AI, ML, Robots and Brains (18. - 24.5.2020)

Society

Comedy club performances provide insights on how robots, humans connect via humor

Researchers harness satellite imagery and AI to help fight poverty in Africa

The challenges of deploying artificial intelligence models in a rapidly evolving pandemic

Artificial intelligence can make personality judgments based on our photographs

Algorithms

Early Bird uses 10 times less energy to train deep neural networks

New artificial intelligence model to bridge biology and chemistry

Machine-learning tool could help develop tougher materials

Deep learning: A new engine for ecological resource research

Health

Artificial intelligence cooperation to support the global response to COVID-19

Machine Learning for COVID-19 needs global collaboration and data-sharing

AI systems aim to sniff out coronavirus outbreaks

Improving healthcare operations management with machine learning

AI unlocks rhythms of 'deep sleep'

A shallow convolutional neural network predicts prognosis of lung cancer patients in multi-institutional computed tomography image datasets

Computer model can process disparate sources of clinical data to predict brain age

Landmark recommendations on development of artificial intelligence and the future of global health

Robots

Engineers develop low-cost, high-accuracy GPS-like system for flexible medical robots

Robot teams stay safe with blockchains

Next generation of soft robots inspired by a children's toy

Robot dog tries to herd sheep

Cars

GM chief confirms job cuts at autonomous car company Cruise

How coronavirus is accelerating a future with autonomous vehicles

Tesla to increase price for Full Self-Driving on July 1 as advancements continue

Self-driving cars are being trained in virtual worlds while the real one is in chaos

Brains

Early visual experience drives precise alignment of cortical networks for binocular vision

Scientists find brain center that 'profoundly' shuts down pain

The brain's facial recognition area doesn't differentiate outgroup members

Brain's 'updating mechanisms' may create false memories

Found: Brain structure that controls our behavior

Observing the freely behaving brain in action

How do birds understand 'foreign' calls?

One, then some: How to count like a bee

IT links (18.5. - 24.5.2020)

Java is celebrating 25 years these days

How to run a Python script directly from Java?

Really good talk from QCon London 2020 - Java in Containers - what to watch out for and so on

Running image classification model for COVID-19 chest X-rays in Java with help of Deep Java Library

AWS S3 bucket policies set up - in great detail

Scheduling AWS EC2 instances

The almighty service layer - place, where you put everything you don't want to keep in other layers of 3-tier architecture

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (11. - 17.5.2020)

Society

Facebook’s AI is still largely baffled by covid misinformation

How predictive modeling could help cities reopen more safely

The pandemic is emptying call centers. AI chatbots are swooping in

Facebook's head of AI says Elon Musk 'has no idea what he is talking about'

'Facebook sucks': Elon Musk slams social network exec who criticized his knowledge of AI

Algorithms

Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models

Powerful new AI technique detects and classifies galaxies in astronomy image data

Machine learning cracks quantum chemistry conundrum

Artificial intelligence helps researchers produce record-setting catalyst for carbon dioxide-to-ethylene conversion

Using big data to design gas separation membranes, reduce CO2

Health

New AI diagnostic can predict COVID-19 without testing

AI techniques in medical imaging may lead to incorrect diagnoses

A hidden history of artificial intelligence in primary care

AI successfully used to identify different types of brain injuries

For all its sophistication, AI isn't fit to make life-or-death decisions

Robots

'Data clouds fusion' helps robots work as a team in hazardous situations

UCLA and Carnegie Mellon researchers develop real-time physics engine for soft robotics

Robot dog enforces social distancing in city park

Clever new robot rover design conquers sand traps

A soft touch for robotic hardware

Hardware

Artificial synapses on design

Brains

A 'consciousness conductor' synchronizes and connects mouse brain areas

Researchers find the 'brain's steering wheel' in the brainstem of mice

Mouse and human eye movements share important similarity

Are our brains hard-wired for longing?

Johns Hopkins: What we can't see can help us find things

How the brain responds to the sudden sound of silent danger

Why visual perception is a decision process

Researchers trace evolution of self-control

The dreaming brain tunes out the outside world

Ants use collective 'brainpower' to navigate obstacles

IT links (11.5. - 17.5.2020)

10 Best Practices to Handle Java Exceptions

Generating PDFs with Thymeleaf

Testing DB migration scripts with Spring Boot and test containers

Running Spring Boot apps with GraalVM soon

6 things I learned from Mr. Robot series

AWS Kendra (enterprise documents search service powered by machine learning) is generally available now

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (4. - 10.5.2020)

Society

How many jobs do robots really replace?

