IT links (16.11. - 22.11.2020)

Defining indexes in JPA with @Index annotation

How to significantly speed up data import into AWS DynamoDB?

Better overview of your S3 content with Amazon S3 Storage Lens

Angular 11 version has been released

Agile anti-patterns in organizations

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (9.11. - 15.11.2020)

Society

How artificial intelligence may be making you buy things

How the pandemic readied Alibaba’s AI for the world’s biggest shopping day

AI is wrestling with a replication crisis

Algorithms

Prediction of water stability of metal–organic frameworks using machine learning

AI speeds up development of new high-entropy alloys

Terminator salvation? New machine learning program to accelerate clean energy generation

Machine learning advances materials for separations, adsorption, and catalysis

Physics can assist with key challenges in artificial intelligence

Shortcut learning in deep neural networks

System brings deep learning to 'internet of things' devices

Robotic AI learns to be spontaneous

AI-powered 'electronic nose' to sniff out meat freshness

Machine learning algorithm could provide Soldiers feedback

Health

Sorting out viruses with machine learning

Novel deep learning method enables clinic-ready automated screening for diabetes-related eye disease

Innovative machine-learning approach for future diagnostic advances in Parkinson's disease

A survey on artificial intelligence in chest imaging of COVID-19

Machine learning models to predict critical illness and mortality in COVID-19 patients

Robots

Materializing artificial intelligence

On the way to lifelike robots

Skills development in Physical AI could give birth to lifelike intelligent robots

Robotic surgery gives doctors new savvy

The key to smarter robot collaborators may be more simplicity

New 'robotic snake' device grips, picks up objects

Turkey to use cargo drones for logistics, with production to begin in 2021

Turkey to launch its first armed unmanned surface vessel

Cars

Tesla FSD beta performs smooth 180-degree forced turn in real-world test

Tesla's FSD Beta continues impressive operation with nighttime driving montage

Weather-proof chip aims to take self-driving tech, wireless communications to next level

Hardware

UChicago scientists uncover secrets to designing brain-like devices

Brains

Luddy researchers develop framework to study brain connectivity in living organisms

What happens in the sensory cortex when learning and recognizing patterns

Researchers isolate and decode brain signal patterns for specific behaviors

Re-mapping taste in the brain

Research identifies 'volume control' in the brain that supports learning and memory

The future's uncertain - but noradrenaline can help us adapt

UTSA research team makes breakthrough discovery on brain cortex functionality

Holistic way to look at neurons in the brain

Astrocytes identified as master 'conductors' of the brain

Researchers generate a brain cell type crucial to support neural activity

Scientists snap molecular building blocks of brain computing

IT links (9.11. - 15.11.2020)

Java 15 - Working with sealed classes and interfaces

Spring 5.3 brings improvements to CRON expressions

Reminding - DispatcherServlet in Spring MVC and Spring Boot

Facade design pattern in Java

Custom layers on AWS Lambda with Python

Image upscaling in Javascript with a machine learning model

Visualization highlighting helpful and harmful uses of AI around the world

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (2.11. - 8.11.2020)

Society

Companies with robot workers tend to have more human workers, too, Statscan says

Two motivational artificial beings are better than one for enhancing learning

AI pioneer Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”

Algorithms

This could lead to the next big breakthrough in common sense AI

Machine learning shows similar performance to traditional risk prediction models

Birdwatching from afar: AI-enabled camera system to target specific behaviors

Intelligent cameras enhance human perception

Artificial intelligence helps to identify correct atomic structures

Artificial Intelligence has learned to estimate oil viscosity

Health

Using machine learning to track the pandemic's impact on mental health

A.I. tool provides more accurate flu forecasts

New Danish AI tool provides much-needed help to protein scientists across the world

An interpretable deep-learning architecture of capsule networks for identifying cell-type gene expression programs from single-cell RNA-sequencing data

Machine learning predicts anti-cancer drug efficacy

Using artificial intelligence can improve pregnant women's health

AI tool improves breast cancer detection on mammography

AI accurately detects radiographic sacroiliitis in axial spondyloarthritis

Data science pathway prepares radiology residents for machine learning

AI helps detect brain aneurysms on CT angiography

Robots

Cockroaches and lizards inspire new robot

Drones that patrol forests could monitor environmental and ecological changes

Squid jet propulsion can enhance design of underwater robots, vehicles

Cars

Tesla FSD beta is learning tricks to navigate tight spaces

Brains

Nervous systems of insects inspire efficient future AI systems

Beetle larvae think with a brain 'under construction'

Do octopuses' arms have a mind of their own?

Bats can predict the future, researchers discover

Study provides first evidence of a relationship between a bird's gut and its brain

Pinning down how the brain predicts the consequences of choices

New insight into how brain neurons influence choices

Scientists identify specific brain region and circuits controlling attention

Monkey see others, monkey do: How the brain allows actions based on social cues

How does the brain process fear?

