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9 Artificial #intelligence Trends You Should Keep An Eye On In 2019
▻https://hackernoon.com/future-artificial-intelligence-2019-1cd09cc491c7?source=rss----3a8144eab

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Artificial Intelligence has become a hot topic in tech circles. It has not only changed our lives, but it has also disrupted every industry you can think of. Despite all this, people have different perception about it. Some might consider it as a bad thing because they are told that it will take your job away from you in near future. On the other hand, #ai advocates continues to think of AI as an enabler which will reduce your burden and make your life easy by automating things.Whether you like AI or not, if you are interested in what AI has in store for the future, then you are at the right place. In this article, we will look at some of the biggest AI trends that will dominate in 2019.1) AI Enabled Chips Will Go MainstreamUnlike other technologies and software tools, AI depend heavily (...)

#machine-learning #machine-intelligence #artificial-intelligence

Repeatable & Maintainable Development Environments
▻https://hackernoon.com/repeatable-maintainable-development-environments-45f4589c824?source=rss-

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with Ansible, Vagrant and Continuous IntegrationProblemDevelopers need a specific set of software tools to get the job done.You might have new starters in your team OR you need to fundamentally change the software environment that your current team uses in some way — perhaps migrating to a different OS?The list of software tools we all need can be quite extensive. While some of these software tools you can obtain from package managers (e.g. Aptitude, Snap, Homebrew, etc…), they can still have quite complex installation steps (which could randomly change and break!).These steps might be documented, they might not. There’s also the problem that having a developer maintain their own base software environment can mean huge inconsistencies between different dev machines that get worse over (...)

#software-development #maintainable-development #devops #repeatable-development #software-engineering

The Ultimate Guide to #ethereum Developer Tools
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-ethereum-developer-tools-7feb53f9d953?source=rss--

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Photo by shotbycerqueiraIntroductionIf you are a software engineer looking to get started with developing on the Ethereum blockchain, it can be overwhelming at the outset to understand all the tools and technologies available to use today.From decentralized browsers and wallets to terms like Truffle, Ganache, Infura, Parity and Geth this can all be very confusing and act as an impediment to your nascent blockchain learning journey.So I have decided to compile a guide which lists out the leading software tools and packages and give you a brief overview of the function of each.Hopefully this will help give you a better picture of the Ethereum ecosystem and how all the pieces fit together while ultimately providing you with a jump start on your accelerated learning journey with this (...)

#ethereum-developer-tools #ethereum-tools #eth-developer-tools #ethereum-developers

The Document Transformed
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/The-Document-Transformed,2811.html

Masterclass with Adva Zakai (Thursday) and #Presentation (Saturday) on the BioVision Hierarchy file format. BioVision Hierarchy (.bvh) is an ASCII file format used to import data from various motion capture systems into 3D-animation software. It was developed in the mid-nineties and remains one of the most commonly used file-formats for transposing movement captured in physical space, to a computational environment. Around this relatively legible format, a rich ecology of software tools (...)

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Leaked NSA Malware Is Helping Hijack Computers Around the World
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/05/12/the-nsas-lost-digital-weapon-is-helping-hijack-computers-around-the-wo

In mid-April, an arsenal of powerful software tools apparently designed by the NSA to infect and control Windows computers was leaked by an entity known only as the “Shadow Brokers.” Not even a whole month later, the hypothetical threat that criminals would use the tools against the general public has become real, and tens of thousands of computers worldwide are now crippled by an unknown party demanding (...)

#NSA #Microsoft #spyware #Windows #hacking #Wannacry

Reddit Moderators Shut Down Parts of Site Over Employee’s Dismissal
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderators-shut-down-parts-of-site-over-executives-dismissal.html

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Hundreds of sections of #Reddit, the popular online message board, were unavailable Friday in what appeared to be a protest by many of the site’s moderators after the abrupt dismissal of a high-ranking company employee.

The move affected nearly 300 individual discussion areas — so-called subreddits that focus on individual topics like technology, art and business. Subreddits are generally moderated by self-appointed members of the community, not official Reddit employees. The shutdowns, which began on Thursday evening, appeared to expand rapidly on Friday.

They began shortly after Victoria Taylor, Reddit’s director of talent, was dismissed on Thursday afternoon. On Friday, the volunteers posted a document online that asked for better communication with official staff, as well as improved software tools for community management.

#CM #modération

Interactive Infographic - 13 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics
▻http://neomam.com/interactive/13reasons

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Why your Brain Craves Infographics

Peaks.js
▻http://waveform.prototyping.bbc.co.uk

Browser-based #audio #waveform visualisation
Peaks.js encompasses a suite of software tools designed to allow users to view and interact with audio waveform material in the browser.

►http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2013/10/audio-waveforms

Why Science is in Trouble

▻http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/10/26/big-data-brain-drain

This brings us to Academia’s core problem: despite the centrality of well-documented, well-written software to the current paradigm of scientific research, academia has been singularly successful at discouraging these very practices that would contribute to its success. In the “publish-or-perish” model which dominates most research universities, any time spent building and documenting software tools is time spent not writing research papers, which are the primary currency of the academic reward structure. As a result, except in certain exceptional circumstances, those who focus on reproducible and open software are less likely to build the resume required for promotion within the academic system. And those poor souls whose gifts lie in scientific software development rather than the writing of research papers will mostly find themselves on the margins of the academic community.

"But what agencies like the FBI are now worried about is that individuals are “going dark” by using freely available encryption software to prevent their email and phone conversations to be captured by law enforcement agencies. [...]

Bimen Associates, which has its headquarters in McLean, Virginia, near the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, provided custom designed software tools developed exclusively for the FBI to crack encrypted conversations, says Soghoian. Agency staff and contractors access computers of suspects remotely to install this software to allow them to watch everything that the target types or says.

▻http://www.opednews.com/articles/ACLU-Reveals-FBI-Hacking-C-by-Corp-Watch-130820-427.html

#nsa #surveillance #hacking #FBI #blackhat

Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/science/unreported-side-effects-of-drugs-found-using-internet-data-study-finds.html

Using automated software tools to examine queries by six million Internet users taken from Web search logs in 2010, the researchers looked for searches relating to an antidepressant, paroxetine, and a cholesterol lowering drug, pravastatin. They were able to find evidence that the combination of the two drugs caused high blood sugar.

The study, which was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association on Wednesday, is based on data-mining techniques similar to those employed by services like Google Flu Trends, which has been used to give early warning of the prevalence of the sickness to the public.

L’article original ( abstract seulement) Web-scale pharmacovigilance: listening to signals from the crowd ▻http://jamia.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/05/amiajnl-2012-001482.abstract

He turned to computer scientists at Microsoft, who created software for scanning anonymized data collected from a software toolbar installed in Web browsers by users who permitted their search histories to be collected. The scientists were able to explore 82 million individual searches for drug, symptom and condition information.

The researchers first identified individual searches for the terms paroxetine and pravastatin, as well as searches for both terms, in 2010. They then computed the likelihood that users in each group would also search for hyperglycemia as well as roughly 80 of its symptoms — words or phrases like “high blood sugar” or “blurry vision.”

They determined that people who searched for both drugs during the 12-month period were significantly more likely to search for terms related to hyperglycemia than were those who searched for just one of the drugs. (About 10 percent, compared with 5 percent and 4 percent for just one drug.)

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The researchers said they were surprised by the strength of the “signal” that they detected in the searches and argued that it would be a valuable tool for the F.D.A. to add to its current system for tracking adverse effects.

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“I think there are tons of drug-drug interactions — that’s the bad news,” Dr. Altman said. “The good news is we also have ways to evaluate the public health impact.