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JavaScript Jems - Functional Iteration
Mike James

The functional approach to iteration is probably the main reason that programmers are initially attracted to the idea of functional programming. This is an extract from my newly published book, JavaScript Jems: The Amazing Parts, see sidebar.

One of the most important lossless forms of compression is the LZW dictionary based method. It turns up in lots of compression utilities - ZIP, Compress, Deflate and in GIF and PNG format files. 

Anouk Wipprecht, the Dutch creator of the Spider Dress, has  two new creations using microcontrollers, 3D-printing and sensors that let your clothing solve the problem of social distancing. 

AI is coming for your programming job! Well that's the headline. The truth is that it is going to take longer to get the human completely out of the loop, but that doesn't mean that there aren't tasks that AI can't take over now.

Gaining a Master's Degree is seen as a good step up the career ladder, as as a way of changing direction in mid-career. There are already several fully online options for gaining an MSC in Data Science, but this one is the most affordable.

An investigation by GitHub Security Labs has found malware within 26 open source code repositories based on Apache NetBeans. The GitHub team was acting on a tip off from a security researcher that GitHub-hosted repositories that were unintentionally actively serving malware.

The 2020 Eckert-Mauchly Award has been conferred on Luiz André Barroso for pioneering the design of warehouse-scale computing and driving it from concept to industry.

Grafana, an open-source metrics analytics & visualization suite, has been updated with a major new version that has a new plugin architecture, more visualizations and transformations, and native trace support.

New research gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "lend me your ears". The results reveal that given an image of a person's ear a neural network can reconstruct the person's face with amazing accuracy.

The Group Program Manager for Windows at Microsoft has admitted that Microsoft didn't give on sufficient credit to a developer who had created a Windows packaging app that 'influenced' Microsoft's own new Windows package manager.

Two new tools have been released for PyTorch, the open source library for deep learning. Both are collaborations between Amazon AWS and Facebook. TorchServe is a PyTorch model serving library, while the TorchElastic Controller for Kubernetes adds Kubernetes support to TorchElastic.

Mozilla has launched  Firefox 77 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It brings faster JavaScript debugging, optional permissions for extensions and a couple of new web platform features. 

Microsoft has announced Project Tye, a developer tool for developing and deploying microservices with minimal configuration. Tye is a .NET Foundation project.