Neural stem and progenitor cell diversity in brain development may contribute to cortical complexity

New multiscale view of the human brain

Human intelligence just got less mysterious says Leicester neuroscientist

IT links (2.11. - 8.11.2020)

Schedules and JEPs for JDK 16

Java transient keyword - examples of usage and behavior

Possibilities how to "extend" Java enums

And some design patterns:

• State pattern
• Memento pattern

Querying a huge CSV file stored on S3 with S3 select and comparison of it with AWS Athena querying

Overview of Google AI Platform services

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (26.10. - 1.11.2020)

Society

Beware of fictional AI narratives

AI teachers must be effective and communicate well to be accepted

Trust levels in AI predicted by people's relationship style, study shows

Researcher uses computer vision to determine which politicians' Instagram posts resonate most

To see what makes AI hard to use, ask it to write a pop song

Algorithms

AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world

How to figure out what you don't know

Banks roll out robots as pandemic shakes up IT plans

How computer scientists and marketers can create a better CX with AI

With trust in AI, manufacturers can build better

Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast

Artificial intelligence dives into thousands of WW2 photographs

Big data, machine learning shed light on Asian reforestation successes

Location and extent of coral reefs mapped worldwide using advanced AI

Super-resolution microscopy and machine learning shed new light on fossil pollen grains

Deep-learning algorithms helping to clear space junk from our skies

New artificial intelligence spots previously undiscovered craters on Mars

Astronomers enlist AI in the search for 'lethal' baby star eruptions

Health

Deep learning and bioinformatics tools enable in-depth study of glycan molecules for understanding infections

Computer vision helps find binding sites in drug targets

Machine learning helps hunt for COVID-19 therapies

Machine learning helps pinpoint sources of the most common cardiac arrhythmia

Artificial intelligence (AI)-aided disease prediction

Artificial intelligence-based algorithm for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

Robots

Dog training methods help JHU teach robots to learn new tricks

Multi-drone system autonomously surveys penguin colonies

Raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail

Using off-the-shelf drones to spot deadly jellyfish

New drone technology improves ability to forecast volcanic eruptions

Cars

The chemistry behind self-driving cars

Videos of Tesla's new 'full self-driving' software look futuristic — but show just how far it is from full autonomy

Tesla's beta test of "full self-driving" system worries drivers, pedestrians — and even owners

Tesla's limited FSD beta is learning how to slow down for speed bumps

Tesla's FSD Beta is navigating through roundabouts with great confidence

Tesla FSD beta impressively navigates unpaved, partially covered road with ease

Tesla FSD Beta breezes through parking lot torture test

Tesla FSD beta takes on San Francisco’s famed Lombard Street and its 8 hairpin turns

Tesla plans to roll out incredibly frequent FSD Beta updates

Mercedes-Benz throws in the towel on self-driving efforts: 'We can no longer win'

Hardware

Surrey device takes us closer to high-performing wearable and eco-disposable AI electronics

Graphene-based memory resistors show promise for brain-based computing

Brains

Time-keeping brain protein influences memory: Signaling factor that sets time in the brain also required for normal memory in fruit flies

Efforts to control monkey brains get a boost

War songs and lullabies behind origins of music

How do basal ganglia neurons convey information for the control of voluntary movements?

Mouse studies link some autism to brain cells that guide sociability and platonic love

Single brain region links depression and anxiety, heart disease, and treatment sensitivity

A malformation illustrates the incredible plasticity of the brain

Brainstem neurons control both behaviour and misbehaviour

Should I run, or should I not? The neural basis of aggression and flight

IT links (26.10. - 1.11.2020)

Comparing Apache Commons Collections and Google Guava libraries

Running faster Maven builds with Maven Daemon

Mechanism of JPA and Hibernate first-level cache

Amazon MQ supports also RabbitMQ now

AWS allows to manage costs with predefined budget actions

Retrieving HashiCorp Vault secrets in AWS Lambdas with  HashiCorp Vault AWS Lambda Extension

Deep learning with Deep Java Library (DJL) - Java library from AWS

Deploying a machine learning model to IBM Cloud directly from a Python script

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (19.10. - 25.10.2020)

Society

Machines to 'do half of all work tasks by 2025'

The true dangers of AI are closer than we think

It’s time to rethink the legal treatment of robots

AI has exacerbated racial bias in housing. Could it help eliminate it instead?

Algorithms

Researchers develop machine learning model that will support safe and accurate decision making for the Halifax Harbour

AI detects hidden earthquakes

Artificial intelligence reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara

Researchers at the forefront of developing machine learning methods for chemical discovery

AI and photonics join forces to make it easier to find 'new Earths'

A machine-learning algorithm that can infer the direction of the thermodynamic arrow of time

A new approach to artificial intelligence that builds in uncertainty

Facebook’s new polyglot AI can translate between 100 languages

Artificial intelligence can now predict students' educational outcomes based on tweets

Health

The AI that spots Alzheimer's from cookie drawing

USC leads massive new artificial intelligence study of Alzheimer's

With deep learning algorithms, standard CT technology produces spectral images

DrugCell: New experimental AI platform matches tumor to best drug combo

AI methods of analysing social networks find new cell types in tissue

Robots

Microsoft teamed up with a nonprofit using autonomous 'interceptor' boats to clean up the ocean and is helping it identify trash with machine learning

The US Navy is experimenting using drones to hand things off to ballistic missile submarines

Geoffrey the robot is the new, cute way to get contactless delivery in Toronto

Cars

C. Elegans inspires self-driving cars

Tesla owners share first glimpse of Full Self-Driving Beta in action, release notes, Autopilot settings

Brains

Neurons in a visual brain area of zebrafish are arranged as a map for catching prey

Comparing canine brains using 3D-endocast modelling

Building blocks of language evolved 30-40 million years ago

Cognitive performance - Better than our predecessors

Newborn brains lack maturity to process emotions as adults do

Humans are born with brains 'prewired' to see words

Happy endings trip up the brain's decision-making

New model of human brain 'conversations' could inform research on brain disease, cognition

UMD-led study shows fear and anxiety share same bases in brain

Word graph analysis confirms that dream report structure varies according to sleep stage

Why can our brains learn and memorize?

Researchers discover 'spooky' similarity in how brains and computers see

What lies between grey and white in the brain