Tech roundup 1: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Y’all!!! 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

• Why Robot Brains Need Symbols
• Summarized top 2018 AI research papers
  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 …
• AI assisted code completion for C++
• Alibaba has a voice assistant better than Google’s
• Movie genre prediction with the Object2Vec algorithm
• The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio
• PracticalAI – A practical approach to learning machine learning
• How AI could help us with ancient languages like Sumerian
• Python machine learning notebooks for beginners and experts
• AI Research on Dialogue and Story Generation (Part 3)
• Transfer learning in low-data environments with FloydHub, fast.ai, and PyTorch
• Grasp2Vec: Learning Object Representations from Self-Supervised Grasping
• Game AI Game Engine Homework
• Tesla sues its alleged saboteur for $167M
• A new neural network design could overcome challenges in AI
• An Open Source Tool for Scaling Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Try run deep learning inference on Raspberry Pi
• Machine Learning Trick of the Day: Instrumental Thinking
• AI Transformation Playbook – How to lead your company into the AI era
• Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
• Machine learning is gradually changing modern agricultural practices
• Rare Datasets for Computer Vision Every Machine Learning Expert Must Work With
• $200 six-whegged robot
• How AI Training Scales

Blockchain and decentralization

• Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies
• IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained
• Hoard: Distributed Data Caching System to Accelerate Deep Learning Training
• Pijul: distributed version control system based on a sound theory of patches
• The Ethereum Price Drop: A Fundamental Analysis
• Storing C++ Objects in Distributed Memory
• Stablecoin Basis is closing down
• Vitriol – distributed, serverless publishing platform

Cloud and architecture

• Pivotal launches serverless framework that works across clouds and on-prem
• JIRA is an antipattern
• Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse
• Palo Alto Networks bets on Google Cloud Platform
• GitLab Serverless
• How to Grow Software Architecture out of Jupyter Notebooks
• Chaff Cloud That Lit Up Radars as It Drifted Across Midwest Remains a Mystery
• Train TensorFlow models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods
• Microservices Circuit-Breaker Pattern Implementation: Istio vs. Hystrix
• AWS Outperforms GCP in the 2018 Cloud Report
• A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks
• Red Hat Contributes Etcd, the Cornerstone of Kubernetes, to the Cloud Native

Development and languages

• *ANY* Android manufacturer monitors users without consent
• Wasmer – Universal Binaries Powered by WebAssembly
• The Programming Languages Zoo
• Don’t use the greater than sign in programming (2016)
  One simple thing that comes up time and time again is the use of the greater than sign as part of a conditional while programming. Removing…
• Why I’m Switching from Mac to Windows
• On Self-Publishing “A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics”
• Rendora – Dynamic server-side rendering for modern JavaScript websites
• KLEAK: Practical Kernel Memory Disclosure Detection
• Git v2.20.0
• Cmm_of_wasm: From WebAssembly to Native Code via the OCaml Back End
• Minimal game with procedural graphics in JavaScript/GLSL
• Adventures in Video Conferencing Part 1: The Wild World of WebRTC
• Advanced JavaScript Injections
• DigitalOcean launches its container service
• Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
• The Search for the “perfect” Advent Calendar (involves Python and Processing)
• Type hints cheat sheet (Python 3)
• Testing shell commands from Python
• Write good git commit messages
• Creating Windows XP Icons (2001)
• Android Open Source Project Now Includes the Fuchsia SDK and a Fuchsia ‘device’
• Latest Windows Insider build makes a major upgrade to Notepad
• Visual Studio Code 1.30 Released
• Vaex – Out of Core Dataframes for Python and Fast Visualization
• Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium
• Is Windows 10 still telling what you’re doing even if you don’t want it to?
• Make photomosaics, GIFs, and murals from pictures in Python with ML/OpenCV
• Exploring the .NET Core Runtime
• DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing
• FLI: A binary interface to let Scheme use Python, Lua, Ruby etc’s Library
• What is the .NET IL linker and what does it do?
• JavaScript growth and third parties

Quote of the week

The best code is no code at all.

Enterprises

• Recollections of Early Chip Development at Intel (2001)
• Google has costly yellow ad blunder
• Senior Google employee says quest to stop leaks is now management’s top priority
  Aly Song/ReutersA security guard keeps watch as he walks past a logo of Google in Shanghai, China.Jack Poulson, who quit Google in September over its search
• Hate Amazon? Try Living Without It
• BMW’s new electric car powertrain system totally torpedoes Tesla
• Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube
• Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track
• Open Location Code
• Is Chrome Going to Be ONLY Browser? (Microsoft Ditching Edge)
• Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak
• Google Employees Demand the End of Forced Arbitration Across the Tech Industry
• Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel
• Google+ hit by second API bug impacting 52.5M users
• Amazon, Amid Crackdown on Seller Scams, Fires Employees Over Data Leak
• Google Fusion Tables Shutting Down
• Microsoft Edge
  Microsoft Edge. Contribute to MicrosoftEdge/MSEdge development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Google’s ‘two-tier’ workforce training document
• The Future of Core, Intel GPUs, 10nm, and Hybrid X86
• Intel Unveils a Groundbreaking Way to Make 3D Chips
• An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son’s birth
• After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning
• How Ted Lieu Became Google’s Accidental Champion
• Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave
• Microsoft Clarity – a product to visualize user interactions
• BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
• Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door
• Minimal Google Analytics Snippet
• Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways
• Going Head-To-Head: Scylla vs. Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon uses dummy parcels to catch thieves
• Google Earth Studio
• Google One
• Dr. Elon and Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla’s Production Hell
• $3k Bug Bounty – Twitter’s OAuth Mistakes
• Amazon has a way to catch package-stealing thieves
  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.

Other news

• Scooter mechanic, once homeless, says cheap rides now help him pay rent
• University friends: By chance or by design?
• UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly?
• $10,000 Fellowships for women working on open source projects, research, and art
  Funding for women, trans, and non-binary people to work on ambitious projects this winter.
• Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in
• Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake
• What These Medical Journals Don’t Reveal: Top Doctors’ Ties to Industry
• China says rejecting physical cash is illegal amid e-payments popularity
• Failory 2.0 – Learn How to Build a Profitable Startup
• Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, and the Notebooks That Launched a Thousand Careers
• Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators
• The Golden Age of Rich People Not Paying Their Taxes
• Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support
• Marriott Data Breach Traced to Chinese Hackers, US Readies Crackdown on Beijing
• 5 things you won’t learn from the Open Organization Leaders Manual
• Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself
• Women Who Code Moves Global HQ from SF to Atlanta with Help from Home Depot
• In what sense is quantum computing a science?
• Romanian government abusing GDPR (again) to go after journalists
• Fbs: Create Linux GUIs with Qt in minutes
• IHMC Teaches Atlas to Walk Like a Human
• Linus Torvalds: Fragmentation Is Why Desktop Linux Failed
• UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V
• Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux?
• Rare brain-eating amoebas killed woman who rinsed her sinuses with tap water
• Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors

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