Why We Should Still Read Shakespeare: Critical Linking, December 19, 2019
Critical Linking is a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web, sponsored by Talion Publishing LLC, publishers of the thrilling Talion...
A Year in Reading: Jasmine Guillory
I’ve had a complicated relationship with reading for the past year. Complicated is a word I’ve never used to describe reading before; I’ve loved to read...
How Long Can You Listen to Devin Nunes Saying ‘Nude Photos of President Trump’ Before You Die?
During Congressman Devin Nunes’s opening statement at Thursday’s impeachment hearing, he misleadingly called out Democrats, claiming that they tried to obtain nude photos of the President...
How to Customize the Stocks App on Your Apple Watch
If you’re keeping an eye on investments, Apple’s Stocks app is a great tool. You can quickly see the rise and fall of any stock right...
Beware These 7 Facebook Scams
Unlike the email spam of the late 90s and early 2000s, Facebook’s scams can be harder to spot. They hide in plain sight and recycle old...
How to get ready for PHP 8
Currently, the PHP project actively supports PHP 7.2 and PHP 7.3. The security support for PHP 7.1 ends in December 2019. Now is the time to...
Why Kubernetes and containers are the perfect fit for machine learning
Machine learning is permeating every corner of the industry, from fraud detection to supply chain optimization to personalizing the customer experience. McKinsey has found that nearly...
3 challenges of blockchain adoption for enterprise developers
Blockchain’s been a hot topic for a few years, starting with the tidal wave of the Bitcoin hype and gradually coming into its own. By the...
Facebook, AWS, Microsoft and others launch coding challenge for deepfake detection
Facebook announced a challenge to develop technologies for detecting deepfakes, titled the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC). The announcement took place at NeurIPS 2019 (Conference on Neural Information...
“BERT is a system than can be tuned to do practically all tasks in NLP”
What sets Google’s natural language processing (NLP) model BERT apart from other language models? How can a custom version version be implemented and what is the...
