTax maker Intuit tricked customers into paying for tax prep they could have gotten for free.
An artificial intelligence (AI) system performs as well as or better than radiologists at detecting breast cancer from mammograms, and using a combination of AI and human inputs could help to improve screening efficiency.
breeding bugs in the latent space
Also: The IRS is no longer banned from creating its own online filing system.
Cory Doctorow looks at the reactionary tendencies of modern artificial intelligence and algorithm-based systems.
Contrary to common belief, blue light may not be as disruptive to our sleep patterns as originally thought – according to University of Manchester scientists.
Certain bacteria can override a defence mechanism of the immune system, so called programmed cell death, through inhibition of death effector molecules by their outer membranes components. Shigella bacteria, which cause diarrhoea, use lipopolysaccharides (LPS) on their surface to block the effector caspases. Lipopolysaccharides are a component of the bacterial outer membrane. This strategy enables the bacteria to multiply within the cell. This is the result of a study conducted by the molecular immunologist Professor Hamid Kashkar and his team in the institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the CECAD Cluster of Excellence in Aging
Python bindings for FFmpeg – with complex filtering support – kkroening/ffmpeg-python
A isometric city builder in JavaScript. Contribute to victorqribeiro/isocity development by creating an account on GitHub.
Android is one of Google’s most important tools for collecting data on users. This guide will help you improve your privacy on Android devices.
Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API – socialpoint-labs/sheetfu
Simple job queues for Python. Contribute to rq/rq development by creating an account on GitHub.
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Webrtc SDK is for developers to install and customize realtime communication between devices and enable secure streaming of video, audio to Kinesis Video Streams. – aws…
Microsoft Japan’s experimentation with a four-day workweek has proved to be a huge boon to employee productivity.
Around 2,300 contracted workers who serve meals to Google employees in the San Francisco Bay Area have unionized, saying they’re overworked and underpaid.
The Trump administration took measures on Friday to crimp exports of artificial …
This spring marked the 30th anniversary of the public uncovering of the so-called KGB Hack, bringing with it a number of new articles rem…
In this post and those to follow, I will be walking through the creation and training of recommendation systems, as I am currently working on this topic for my Master Thesis. Part 2 provides a nice review of the ongoing research initiatives with regard to the strengths, weaknesses, and application s
Hedge funds are paying top dollar to bring in new employees with quantitative skills, underscoring the desperation some funds face to bulk up their abilities around big data and algorithms.
This blog post is one of those things that just blew up. From a tiny observation at work about odd behaviors of spinlocks I spent months trying to find good benchmarks, (still not entirely successf…
Redux greatly shaped how we develop modern JavaScript applications nowadays. Here I want to give a walkthrough on all the mindset changes we went through as JavaScript developers …
Good friends, finally after some time without being able to play Battlefield V for Linux, this week I was using lutris-4.21, I was having fun when my anti-cheat, FairFight, blew me out of the game, so I was banned. As I was not using any cheating, I think the anti-cheat considered dxvk or the table layer that used at the time as cheating, I sent an email to EA, is the alert.
USC researchers analyzed thousands of tweets and found that social bots frequently shared false information about cannabis’s health benefits.
Courses on deep learning, deep reinforcement learning (deep RL), and artificial intelligence (AI) organized by Lex Fridman at MIT. Lectures, introductory tutorials, and TensorFlow code (GitHub) open to all.
A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado and local authorities say they don’t know who’s behind the mysterious aircraft.
Repository demonstrating the Capital One breach on your AWS account – avishayil/caponeme
Build system in D, Python, Ruby, Javascript or Lua – atilaneves/reggae
Exploring Python through counter-intuitive snippets. If you think you know Python, think once more! – satwikkansal/wtfpython
“@McFunkypants Whenever I see hot takes like this (pops up a lot with music) I always think of this quote.
