Gooooooood morning, Earth!!! 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
- A neural net solves the three-body problem 100M times faster
- Machine Learning-Powered Search Ranking of Airbnb Experiences
- I, Language Robot
- Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain
- Introduction to Adversarial Machine Learning
- Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, study finds
- A deep learning framework for neuroscience
- Physicists searching for dark matter using lead from the bottom of the sea
- A slack bot, to automate your office using a Raspberry Pi
- Reinforcement Learning Library from Scratch – Deep Dive into Reinforce.jl
- Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Fwd Prediction
- Machine and Deep Learning with OCaml Natively
- Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
- A Machine Learning Guide to Hierarchical Temporal Memory
- Human-controlled robots shown to make manufacturing safer, more efficient
- Halmak – AI designed keyboard layout
Blockchain and decentralization
- Scanning the Scanners: Sensing the Internet from a Distributed Network Telescope
- Distribution of eggshell colors: thermoregulatory benefit of darker pigmentation
Woman computer scientist of the week
Leysia Palen is an American computer scientist known for her contributions to human-computer interaction and disaster informatics. She is a professor of computer science, professor of information science, and founding chair of information science at the University of Colorado Boulder. At Colorado, she directs a research project titled «Empowering the Public with Information during Crisis», and is co-director of the Center for Software & Society. She also holds an adjunct affiliation with the University of Agder, and is a member of the CHI Academy.
Cloud and architecture
- SoftBank’s WeWork Bailout Draws Investor Concern
- 7M Adobe Creative Cloud Accounts Exposed to the Public
- CloudBrowser – Free 30 Minute Internet Cafe for Secure Browsing
- When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition
- Amazon won’t spin off AWS. That’s hurting AWS
- The Cloud and Open Source
- Twelve-factor app development on Google Cloud
- European Cloud Project Draws Backlash from U.S. Tech Giants
Development and languages
- Peg Solitaire implemented in HTML, JavaScript, CSS
- Return-oriented programming-based CSGO, BF3, BF4 cheat
- Victor Mono – A free programming font
- Git-subcopy lets you link files across repositories
- Git repository summary on your terminal
- Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking
- Legitimate-Ish Use of Alloca()
- Legitimate Use of Variable Length Arrays
- 3D graphics rendering pipeline. Implemented in JavaScript. Run in a terminal
- Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on Git repositories
- ‘Zen curtain’ saves birds from hitting glass windows
- GitHub Removes Tsunami Democràtic’s APK After a Takedown Order from Spain
- GitHub Student Developer Pack
- GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
- The Lx Programming Language
- Meadow F7 micro board on pre-sale (bare metal .NET Standard 2.0)
- 2019 Python Developer Survey
Quote of the week
Debugging time increases as a square of the program’s size.
— Chris Wenham
Enterprises
- Amazon, Alphabet and Uber Drones Are Coming
- Google CEO says company genuinely struggling with employee trust
- I created a portable lightweight replacement for Microsoft HTML Help
- Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2019 Results
- Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit
- Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track
- A months-old AMD microcode bug destroyed my weekend
- After deaths, Amazon lands on list of most dangerous employers
- Tesla, in SEC filing, says U.S. auto sales fell by $2B
- Google Announces .new Domain Availability
- Google shouldn’t be the only source of interest-based recommendations
- Let’s discuss the source for the GPLed parts of Tesla cars
- Amazon will stop sales of used first-party Nintendo products starting November 1
- Google to Acquire Fitbit
- Fitbit to Be Aquired by Google
- Some Employees Chafe as Google’s New Internal Rules Take Hold
- Google’s Sidewalk Labs plans private taxation, cops, judges, punishes privacy
Other news
- New mind mapping tool for learners
- Scientists forced to take out loan to pay for eagles’ foreign text messages
- Banksy’s Fake Store Is an Attempt to Abuse Trademark Law to Avoid Copyright Law
- I got 40 paying customers in 6 months with 0 dollars spent
- Cluster SSH – Manage Multiple Linux Servers Simultaneously
- “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris
- Easy Halloween Sound Hack, Part One
- Green Bank, WV, is home to a telescope that needs electromagnetic silence
- SlowTube – Learn songs by ear by slowing them down
- DNS Record Crash Course for Web Developers
- Indian nuclear power plant’s network was hacked, officials confirm
- Learn and use fork(), vfork(), wait() and exec() system calls on Linux
- The empathetic humanities have much to teach our adversarial culture
- SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Speaks to an Almost Empty Room at Saudi Summit
- K-means clustering using sklearn and Python
- WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
- Scikit-Learn’s Defaults Are Wrong
- Data Dictatorships: The Arms Race to Hack Humankind
- The Woman Who Reshaped Mathematics
- Quantum advantage, or a practical demonstration that quantum computers work
- The Lure of Luxury
- Uber facing ban in Geneva