Digital Transformation (18.1. - 24.1.2021)

Five trends expected to be seen this year in the world of digital transformation

Three different perspectives in data modeling

What is threatening data integrity in your company and what to do

Ensuring data quality with effective data management

Data democratization is not just about access to data, but also about data literacy 

Evolution of data catalogs and where we are now

What is a data hub and its distinction from data lakes and data warehouses

Six BI artifact types and when they are useful

No-code application development can help in digital transformation initiatives, with properly defined boundaries from IT

Which of four strategies for implementing AI in your company you should choose?

Don't hire data scientists to fill all roles related to the ML environment 

And you should start to care more about MLOps

IT links (18.1. - 24.1.2021)

JEP draft: Primitive objects

Testing logging output in Java with System Stubs

Reminding: Spring injection types

How to analyze Java thread dumps

Writing clean architecture with Spring Boot

A new possibility how to run Java programs with new GraalVM 21.0

It is already 25 years from the first release of Java

And IntelliJ IDEA turns 20 years these days

Google Cloud Platform is the best overall cloud provider acording to Cockroach Labs annual cloud report

You shouldn't reproduce issues in remote environments - 5 reasons

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (11.1. - 17.1.2021)

Society

Computer scientists: We wouldn't be able to control super intelligent machines

FTC settlement with Ever orders data and AIs deleted after facial recognition pivot

When AI is used to set prices, can inadvertent collusion be a result?

These five AI developments will shape 2021 and beyond

Algorithms

Human AI nabs $3.2M seed to build personal intelligence platform

A 'virtual human' presented some of LG's CES event

Breaking down the AI wizardry of 'Microsoft Flight Simulator'

Tweaking AI software to function like a human brain improves computer's learning ability

Artificial Intelligence beats us in chess, but not in memory

Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language

Artificial intelligence puts focus on the life of insects

Researchers speed up analysis of Arctic ice and snow data through AI

Machine learning accelerates discovery of materials for use in industrial processes

Using neural networks for faster X-ray imaging

Health

Potential jurors favor use of artificial intelligence in precision medicine

Deep learning outperforms standard machine learning in biomedical research applications

UCI researchers use deep learning to identify gene regulation at single-cell level

AIs that read sentences are now catching coronavirus mutations

Faeces and algorithms: Artificial Intelligence to map our intestinal bacteria

Facebook and NYU trained an AI to estimate COVID outcomes

Robots

Columbia engineers built basic empathy into a robot

Cadillac wants to fly people in electric drones

Sony shows off its Airpeak filmmaking drone for the first time

How to keep drones flying when a motor fails

FAA approves first commercial drone flights with no on-site pilots

The FAA has given approval for commercial drones to fly over people. It means autonomous deliveries by companies like Amazon are one step closer to reality

Saildrone launches a 72-foot autonomous seabed-mapping boat

Taking the lab into the ocean: A fleet of robots tracks and monitors microbial communities

Volvo’s self-docking boat tech is now a reality

A robot made of ice could adapt and repair itself on other worlds

Uber planning to spin out Postmates' delivery robot arm

UBTech launches UV light disinfecting robots

Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish

Bioinspired acousto-magnetic microswarm robots with upstream motility

In new Skoltech research, 'e-nose' and computer vision help cook the perfect chicken

Cars

Aptiv brings semi-autonomous tech to more affordable cars

Tesla dials in on FSD improvements with 'millimeter-wave radar sensor' filing

The world's youngest self-made billionaire hopes to power every future self-driving car with a technology that Elon Musk says is 'doomed'

Indy has selected the AI-powered cars for its autonomous challenge race

Mobileye is bringing its autonomous vehicle test fleets to at least four more cities in 2021

Hardware

Team creates hybrid chips with processors and memory to run AI on battery-powered devices

Accelerating AI computing to the speed of light

Using light to revolutionize artificial intelligence

Brains

Birds that play with others have the biggest brains—and the same may go for humans

Why independent cultures think alike when it comes to categories: It's not in the brain

Imagining a face reactivates face-detecting neurons in humans

Neuroscientists identify brain circuit that encodes timing of events

How the brain paralyzes you while you sleep

Disagreeing takes up a lot of brain real estate

Master designers: Architects of the brain revealed

Revisiting the Global Workspace orchestrating the hierarchical organisation of the human brain

Turbulent dynamics in the human brain could revolutionize the understanding of its functionality

Digital Transformation (11.1. - 17.1.2021)

Five data governance trends in 2021

How to create a data strategy? Three main points and what you need for it

One webinar about data strategy - Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable

And how to improve data strategy in 2021?

DataOps, MLOps, AIOps - How to choose between them?

