Tech roundup 137: a journal published by a bot

Gooooooood morning, Public!!! 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

• Google says AI generated content is against guidelines
• How to Pursue a Career in Brain-Based AI
• Plastic bottle instead of a gas tank: UAV Orlan 10 Russian tech
• A Case of Plagarism in Machine Learning Research
• My simple guessing and learning game
• Deep Learning Poised to ‘Blow Up’ Famed Fluid Equations
• OpenMower – Open-source robot lawn mower
• What’s next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution
• Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing
• Apple’s M1 Ultra comes with a 32MB TLB bottleneck
• The Future of Energy Storage on Both Sides of the Meter
• Small Neural networks in Julia 5x faster than PyTorch
  Doing small network scientific machine learning in Julia 5x faster than PyTorch …
• The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
  This book develops an effective theory approach to understanding deep neural
  networks of practical relevance. Beginning from a first-principles
  component-level picture of networks, we explain how to determine an accurate
  description of the output of trained networks by solving layer-to-layer
  iteration equations and nonlinear learning dynamics. A main result is that the
  predictions of networks are described by nearly-Gaussian distributions, with
  the depth-to-width aspect ratio of the network controlling the deviations from
  the infinite-width Gaussian description. We explain how these effectively-deep
  networks learn nontrivial representations f

Blockchain and decentralization

• Locutus: A platform for building decentralized apps, from the creator of Freenet
• ‘We’re a Cult’: Inside Bitcoin’s Shameless Hypefest
• Bitcoin Threw a Party in Miami and I Crashed It
• Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes by majority vote
• Insider Trading at Coinbase
• US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation
• Ethereum Has Issues
  I first wrote about the problem of bots front-running transactions a year and a half ago in The Order Flow , citing Dan Robinson and Georgio…
• I hope distributed is not the new default

Cloud and architecture

• The flaws of distro hopping and asking other people about their OS of choice
• Real World Recommendation System
  Training a collaborative filtering based recommendation system on a toy dataset is a sophomore year project in colleges these days. But where the rubber meets the road is building such a system at scale, deploying in production, and serving live requests within a few hundred milliseconds while the user is waiting for the page to load. To build a system like this, engineers have to make decisions spanning multiple moving layers like:
• AWS RDS Vulnerability Leads to AWS Internal Service Credentials
• Hexagonal Architecture and Domain Driven Design
• We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure

Development and languages

• How to control the metacognition process of programming?
• Am I too old to become a professional programmer?
• How and why Daily is using Rust for our WebRTC APIs
  Exploring why Rust is our preferred language for a core WebRTC library
• Push Options: Control Gitlab CI/CD and Merges with Git Push
• Write your own programming language in an hour with Chumsky
• Differentiable Programming – A Simple Introduction
• AV1 and WebRTC
• The fastest tool for querying large JSON files is written in Python (benchmark)
• Organization Discussions – GitHub Changelog
• Git security vulnerability announced
  Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.
• Git security vulnerability announced
  Upgrade your local installation of Git, especially if you are using Git for Windows, or you use Git on a multi-user machine.
• Ana is a Python, PHP, and C inspired dynamically typed scripting language
  Contribute to analang/ana development by creating an account on GitHub.
• Python App in the Browser
• Incident with GitHub Actions and Codespaces
• We lost 54k GitHub stars
  What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers, the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.
• Generate Python extensions using Nim language
• Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and security
  A stable, non-intrusive yet fully functional build of Windows 10 to anyone, who requires the Windows operating system natively
• Some Salesforce private GitHub repos stolen

Quote of the week

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

        — Bjarne Stroustrup

Enterprises

• Convert Twitter SF HQ to homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway? – Elon
• What if Sun Microsystems acquired Apple in 1996? (a timeline)
  «Or: What if Sun Microsystems did not offer an insultingly small amount of money to acquire Apple in 1996?»

  Everyone knows the Big Four of the IT industry: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Meta. If you’re so inclined, then you can add Microsoft to the list to form the Big Five. These five companies…

• Amazon workers at 100 more facilities want to unionize: Amazon Labor Union
• Google Drive: Shortcuts replacing files and folders stored in multiple locations
• Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel
  Three areas where Google Search lags behind its competitors.
• Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
• Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees
• Link: Simple, secure one-click payments by Stripe
• Tesla must pay ex-worker $15M for “disturbing” racist abuse, judge rules
• Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company
  The board voted unanimously to adopt the plan.
• My take on Elon’s offer for Twitter
• Intel deprecates SGX on Core series processors
• Brendan Gregg is leaving Netflix
• Twitter Should Open Up the Algorithm

Other news

• Reversing Sound Blaster X7 Control for Fun and Linux Support
• OpenSSH now uses hybrid post-quantum streamlined NTRU Prime X25519 by default
• tmux.nvim – turning Neovim into a terminal multiplexer
• What the Meadow Teaches Us
• What I learned from making a DNS client in Rust
• Intuit asked Mailchimp employees to pay medical costs out of pocket
• Sex and gender education banned for K-3 in Florida
• Aldous Huxley insisted “Crome Yellow” was fiction. Ottoline Morrell disagreed
• Today I asked a bank for a conventional mortgage and they said NO
• A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem
• What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers
  How a generation of programmers in the 90s learned to collaborate in the most unlikely of places, now on The ReadME Project:
• UX and the Civilizing Process
• A few things I learned about using DALL·E
• Linux Hardware Database
• A Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself
  The weight matrix (WM) of a neural network (NN) is its program. The programs
  of many traditional NNs are learned through gradient descent in some error
  function, then remain fixed. The WM of a self-referential NN, however, can keep
  rapidly modifying all of itself during runtime. In principle, such NNs can
  meta-learn to learn, and meta-meta-learn to meta-learn to learn, and so on, in
  the sense of recursive self-improvement. While NN architectures potentially
  capable of implementing such behavior have been proposed since the ’90s, there
  have been few if any practical studies. Here we revisit such NNs, building upon
  recent successes of fast weig
• Gallium OS: a fast and lightweight Linux distro for ChromeOS devices
• StarBook 14-inch
  The StarBook Mk V has an increased chassis size when compared to its predecessor. This allows for a battery that is 10% larger, a 14-inch display, twice the amount of speakers and removable memory.
• Rustaceans at the Border
  Support for developing in the Rust
  language is headed toward the kernel, though just when it
  will land in the mainline is yet to be determined. The Rust patches are
  progressing, though, and beginning to attract attention from beyond the
  kernel community. When two languages — and two different development
  communities — come together, the result can be a sort of cultural clash.
  Some early signs of that are appearing with regard to Rust in the kernel;
  if the resulting impedance mismatches can be worked out, the result could
  be a better development environment for everybody involved.
• Apple’s risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon is paying off

Autor: Javi López G.

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