Sunday, October 27, 2019

free AI book

O'Reilly - Achieving Real Business Outcomes from Artificial Intelligence

cover for: Achieving Real Business Outcomes from Artificial Intelligence

Interactive GraphQL Tutorial

Try GraphQL! Interactive GraphQL Tutorial | What is GraphQL?


GraphQL | A query language for your API


NodeJS - The Complete Guide (incl. MVC, REST APIs, GraphQL) | Udemy
by Academind by Maximilian SchwarzmĆ¼ller


Building Scalable APIs with GraphQL | Pluralsight


GraphQL Hub = GraphQL + GitHub


graphql/graphiql: An in-browser IDE for exploring GraphQL.

Podcasts from Changelog

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A diverse panel and special guests discuss cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, microservices, Kubernetes, Docker…oh and also Go!



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some interesting episodes:

Practical AI #61: AI in the browser with Victor Dibia, research engineer at Cloudera’s Fast Forward Labs |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog

JS Party #96: Performant Node desktop apps with NodeGui featuring Atul R |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog

JS Party #95: Visual programming with hardware and Node-RED with special guest Nick O'Leary |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog

Go Time #100: Creating the Go programming language featuring Rob Pike & Robert Griesemer |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog

The Changelog #362: Machine powered refactoring with AST's featuring Amal Hussein |> News and podcasts for developers |> Changelog




Saturday, October 26, 2019

dual screen phone: LG G8X

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/22/20926719/lg-g8x-dual-screen-spƄecs-features-price-release-date-us-announced



The G8X ThinQ is a unique take on a dual-screen phone. Instead of using a foldable screen, like Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, or attaching an entire second screen with a hinge, like Microsoft’s upcoming Surface Duo, LG just made a normal phone with one screen. The second screen is based entirely within a case that the G8X slips into. Once it’s in, you can turn the second screen on and off or remove the phone later and just use the device as normal.

dev training Tim Corey

IAmTimCorey - YouTube

IAmTimCorey - YouTube

Homepage | iamtimcorey

iamtimcorey

Microsoft Azure += $10B JEDI deal

Microsoft wins $10 billion JEDI defense cloud contract, beating Amazon


Announcing Azure Government Secret private preview and expansion of DoD IL5 | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Friday, October 25, 2019

webUSB, webMIDI, webBluetooth

Oh my web! Connecting to devices with your browser | LibertyJS 2019 - Largest Javascript conference in Philadelphia

littleBits | Electronic Building Blocks for the 21st Century

Bluetooth 5: Go Faster, Go Further | Bluetooth Technology Website
800 ft

Micro:bit Educational Foundation | micro:bit

Amazon.com: BBC micro:bit micro-controller with motion detection, compass, LED display and Bluetooth: Computers & Accessories



WebUSB API @GitHub

Access USB Devices on the Web  |  Google Developers

chrome://device-log/
chrome://usb-internals/

navigator.usb.requestDevice({ filters: [{ vendorId: 0x2341 }] })
.then(device => {
  console.log(device.productName);      // "Arduino Micro"
  console.log(device.manufacturerName); // "Arduino LLC"
})
.catch(error => { console.log(error); });

Chirpers | IoT Robotics

Ron Dagdag's Projects - Hackster.io

chrome.usb - Google Chrome

Use the chrome.usb API to interact with connected USB devices. This API provides access to USB operations from within the context of an app. Using this API, apps can function as drivers for hardware devices. 

Apollo GraphQL


Apollo GraphQL | Apollo Data Graph Platform— unify APIs, microservices, and databases into a data graph that you can query with GraphQL



Apollo: One Giant leap for Full Stack | LibertyJS 2019 - Largest Javascript conference in Philadelphia


Welcome to Apollo: One giant leap for Full stack!

DomitriusAnthony/playlists-workshop: Apollo: One giant leap for Full-stack @GitHub

DomitriusAnthony/apollo-todo: Building a Todo App with apollo-link-state to demonstrate Graphql Queries and Mutations within React @GitHub

prisma - npm


Domitrius Clark – Medium

Domitrius Clark | LinkedIn

Reactadelphia (Philadelphia, PA) | Meetup

Serverless.js

Serverless - The Serverless Application Framework powered by AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and more

Making a Serverless Development Portfolio - In Seven Days or Less | LibertyJS 2019 - Largest Javascript conference in Philadelphia

Serverless in 7 Days

Fernando Medina Corey
Serverless Application Patterns - Indexing Searchable User-Generated Content



Using the Serverless Framework with Node.js on AWS | Pluralsight

serverless - npm


JavaScript + MIDI + Microcontrollers

JavaScript + MIDI + Microcontrollers Workshop | LibertyJS 2019 - Largest Javascript conference in Philadelphia

George Mandis • Full stack web developer and creative technologist • George Mandis

More Than Music with MIDI, Tiny Computers & JavaScript

Overview | Introducing Circuit Playground | Adafruit Learning System



MIDI - Wikipedia
Protocol

MIDI in JavaScript: array of 3 numbers; supported by native web browser API

Espruino - JavaScript for Microcontrollers

More Than Music with MIDI, Tiny Computers & JavaScript | Let's Build Things!