“Not everything was perfect in 1995, but I think we’ve lost something on the way. Some remarks:
Amazon is a big company, but what does that mean? How big is ‘big’? What does ‘dominant’ or ‘scale’ or ‘huge’ mean when US retail is $6 trillion every year?
Hey everyone, new vlog for this morning. I was in Seattle last week and it made me nostalgic. When I lived there, I made a career decision that cost me a lot, so I wanted to share it with you with…
I write a weekly email called the Monday Musings . The most popular part of the newsletter is a section called “Coolest Things I Learned This Week.” It’s fun and eclectic, interesting and intriguing. This is a collection of the most popular ideas I shared in 2019. Note: I’ve lost some of the s
A collection of various awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers – Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking
A union-backed police charity spends just a sliver of its money on those it purports to serve
Linux i386 tool to load and execute ME modules. Contribute to peterbjornx/meloader development by creating an account on GitHub.
Humans usually take minutes to learn how to find diamonds in the game, but AI agents struggled.
Interpreter Mode comes to iOS and Android, making it easier to converse somewhat seamlessly across language barriers
BMW has been implementing next-level production processes throughout its plants around the world for quite some time now. From robots carrying parts
The Bitcoin.com exchange listed HEX, a controversial token with many signs of being a Ponzi scheme. Bitcoin Cash fans reacted negatively.
We are generating astounding amounts of data. Estimates show that the amount of data worldwide will increase by 60% per year, reaching 175 zettabytes by 2025, up from 33 in 2018. Roughly half of it will be stored in public clouds and the rest in other types of data centers.
The clock is ticking for Google Cloud.The Google unit, which sells computing services to big companies, is under pressure from top management to pass Amazon or Microsoftâcurrently first and second, respectively, in cloud market shareâor risk losing funding. While the company has invested heavily …
In October 2019, my company SP Digital held an internal hackathon. My colleague Subhransu and I worked on a whacky idea of writing a brand-new Windows 3.1 app which was an OS released almost 30 years ago. The idea we chose was a Slack client. After all, Slack clients exist for most platforms but I’m
The cover image is based on Jupiter family by NASA/JPL.
Free developer conferences for everyone
We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged.
Malicious code can be inserted into any GitHub action, even those which are tagged.
Bloomberg LP was fined 5 million euros ($5.6 million) in France following the publication of information from what turned out to be a fake press release that made Vinci SA shares tumble three years ago.
“I was doing nothing more than notifying my co-workers about Google’s obligations under labor law,” Kathryn Spiers, the former Google engineer, said.
Dumpster divers say it’s easy to list discarded toys, electronics and books on the retailer’s platform, where just about anyone can set up shop. So we decided to try.
“Since we’re talking about Google being less than nice towards its workers, here’s a fun little story from my days there. There were two things that I really didn’t like about Google at the time: The Google+ saga (realnames et al), and the IP ownership policy.”
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… Today I’m going to write about Google’s exceptionally dangerous decision yesterday to de facto cut off Turkey’s access to Android phones.
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote a new connectivity standard.
The tech giant’s services were among those temporarily unavailable in eastern Europe on Thursday.
Alternative Twitter front-end. Contribute to zedeus/nitter development by creating an account on GitHub.
Slack, one of Silicon Valley’s more diverse companies, has hired three formerly incarcerated coders.
Lawyers for Quadriga users say there are «questionable circumstances» behind Gerald Cotten’s death.
Visa warns of malware at gas pumps that could scrape your credit card data.
From combining emoji marks and astral planes, Unicode is under appreciated and poorly understood. One lesser known attack vector is Unicode Case Mapping Collisions— an edge case that many of the best devs don’t understand— even at Github.
Thirty years ago, Cliff Stoll published The Cuckoo’s Egg, a book about his cat-and-mouse game with a KGB-sponsored hacker. Today, the internet is a far darker place—and Stoll has become a cybersecurity icon.
An immune molecule sometimes produced during infection can influence the social behavior of mice.
“@waxpancake @GoogleAI The BYU PCCL lab I’m apart of is covering it now. But it’s at 10k+ per day now so they can’t sustain that more than a couple days”
Reviewing the best-of-the-year in ML and DL research
Learning at work is work, and we can make it easier.
As part of the fastMRI research project to use AI to speed up MRI scans, NYU Langone Health is making a new data set of de-identified brain MRIs available to researchers and Facebook AI is sharing additional tools and resources.
List of «only yours» cloud services for everyday needs :black_flag: – Atarity/deploy-your-own-saas
If you’ve read yesterdays post about ZEIT Now, you’ve already seen one of many approaches to develop and deploy a serverless API. In this post we will have a look at an alternative you can use to develop serverless applications, namely Serverless Framework. Serverless Framework can be used to develop, deploy and test your serverless applications targeted towards different cloud providers, or as they describe themselves: «The complete solution for building & operating serverless applications.» Let’s have a look on what this framework is all about.
Tiny, yet powerful, native macOS app for Stripe notifications in your menu bar. See how much you’ve earned today. Minimalistic interface, multiple accounts support.
Alex got lazy about using the inspector to download Instagram pics, so he searched on Google for a solution. The results were crappy but their traffic was high… So he purchased a domain and decided to build the tool himself. Since then, Ninja Copy has grown into a SaaS that’s making $12k per month.
By helping others help you, you’re setting yourself up for less friction.
Full exploit chain (CVE-2019-11708 & CVE-2019-9810) against Firefox on Windows 64-bit. – 0vercl0k/CVE-2019-11708
I recently hit some multi-minute delays on my workstation. After investigating I found that the problem was due to a lock being held for five minutes, and during that time the lock-holder was mostl…
A Telegram Mass Surveillance Bot in Python. Contribute to paulpierre/informer development by creating an account on GitHub.
Sundar Pichai’s appointment as CEO of Google parent Alphabet effectively shifts the focus back on the company’s advertising profit machine and away from its “moonshots” and other potential new businesses.
I use ad data to try to save their lives
The National Labor Relations Board has officially begun a fresh investigation into Google’s labor practices after «Thanksgiving Four» file federal complaint.
“Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵”
A technical look at dynamic resource management behind E2 VM machine types
Intel’s process technology roadmap reveals decade-out plans, including a future 10nm+++ node and even a 1.4nm node heading into 2029.
Feds tell Google to search four areas for suspected arsonists’ phones. Google gives it 1,500 device IDs.
The top-secret story of why NUKEMAP switched from Google Maps to Mapbox+Leaflet.
In this post I’m going to show you a simple way to significantly speedup Python numpy compute performance on AMD CPU’s when using Anaconda Python.
Does anyone remember a few years ago, when the mayor of New York decided to learn to program? It was a heady time, because it wasn’t just him. I remember these surreal commercials where Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh was encouraging children to learn to code for the good of humanity or something. There was […]
For the first time, U.S. manufacturing workers with college degrees will soon outnumber those without. It’s part of a shift to automation that has increased factory output, opened opportunities for women and reduced prospects for the nation’s lowest-skilled workers.
Our ambitious goal is to educate 1% of European citizens in the basics of AI by 2021. The Elements of AI is a movement – sign up now to learn more!
Stealing towels from a hotel is one thing, but taking the mattress is going way too far.
In the NulledCast hackers livestream the harassment of Ring camera owners after accessing their devices. Hundreds of people can listen.
How can you save money on running your HTTP(S) API on Amazon Web Services (AWS)? In this post, our Backend team answers exactly this.
New research makes a molecular connection between the brain and aging â and shows that overactive neurons can shorten life span.
Police are using robot dogs. Everyone seems interested but not everyone seems amused. The American Civil Liberties Union has asked Massachusetts State Police to explain how and where it is using robot dogs, said news reports.
“We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company.”
