AI, ML, Robots and Brains (10.8. - 16.8.2020)

Society

Robot hikes the Andes to cross Peru’s digital divide

Children think robots can help the elderly -- but not their own grandparents

Robot technology for everyone or only for the average person?

Machines can spot mental health issues—if you hand over your personal data

A college kid created a fake, AI-generated blog. It reached #1 on Hacker News.

There is a crisis of face recognition and policing in the US

Artificial intelligence examines best ways to keep parolees from recommitting crimes

An AI algorithm to help identify homeless youth at risk of substance abuse

The carbon impact of artificial intelligence

Algorithms

Artificial intelligence sheds light on membrane performance

Deep learning and metamaterials make the invisible visible

Next chapter in artificial writing

The Guardian view on artificial intelligence's revolution: learning but not as we know it

AI software enables real-time 3D printing quality assessment

AI system for high precision recognition of hand gestures

Study: Machine learning can predict market behavior

Classifying galaxies with artificial intelligence

When causal inference meets deep learning

Health

AI-enhanced precision medicine identifies novel autism subtype

Minimal-uncertainty prediction of general drug-likeness based on Bayesian neural networks

New machine learning tool predicts devastating intestinal disease in premature infants

Artificial intelligence recognizes deteriorating photoreceptors

Brain-NET, a deep learning methodology, accurately predicts surgeon certification scores based on neuroimaging data

AI with 'imagination' could help doctors with diagnosis, particularly for complex case

Robots

Army advances learning capabilities of drone swarms

The robots occupying our sidewalks

Robot boat completes three-week Atlantic mission

Robots go their own way deep in the ocean

Aquatic robots can remove contaminant particles from water

Researchers one step closer to bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts

Drones driving community conservation of the sea cow

Sounds of action: Using ears, not just eyes, improves robot perception

Soldiers could teach future robots how to outperform humans

Cars

Self-driving car lanes are coming: Will they help or hinder Level 5 autonomy progress?

Brains

Adaptation in single neurons provides memory for language processing

New method captures neural and vascular dynamics at high spatiotemporal resolution deep in brain

Linking sight and movement

The brain's autocomplete feature oversimplifies complex issues and impedes tolerance

Recalling memories from a third-person perspective changes how our brain processes them

Individual differences in the brain

How do we prioritize what we see?

IT links (10.8. - 16.8.2020)

Disabling logout redirects in Spring Security - can be useful

Working with database metadata using JDBC

Amazon is going to release more of its internal trainings related to machine learning 

AWS tech talks in August 2020

Generating test data with Data Helix

Oscillating between slow tests using real database and fast tests using not representative mocked/in-memory data sources

Why are code reviews so useful?

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (3.8. - 9.8.2020)

Society

'Deepfakes' ranked as most serious AI crime threat

AI is learning when it should and shouldn’t defer to a human

Whiteness of AI erases people of color from our 'imagined futures', researchers argue

The hack that could make face recognition think someone else is you

The pandemic has changed how criminals hide their cash—and AI tools are trying to sniff it out

Algorithms

Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation

Machine learning methods provide new insights into organic-inorganic interfaces

Recovering data: NIST's neural network model finds small objects in dense images

Application of machine learning can optimize hurricane track forecast

Algorithm predicts the compositions of new materials

Machine learning research may help find new tungsten deposits in SW England

Health

AI and single-cell genomics: New software predicts cell fate

Deep learning on cell signaling networks establishes AI for single-cell biology
Algorithm created by deep learning finds potential therapeutic targets throughout genome
Machine learning makes drug repurposing for psychiatric disorders more effective

Russian developers created a platform for self-testing of AI medical services

Artificial intelligence-enhanced ECGs may speed heart failure diagnosis and treatment

AI may offer a better way to ID drug-resistant superbugs

Robots

Spot robot turns 'Fluffy' in new factory floor job

Cars

Will automated vehicles cut parking revenue?

Brains

Energy demands limit our brains' information processing capacity

Scientists discover cells that filter and sharpen spatial signals
Training neural circuits early in development improves response, study finds
UCI researchers publish new guide for viral tracers in neural circuit mapping
Humans and flies employ very similar mechanisms for brain development and function
Speech processing hierarchy in the dog brain

Key brain region was 'recycled' as humans developed the ability to read
Brain noise contains unique signature of dream sleep

An averted glance gives a glimpse of the mind behind the eyes

IT links (3.8. - 9.8.2020)

Validating JSON schema in Spring

Mapping a database column value to an entity with JPA AttributeConverter

Bootstrap 5 is removing jQuery dependency

Microsoft Azure introduces its own Well-Architected Framework

It is hard to deal with dependencies and wait time in planned stories for a next sprint, and it is true that it is about improving collaboration between particular team members - Three Ways to Stop Agile Death Marches

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (27.7. - 2.8.2020)

Society

The problems AI has today go back centuries

Algorithms

Using artificial intelligence to smell the roses
Machine learning model may perfect 3-D nanoprinting
Machine learning finds a surprising early galaxy
The field of natural language processing is chasing the wrong goal
A new neural network could help computers code themselves
GPT-3: an AI game-changer or an environmental disaster?

