Perl,Ingres,programming

“Survival of the Best Fit” is a game developed by New York University that demonstrates practically how Machine Learning algorithms can make decisions based on bias.  The game gives you the role of a CEO of a newly funded company which has secured funding and is in the phase of recruiting personnel to staff it. In the beginning you screen the submitted CV's alone. Your screening is based on the criteria of Skill, School Privilege, Work Experience and Ambition and since you do that yourself you can judge applicants according to your experiences and values. In my case I was hiring people with 14% more work experience than the average applicant.
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Learn how to convert Java to Kotlin by following Kotlin's idioms with Google Developers Codelabs. Refactoring to Kotlin, which is available in English, Brazilian and Chinese, provides a guided, hands-on coding experience in a running time of just less than an hour.

While the latest IDE's do a good job in automatically converting Java code into Kotlin, this doesn't preclude that you also understood the mapping from the one code base to the other.Further you are naturally predisposed to continue writing Kotlin under Java's mentality, following Java's practices and idioms. The Refactoring to Kotlin Codelab aims to change that.

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An insightful report  on the future of AI has recently been published on SlideShare. It consists of 130 slides covering the most important machine learning research, industry and political developments over the past 12 months and includes a new section on China and here we look at its most important points.

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Hausura has provided a mini course on the basics of GraphQL which will be of interest to anyone who want to get to grips with the open source Graph QL engine.

Hasura's main product is its Postgres backed GraphQL server, which sports features such as webhook triggers on database events and remote schemas. (As a side note if you are interested in the concept of database events, then you might want to check out Connecting To The Outside World with Perl and Database Events.) 
The topics covered are : GraphQL vs REST
GraphQL queries, mutations, subscriptions
Setting up a GraphQL client with Apollo
Integrating GraphQL queries in your react native app
Integrating GraphQL mutations in your app to change data on the server
Updating local state after a GraphQL mutation (TextInput) using Apollo cache
Automatic updates to local state and UI after mutations
Using subscriptions with subscription components
Building a real-time feed with notifications using mutations and subscriptionsfull link on i-progr…

Written by Nikos Vaggalis Tuesday, 16 July 2019 Finland's educational system is famous for three reasons: its pedagogical outlook, its technological excellence and its openness to the world.  Sticking to the latter, University of Helsinki's "Full Stack Open 2019" which familiarizes students with the basics of modern web application development, initialy taken in Finish only, has been made available in English too, under the permissive Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license: “We wanted to make the course available in English as a way to offer Finnish university education for free to an international audience”
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What if tools powered by Neural Networks could save artists considerable amounts of time, or even enrich their work?   GANPaint Studio offers a glimpse into the creative tools of the future: The tool takes a natural image of a specific category, e.g. churches or kitchen, and allows modifications with brushes that do not just draw simple strokes, but actually draw semantically meaningful units – such as trees, brick-texture, or domes The innovation lies in that its paint tools/brushes don't paint with pixels but are object aware and instead paint those objects into the picture.A brush is associated with a group of neurons which themselves are associated with trees therefore using this brush paints trees; others can do doors or windows. full article on i-programmer