Starring Ring doorbells, Alexa gadgets, and Blink cameras.
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors (OSV) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) communities have been quick to […]
Amazon CodeGuru is a machine learning service for automated code reviews and application performance recommendations.
We launched the first generation (A1) of Arm-based, Graviton-powered EC2 instances at re:Invent 2018. Since that launch, thousands of our customers have used them to run many different types of scale-out workloads including containerized microservices, web servers, and data/log processing. The Operating System Vendors (OSV) and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) communities have been quick to […]
A year ago today I self-published “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics” (PIM). In this short note I want to describe the success it’s had, summarize the complaints of…
craigslist – The original online classifieds. Established 1995.
“OK SO let’s say it’s 1962 and you’re lucky enough to be a programmer working somewhere that has an IBM 7090.
One library was available for only two days, but the second was live for nearly a year.
How to use Wasmtime in a .NET application to load and execute WebAssembly code.
The proposed C# 9 features could make C# more functional and practical. Read this article to be prepared for the Inevitable Challenges.
An open-source analytics plugin for WordPress that does not use any external services and respects your visitors’ privacy. View on WordPress.org Contribute on GitHub You can view a demo of Koko…
EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google’s collection of data, the …
Amazing scenes were witnessed on the retail launch of AMD’s Ryzen 9 3950X 16 core CPU in the Japanese market.
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the Quantum Compute Cloud on April Fool’s Day. The future has arrived and you now have the opportunity to write quantum algorithms and to run them on actual quantum computers. Here’s what we are announcing today: – A fully managed service that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to […]
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the Quantum Compute Cloud on April Fool’s Day. The future has arrived and you now have the opportunity to write quantum algorithms and to run them on actual quantum computers. Here’s what we are announcing today: – A fully managed service that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to […]
I couldn’t find the service I needed, so I built it for myself. And that was the start.
Managing databases at scale is never easy. One of the options to store, retrieve, and manage large amounts of structured data, including key-value and tabular formats, is Apache Cassandra. With Cassandra, you can use the expressive Cassandra Query Language (CQL) to build applications quickly. However, managing large Cassandra clusters can be difficult and takes a lot of […]
Today, we’re extremely happy to launch Amazon SageMaker Autopilot to automatically create the best classification and regression machine learning models, while allowing full control and visibility. In 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine learning as the ability for computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. In practice, this means finding an algorithm than can extract patterns […]
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service that’s powered by machine learning.
Duolingo, the language-learning app, raises a new investment round led by Google parent Alphabet’s CapitalG and becomes the first Pittsburgh tech start-up valued at more than $1 billion by venture capital investors.
The latest AMP messages in Google Search Console are intended to enforce full equivalency in AMP versions. The underlying message is clear. And so is my response.
Google has stopped accepting political advertisements in Singapore months before…
Amazon’s Ring started from humble roots as a smart doorbell company called «DoorBot.» Now it’s surveilling the suburbs and partnering with police.
The aim is to bring the system “into the 21st century” by imposing a 3% levy on tech giants such as Amazon, but first a government must be formed
There’s a popular thread on Hacker News with lots of people complaining about how Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is ruining their mobile web experience. This week I also got two AMP links sent…
While it would have been completely unthinkable for Mike and Carol Brady to light up a joint or get rip-roaring drunk on screen, the very first episode of the first season of The Brady Bunch (1969)…
A definitive and beautifully designed survey of ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s arcade game pixel typography.
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… A few days ago, Ian MacDougall came out with a New York Times/ProPublica piece on how consulting giant McKinsey structured Trump immigration policy. Lots of people cover immigration. I’m going to discuss why the government buys overpriced services from McKinsey. (Spoiler: It goes back to, of course, Bill Clinton.)
🤖 NanoNeuron is 7 simple JavaScript functions that will give you a feeling of how machines can actually «learn» – trekhleb/nano-neuron
Audrey Schoeman fell unconscious when she was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in Spain.