Gooooooood morning, You all!!! 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
- iRobot (Roomba) shares customer data with Google and other affiliates
- Wikibook-Bot – Automatic Generation of a Wikipedia Book
- Darpa Wants to Build Conscious Robots Using Insect Brains
- The media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy
- Neuronal Dynamics: From single neurons to networks and models of cognition
- Seminal deep learning papers
- New Method for Compressing Neural Networks Better Preserves Accuracy
- More Data Is Not Better and Machine Learning Is a Grind
- Text Preprocessing Methods for Deep Learning
- AI Is About To Take The Ship’s Helm Away From Humans
- Machine Learning Music Composed by Fragments of 100s of Terabytes of Recordings
- A bot for Starcraft in Rust, C or any other language
- Shots AI – Turn designs into code with one click
- Stanford Researchers Launch Free TV Service to Improve Live Streaming Using AI
- No. 1 state for female entrepreneurs is Texas: Study
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Raise Taxes on the Rich and Americans Agree
- Using Bots to Solve Developer Drudgery
Blockchain and decentralization
- Ricochet-IM: Anonymous, decentralized, metadata-resistant instant messaging
- On Infrastructure at Scale: A Cascading Failure of Distributed Systems
- Security Alert: Ethereum Constantinople Postponement
- Hostile takeover effort by Valor of Ripple
- US academics say their shardy blockchain will be 10X faster than Visa
- New Ethereum Dev Tools from 0x
- Distributed Technologies Research
Woman computer scientist of the week
Lise Getoor is a professor in the Computer Science Department, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her primary research interests are in machine learning and reasoning with uncertainty, applied to graphs and structured data. She also works in data integration, social network analysis and visual analytics. She has multiple best paper awards, an NSF Career Award, and is an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow. She has edited a book on Statistical relational learning that is a main reference in this domain. She has published many highly cited papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. She has also served as action editor for the Machine Learning Journal, JAIR associate editor, and TKDD associate editor. She is a board member of the International Machine Learning Society, has been a member of AAAI Executive council, was PC co-chair of ICML 2011, and has served as senior PC member for conferences including AAAI, ICML, IJCAI, ISWC, KDD, SIGMOD, UAI, VLDB, WSDM and WWW.
Cloud and architecture
- Serverless computing: one step forward, two steps back
- AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
- I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found
- Moving to a Profile per Install Architecture
- OpenEdge – Extend cloud computing, data and service to edge devices
- Intrinsic Value of a SaaS Business: A 20 Year DCF
- Design Considerations for High-Throughput Cloud-Native RDBMS
- Cloud Functions: Go 1.11 is now a supported language
- The Fastest Growing SaaS Companies of 2018
- Understanding Comics (free Sample) by Scott McCloud. Must Read for UI Designers
Development and languages
- Removing JavaScript’s *this* keyword makes it a better language
- Python with a Cocoa GUI on MacOS
- GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it
- 12.1T Digits of Pi
- Defensive JavaScript
- Python script to automate filling out Google form using Selenium
- I’m leaving GitLab to help everyone work remotely
- Android vendors, don’t kill my app
- Here is my collection of 600+ “old” digital cameras
- Composing Programs in Python, SICP Style
- Towards verified compilation of CakeML into WebAssembly
- AlaSQL.js – JavaScript SQL Database for Browser and Node.js
- Jannie Duncan: “Beautiful Human” or Fugitive Killer?
- Newspack by WordPress.com – A New Publishing Solution for News Organizations
- Elasticache with Python, or how to stop worrying and love HAProxy
- Performance Tuning for .NET Core
- Spectrum – Image transcoding library for Android or iOS
- Professional programming resources
- Raylib: a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy game programming
- Digitally cloning a 1914 Delage Type S engine block
- GitHub dashboard UI refresh
- Predicting Variable Types in Dynamically Typed Programming Languages
Quote of the week
When in doubt, leave it out.
— Joshua Bloch
Enterprises
- Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong
- AMD GCN Radeon Support in GCC 9
- Google Earth Reverse Engineering
- Slack Plans to Follow Spotify on Unconventional IPO Route
- We wasted $50K on Google Search Ads and the insights we got on the way
- Will Headless Intel Woo AMD’s Lisa Su?
- I bought a Google Home, and now I can’t listen to music at work
- Intel Core I9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only
- A package for verifying Google reCaptcha v3 responses in Go
- Netflix to raise prices by 13% to 18%
- Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more
- Netflix to Raise Price from $11 to $13 a Month
- Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
- PagerDuty Files Confidentially for IPO
- Measuring Traffic Manipulation on Twitter
- Microsoft pledges $500M for affordable housing in Seattle area
- IntelliJ IDEA: 18th birthday
- Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway
- HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
- AMD is edging closer to breaking Nvidia’s graphic dominance
- Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
- Examples and best practices for building recommendation systems
- Tesla to Cut Full-Time Employee Headcount by About 7%
- Company Update
- Elon Musk’s Tesla to cut about 3,000 jobs as cars ‘too expensive’
- Amazon is becoming more powerful than we realize
- Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
- GDPR complaints say Amazon, Spotify, and others are breaking EU law
- Using Creative Cold Emails to Acquire Customers
Other news
- Original Bauhaus Journals for Free: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky and More
- Hacking with private APIs on iPad
- Getting to 10x (Results): What Any Developer Can Learn from the Best
- A long read on a former quant coder convicted of stealing algorithms
- Best Azure Training and Certification Courses (Updated 2019) – Courses Buddy
- Lambda School – interesting model, only pay for lessons when you get a tech job
- Black Hole Evolution Traced Out with Loop Quantum Gravity
- UK engineers have completed the build of the novel Quantum satellite
- Bitcoin’s Biggest Hack in History: 184.4B Bitcoin from Thin Air
- A Look at the PayPal Mafia’s Continued Impact on Silicon Valley
- Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding in the Holland Tunnel
- Project Alias hacks Amazon Echo and Google Home to protect privacy
- Joy of Being a Woman in Her 70s
- Managing Remote Teams
- Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019: Tesla, VMWare, Microsoft, and more
- When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us
- Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal
- Canary analysis: Lessons learned and best practices from Google and Waze
- What we can learn from overweight pets about human obesity
- Consumption of a dark roast coffee blend reduces DNA damage in humans
- How to reduce the file size of large background images by over 93%
- How to teach Git
- DOJ: Hackers broke into an SEC database and made millions from inside info
- US Aid to Afghanistan Could Pay Every Household a Average Salary for 14 Yearrs
- Blockstream Satellite API: Pay with BTC via Lightning to Broadcast Data Globally
- Byju’s buys Osmo for $120M to add blended learning to its education business
- We’d have more quantum computers if it weren’t so hard to find cables
- SageDB: a learned database system
- Being collateral damage in the Culture Wars of the West
- My Desire to Learn from My Customers and How It Led to a New Business
- L4Linux – Linux running on the L4 microkernel
- MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming
- Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration