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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
- Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II
DeepMind’s AlphaStar beat all but the very best humans at the fast-paced sci-fi video game. - A Machine Learning Guide to Hierarchical Temporal Memory
- The Machine Learning Software Engineering Interview
Iterations on revealing recurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior - 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
- Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
A fractal is any geometric pattern that occurs again and again, at different sizes and scales, within the same object. This «self-similarity» can be seen throughout nature, for example in a snowflake’s edge, a river network, the splitting veins in a fern, and the crackling forks of lightning. - SoftBank’s WeWork Bailout Draws Investor Concern
- Telling Whiskey from Whisky
The evaporation of a drop of American whiskey leaves a characteristic web-like pattern that isn’t observed in Scotch whisky and other distillates. - 7M Adobe Creative Cloud Accounts Exposed to the Public
- Unity creates new open source tool just for architects with Reflect
Unity’s Reflect is getting tested by major firms like SHoP Architects on projects like 9 Dekalb Ave. - 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
- Hashicorp injects their Azure Partner ID into your terraform deployments
Please remove the default partner_id from azurerm that was introduced in #4663. If no provider_id is specified, then no provider_id should be sent to Azure. Using the default "terraform" … - In a Lawsuit, Former Juul Exec Says Company Shipped 1M Contaminated Pods
“Half our customers are drunk and vaping like mo-fos, who the fuck is going to notice the quality of our pods,” the former CEO allegedly said. Juul says the lawsuit is “baseless.” - 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
- High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language
A new extension for the Julia programming language for mathematical computing enhances the Julia compiler to generate native code for CUDA GPUs - 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
- A GUI framework for C# console applications
A GUI framework for C# console applications. Contribute to TomaszRewak/C-sharp-console-gui-framework development by creating an account on GitHub. - View leaked secrets in Git live
Shhgit finds secrets and sensitive files across GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket code and Gists committed in near real time - Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on Git repositories
- JavaScript Is C
JavaScript and C both make you maintain your invariants the most painful way possible. Happily, there are better alternatives these days. - ‘Zen curtain’ saves birds from hitting glass windows
- New ‘unremovable’ xHelper malware has infected 45,000 Android devices
Factory resets aren’t helping. Neither are mobile antivirus solutions. Malware keeps reinstalling itself. - Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behaviour on GitLab.com
**2019-10-29 UPDATE:** The following email is going out to all GitLab users: Dear GitLab users and customers, On October 23, we sent an email entitled “Important Updates to our Terms… - Spanish goverment orders to take down GitHub repository
Text of government takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. – github/gov-takedowns - Microsoft’s GitHub Censors Catalonian App Tsunami Democratic
El servicio, del que es dueño Microsoft, ha bloqueado el acceso al repositorio donde estaba alojado la web y el APK de la app para que la gente se la pudiera descargar - GitHub Removes Tsunami Democràtic’s APK After a Takedown Order from Spain
- GitHub Student Developer Pack
- Spain will prevent “digital republic” in Catalonia
Acting president says new decree will prevent «digital republic» in Catalonia, while Catalan digital policy minister calls move «digital repression» - GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
- The Lx Programming Language
- Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
Commentary: The world rightly lauds Linus Torvalds for Linux, but Git will arguably have a bigger impact. - 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
- Twitter “Silenced” Dissenting Voices During Anti-Government Protests in Egypt
Dozens of accounts were suspended without reason during rare anti-government protests, new research shared with BuzzFeed News shows. - Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels
Tesla has launched the third iteration of its solar roof tile for residential home use, which it officially detailed in a blog post on Friday and in a call with media. Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the call with some explanatory remarks on the V3 Solar Roof, and then took a number of questions. [&… - Amazon, Alphabet and Uber Drones Are Coming
- Google CEO says company genuinely struggling with employee trust
- Steve Jobs at 1996 Microsoft Developer Conference Talking about WebObjects
Bob Muglia introduces Steve Jobs in this PDC 1996 keynote. Steve Jobs was President of NeXT Corporation and talks about WebObjects as well as taking questions from some of the developers in the audien - Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device make… - Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
Google owner Alphabet Inc has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device make… - 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
- Nautilus to be acquired by an investor group of fans
From the newswire:Award-winning magazine and fast-growing science brand poised for growthAn investor group of super-fans has banded… - Let’s discuss the source for the GPLed parts of Tesla cars
- Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won’t Die
What lessons can we learn from old code that becomes unkillable? - Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
“Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field. Not special characters. Regular letters. https://t.co/QMDJyc4uRO” - Twitter to ban political advertising
“We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…?” - Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy after Twitter ban
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday ardently defended Facebook’s controversial political advertising policy a little more than an hour after Twitter took a shot at its rival while announcing it will ban all political ads - Amazon will stop sales of used first-party Nintendo products starting November 1
- Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
“Breaking: Google buys Fitbit for $2.1 billion” - 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
- Is “Investing in improving structure” better than “Paying off technical debt”?
“I’m I the only one who finds, «Investing in improving structure,» leads to better feelings, decisions, and outcomes than, «Paying off technical debt»?” - 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
- What is a ket? How do traits work? Quantum computing in Rust, part 1
What is a ket? How do traits work? Implementing a quantum computer simulator in Rust. - 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
- WhatsApp sues NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones around the world
WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of hel… - 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
- NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies
Senior government officials in multiple U.S.-allied countries were targeted earl… - 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
