Bovine Dreams

From BBC:

I suppose it can work if you know what cows dream of.

Green grass?

A hot bath?

Listening to The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns?

A vegetarian world where eating beef has been banned forever?

Carrots?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50571010

AI Against Texting & Driving

From BBC:
AI cameras to catch texting Australian drivers
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50630763

Babies and Sensors and Cars

Two friends are having a drink in a London pub.

-"I wouldn't leave my dog behind, in the car: no way I'd forget him! I love Rex. He's so loyal and intelligent..." 

-"What about Jason, your son?"

-"Well, that's different. I know what you mean."

-"Me, once, I was in the pub and I got bored, and I decided to go home, and I stormed out, like, got in the car and drove home. Arrived home, sat down in front of the telly, and the mobile rings. You know what: I'd left my wife, Sheila, behind. I'd forgotten she was with me. I was well annoyed, I must say." 

-"Big as she is, you didn't see her, like?"

-"Big? Yes, she's big. I agree. She's so fat, it's like I got two for the price of one! Anyway, I had to go back and pick her up. I hesitated for a second, mind..."

-"A missed opportunity, maybe." 

  

PS -- You may remember that David Cameron and his wife, when he was still PM, once forgot one of their children in the pub: they left the little girl behind. They came back later to pick her up, as one does. But I think they have more than one child, which means you have to do a head count every time, and it does get tedious, doesn't it? ("Darling, I wish we didn't have 8 of them!") 

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In-vehicle sensor uses radar to detect forgotten babies and pets: 

https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/radar-sensor-infants-pets/

Free eBook on AI

Free eBook on Artificial Intelligence by my former colleague, Phil Jackson:

https://pure.uvt.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/2895885/Jackson_toward_22_04_2014.pdf

I think this is an earlier version of his recent book (2019): Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, 3rd edition - available at Amazon.com

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Artificial-Intelligence-Philip-Jackson/dp/0486832864/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Philip+C+Jackson&qid=1573237880&sr=8-3

Free Magazine Subscription

Free subscription to Autonomous Vehicle Engineering magazine (Print & Digital): 

https://tbm.dragonforms.com/loading.do?omedasite=AVEland&pk=NNAVE1019A&oly_enc_id=3247B5862912G7W

Awesome List

A curated list of awesome machine learning frameworks, libraries and software (by language). Inspired by awesome-php- 

https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning?files=1

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());

AI Surveilance

From Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:
The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance:

https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/09/17/global-expansion-of-ai-surveillance-pub-79847 and AI Global Surveillance Technology:

https://carnegieendowment.org/publications/interactive/ai-surveillance

Mapping Story Points to Duration

Mapping Story Points to Duration

3 points ~ 1 day

5 points ~ 2 days

8 points ~ 3 days

13 points ~ 1 week

21 points ~ 2 weeks

One man's opinion.

Self-driving Golf Ball

From City AM of the UK

"I think some people will say that Donald Trump has a secret ball like this, and that's why he wins every time when he plays golf," commented a defensive POTUS. "Others will say that Donald Trump is a cheat and a liar, and that's how he wins every game. And many other stories like that, my fellow Americans. The reality, of course, is that POTUS is the biggly greatest, authoritatively most biggest, and all-time brightest, bestest golf player that has ever played this Sport of Kings. Simple. No one says God fakes it. So, why always accuse Me of nasty things?!" 

https://www.cityam.com/watch-nissan-invents-self-driving-golf-ball-that-finds-the-hole-every-time/?

OnStar REFERRAL CODE: 137609

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Tutorials: Linux Development on Windows

Tutorials: Linux Development on Windows

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/take-your-linux-development-experience-in-windows-to-the-next-level-with-wsl-and-visual-studio-code-remote/

and
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/an-in-depth-tutorial-on-linux-development-on-windows-with-wsl-and-visual-studio-code/?ocid=AID747785&wt.mc_id=CFID0415&MC=Vstudio&MC=MSAzure&MC=Open&MC=Java&MC=Testing