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The path to socially responsible AI
As a company, we strongly believe that the community of the world’s most engaged developers and technologists and the answers they share will ensure the success of AI’s future.
Sending bugs back in time
Ben and Ryan are joined by Ryan’s former colleague and current backend engineer at Spotify, Omar Delarosa, to talk about time-traveling programming languages, a keyboard that turns an iPhone into a Blackberry, and what it’s like working on everyone’s personal DJ.
The half-life of developer skills is shrinking rapidly
Kian Katanforoosh is the CEO and cofounder of Workera and co-created the Stanford Deep Learning class (CS230) with Prof. Andrew Ng. In this episode he talks about how companies can better measure the skill sets of their employees and how AI will change the half-life of useful skills.
Letting algorithms guide our path to the next great invention
The home team discusses a new alternative to smartphones, how AI will impact scientific research and journalism, another dispiriting round of layoffs in tech, and building a computer with Legos.
Interesting questions
Is it possible to build a system to generate UUIDs where every UUID is guaranteed unique?
Guaranteed? No. But the chance that you generate a duplicate GUID is smaller than having that GUID be corrupted in the nanosecond it takes to be copied from RAM.
Travelling with ADHD medication to Asia
If it's prohibited, a prescription won't help.
Is there a word for "a variety of breakfast foods"
Perhaps the Sunrise Sampler or Super Slam will adequately break your fast.
Why isn't the Solar System infested with space pirates?
"How do you prevent rampant high seas piracy in a world where ocean travel is cheap and the entire Earth has been colonized?"
Links from around the web
why lowercase letters save data
who knew that writing in lowercase would be so fun and efficient?
Brace yourself, IPv6 is coming
IPv6 is a good thing, but a lot of developer tools aren't prepared. Make sure you're ready for that change in your own applications!
Dispatching an event
Sometimes the more "manual" approach is the quickest way to get what you want.
Sit in shade
This is a fun, clever example of using public data to make your life a little more convenient!
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