Array with morse-code as keys (in javascript). @GitHub

Web MIDI Starter
MIDI Color Mixer

JavaScript, MIDI, Tiny Computers

georgemandis/circuit-playground-midi-multi-tool: Turn your Adafruit Circuit Playground into a multi-faceted MIDI controller. Designed for my workshops experimenting with the WebMIDI API

Irving: React based, isomorphically rendered, headless CMS

alleyinteractive/irving: Irving is a ReactJS based, isomorphically rendered, headless CMS frontend application.

Home · alleyinteractive/irving Wiki

Components API · alleyinteractive/irving Wiki

Isomorphic Rendering · alleyinteractive/irving Wiki

Isomorphically-rendered apps run roughly the same code on both the servers side (node) and the client side (your web browser). This means they can render any given page in either environment (or both).

Brain.js vs TensorFlow.js: ML in web browser

Brain.js: Neural networks in JavaScript


vs TensorFlow.js

brain.js logo
Simple Machine Learning With JavaSNeural Networks In 

JavaScript - Brain.js Tutorial | Scrimbacript - Brain.js - YouTube


Neural Networks with JavaScript - Full Course using Brain.js - YouTube

11 Javascript Machine Learning Libraries for 2019 - Bits and Pieces

A Neural Network Playground
playground.tensorflow.org


TensorFlow.js demos  |  TensorFlow


presentation
Milecia McGregor | LibertyJS 2019 - Largest Javascript conference in Philadelphia



Monday, October 21, 2019

Python 2 vs Python 3:

The key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x with examples
by sebastian raschka

Python 2 vs Python 3: Key Differences

Important differences between Python 2.x and Python 3.x with examples - GeeksforGeeks

Python 2.7 Countdown clock

What’s New In Python 3.0 — Python 3.8.0 documentation

The future of databases, by Dr. Michael Stonebraker

Very opinionated and eloquent overview of history and future of database systems
by one of its major creators and contributors.
Creator of 9 database companies / products, including Postgres.
Winner of Turing Award, the highest recognition in Computer Science.

In a nutshell: while higher level languages, including SQL are here to stay,
current architecture of database systems is not optimal match for current technology and needs,
and is being replaced by "NewSQL" There are three major domains of database systems:

* Data Warehousing: best served by "columnar storage" engines.
* Transaction data systems: best served by "in memory" engines.
* Non-relational systems (document, graph, array db systems, etc)

Michael Stonebraker | CSAIL Alliances (@MIT)

Michael Stonebraker - Wikipedia

Dr. Michael Stonebraker: A Short History of Database Systems - The New Stack

podcast interviews:

Michael Stonebraker 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture - YouTube

quote: Big Data is about 3V-s: Volume, Velocity and Variety
"Big money" can buy big volume and big velocity.
For big variety need some smart solutions.

Tamr Agile Data Unification and Management Systems - Tamr Inc.

Six steps to start-up success from serial entrepreneur Mike Stonebraker | MIT CSAIL
  1. Have a good idea
  2. Assemble a small team and build a prototype
  3. Find a business partner
  4. Find your customers
  5. Pitch the VCs
  6. Negotiate a deal

Grasshopper, the coding app for beginners

as recommended created by Google...

Learn to Code for Free – Grasshopper

About Us – Grasshopper

Animate

Sunday, October 20, 2019

GitHub Markdown

GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec

HTML5
in GitHub


Summary Goes Here ...this is hidden, collapsable content...
## A collapsible section with markdown
Click to expand! ```python def func(): return 'hello, world!' ```

xkcd: easy vs very hard

xkcd: Tasks



Episode #152 You have 35 million lines of Python 2, now what? - [Python Bytes Podcast]

interactive dynamic web: idyll (!)

A combination of tools and simple syntax for creating interactive web pages


Is this the dynamic web we were promised? with Parametric Press's Matthew Conlen | Hanselminutes - Fresh Talk and Tech for Developers

Idyll | A markup language for interactive and data-driven blogging.
(idyll-lang.org)

# Hello World
[var name:"x" value:5 /]
The value of x is [Display value:x format:"d" /].
[Range value:x min:0 max:10 /]

Idyll Example Gallery

Idyll @GitHub

idyll-logo

Unraveling The JPEG

Idyll Tutorials

Idyll Documentation | An overview.