And what is DataOps exactly?

Three types of data mesh

Why to use cloud data warehouse and how to migrate your company data?

Combining a data lake and data warehouse to create a hybrid data lake

Building cloud data lakes - challenges and lessons learned

Designing data pipelines

Data deduplication - reducing costs and relation to cloud usage

Reducing data downtime and improving data quality with data observability

Overview of data related roles

Hiring people for the data team

Autonomous economic agents in decentralized autonomous organizations in M2M economy

IT links (11.1. - 17.1.2021)

Java Predictions for 2021

Working with static nested classes in Java

Deserialize java vulnerability

Running Lucene performance tests on 128-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

Creating self-contained executable JARs

Creating Java in-memory database storing data out of the heap

Really nice GraalVM cheat sheet

Using AWS SAM CLI to debug AWS Lambda functions locally

How to do post-mortems in your team

NLP models from Google and Microsoft exceed human performance on SuperGLUE language understanding benchmark

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (4.1. - 10.1.2021)

Society

What Buddhism can do for AI ethics

U.S. law sets stage for boost to artificial intelligence research

Five ways to make AI a greater force for good in 2021

Algorithms

OpenAI's DALL-E creates plausible images of literally anything you ask it to

Google AI concocts 'breakie' and 'cakie' hybrid baked goods

Machine learning improves particle accelerator diagnostics

Machine-learning models of matter beyond interatomic potentials

Automating turbulence modelling by multi-agent reinforcement learning

Health

A deep learning framework for drug repurposing via emulating clinical trials on real-world patient data

Using artificial intelligence to find new uses for existing medications

Deep learning helps predicting occult peritoneal metastasis in stomach cancer

Author Correction: Augmenting vascular disease diagnosis by vasculature-aware unsupervised learning

AI algorithms detect diabetic eye disease inconsistently

Researchers use deep learning to identify gene regulation at single-cell level

Deep neural network predicts transcription factors: A deep learning-based tool predicts transcription factors using protein sequences as inputs

Robots

Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

A robotic revolution for urban nature

Malaysian team turns pineapple waste into disposable drone parts

This robot dog learned how to get up after being knocked down

Cars

Tesla FSD Beta completes LA to Silicon Valley drive with zero interventions

Tesla's China rival Xpeng to use lidar sensors from DJI affiliate Livox

Oxbotica raises $47M to deploy its autonomous vehicle software in industrial applications

Hardware

Intel is using its RealSense tech for facial recognition

Panasonic's latest OLED TV offers gaming upgrades and AI tuning

Sony's new Bravia XR TVs are all about 'cognitive intelligence'

Speeding up machine learning by means of light

Light-based processors boost machine-learning processing

Brains

Which came first, sleep or the brain?

How mice feel each other's pain or fear

Intelligence deficit: Conclusion from the mouse to the human being

Brain evolution may have allowed our cognitive process to extend to technology

What happens when your brain can't tell which way is up or down?

Neuronal circuits for fine motor skills

A brain mechanism underlying 'vision' in the blind is revealed

We hear what we expect to hear

Making sense of neural development by comparing wiring strategies for seeing and hearing

Scientists paint multicolor atlas of the brain

Peeking inside 'mini-brains' could boost understanding of the human brain

Neuralink's Texas expansion takes root with construction job opening in Austin

Digital Transformation (4.1. - 10.1.2021)

What is business inteligence and how it differs from business analytics?

Data testing only is not going to prevent broken data pipelines - data monitoring and observability is needed too.

Building a data analytics team + technical assets and capabilities that are needed for it.

And six tips how to build a data science team at a small company.

Data scientists will need more and more data engineering skills in near future - here are 5 reasons.

IT links (4.1. - 10.1.2021)

Nice summary of articles related to Hibernate and JPA on baeldung.com

A new version of Spring Cloud Contract - 3.0.0 - has been released

AWS started to support access to EFS and S3 content with SFTP/FTP protocol via AWS Transfer Family

12 software testing trends for 2021

Digital Transformation (28.12.2020 - 3.1.2021)

Data mobility and cloud services are going to be essential in 2021. Also, understanding unstructured Data Management can be crucial.

What are other upcoming trends in data science that will affect business strategies?

The evolution of big data compute platforms - from on-premises clusters to serverless data pipelines using microservices.

How modern unified data architecture could look like? 

Selecting tools that promote good data quality (data quality monitoring systems) from the first principles - even small data quality issues can indicate broken business processes.

Building high performing data science teams. And how to test a new data scientist candidate? 

Why is it so hard to build products based on data science and machine learning? 

7 MLOps smells that might indicate deeper problems. 

And why we should stop using the black-box metaphor in machine learning?

