News of AI - Disappearing Jobs

From the City AM (UK)

https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-the-jobs-sectors-and-countries-most-at-risk-of-automation-and-robotics/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Midday+newsletter+Nov+2020

Mamba: A Package Manager for Python

If you use conda to manage your packages, you might be interested in switching to mamba (Welcome to Mamba’s documentation! — documentation). It can be installed by running: conda install mamba -y

I noticed that the times that take to create an environment are reduced a lot just by changing to mamba. Also helped me reducing my TFS pipeline Docker build to go from over 20 minutes to approximately 4 minutes.

More discussion here:

Conda or Mamba for production? | EPI2ME Labs Blog

News of Alexa: Attempted Murder

 

Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny - BBC News

Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it "challenged" a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug. The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a ...