Idyll Editor


other similar, while custom, sites/pages

ENVIRONMENT ⇆ ECONOMY

Cassini's Grand Tour @ National Geographic

Exclusive: Experience the Best Dinosaur Fossil of Its Kind in 3-D @ National Geographic

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

AWS Kinesis vs. Apache Kafka

Kinesis vs. Kafka

Kinesis works with streaming data.
Kafka works with streaming data too.

Kinesis Streams is like Kafka Core.
Kinesis Analytics is like Kafka Streams.
A Kinesis Shard is like Kafka Partition.
They are similar and get used in similar use cases.

Data is stored in Kinesis for default 24 hours, and you can increase that up to 7 days.
Kafka records are by default stored for 7 days and you can increase that until you run out of disk space. In fact, you can decide by the size of the data or by date. You can even use compaction with Kafka so it only stores the latest timestamp per key per record in the log.

....

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

AWS: Amazon QLDB: Amazon Quantum Ledger Database


Amazon QLDB

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

Fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log. Owned by a central trusted authority.


Monday, October 14, 2019

Databases on AWS & Bookstore demo app

AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] Databases on AWS: The Right Tool for the Right Job (DAT205-R1) - YouTube

AWS re:Invent 2018: Building with AWS Databases: Match Your Workload to the Right Database (DAT301) - YouTube

aws-samples/aws-bookstore-demo-app @GitHub

AWS Bookstore Demo App is a full-stack sample web application that creates a storefront (and backend) for customers to shop for fictitious books. The entire application can be created with a single template.
High-level Architectural Diagram

  • Serverless service backend – Amazon API Gateway powers the interface layer between the frontend and backend, and invokes serverless compute with AWS Lambda.
  • Web application blueprint – We include a React web application pre-integrated out-of-the-box with tools such as React Bootstrap, Redux, React Router, internationalization, and more.
Bookstore Demo online



when you choose Athena, Aurora, RedShift, DynamoDB, RDS etc...? : aws


Relational database in general => probably Amazon Aurora

Specific relational database engine and version => Amazon RDS

Non-relational low-latency high-scale => Amazon DynamoDB

In-memory cache => Amazon Elasticache

In-memory cache for DynamoDB only => DynamoDB DAX

High-scale analytics / data warehousing => Amazon Redshift

Analytics on top of S3 Data => Amazon Athena

Analytics on top of S3 Data if already using Redshift => Redshift Spectrum

Documents with MongoDB Compatibility => DocumentDB


Sunday, October 13, 2019

Timsort : the fastest sorting algorithm

Timsort — the fastest sorting algorithm you’ve never heard of




Timsort is actually built right into Python.
To use Timsort simply write:
list.sort()

Original source code: check it out here.
Timsort is offically implemented in C, not Python.

Kotlin vs. Dart

a nice comparison...

The nosey programmer’s guide to Kotlin and Dart - Snapp Mobile - Medium





In Dart you need to add a semicolon at the end of each expression.
Kotlin by convention is written without a semicolon.

Dart is strongly typed.
Kotlin is statically typed.
...

China to require facial ID for internet and mobile

China to require facial ID for internet and mobile services - Business Insider
  • "China's 854 million internet users will soon need to use facial identification in order to apply for new internet or mobile services.
  • The Chinese government announced last month that telecommunications companies will need to scan users' faces in order to verify their identities before they can access new services.
  • The new rule will apply from December 1."
AI Weekly: In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scan | VentureBeat


Thursday, October 10, 2019

Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter notebooks

Built-in Jupyter notebooks in Azure Cosmos DB are now available | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Overview of built-in Jupyter notebooks in Azure Cosmos DB.

Azure Cosmos DB recommendations keep you on the right track | Blog | Microsoft Azure

cloud: C++, Rust, WASM on AWS Lambda; Lambda Layers

Introducing the C++ Lambda Runtime | AWS Compute Blog

Runtime API allows you to write your Lambda functions in any language, provided that you bundle it with your application artifact or as a Lambda layer that your application uses.
As an example of using this API and based on the customer demand, AWS is releasing a reference implementation of a C++ runtime for Lambda. This C++ runtime brings the simplicity and expressiveness of interpreted languages while maintaining the superiority of C++ performance and low memory footprint.




When building serverless applications, it is quite common to have code that is shared across Lambda functions. It can be your custom code, that is used by more than one function, or a standard library, that you add to simplify the implementation of your business logic.
Previously, you would have to package and deploy this shared code together with all the functions using it. Now, you can put common components in a ZIP file and upload it as a Lambda Layer. Your function code doesn’t need to be changed and can reference the libraries in the layer as it would normally do.

A function can use up to 5 layers at a time. The total unzipped size of the function and all layers can't exceed the unzipped deployment package size limit of 250 MB.









