Gooooooood morning, Bodies!!! 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
- Scrapino – Self-sustainable robot from e-scrap using renewable energy
- Human-Like Playtesting with Deep Learning
- Human-Like Playtesting with Deep Learning
- Parrot Uses Alexa to Order Watermelon, Lightbulbs While Owner Is Out
- Machine Learning Often a Complicated Way of Replicating Simple Forecasting
- Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry
- Machine learning proliferates in particle physics
- New Neurons for the Brain
- Nvidia’s $1,100 AI brain for robots goes on sale
- My 7th Grade Young Entrepreneur Project — interactive holiday cards
- Hardware-agnostic library for near-term quantum machine learning
- Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, with a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line
- For avant-garde poets, audio recording was both a breakthrough and a threat
- Neural Networks as Ordinary Differential Equations
- Politicians caused a pay ‘collapse’ for the bottom 90 percent, researchers say
- Neural Networks and Graph Algorithms with Next-Generation Processors
- The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention
- How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item, not two
- Stop Learning Frameworks
- MIT Deep Learning
- Anthony Levandowski: Pronto AI
- Enabling Faster, More Capable Robots with Real-Time Motion Planning
- A Lens-Less Camera Built Specially for AI and Computer Vision Programs
- Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person
- The Amazon Alexa Eavesdropping Nightmare Came True
- Neurons That Tell Time
- Microsoft implements ML.Net, a cross platform machine learning framework
- Homemade machine learning on Python with interactive Jupyter demos
- The intertwined quest to understand biological intelligence and creating AI
- Learning to Design RNA
- Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio
- Amazon’s Alexa talks murder, sex in AI experiment
- Can Users Control and Understand a UI Driven by Machine Learning?
- Some thoughts about learning
Blockchain and decentralization
- Bitcoin Was a Bubble and It Popped
- DPAGE – build and publish webpages on the decentralized internet
- Centralized Facebook Is Pouring Money into Blockchain Division
- Decentralized Open Sourced Content Discovery and Social Platform on Blockchain
- Coinboot – a framework for diskless computing
- Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Sources Say
- Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent
- Facebook is reportedly planning its own stablecoin
Woman computer scientist of the week
Gladys del Estal was a computer programmer and ecologist activist from San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain. She was killed by a bullet shot at her by the Civil Guard during a protest in Tudela, Navarre, against the nuclear station construction program for the Basque Country, and the aircraft firing range of Bardenas. She has since become an important icon of the ecologist movement.
Cloud and architecture
- Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
- Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python
- Announcing flyio, an R package to interact with data in the cloud
- Apple lied about iPhone X screen size and pixel count, lawsuit alleges
The plaintiffs are seeking class action status. - PuBilling – Embeddable billing portal for your SaaS app
- Pushback Derails Company That Thrived on Patent Lawsuits
- Australia’s encryption laws are ‘highly unlikely’ to dragoon employees in secret
- The What’s Next Intermittent Computing Architecture
- Serverless and startups
- Der Spiegel reporter Claas Relotius sacked over ‘invented’ stories
- Dark Patterns
- Serverless Analytics Built from Scratch
Development and languages
- Removing a recursion in Python, part 1
- Incrementally improving the performance of a Python script
- Rust and WebAssembly in 2019
- Michelangelo PyML: Uber’s Platform for Rapid Python ML Model
- Linux: IO without entering the kernel
- Blazor – A .NET web framework that runs in the browser with WebAssembly
Blazor is an experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly – aspnet/Blazor - Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head
- Git quick statistics
- Wolkenkit 3.0 – a CQRS and event-sourcing framework for JavaScript
- Reasons Python Sucks
- Pipdeptree: Utility to display dependency tree of the installed Python packages
- Programming FTDI devices in Python
- Advent of Code Python Solutions, Explained
- Windows Sandbox
- Is ASP.NET Core Now a Mature Platform?
- Python gets a new governance model
- JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid
- What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta?
- Logitech disables local access on Harmony Hubs, breaks automation systems
- Download all of your GitHub data
- Work with Git Forges inside Emacs
- War Story – The Mystery of the Very Long GC Pauses in .NET Windows Service
- Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization
- Awesome Python Applications: 180+ case studies in shipping Python software
- NHS.UK frontend
- Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python
- Longitudinal Analysis of Public Perception of Opportunities, Challenges of IoT
- Raspberry Pi Pet Detector Camera Using Python, TensorFlow, and Twilio
- Let cell networks fake LTE signal bars in Android
- Colossus 237: Apollo 8 Flight Software
- Gogs/gogs: Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service
Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service. Contribute to gogs/gogs development by creating an account on GitHub.
Quote of the week
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
Enterprises
- Interview with Evan You of Vue.js
- Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity defense company moonshot
- Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%
- From Graduate School Student to Amazon Warehouse Janitor
- Jack Dorsey, Posting About Myanmar on Twitter, Is Accused of Being Tone Deaf
- Google Pixel 3 has serious call quality issues
- Netflix’s Movie Blitz Takes Aim at Hollywood’s Heart
- Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
- How Scammers in China Manipulate Amazon
- Intel Unfolds Roadmaps for Future CPUs and GPUs
- Google announces major expansion in New York City
- Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Fight
- Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war
- Blue Apron’s 90% Drop Makes It Third Worst U.S. IPO This Decade
- Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to
- Google Chrome to stop back-button hijacking
- Google Tech Dev Guide
- Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages
- Let Google do the patching with new managed base images
- Amazon driver arrested after taking GPS ‘bait’ package off Washington Co. porch
- Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to store power in molten salt
- Corel confirms it has acquired virtualization specialist Parallels
- Amazon’s Grocery Push Keeps Stumbling After Whole Foods Purchase
- Costs of using Google Maps
- Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton
- Building TypeScript Projects with Bazel
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.
Inside Google’s CI Google manages a massive amount of source code. There are dependencies between the individual projects, for example, the user interface of Google Cloud depends on Angular & Angular Material, Angular Material depends on Angular, which depends on TypeScript.
Other news
- The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing
- Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it
- A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS
- A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS
- Einstein’s most effective life hack wasn’t about productivity
- An entanglement-based wavelength-multiplexed quantum communication network
- Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head
- Sears to pay $25.3M in bonuses to top execs after filing for bankruptcy
- The majority of Americans say they did not get a pay raise this year
- China Sees Bankruptcies Surge; Bondholders May Get Less Back
- LEAR: HTTP server designed to be simple and fast to serve static resources
- Improvisational theater can reduce anxiety in teens who struggle socially
- Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM
- The Practical Guide to Hacking Bluetooth Low Energy
- Why you should learn F#
- Walt Mossberg, Veteran Tech Journalist, Quits Facebook
- Intro to Quantum Information Science
- What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills
- T.M. Landry and the Myth of Meritocracy in Education
- What I learned in ten years of blogging
- Keybase advisory: Local Privilege Escalation on Linux via Keybase-Redirector
- Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It
- SoftBank’s Arab Backers Balk at Planned Acquisition of WeWork
- Fortnite teen hackers ‘earning thousands of pounds a week’
Thieves sell hijacked accounts with in-demand skins online after locking out original owners. - What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA
- Are Americans Paying Too Much for Healthcare? It Depends
- BlackBerry’s bet on connected cars pays off
- China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients
- Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V
- USA added to list of most dangerous countries for journalists
- Top Paying Tech Companies of 2018
- Lotteries don’t have to be a tax on the poor or poorly educated
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