Gooooooood morning, Net!!! 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
- Python Pandas: Merging Dataframes Using Inner, Outer, Left and Right Joins
- BookBot: Mountain View library’s newest robot helper
- Python Tutorial for Machine Learning
- Strans – sed by learning from examples, instead of programming
- Botanical Mixture Stabilizes Cognitive Function in Alzheimer’s Patients
- Mixing WebGL and HTML, Both Rendered Out in React
- Panini AI – A platform to serve ML/DL models at low latency
- Indigenous datasets: A listing to help AI perform better in India
- Amazon’s Alexa Has 80k Apps–and No Runaway Hit
- Stop the Bots: Practical Lessons in Machine Learning
- Reinforcement Learning with Unity 3D
- A $33K robot barista serves 120 cups of coffee an hour
- A Robotic Leg, Born Without Prior Knowledge, Learns to Walk
Blockchain and decentralization
- A Generalised Solution to Distributed Consensus
- Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase
- Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP DBMS
- How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 Not So Easy Steps
- Open, Decentralized, Identity Ecosystem
- Radicle: A decentralized alternative to GitHub built on IPFS
- Remembering the burglary that broke Cointelpro
- Build a new way to trade cryptocurrency at Sparkswap (SF)
Woman computer scientist of the week
Mary Allen Wilkes is a former computer programmer and logic designer, most known for her work with the LINC computer, now recognized by many as the world’s first «personal computer.» Wilkes graduated from Wellesley College in 1959 where she majored in philosophy and theology. At that time she wanted to become a lawyer but was discouraged by friends and mentors because she was a woman. She sought work in the computer field partly because computer programming was a field that was open to women and partly because her geography teacher in the eighth grade had told her during a class discussion, «Mary Allen, when you grow up, you ought to be a computer programmer.» She had no idea at the time what that meant, but she never forgot it. She finally became an attorney in 1975.
Cloud and architecture
- Cloud browser – headless Chrome and image maps
- Google Cloud Console Outage 9:58 Am PDT 2019-03-11
- Google’s Larry Page Approved $150M Rubin Payout, Lawsuit Says
- Failover Architectures: The Infrastructural Excess of the Data Centre Industry
- Ubuntu Touch Safety Architecture
- Sabre limited BETA: Enterprise-CMS available as inexpensive SaaS, only 150 slots
Development and languages
- The Guide to JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our Industry
- GitHub Nomic Game #3
- Programmers Friendly Python Cheatsheet on GitHub Check It Out
- A Programmer’s Take on “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”
- From the Bootloader to the Kernel
- A JavaScript-Free Front End
- Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator
- Programming in Rust: the good, the bad, the ugly
- GitHub Status – Incident on 2019-03-12 14:27 UTC
- On the Road to WebRTC 1.0, Including VP8
- Next month Microsoft will remind Windows 7 users to upgrade
- Chase bans non-Windows/OS X users
- Monty Python’s Cheese shop sketch transcript
- Visual Studio has offensive picture of a bikerider wearing a green hat changed
- Digital Guide to Low Tech
- New Android adware found in 200 apps on Google Play
- DeepCamera – Turn Camera into AI-Powered with Embedded/Android/Pi etc.
- Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP
- Krita 4.2.0: First painting application with HDR support on Windows
- Windows Kernel Logic Bug Class: Access Mode Mismatch in IO Manager
- Earliest issues of Tolkien Society publications digitised
- When C extensions crash: easier debugging for your Python test suite
- V Programming Language
- The ATS Programming Language
Quote of the week
IDE features are language smells.
— Reg Braithwaite
Enterprises
- German Regulators Tell Tesla to Stop Advertising Cars with Gas Savings in Price
- Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
- 911 calls from Amazon warehouses show emotional distress and suicide threats
- Tesla will raise prices on its cars, reverses plan to close stores
- Another former Tesla security manager says the company spied on employees
- Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
- When Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower
- Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
- Challenges in Search on Streaming Services: Netflix Case Study
- Microsoft, Facebook, Trust and Privacy
- Google as a search engine is becoming useless
- Amazon Lobbied More Government Entities Than Any Other US Company Last Year
- Amazon’s Latest Supplier Purge Is an Indicator of Price Predation
- How Google’s Bad Data Wiped a Neighborhood Off the Map
- Post-mortem of March 12 Google outage
- Firefox enables deprecated Fido U2F Support for Google Accounts
- Amazon makes 14 cents from every Lyft ride
- Edge TPU: Hands-On with Google’s Coral USB Accelerator
- Amazon walks back vendor purge
- A new Google Play app and game icon specification
Other news
- Tufts student claims innocence after being expelled for grade hacking
- Tufts student claims innocence after being expelled for grade hacking
- Listening to Quantum Radio
- Teaching an AI to Draft Magic: The Gathering
- Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames: Control Characters (Such as Newline), 2009
- Angular 5 Crash Course for Free
- Japanese woman confirmed as world’s oldest person aged 116
- Homeland Security Compiling Database of Journalists and ‘Media Influencers’
- The head of luxury at Facebook and Instagram
- The more we learn about Brexit, the more crooked it looks
- Meta-Dataset: A Dataset of Datasets for Learning to Learn from Few Examples
- Journali.sm, a Newsfeed for News
- I’ve Listened to Loud Rock Music All My Life. Now My Hearing Is Paying the Price
- To lure young talent, banks mimic tech workspaces
- A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality
- Marriott CEO shares post-mortem on last year’s hack
- Chalkscore – Glassdoor for Education
- Rebuilding My Personal Infrastructure With Alpine Linux and Docker
- Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
- Scientists ‘reverse time’ with quantum computer in breakthrough study
- A simple reason why there aren’t more women in tech – we’re okay with misogyny
- Dilemmas with React Hooks – Part 1: States and Reducers
- Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years
- Mushrooms may ‘reduce the risk of mild brain decline’
- How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
- How I Learned to Love Algebraic Geometry
- Beto O’Rourke’s membership in a legendary hacking group
- Beto O’Rourke’s Hacker Days Preview of Millennial Politicians Teen Internet Days