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
- Shapash – Python library to make machine learning interpretable
- Google’s AI Doesn’t Understand Restaurant Menus
- Neural networks ‘learn’ the way humans do? A neuroscientist explains why not
- How to build a working AI only using synthetic data in just 5 minutes
- 3D-Aware Image Synthesis via Learning Structural and Textural Representations
- Explore Matter, the new smart home standard, in Home Assistant
- Visionary French entrepreneur, David Gurle, launches new venture – Hive
- Interview with Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities, and RSS
- Barriers to Business – How cities can pave a path to entrepreneurship
- JIT/GPU accelerated deep learning for Elixir with Axon v0.1
- Jerry Seinfeld Routine written and performed by AI (GPT-3)
Blockchain and decentralization
- Coinbase CEO Tweets ‘Quit and Find a Company You Believe In’
- ZeroStableCoin is out from stealth mode
- Let’s build a decentralized social network together with Logseq
- Tron’s USDD stablecoin currently losing its peg
- Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance
- Binance has paused Bitcoin withdrawals “due to a stuck on-chain transaction”
- Bitcoin plunges below $24,000, Celsius Network temporarily halts all withdrawals
- The Coinbase FOMO Calculator
- El Salvador’s Bitcoin Buys Tracker
- Man loses life savings in cryptocurrency scam
- Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
By Brian Armstrong, CEO and Cofounder - Plain Text Cryptocurrency Prices
- The State of Stablecoin Risks (June 2022)
I cover risks inherent in USD Coin and tether USD. Thanks: I want to thank Mike from DirtyBubbleMedia for help with this piece Disclaimer: I currently hold short positions against $SI and $MSTR, wh… - Coinbase Lays Off Around 1,100 Employees
- Cryptocurrencies Have Broken Almost All of Their Major Promises
The crypto market has not been kind to «investors» lately. The market has been near free-fall, and within the first quarter of the year, we’ve seen so many things going south about cryptocurrencies, and it seems almost all the promises that BitCoin and cryptocurrencies promised were a lie. So what a - Terra Luna crash: CTO of Tether welcomes fair regulation of stablecoin market
- CeresDB: A high-perf, distributed, schema-less and time-series database (Rust)
- Lockable – sync locks for distributed systems
- Bitcoin Falls Below $20k for the First Time Since 2020
- Bitcoin slumps below key $20k threshold
- Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means
Woman computer scientist of the week
Jennifer Rexford is an American computer scientist, the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering at Princeton University, where she served as the department chair of the Computer Science department. Her research focuses on analysis of computer networks, and in particular network routing, performance measurement, and network management.
Cloud and architecture
- Even more pi in the sky: Calculating 100T digits of pi on Google Cloud
- Reselling Software: Don’t Start a SaaS – White Label Someone Else’s Instead
Reselling software can mean recurring revenue and great profit margins. But how do you choose a niche and find your first customers? - Developer’s Guide to SaaS Compliance
- PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally - Select ’Hello, World’: Serverless Postgres Built for the Cloud
- A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
- AMD outperforms Intel in 2022 Cloud Report
The 2022 Cloud Report is the only cloud performance report to compare AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads. - A sketch of the biggest idea in software architecture
- Minimum Viable Architecture in Practice: Creating a Home Insurance Chatbot
Development and languages
- Oneplus GPL violation for Android 12 Kernel
- Go Template Preview – Powered by WebAssembly
- GitHub Actions Is Down
- Our Plans for Thunderbird on Android
We’re thrilled to announce our first steps on the road to delivering an outstanding Thunderbird on Android experience. - Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at Gitlab
- Survey: iPhone owners spend more, have higher incomes than Android users
- How to create a dashboard in Python with Jupyter Notebook
Would you like to build a data dashboard in 9 lines of Python code? I will show you how to create a dashboard in Python with Jupyter Notebook. The dashboard will present information about stock for selected ticker (data table and chart). The notebook will be published as a web application. I will use an open-source Mercury framework to convert Python notebook to interactive web application. - Gitlab Now the Main Development Platform for Wine
- Building a web application with Rust and WebAssembly
- The Helios microkernel
- Docker on (rooted) Android
- C#: IEnumerable, yield return, and lazy evaluation
Don’t hate, iterate. - CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City
- Is .NET open? MS pushing a proprietary extension to replace OmniSharp
- Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS/JavaScript UI Engine for Applications
- Wasmer – The Universal WebAssembly Runtime
- Review of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
- Android Booting Shenanigans
- Bundling binary tools in Python wheels
Quote of the week
The Purpose of Computing is Insight, Not Numbers.
— This is the motto of the book Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers by Richard Hamming.
Enterprises
- US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software
Traffic safety officials escalate and widen probe to 830,000 Tesla cars as they discover patterns suggesting Tesla’s Autopilot feature can encourage dangerous driving behavior. - Tesla: Designing autopilot program to shut off less than a second before impact
- “Hi LaMDA, This Is Blake Lemoine…”
- Amazon Engineer Sues for Work from Home Costs
- “We’re winding down Google Talk” on June 16, 2022
- Foone reverse engineering Skifree (Twitter thread)
- No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly
No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly. - Animal magic: why intelligence isn’t just for humans
- Amazon calls cops, fires workers in attempts to stop unionization nationwide
- Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US
- Intel 4 Process Node in Detail: 2x Density Scaling, 20% Improved Performance
- Teslas running Autopilot have been in 273 crashes in less than a year
- Microsoft ditches non-compete clauses, enhances pay transparency
- Cults at Google
- Reddit acquires ML startup Spell
- The Cult Inside Google
- Tesla sends untrained employees to work on cars as service becomes problematic
- Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology
Learn how alien intelligence connects to human intelligence through science and technology using the Principle of Computational Equivalence, the ruliad, rulial space, tiny spacecraft and the Wolfram Language.
Other news
- Hacking the S-100 Bus
- The Linux kernel can spawn processes on its own
- Let’s learn D game programming development
- The European Central Bank Is Trapped. Here’s Why
- Exchanging Old Banknotes
- Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in womb impact fear, anxiety behavior
- Glucosamine significantly reduces risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality
Background Research on glucosamine shows anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer benefits with minimal adverse effects. We aimed to explore the relationship between use of glucosamine and risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality based on data from the large-scale nationwide prospective UK Biobank cohort study.
Methods Participants were enrolled between 2006 and 2010 and followed-up to 2020. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to assess the relationship between glucosamine use and risk of lung cancer and lung cancer mortality. Subgroup analyses and sensitivity analyses were performed to explore the potential effect modifications and th
- Browser Extension to Bypass Media Sites Paywalls
- We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned
Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Hereâs how we solve them at Canva - What we learned in studying the most effective founders
- Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live with medical debt
- Neuromorphic chip dramatically reduces power requirements for rolling robot
- Keysight UXR 110GHz Oscilloscope Teardown
In this episode Shahriar takes a look at one of the most advanced electrical test and measurement instruments ever created. The Keysight UXR-Series Real-Time… - Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners
- A hackable hobby programming language
- US prison workers produce $11B worth of goods and services for little to no pay
- A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
- Sim Central Bank, the Explanation