Health

New machine learning method allows hospitals to share patient data -- privately
Artificial intelligence could speed up and improve Alzheimer's diagnosis
Deep learning algorithm identifies tumor subtypes based on routine histological images

Robots

Image processing algorithm allows indoor drones to fly autonomously

Cars

Lucid Motors announces DreamDrive, a Tesla-style Autopilot with LIDAR

Brains

'Little brain' or cerebellum not so little after all
How the brain senses smell
A centerpiece of EBRAINS' human brain atlas is presented in 'Science'
To distinguish contexts, animals think probabilistically, study suggests
Using games to study law of motions in mind

IT links (27.7. - 2.8.2020)

Just small thing, but it can be useful - one item in a array of booleans in Java takes one byte, not one bit - so you can use BitSet instead for better memory footprint

Seems that JDK 16 will contain finalized Pattern matching for instanceof`and Records

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/amber-spec-experts/2020-July/002253.html

Example of defining architecture boundaries for Spring Boot application with ArchUnit

AWS style replacement for LAMP stack

Anomaly detection for S3 buckets - Amazon GuardDuty

Creating a convolutional neural network with Deeplearning4j

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (20.7. - 26.7.2020)

Society

Workplace automation has sizeable negative impact on pay gap

An AI hiring firm says it can predict job hopping based on your interviews

People are using artificial intelligence to help sort out their divorce. Would you?

Machine learning system can detect foreign social media influence campaigns using content alone

Algorithms

OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless

Health

Artificial intelligence can help predict the bacteria responsible for pneumonia in emergency rooms

Proposed framework for integrating chatbots into health care

Machine learning reveals recipe for building artificial proteins

Robots

Which way to the fridge? Common sense helps robots navigate

Powerful human-like hands create safer human-robotics interactions

Is it a bird, a plane? Not superman, but a flapping wing drone

Cars

Tesla to release Autopilot lane changing on city streets soon

Software of autonomous driving systems

Hardware

Photon-based processing units enable more complex machine learning

Optimizing neural networks on a brain-inspired computer

Brains

Different from a computer: Why the brain never processes the same input in the same way
MRI scans of the brains of 130 mammals, including humans, indicate equal connectivity
Spider monkey groups as collective computers
Bird brain scientists find link between chicken behavior and epigenetics
Developing neural circuits linked to hunting behavior

Study helps to settle debate on roles of REM and non-REM sleep in visual learning

Researchers identify subject-specific component to perceptual learning ability

Scientists observe learning processes online in the brain

Visual working memory is hierarchically structured

Brain builds and uses maps of social networks, physical space, in the same way

Brain network mechanism causing spatial memory impairment revealed
A mechanical way to stimulate neurons

Music on the brain

Insight into toddlers' awareness of their own uncertainty

Two distinct circuits drive inhibition in the sensory thalamus of the brain

Big brains and dexterous hands

IT links (20.7. - 26.7.2020)

OpenJDK is moving from Mercurial to GitHub

Common Hibernate Exceptions

And how much are exceptions affecting performance of an application?

Reminding basics - Liskov substitution principle

Downloading sources and Javadoc with Maven

Creating Docker images with Spring Boot

I didn't know that Python has a built-in SQLite database

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (13.7. - 19.7.2020)

Society

How a Colombian market is using AI to combat Covid-19 outbreaks

Algorithms

Artificial intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive

AI upscales Apollo lunar footage to 60 FPS

A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world

New learning algorithm should significantly expand the possible applications of AI

Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.