Wednesday, October 09, 2019

Engie: Car Maintenance App

app from co-founder of Waze app:

Engie - Your Car Maintenance Solution
Connecting cars with service providers worldwide

Google QUIC protocol vs TCP

QUIC - Wikipedia


"QUIC (pronounced 'quick') is a general-purpose[1] transport layer[2] network protocol initially designed by Jim Roskind at Google,[3] implemented, and deployed in 2012,[4] announced publicly in 2013

While still an Internet Draft, QUIC is used by more than half of all connections from the Chrome web browser to Google's servers. Most other web browsers do not support the protocol.

Among other applications, QUIC improves performance of connection-oriented web applications that are currently using TCP.[2][9] It does this by establishing a number of multiplexed connections between two endpoints over User Datagram Protocol (UDP). This works hand-in-hand with HTTP/2's multiplexed connections, allowing multiple streams of data to reach all the endpoints independently, and hence independent of packet losses involving other streams. In contrast, HTTP/2 hosted on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) can suffer head-of-line-blocking delays of all multiplexed streams if any of the TCP packets are delayed or lost.

Tuesday, October 08, 2019

Salesforce: AWS vs Oracle?


Larry vs Jeff: An Epic Battle who controls Salesforce, coming at Dreamforce | LinkedIn

Salesforce infrastructure is using old versions of Oracle database, Oracle Exadata and Oracle Linux that are not autonomous.
Problem? Cost, Speed and Performance!

Sunday, October 06, 2019

VS Code Remote Development

Visual Studio Code Remote Development

Architecture

WeWork: Unicorn Cowboy, with $10B help of SoftBank

Episode 943: Unicorn Cowboy : Planet Money : NPR

transcript
That whole story that WeWork had used for years to raise more than $10 billion from some of the richest, most experienced tech investors in the world, the story that made it the most highly valued startup in America... collapsed instantly.

WeWork - Wikipedia

SoftBank Group - Wikipedia

AWS AppSync with GraphQL

AWS AppSync - Build data driven apps with real time and offline capabilities based on GraphQL

product-page-diagram_AppSync@2x

Saturday, October 05, 2019

AWS IQ

AWS IQ

"AWS IQ enables customers to quickly find, engage, and pay AWS Certified third-party experts for on-demand project work. Experts on AWS IQ can help you get projects started and completed faster by offering hands-on help for a wide range of projects, such as choosing the best architecture for your workload, automating the deployment of your infrastructure, migrating to AWS, or optimizing your AWS spend."

Electric Buses US: 300 : China 421,000

Why The US Trails China In Electric Buses - YouTube

The U.S. Has a Fleet of 300 Electric Buses. China Has 421,000 - Bloomberg

Electric bus - Wikipedia

List of electric bus makers and models - Wikipedia



Proterra

AC / HVAC SEER Efficiency Savings Calculator

EnergyGuide SEER LabelSEER Efficiency Savings Calculator | HVACDirect.com

Seasonal energy efficiency ratio - Wikipedia

The efficiency of air conditioners is often rated by the seasonal energy efficiency ratio (SEER)

The SEER rating of a unit is the cooling output during a typical cooling-season divided by the total electric energy input during the same period. The higher the unit's SEER rating the more energy efficient it is. In the U.S., the SEER is the ratio of cooling in British thermal unit (BTU) to the energy consumed in watt-hours.

HVAC Installation Costs - New Air Conditioners - Modernize

SEER (Seasonal Energy Efficiency Rating) Defined

Friday, October 04, 2019

data: largest Internet companies

List of largest Internet companies - Wikipedia

RankCompanyRevenue ($B)F.Y.EmployeesMarket Cap. ($B)HeadquartersFoundedRefs
1Amazon$232.92018647,500$972.34United States Seattle1994[1][2]
2Google$120.82018103,549$791.01United States Mountain View1998[3][4]
3JD.com$67.22018178,000$41.99China Beijing1998[5][6]
4Alibaba$56.152201866,421$432.12China Hangzhou1999[7][8]
5Facebook$55.01201825,105$575.43United States Menlo Park2004[9][10]
6Tencent$44.67201844,796$434.66China Shenzhen1998[11][12]
7Netflix$15.820185,400$140.45United States Los Gatos1997[13][14]
8Booking$12.7201722,900$92.94United States Norwalk1996[15]
9Baidu$12.40201645,887$88.11China Beijing2000[16][17]
10eBay$10.75201814,000$34.45United States San Jose1995[18][19]
11Salesforce.com$10.5201829,000$120.66United States San Francisco1999[20][21]
12Expedia$10.1201720,000$16.17United States Bellevue1996[22][23]
13Bloomberg L.P.$9.60201719,000-United States New York City1981[24]
14Uber$7.5201712,000$74.23United States San Francisco2009[25]