Steve Wozniak on Autonomous Vehicles

Steve Wozniak on Autonomous Vehicles

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/24/apple-wozniak-given-up-believing-in-self-driving-cars-in-his-lifetime.html

Roaming Eagles

From the BBC:
Roaming Eagles - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781
And what'll happen when the Russian eagles discover Instagram and start taking selfies from Iran and other far-away places?

Blob News

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/20/771285312/the-blob-a-smart-yet-brainless-organism-fit-for-sci-fi-gets-its-own-exhibit 

 How can we build an AI system modeled on this creature?

Award from General Motors

After more than 31 years of working, with the last 2 and a half years of it being with GM, I received my first ever professional award.
Thank you GM!

Agility & Burnout

From Risk & Insurance Magazine

Agility & Burnout

https://riskandinsurance.com/6-types-of-employees-with-the-highest-burnout-risk/

Software Re-Write

A Few Observations on Software Re-Write:  

Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories:

https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewrite-stories-635e4c8f7c22

When is a BIG Rewrite the answer?:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/6268/when-is-a-big-rewrite-the-answer

Things You Should Never Do, Part I:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool?

From Nature: 

Why deep-learning AIs are so easy to fool?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03013-5

Salesfroce.com Goes Go

Salesforce: Why we ditched Python for Google's Go language in Einstein Analytics

https://www.zdnet.com/article/salesforce-why-we-ditched-python-for-googles-go-language-in-einstein-analytics/

Execution Speeds of Java Collections

Execution Speeds of Java Collections - List/for, Array/for, List/foreach, Array/foreach

===Results==

List/for 3697

Array/for 1548

List/foreach 5654

Array/foreach 5659

===Code====

List list = new ArrayList(); Integer[] arr = new Integer[6000000]; Random rand = new Random(12345); for (int i = 0; i < 6000000; i++) { list.add(rand.nextInt(5000)); arr[i] = rand.nextInt(); } int chk = 0; Stopwatch watch = new Stopwatch(); watch.start(); for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++) { int len = list.size(); for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) { chk += list.get(i); } } watch.stop(); System.out.println("List/for: " + watch.elapsedMillis()); chk = 0; watch = watch.reset(); watch = watch.start(); for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++) { for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { chk += arr[i]; } } watch.stop(); System.out.println("Array/for: "+ watch.elapsedMillis()); chk = 0; watch = watch.reset(); watch = watch.start(); for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++) { for(Integer i: list) { chk += i; } } watch.stop(); System.out.println("List/foreach: " + watch.elapsedMillis()); chk = 0; watch = watch.reset(); watch = watch.start(); for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++) { for(Integer i: list) { chk += i; } } watch.stop(); System.out.println("Array/foreach: " + watch.elapsedMillis());