Four short links: 30 December 2016
Westworld as Game, Sensor Batteries, Topic Matching, and WeChat's Networking
Westworld as Game, Sensor Batteries, Topic Matching, and WeChat's Networking
Polyglot Notebook, SQL Proxy, Global Radio, and Diagnosis from Breath
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Recapping a revolutionary year in AI and bots, and looking ahead to 2017.
Throughput vs. Quality, Software is Hard, Video Witchcraft, and TOPS-20 Simulator
Marshall McLuhan, Video Falsehoods, Load Balancing, and Programming as Shrinking Problems
High-level programming languages may win most popularity contests, but the venerable C language isn't going away.
Zimbu, Mistakes, Atari, and Dashbot
Superintelligence, Life Principles, VR Resources, and Interactive Dynamic Video
Brainless Slime, Significance Testing, Year of Breaches, and Deploying to AWS
Topic Modeling, Datafication, Toy Spies, and Partisan Beliefs
Human-centered design and the challenges of complex problem-solving.
Ingestible Origami Robot, Feature Flags, AI Q&A, and Disappearing Ideas
Robot Arm, Societal Collapse, Bot NLP, and Tech in Hostile States
Designing Bots, Security Priorities, Generating Chorales, and Why Indie.vc
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: X.ai founder on personal assistant agents that schedule your meetings.
Secure Yourself, Limits of Transparency, Disruption Blindness, and Factiness in Podcasts
State of Tech, Ransom Market, Ethical AI, and Self-Driving Car Roundup
Four factors to consider when assessing the impact of AI on design professions.