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NeurIPS 2019, Google
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As a Diamond Sponsor of NeurIPS 2019, Google will have a strong presence at NeurIPS 2019 with more than 500 Googlers attending in order to contribute to, and learn from, the broader academic research community via talks, posters, workshops, competitions and tutorials. We will be presenting work that pushes the boundaries of what is possible in language understanding, translation, speech recognition and visual & audio perception, with Googlers co-authoring more than 120 accepted papers. https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/12/google-at-neurips-2019.html
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"Juju cackles like Wooly Bully which is indescribable and was recorded by a bunch of guys who drove around in a hearse wearing turbans." I think everyone had some pretty good ideas in the recent thread about the Bold Stumps plans for 2020. John is right that the thing I'm thinking about the most is the idea of a garage band. And I think that means some fun and not too serious. But to have a point of view. So make lists And narrow them down, yes. But ... openness and honor to the actual life and event of each song is crucial. When we used to play in the basement, which is the same as the garage, we would try and do things short and so explore a lot of songs that way. And so that calls for some precision. And certainly, Jay Geils was a band that had a lot of precision and fun, at the start – tho, after seeing their precision 3 times, I felt I’d seen them. It was like they weren't exploring - well not as much as when they started. So truth to the song in the mom...
Al Davis's 201 Principles of Software Development
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No matter the profession, the size of the cubicle or the number of stops you make, you may find a reference book you tend to take along the way. For hardware engineers it may be something like Donalds Fink’s and Donald Christiansen’s Electronics Engineers’ Handbook. For many project managers it is Fredrick Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month. In my case, I have carried Al Davis's 201 Principles of Software Development along through more than a couple of career incarnations. Principle 73 in 201 Principles of Software Development discusses the need for loose coupling of software components. This is a ”known unknown” that bears repeating. Services composition remains a bit of a black art, and the key to successful application integration, and it has gained new attention as Microservices architectures take over where Service Oriented Architecture left off. Read the rest - a review on Amazon .