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The Brain is Neither a Neural Network Nor a Computer: Book Review of The Biological Mind
Underlying much of artificial intelligence research is the idea that the essence of an individual resides in the brain. This is contrary to neuroscience which has discovered that a brain cannot work independently from the body and its environment. Understanding this enables us see what is reasonable to expect from artificial intelligence, as well as technology designed to improve human life.
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Enhanced Streams Processing with Kotlin’s Sequence Interface
Data structures are an intrinsic part of every programming language, yet Java’s Stream interface lacks vital operations and its complex approach to extensibility gave rise to alternative libraries such as jOOλ and Guava. This article provides an alternative approach that can be easily integrated in any Java project using Kotlin's Sequence interface.
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Java Feature Spotlight: Pattern Matching
Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduced a limited form of pattern matching as a preview feature, which becomes a permanent feature in Java SE 16 (March 2021). The first phase of pattern matching is limited to one kind of pattern (type patterns) and one language construct (instanceof), but this is only the first installment in a longer feature arc.
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The Kollected Kode Vicious Review and Author Q&A
Addison Wesley Professional The Kollected Kode Vicious by George V. Neville-Neil aims to provide thoughtful and pragmatic insight into programming to both experienced and younger software professionals on a variety of different topics related to programming. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with author Neville-Neil about his book.
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Interview about JavascriptLandia, the Openjs New Individual Contributor Program
JavaScriptLandia is a new initiative by the OpenJS foundation that aims at individuals who wish to participate in the activities of the openJS foundations and contribute to open-source projects. To learn more about JavaScriptLandia and the challenges behind open-source projects we talk with Sara Chipps, a member of the OpenJS cross-project council who leads the initiative.
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Donkey: a Highly-Performant HTTP Stack for Clojure
Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions.
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Writing Firebase Apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux Using Electron
Electron-Firebase provides a quickstart framework for building cloud-connected applications on Windows, macOS, and Linux. By integrating Electron and Firebase, just a few configuration settings allow you to include a complete authentication workflow into your app using email/password, phone number, Google, Facebook, or many other identity providers.
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Go Language at 13 Years: Ecosystem, Evolution, and Future in Conversation with Steve Francia
Go was started more than a decade ago in the Engineering department at Google. It was designed with the purpose of providing an easy-to-learn programming language that would allow to develop Google's systems at the next level. In the past decade, the language became more and more stable, currently being used for implementing some of the most popular tools on the web (Kubernetes, Terraform etc.).
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InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year
As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.
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C# 9 and .NET 5: Book Review and Q&A
The book C# 9 and .NET 5 by Mark Price is a practical guide on developing .NET cross-platform applications. The book is concise, implementation-oriented, and each subject is presented with a hands-on walkthrough. The author covers the main types of applications that can be built with C# 9 and .NET 5. InfoQ reviewed the book and interviewed Price on the goals and contents of the book.
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Microsoft and the State of Quantum: Q&A with Mariia Mykhailova
Quantum computing can be used to solve large compute problems on small data in areas such as chemistry and materials science. InfoQ interviewed Mariia Mykhailova, a senior software engineer in the Quantum Systems group at Microsoft, to better understand quantum computing, quantum software development, and Microsoft's latest efforts towards this area.
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Why DSLs? A Collection of Anecdotes
Two years ago, I gave a talk on one of the systems discussed here. Together with a colleague, I explained the business case, the technical benefits, why a regular programming language would not work and the all-around positive outcomes of using the DSLs, plus some of the problems we’ve run into.