Using neural-network soundscapes to protect natural environments

Skoltech scientists use ML to optimize hydraulic fracturing design for oil wells

250,000 tonnes of shipping CO2 emissions saved thanks to machine learning insight

OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images

Machine learning accurately predicts who's who in the health care workforce

AI model to forecast complicated large-scale tropical instability waves in Pacific Ocean

Actor neural networks for the robust control of partially measured nonlinear systems showcased for image propagation through diffuse media

Health

A new Rx: AI for operations in health care

Robots

Transparent, reflective objects now within grasp of robots

"Alexa, go to the kitchen and fetch me a snack"

Wireless aquatic robot could clean water and transport cells

Drones and artificial intelligence show promise for conservation of farmland bird nests

Hardware

Nanoelectronics learn the same way as the human brain

Scientists identify new material with potential for brain-like computing

Artificial 'neurotransistor' created: Imitating the functioning of neurons using semiconductor materials

Giving robots human-like perception of their physical environments

New artificial skin will allow robots to detect touch and textures

Cars

Tech to help autonomous vehicles better scan for nearby fast-moving objects

Brains

This parrot beat 21 Harvard students in a classic memory game

Researcher develops method for mapping brain cell change, development in mice

How to map brain connections using DNA barcodes

A brainwide atlas of synapses across the mouse life span

Why are memories attached to emotions so strong?

Study shows how our brains remain active during familiar, repetitive tasks

Neuronal circuits in the brain 'sense' our inner state

Paper: Mundane behavioral decisions, actions can be 'misremembered' as done

IT links (13.7. - 19.7.2020)

One of the SOLID principles - interface segregation

How to log GC actions into a file?

Creating landing pages with GitHub pages

And how to keep your resources safe if you have already static web site based on S3

Vue vs. React vs. Angular

And comparing AWS and Microsoft Azure

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (6.7. - 12.7.2020)

Society

Canadians can now opt out of Clearview AI facial recognition, with a catch

How some businesses are using AI to make sure customers are wearing masks
Context reduces racial bias in hate speech detection algorithms

Beyond the AI hype cycle: Trust and the future of AI
Empathy machines: what will happen when robots learn to write film scripts?

Algorithms

Machine learning reveals vulnerabilities in 3D-printed carbon-fiber composites

Breakthrough machine learning approach quickly produces higher-resolution climate data

Deep learning decodes the principles of differential gene expression

Deep learning enables early detection and classification of live bacteria using holography

Learning more about particle collisions with machine learning
A new way to train AI systems could keep them safer from hackers

AI enables efficiencies in quantum information processing

Scientists introduce new method for machine learning classifications in quantum computing
Quantum approximate Bayesian computation for NMR model inference

Health

Algorithm predicts risk for PTSD after traumatic injury

Machine learning helps grow artificial organs

Robots

Researchers build robot scientist that has already discovered a new catalyst

This MIT robot combats COVID-19 and may soon be in your grocery store

Tyson Foods is ramping up development of robots that can cut meat in response to coronavirus outbreaks in meatpacking plants

Heat-detecting drones are a cheaper, more efficient way to find koalas

Cars

What ethical models for autonomous vehicles don't address - and how they could be better

Tesla's Neural Network adaptability to hardware highlighted in new patent application

Elon Musk predicts Tesla will complete the 'basic functionality' needed for fully autonomous driving this year — 4 years after the company started selling 'full self driving' software

Tesla owner’s dog goes on hilarious Autopilot joy ride

Brains

Fishing for a theory of emergent behavior
Bright feathers, bright brains: hummingbirds 'can order numerically'
Like humans, beluga whales form social networks beyond family ties
Animals who try to sound 'bigger' are good at learning sounds
Cognitive map–based navigation in wild bats revealed by a new high-throughput tracking system
The human brain: not just large but finely shaped
New connection between the eyes and touch discovered
Critical early step of the visual process uncovered
More than meets the eye
Is what I see, what I imagine? Study finds neural overlap between vision and imagination
Research advances understanding of how the brain focuses while ignoring distractions

IT links (6.7. - 12.7.2020)

Reminding: Liskov substitution principle

Which Lombok annotations to avoid when you are using the framework with Hibernate entities?  

AWS: You can create a snapshot from any block storage now

Small, but interesting differences in the behavior of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Hive for the same SQL syntax

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (29.6. - 5.7.2020)

Society

Why it is time to stop ostracizing social robots

New mathematical idea reins in AI bias towards making unethical and costly commercial choices

Algorithms

Team dramatically reduces image analysis times using deep learning, other approaches

Research reflects how AI sees through the looking glass

Health

Artificial intelligence identifies, locates seizures in real-time

Artificial intelligence brings pancreatic cancer screening one step closer to reality

Human-Artificial intelligence collaborations best for skin cancer diagnosis

Robots

Coordinating complex behaviors between hundreds of robots

Jellyfish-inspired soft robots can outswim their natural counterparts

Brains

NIH study finds out why some words may be more memorable than others
Auditory hallucinations rooted in aberrant brain connectivity
Sniffing out smell: How the brain organizes information about odors
Brain activity prior to an action contributes to our sense of control over what we do
Researchers discover algorithms and neural circuit mechanisms of escape responses
From age 8 we spontaneously link vocal to facial emotion
New genomic atlas of the developing human brain