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (28.12.2020 - 3.1.2021)

Society

Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition

Hitting the Books: What do we want our AI-powered future to look like?

Alphabet's Wing argues new US drone rules will hurt privacy

Robots

The Morning After: VW shows off an EV charging robot that comes to you

Watch the Boston Dynamics robot family dance like 2020 was a good year

China's adaptive robot maker Flexiv raises over $100 million

Spontaneous robot dances highlight a new kind of order in active matter

Army research leads to more effective training model for robots

Cars

Tesla FSD Beta performs flawless U-turn in real-world inner-city test

Tesla Semi 10-camera setup observed in production Autopilot code

Hardware

AI chipmaker Graphcore raises $222M at a $2.77B valuation and puts an IPO in its sights

DUAL takes AI to the next level

Brains

Cuttlefish took something like a marshmallow test. Many passed.

Big bumblebees learn locations of best flowers

General anesthesia and normal sleep affect brain in an amazingly similar way as consciousness fades

Why do we dream? A new theory on how it protects our brains

The brain network driving changes in consciousness

IT links (28.12.2020 - 3.1.2021)

Small changes in JDK 16 specifications, the biggest one in pattern matching functionality

Why and when to use Java for work with big data?

The year 2020 in Spring

Querying a table in one database from another in PostgreSQL 

Vulnture - internal security vulnerability reporting tool made by Airbnb, available on GitHub

I really like Linux screen command, it is very useful, mainly when you want to run multiple parallel processes at one time

Team-level Agile anti-patterns - hmm, I recognize some of them from my own experience ...

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (21.12. - 27.12.2020)

Society

Thousands of ocean fishing boats could be using forced labor – we used AI and satellite data to find them

The year deepfakes went mainstream

Deepfake Queen Elizabeth II will deliver 'alternative' Christmas message

Algorithms

Let this eerily accurate AI dunk on your Spotify habits

An AI is livestreaming a never-ending bass solo on YouTube

DeepMind's AI agent MuZero could turbocharge YouTube

No rules, no problem: DeepMind's MuZero masters games while learning how to play them

National Grid sees machine learning as the brains behind the utility business of the future

Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger's equation

Using AI to count and map craters on the moon

Health

Artificial intelligence predicts gestational diabetes in Chinese women

AI-designed serotonin sensor may help scientists study sleep and mental health

AI gauges the mental health of cancer patients through eye movements

Researcher uses machine learning to demonstrate that DNA impacts cancer risk

Robots

On Point: The Navy's robot war in the South China sea

The Air Force’s secret new fighter jet will come with an R2-D2

In California, little robot cars will deliver pizza, groceries, and medicine as a paid service in 2021 for the first time

Cars

Tesla Full Self-Driving subscriptions get a tentative release date

Tesla driver caught cheating license exam using Autopilot

Mercedes teases an AI-powered version of its MBUX infotainment system

Chinese autonomous driving startup WeRide bags $200M in funding

Nuro acquires autonomous trucking startup Ike

Hardware

Horizon Robotics, a Chinese rival to Nvidia, seeks to raise over $700M

Brains

Silkworm's brain determines diapause by thermal information

How roundworms decide the time is right

Brain gene expression patterns predict behavior of individual honey bees

Survival of the thickest: Big brains make mammal populations less dense

Wolves show signs of self-cognition with innovative sniff test

Don't interrupt: Bonobos are sensitive to joint commitments in social interactions

Orangutans yawn contagiously when they see others yawn

Scientists uncover mechanisms that wire the brain's cerebral cortex

Even after long-term exposure, bionic touch does not remap the brain

Scientists discover how our brains track where we and others go

Brain tissue yields clues to causes of PTSD

Scientists discover a new type of brain cell that could help detect distance

Astrocytes eat connections to maintain plasticity in adult brains

Brain stem cells divide over months

Digital Transformation (21.12. - 27.12.2020)

Three important things for implementation of data management strategies in a company

Five mistakes to avoid when building a data analytics platform

What is expected to come in 2021 in field of data collection? 

A review of two data ingestion tools - comparison, advantages, disadvantages

Overcoming data scarcity and privacy challenges - with synthetic data - when, why to use it

Metadata is useless - if not applied - application is everything

Improving data warehouse quality - with quality checks (helping to detect bugs in ETL pipelines, etc.), improving data consistency etc. 

Typical technical debts within data warehouses and data lakes and how to fight them

Netflix way of optimizing data warehouse storage

What is feature store and how it differs from data warehouse?

AutoML tools can be really useful, but you should know how to analyze performance of generated models etc.

Enterprise machine learning challenges and strategies for 2021