Gooooooood morning, Web!!! 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
- Meta-Learning in 50 Lines of JAX
- Caret Package – A Practical Guide to Machine Learning in R
- Best of Arxiv.org for AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning – January 2019
- Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control
- AITopics, news and research about AI
- Capsule Networks – a way to more closely mimic biological neural organization
- Intuit (TurboTax) Notice of Unauthorized Access to Tax Returns
- Myths in Machine Learning Research
- Machine learning can boost the value of wind energy
- Dry.io wants to democratize software development using AI
- Topological methods for unsupervised learning problems
- Long-Range Robotic Navigation via Automated Reinforcement Learning
- License Plate Detection Without Machine Learning
- Finnish is too complicated for AI
- Deep Learning from Scratch to GPU: CUDA and OpenCL
- Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
Blockchain and decentralization
- Dynamics at the Boundary of Game Theory and Distributed Computing
- Bitcoins Returned to Bitfinex by U.S. Government
- Announcing k3s: The Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution Built for the Edge
- CovenantForum – A decentralized forum powered by CovenantSQL
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cheryl L. Shavers, born in 1953 in San Marcos, Texas, is a chemist, expert in semiconductors, and Chairman and CEO. After gaining a degree in chemistry, she worked as an engineer at Motorola. Shavers returned to university for a few years, gaining a PhD in solid state chemistry, before returning to private industry. Shavers worked at increasingly senior levels in Silicon Valley, at Hewlett Packard and Intel. She served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology in the Clinton Administration (1999-2001), and is a registered patent agent in the US Patent and Trademark Office. After leaving government service in 2001, she established a consultancy and strategy business, Global Smarts Inc. Shavers was inducted into the Women In Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame and the Hall of Fame of the Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Cloud and architecture
- AWS API Performance Comparison: Serverless vs. Containers
- Is a shared database in microservices actually an anti-pattern?
- FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
- U.S. Cloud Act is raising concern about extraterritoriality
- Cloudflare’s RPKI Toolkit
- Serverless Page Builder
- As AWS Use Soars, Companies Surprised by Cloud Bills
- A World Without Clouds: Cloud Loss Could Add 8 Degrees to Global Warming
- ‘Extinct’ Formosan clouded leopard spotted in Taiwan
- Supermicro hardware weaknesses let researchers backdoor an IBM cloud server
- The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless
- Beyond Local Pattern Matching: Recent Advances in Machine Reading
- OpenSSL 3 Strategic Architecture
- Microsoft Azure Sentinel
Development and languages
- Python: Even a Feature That You Do Not Use Can Bite You
- YouPorn goes PWA progressive with new mobile web apps for Android and iOS
- Containers as Kernel Objects – Again
- Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the Digital New York Times
- Git 2.21 Highlights
- The CPython Bytecode Compiler Is Dumb
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Economics
- Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
- Visual Studio Code for Chromebooks and Raspberry Pi
- Follow GitHub Organisations
- Multiprocessing.shared_memory – Shared memory for direct access across processes
- Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates
- Gpu.js – GPU Accelerated JavaScript
- Productivity tricks in Visual Studio
- Grape JavaScript – Free and Open Source Web Builder Framework
- Euboea – simple, fast, AOT-compiled programming language
- Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier
- Browsing a Remote Git Repository
- Hy: A Dialect of Clojure Embedded in Python
- Limiting Your Digital Footprints in a Surveillance State
- Does windows 10s telemetry include sending *.docs if word crashed
- Micropython and LittlevGL: high-level GUI library for micropython
- Burning Digital Books and the Fight over Online Ideology
- A DIFFERENT GitHub redesign proposal
- Git Best Practices
- Tips and Tricks for Asp.net Core Applications
Quote of the week
Security is a state of mind.
— NSA Security Manual
Enterprises
- Microsoft Workers Protest Army Contract with Tech ‘Designed to Help People Kill’
- New OpenGL Driver for Intel Gen8 GPUs Merged into Mesa
- Google Maps: Bird Mode
- Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs
- Site Search Could Kill Amazon
- Microsoft CEO defends US military contract that employees say crosses a line
- Bypassing ad blockers for Google Analytics
- Nadella: Microsoft will sell war tech to democracies to “protect freedoms”
- Julia on Google TPU: Shakespeare RNN
- All Medium paywalled stories now free, unmetered when you’re coming from Twitter
- Tesla: Great things are launching at 2pm
- Tesla – Great things are launching at 2pm
- Tesla will close most of its stores and only sell cars online
- When Does Intelligence Peak?
- Amazon Web Services CEO: We’re a $30b revenue business in the ‘early stages’
- Amazon to open grocery chain separate from Whole Foods
- Amazon’s Project Zero will let brands remove fake product listings
- He Was Part of a Twitter Mob That Attacked YA Novelists. Then It Turned on Him
Other news
- My first website a simple Recurring Payments
- Aptana.org Hacked?
- Journalist, 12, faces off with police officer who threatened to arrest her
- Linux kernel: Add io_uring IO interface
- Azlo – Fee-free small business banking
- Linux Desktop Setup
- Hack Club Bank – A Bank for Student Hackers
- Arcade Rats on the Moon
- Political Bias Is Destroying Peoples Faith in Journalism
- 40% of Smart Homes at Risk to Hackers
- Thousands of Women Say LuLaRoe’s Legging Empire Is a Scam
- Congratulations Women, Judge Rules the US Military Should Draft You Too
- Quilc: An optimizing quantum compiler written in Common Lisp
- Bell cuts phone service to family struggling to pay surprise $1,800 bill
- Learn anything every new tab
- Millions of Binaries Later: A Look into Linux Hardening in the Wild
- Middle School Misfortunes Then and Now, One Teacher’s Take
- Truffle: Finds business deductions in your personal spending history
- Would You Pay $32,709 for a Lab-Grown Diamond?