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Is Artificial Intelligence Closer to Common Sense?
Intelligent agents lack the common-sense knowledge they need to reason about the world. Traditionally, there have been two unsuccessful approaches to getting computers to reason about the world—symbolic logic and deep learning. A new project, called COMET, tries to bring these two approaches together. Although it has not yet succeeded, it offers the possibility of progress.
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Real Time APIs in the Context of Apache Kafka
Events offer a Goldilocks-style approach in which real-time APIs can be used as the foundation for applications which is flexible yet performant; loosely-coupled yet efficient. Apache Kafka offers a scalable event streaming platform with which you can build applications around the powerful concept of events.
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Challenges of Human Pose Estimation in AI-Powered Fitness Apps
In this article, the author discusses the human pose estimation solution powered by AI technologies and the challenges faced in online fitness apps which use the pose estimation to predict the position of the human body based on an image or a video containing a person.
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Brahmos, a New, Small, React-Like UI Framework with Concurrent Rendering -- Q&A with Sudhanshu Yadav
Brahmos implements the known React APIs (hooks, context, concurrent mode, and more) with a different and potentially faster method that also leverages a standard feature of JavaScript: template literals. Brahmos is among the very few UI frameworks that implements the experimental concurrent mode API sponsored by React. Other frameworks may be waiting out, or discarding the feature entirely.
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Why the Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
Are traditional servers dead? Far from it. This article looks at why, despite serverless models finding great utility in specific circumstances, there's a barrier to more widespread adoption.
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Learning from Bugs and Testers: Testing Boeing 777 Full Flight Simulators
The aviation industry has developed the habit of scrutinizing every reported event in order to prevent another occurrence, to understand the root causes and suggest changes to design, process, or better training. This article goes over a couple of noticeable accidents and shows you techniques that could be applied to software development.
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The End of the Privacy Shield Agreement Could Lead to Disaster for Hyperscale Cloud Providers
The recent ending of the Privacy Shield agreement by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) might impact cloud adoption. This article looks at the demise of this agreement, and possible solutions.
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Improving Webassembly and Its Tooling -- Q&A with Wasmtime’s Nick Fitzgerald
WebAssembly, now a web standard, aims to grow beyond the browser. Wasm runtimes are implementing proposals to achieve this vision. Fitzgerald tells us about his recent work on WebAssembly tooling and his implementation of reference types in the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime -- a prelude to interface types and easy interoperation between Wasm and a host language.
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COVID-19 and Mining Social Media - Enabling Machine Learning Workloads with Big Data
In this article, author Adi Pollock discusses how to enable machine learning workloads with big data to query and analyze COVID-19 tweets to understand social sentiment towards COVID-19.
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Java InfoQ Trends Report—September 2020
This article provides a summary of how the InfoQ editorial team currently sees the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the Java space in 2020. We focus on Java the language, as well as related languages like Kotlin and Scala, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and Java-based frameworks and utilities.
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Kubernetes Operators in Depth
Kubernetes operators can be an attractive proposition for developers streamlining their applications, or DevOps engineers reducing system complexity. Here's how you construct an operator from scratch.
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Scalable Cloud Environment for Distributed Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow
In this article, author Lena Hall discusses how to use Apache Airflow to define and execute distributed data pipelines with an example of the workflow framework running on Kubernetes on Azure cloud platform.
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