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AI, bots and robots
- Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify?
- Tokyo Wants People to Stand on Both Sides of the Escalator
- Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a machine learning library
- Neural Network Knows When Cat Wants to Go Outside
- The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race
- An undersea robot delivering baby corals to the Great Barrier Reef
- A Full Hardware Guide to Deep Learning
- Wikipedia2Vec: Optimized Implementation for Learning Embeddings from Wikipedia
- Compiler Fuzzing Through Deep Learning
- Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales
- The Illustrated BERT: How NLP Cracked Transfer Learning
- Game for learning Web Typography: The Equilateral Triangle
- Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
- Solving Clasical AI Planning Problems with Fast Downward and Haskell
- Offline voice AI within 512 KB of RAM
- 11 interactive Jupyter/Python demos of popular machine learning algorithms
- Risky business: linking Toxoplasma infection and entrepreneurship behavior
- IBM‘s Project Debater does debate club-style discussions with humans
- Home Assistant Data Science
- Inside Haddington Dynamics and Their Groundbreaking Dexter Robot Arm
- A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power
Blockchain and decentralization
- Ethereum Constantinople Explained
- OrbitDB – serverless, peer-to-peer database on top of IPFS
- Dcentralized url shortening service base on IPFS
- If You Harvested Body Heat from 44,000 People You Could Mine 1 Bitcoin per Month
- CoolBeans, an IDE distribution
- Links of critical resources on Bitcoin, blockchain and other money controversies
- Work on Teleport, Open Core Distributed SSH Server Written in Go
- As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back
- LibreSilicon: Decentralizing semiconductor manufacturing
- How to break the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets
- Kylin, a Distributed Analytical Engine with SQL for OLAP on Hadoop
- Why I’m so “against” Ethereum
Woman computer scientist of the week
Yolanda Gil is a Spanish computer scientist specializing in knowledge discovery and knowledge-based systems at the University of Southern California (USC). She served as chair of SIGAI the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Artificial Intelligence, and the president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Cloud and architecture
- Canada Outlaws Copyright Settlement Threat Letters Sent Through ISPs
- Language-oriented software engineering: a book review of Clean Architecture
- Software Architecture, all you need to know
- Free open-source IPTV cloud service
- Alan Turing and the mathematics of pattern formation in nature
- Game Programming Patterns
- Security flaws let anyone snoop on Guardzilla smart camera video recordings
Development and languages
- Python 3: Ten years later
- How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensiv E, and Personal Summary
- Google Chrome Canvas is a digital note taking web app
- Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content
- Foundations for Efficient and Expressive Differentiable Programming
- Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation
- Blazor Toast Notifications Using Only C#, HTML and CSS
- Lenses: Composable Getters and Setters for Functional Programming
- Major Mixed Integer Linear Programming Solver Faked Performance Data
- Magic Grid – A simple JavaScript library for dynamic grid layouts
- Re: Since 4.18, kernel sets SB_I_NODEV implicitly on userns mounts
- Python 3.7.2 and 3.6.8 are now available
- Inside Python Dict – an explorable explanation
- Python Code to Generate Fully Custom “Random” Static Images
- LOOP (programming language)
- Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now supports Windows
- Bit Manipulation in JavaScript
- Racklog: Prolog Style Logic Programming
- Session types in programming languages
- Kanren – Logic Programming in Python
- Multiparty Session C: Safe Parallel Programming with Message Optimisation
- Open source JavaScript library to record and replay the web
- Try F# on WebAssembly
Quote of the week
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Enterprises
- Amazon Echo stores your voice recordings – sent other user’s records via GDPR
- Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix
- I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon
- Artificial Intelligence Creates Realistic Pictures of People
- Upcoming Changes to PNG Support at Twitter
- Detroit News Vehicle of the Year is a Tesla
- Inside the AMD Microcode ROM
- Tesla Adds Larry Ellison and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson as Board Directors
- Google Data Studio in 10 Minutes: Step-By-Step Guide
- Larry Ellison now on Tesla’s board of directors
- Netflix using fake Twitter accounts to promote new movie
- Amazon is selling stolen art, fake products and is infringing copyrights
Other news
- The Myth of Education
- The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town
- Quora pays thousands for posting questions
- A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech
- American Universities’ China Problem
- Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course
- Facebook shelved a feature intended to promote civil political discourse
- Open source software in quantum computing
- My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
- Linux 4.20
- Build the Linux Kernel and Busybox for ARM and Run Them on QEMU
- What Can We Learn from the Intel SPMD Program Compiler?
- GCompris: high quality educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10
- Learn Prolog Now
- Cornell University Ergonomics Web
- It’s probably time to learn Chinese
- Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide
- Teach Yourself Logic: A Study Guide
- Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management
- The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China’s Captain America
- Photos China Doens’t Want You to See by Photojournalist Who Vanished in China
Lu Guang is a Chinese photojournalist, heavily criticized by the Chinese government for documenting and openly talking about issues like drug addiction, HIV and pollution. Sadly, the photographer might have become the latest victim of the Chinese government’s extreme censorship – his wife has reported him missing on the 3rd of November. - Darwin subsystem for Linux
- Making Bluetooth Work on Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th Gen with Linux
- Quantifying the Security of Recognition Passwords: Gestures and Signatures
- All zeros in a bank card’s CVC code
- Public access Linux system: Your non-profit shell provider since 2002
- Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets
- Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets
- Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018
- Chinese Regulators to Samsung and Hynix: pay your fines or give up your IPs
- Hacking the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets
- The Quantum Quest
- Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
- What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Without Insurance
- Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record
- A Woman’s Rights
The plaintiffs are seeking class action status.
Blazor is an experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly – aspnet/Blazor
Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service. Contribute to gogs/gogs development by creating an account on GitHub.
In this blog post, we’ll make a brief introduction to what Bazel is and how we can build our TypeScript projects with it. If you’re already familiar with the problems that Bazel solves, feel free to skip to the section “Building TypeScript with Bazel.” You can find the example from this blog post in my GitHub account.
Thieves sell hijacked accounts with in-demand skins online after locking out original owners.
Trying to keep up with AI research papers can feel like an exercise in futility given how quickly the industry moves. If you’re buried in papers to read that you haven’t quite gotten around to, you’re in luck. To help you catch up, we’ve summarized 10 important AI research papers from 2018 to give you …
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Microsoft Edge. Contribute to MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge development by creating an account on GitHub.
So-called “porch pirates” have become as reliable a part of the holiday season as pumpkin pie, Mariah Carey, and It’s a Wonderful Life.
Funding for women, trans, and non-binary people to work on ambitious projects this winter.