An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy

Robots help some firms, even while workers across industries struggle

People think robots are pretty incompetent and not funny, new study says

Study finds stronger links between automation and inequality

The global AI agenda: North America

Algorithms

Identifying light sources using artificial intelligence

How speech recognition techniques are helping to predict volcanoes' behaviour

Computational imaging benefits from untrained neural network

An AI algorithm inspired by how kids learn is harder to confuse

Using AI to map marine environments

Health

Machine learning platform generates novel COVID-19 antibody sequences for experimental testing

Artificial intelligence algorithm can accurately predict risk, diagnose AD

AI tool speeds up search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines

AI -- a new tool for cardiac diagnostics

Robots

Could hotel service robots help the hospitality industry after COVID-19?

Drones become even more insect-like

Pulse-driven robot: Motion via solitary waves

Inspired by cheetahs, researchers build fastest soft robots yet

To climb like a gecko, robots need toes

Cars

Car sharing minus the driver

Hardware

Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry -- new hardware could curb its appetite

Brains

How synaptic changes translate to behavior changes

From scaffolding to screens: Understanding the developing brain for reading

Similar brain glitch found in slips of signing, speaking

Extinguishing fearful memories depends on the flexibility of your DNA

Evidence that human brains replay our waking experiences while we sleep

From expressions to mind wandering: Using computers to illuminate human emotions

Left and right brain hemispheres found to store memories differently in ants

A role reversal for the function of certain circadian network neurons

See a 3D mouse brain with single-cell resolution

The feeling a limb doesn't belong is linked to lack of brain structure and connection

How does the brain link events to form a memory? Study reveals unexpected mental processes

To err is human, to learn, divine

IT links (4.5. - 10.5.2020)

JDK 14: Accessing native memory

Cover generated logs by unit tests with JUnit

Generate and export database schema based on entities

Two things related to Maven:

Finding unused dependencies

And something about duplicate dependencies

Copying files from and to Docker container

A nice short example of user data script on AWS EC2 - for Apache server installation

And two good talks from QCon London 2020:

A Brief History of the Future of the API

Monolith Decomposition Patterns

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (27.4. - 3.5.2020)

Society

How AI is changing the customer experience

UK spies will need artificial intelligence - Rusi report

Study indicates artificial intelligence could help stem tide of school violence

AI in Africa: Teaching a bot to read my mum's texts

New AI enables teachers to rapidly develop intelligent tutoring systems

Covid-19 and the workforce: Critical workers, productivity, and the future of AI

Algorithms

Researchers use machine learning to unearth underground Instagram 'pods'

Catching nuclear smugglers: Fast algorithm could enable cost-effective detectors at borders

Quantum autoencoders to denoise quantum measurements

Facebook claims its new chatbot beats Google’s as the best in the world

A new machine learning method streamlines particle accelerator operations

Scientists suggest using machine learning to predict materials' properties

Machine learning enhances light–Matter interactions in dielectric nanostructures

Superfast method for ceramic manufacturing could open door to AI-driven material discovery

These pop songs were written by OpenAI’s deep-learning algorithm

Mathematicians use machine intelligence to map gene interactions

Health

NUS-led team develops artificial intelligence platform to combat infectious diseases

Google’s medical AI was super accurate in a lab. Real life was a different story.

Artificial intelligence could serve as backup to radiologists' eyes

RSNA AI challenge breaks new ground

AI-supported test for very early signs of glaucoma progression

Robots

Researchers propose flexible pressure sensor for human-machine interaction

Researchers help give robotic arms a steady hand for surgeries

Robot helps Tunisia medics avoid infection from virus patients

Robot 'spy' gorilla records wild Ugandan gorillas singing and farting

Cars

Tesla's software and full self-driving infrastructure has Volkswagen 'worried'

Tesla has a Full Self-Driving subscription feature hidden in its vehicles' source code

Tesla's Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control shows impressive versatility in construction zone

Tesla's latest Autopilot Traffic Light update is hiding much more

Tesla set to launch a Full Self-Driving subscription service this year

Tesla CEO Elon Musk opens up about Robotaxi rollout for next year

Elon Musk admits Tesla's plan for a million-strong robotaxi network may not happen this year after all

Brains

3D tissue models provide unprecedented insight into human brain function and disease

