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August 3 - 9, 2017
Book Reviews
- How To Create Pragmatic, Lightweight Languages
Nikos Vaggalis rated this book for aspiring language engineers 4 out of 5 and his review also has much food for thought on diverse topics. His conclusion:
For those of you who have decided to build your own language or tool, and thus have the necessary impetus, I can recommend this as THE entry level guide to lexing, parsing and compiling with no prior experience required.
(click on book cover for details on Lean Pub site)
- Learning Scala
Scala is very popular with big data systems, being used increasingly with interactive processing (e.g. Spark). This book was rated 4.7 by Ian Stark who concluded:
Overall, this is a very useful, concise, introduction to the Scala language for existing developers. Highly recommended.
News
TIOBE Index - Top 10 Languages Slump Wednesday 09 August
This month's TIOBE Index shows a downward trend for every language in the Top 10 except two - but on further inspection they too are in decline when you focus on recent months.
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Real World Adversarial Images Wednesday 09 August
Just when you thought the the adversarial image flaw in neural networks couldn't get any worse someone comes along and shows how to build such images in the real world. Yes, a stop sign can be changed to a speed limit sign simply by adding some carefully crafted stickers or even some graffiti. This converts a lab curiosity into something potentially dangerous.
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Apache Curator Adds Support For TTL Nodes Wednesday 09 August
There's a new version of Apache Curator, the Java/JVM client library for Apache ZooKeeper. Zookeeper is a distributed coordination service. The new release of Curator adds support for TTL Nodes, and a strongly typed DSL.
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SQLite 3.20 Improves Query Planner Tuesday 08 August
There's a major upgrade to SQLite, the embeddable SQL database library that is found in many memory constrained gadgets such as cellphones, PDAs, and MP3 players. The new release has an improved query planner, and an extension that suggest tab-completions for interactive user interfaces.
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Supercomputing MOOC Restarts This Month Tuesday 08 August
A Supercomputing MOOC designed for anyone interested in leading-edge computing technology or the role that computer simulation takes in modern science and engineering is about to begin its second presentation on Future Learn.
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DeepCoder Learns To Write Programs Monday 07 August
Deep Neural Networks are solving many difficult problems, but programming? Microsoft Research and Cambridge University think that it is entirely possible and are having some success - enough for us to panic? At the moment it looks as if our jobs are safe but ...
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Google Data Studio Adds Filters Monday 07 August
Google has added a number of features to Data Studio, the reporting and dashboarding element of its Analytics suite.
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RoboCup In Its 21st Year Sunday 06 August
RoboCup 2017 took place last month in Nagoya, Japan 20 years after its beginnings there in 1997. A four-minute video gives an overview of how it has evolved and continues to be at the cutting edge for human/robot interaction.
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New Robotics Badges for Girl Scouts Saturday 05 August
What you do as a Girl Scout stays with you for life. So it's great to see that Think Like a Programmer Awards are being introduced for Girl Scout Daisies, Brownies and Juniors, along with badges for robotics.
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Closing Stack Overflow Documentation Friday 04 August
Barely a year after the launch of the Stack Overflow Documentation website, the decision has been taken to close it with almost immediate effect. It turns out that this ambitious project was simply financially nonviable.
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Three New Experiments for Firefox Test Pilot Thursday 03 August
Firefox Test Pilot is an opt-in program where you can have early access to features designed to be Firefox add-ins and extensions while they are in the early stages of development. This week three new experimental features have been made available - Voice Fill, Notes and Send.
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Audio Super Resolution Thursday 03 August
You may have heard of super seeing or super resolution implemented using a neural network. Convolutional neural networks were invented to tackle computer vision but what about sound? It turns out that a neural network can learn enough about sound to take a low resolution recording and turn it into hi fi.
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Professional Programmer
C# Books - Pick of the Shelf Revisited Thursday 03 August
If you are looking for a book on C# you are likely to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of titles on offer. In Programmer's Bookshelf we trawl through our reviews, to find ones you might find helpful at specific stages and for different purposes.
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The Core
The Programmers Guide To Kotlin - Inheritance Monday 07 August
Inheritance it once was the whole point of object-oriented programming. It was the big advantage and it promised easy code reuse. The reality wasn't so good, but it is still amazingly valuable as long as you use it correctly. Kotlin has facilities to help you control and work with both inheritance and, one alternative, composition.
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