WHY REACT’S NEW HOOKS API IS A GAME CHANGER
I have been developing with React since it’s early days and during that time there have been many attempts by both influencers, as well as the core team to improve the API and patterns developers are using to creating software. One of the biggest challenges we have had was how to share behaviour neatly between components to enable reuse or even just separation of concerns. Every single solution proposed up until this point had some problems associated with it.
Read moreFROM REACT NATIVE TO FLUTTER
Reflectly—From React Native toFlutterWhy we moved 500.000+ users toFlutterThe EarlyDaysReflectly was built using React Native in the summer of 2017. At the time React Native was a relatively new and exciting technology. It promised high productivity and cross-platform mobile development with familiar web technologies. Our team had a strong background in web technology and therefore felt immediately at home using React Native to build Reflectly. Following a few intense weeks of development, we submitted the first version of Reflectly for iOS to the App Store. Having successfully released Reflectly for iOS, we wanted to release Reflectly for Android as soon as possible.
Read more‘SPECTACULAR’ DIABETES TREATMENT COULD END DAILY INSULIN INJECTIONS
A potential medical breakthrough that could put an end to the daily insulin injections endured by people living with diabetes has been unveiled by Dutch scientists. By destroying the mucous membrane in the small intestine and causing a new one to develop, scientists stabilised the blood sugar levels of people with type 2 diabetes. The results have been described as “spectacular” – albeit unexpected – by the chief researchers involved.
Read moreRESEARCHERS DISCOVER A NOVEL METHOD TO BLOCK IMMUNOSUPPRESSION IN CANCER
Belgian research groups from the UCLouvain and WELBIO, VIB and Ghent University, and the biotechnology company argenx elucidated the three-dimensional structure of an assembly of proteins operating on cells that dampen immune responses. They also discovered how an antibody can block this assembly and the immunosuppression it induces downstream. Such an antibody could serve to stimulate immunity against tumor cells in cancer patients, triggering the destruction of their tumors by immune cells.
Read more190 UNIVERSITIES JUST LAUNCHED 600 FREE ONLINE COURSES. HERE’S THE FULL LIST.
In the past four months alone, 190 universities have announced 600 such free online courses. I’ve compiled a list of them and categorized them according to the following subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics, Programming, Data Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education & Teaching, Health & Medicine, Business, Personal Development, Engineering, Art & Design, and finally Science. Source: qz.com
COSMONAUT BRAINS SHOW SPACE TRAVEL CAUSES LASTING CHANGES
A new study of Russian space travelers adds to evidence that life among the stars has many consequences. Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov works on the International Space Station during a five-hour, 11-minute spacewalk. Science & InnovationStarstruckCosmonaut brains show space travel causes lasting changesA new study of Russian space travelers adds to evidence that life among the stars has many consequences. Our fleshy forms evolved to work within the tug of gravity. Take that pull away, and the clockwork operation of bodily functions just doesn’t keep ticking at the same steady beat. From fluids floating the wrong way to DNA expressing differently, space travel is tough on even the healthiest human body.
Read moreAN END TO END IMPLEMENTATION OF A MACHINE LEARNING PIPELINE
As a researcher on Computer Vision, I come across new blogs and tutorials on ML (Machine Learning) every day. However, most of them are just focussing on introducing the syntax and the terminology relevant to the field. For example – a 15 minute tutorial on Tensorflow using MNIST dataset, or a 10 minute intro to Deep Learning in Keras on Imagenet.
Read moreWHAT’S THE BEST DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK?
Deep learning models are large and complex, so instead of writing out every function from the ground up, programmers rely on frameworks and software libraries to build neural networks efficiently. The top deep learning frameworks provide highly optimized, GPU-enabled code that are specific to deep neural network computations. Source: nvidia.com
CURIOSITY AND PROCRASTINATION IN REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Episodic Curiosity through Reachability: Observations are added to memory, reward is computed based on how far the current observation is from the most similar observation in memory. The agent receives more reward for seeing observations which are not yet represented in memory. Source: googleblog.com
PREVIEW 7 OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS FROM THE UBER OPEN SUMMIT
Open source software pervades the work we do at Uber. On the infrastructure side, we have contributed projects like Jaeger, which lets engineers trace complex architectures, and M3, a metrics platform that works with Prometheus. For front-end development, we built RIBs, a cross-platform architecture for mobile apps, along with Fusion.js, a plugin-based web framework. In the rapidly advancing area of machine learning, we have open source tools such as Horovod, a distributed training framework, and Pyro, a deep probabilistic programming language written in Python.
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