How mistakes help us recognize things

New imaging technique sheds light on adult zebrafish brain

Improved neural probe can pose precise questions without losing parts of the answers

Eyes send an unexpected signal to the brain

Found: Neural circuit that drives physical responses to emotional stress

IT links (27.4. - 3.5.2020)

Project Leyden targeting memory and performance pains of Java
Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) and cohesion in Java
Using Java Flight Recorder (JFR) profiling tool - open source since JDK 15

How to use multiple cache managers in Spring?
Using new Java records with Hibernate
Spring Boot - How to use server different than default Tomcat

Memcached vs Redis
Which cloud platform seems to be more suitable for machine learning?
You don't need microservices

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (20. - 26.4.2020)

Algorithms

Researchers rebuild the bridge between neuroscience and artificial intelligence

Reducing the carbon footprint of artificial intelligence

A neural network trained for prediction mimics diverse features of biological neurons and perception

New algorithm to help process biological images

Identifying land cover from outer space: Machine learning methods provide detailed information on crop types

Using artificial intelligence to save coral reefs

Training instance segmentation neural network with synthetic datasets for seed phenotyping

Who's a bot and who's not

Health

AI may help brain cancer patients avoid biopsy

AI to make dentists' work easier

New application of machine learning and image analysis to help distinguish a rare subtype of kidney cancer: US researchers collaborate with scientist quarantined in China during COVID-19 outbreak -- ScienceDaily

New AI model accurately classifies colorectal polyps using slides from 24 institutions

Artificial intelligence can categorize cancer risk of lung nodules

Non-invasive imaging technique could reduce need for repeat cancer surgeries

Israel is using AI to flag high-risk covid-19 patients

Robots

Scientists uncover principles of universal self-assembly

Penn Engineering's new scavenger technology allows robots to 'eat' metal for energy

Delivery drones instead of postal vans? Study reveals drones still consume too much energy

Connecticut police to test 'pandemic drone' that monitors health of residents

Cars

Tesla AI Director explains how vision-based strategies can make autonomy mainstream

Tesla Autopilot twists and turns through complex Sin City construction zone on its own

Tesla begins wide release of Autopilot Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control

Tesla owners with the new Traffic Light update are revealing some interesting experiences

Hardware

Electronics that mimic the human brain in efficient learning: Researchers advance neuromorphic computing

Brains

Researchers traces the history of brain evolution from tyrannosaurs to modern crows

Origins of human language pathway in the brain at least 25 million years old

How the brain recognizes change

Eye contact activates the autonomic nervous system even during video calls

High density EEG produces dynamic image of brain signal source

Adult astrocytes are key to learning and memory

N-Tier Architecture, Good Software Development Practices and Testing

N-tier architecture, also known as multitier architecture, is an architectural pattern in software engineering that physically separates functions responsible for data storage, business logic, presentation, and more.

Splitting an application horizontally into multiple layers, each serving a specific purpose, helps maintain the separation and decoupling of components. This approach also assists in maintaining a general overview of the application.

However, adhering to good software development practices, such as the single responsibility principle, is still dependent on the developer's responsibility. Without proper attention, things can end up badly.

For instance, if business logic spreads from services into controllers and more logic ends up in JSPs, you may soon find yourself in a challenging situation. These things can slow down investigations and make significant architectural changes difficult or even impossible. Or covering things with unit and integration tests retroactively might not make sense in such cases. They might not bring wider code coverage. 

Such things end up covered mainly with expensive, brittle end-to-end tests, slowing down time to deployment. These tests can occasionally randomly fail and might require repeated re-running. Detection of bugs is pushed more into the future, making their fixing more expensive, and failed end-to-end test might not say where a problem is exactly. This makes it harder to figure out what is wrong because you must usually go through multiple layers. It is good to keep things in proper places, where they can be tested cheaply with unit and integration tests. This is also a good reason to start to think in a more Test-Driven Development (TDD) way. It can motivate you to keep logic in places where it is easier to test it.

While N-tier architecture is beneficial, it's essential to maintain good programming practices alongside it.

IT links (20. - 26.4.2020)

What is going to be released in JDK 15?

This release is also going to contain improvement of G1 garbage collector behavior

Updated switch statement, released in JDK 14

How secure is Java in comparison to other languages?

Applying the same configuration to a set of loggers in Spring Boot

Simple text summarization for Android

And 14 ways AWS beats Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud