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
- Oculus sunsets Go, will add easier Quest app distribution
- Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin
Woman computer scientist of the week
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
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’
- 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
- The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup
- 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 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
- Microsoft to permanently close nearly all of its retail stores
Other news
- Sugary drink tax models show health gains, cost reductions, but vary by design
- 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
- 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