Jun 12

Of Interest: From the Web

"The Global Times cited technology giant Tencent, as well as smartphone makers Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, and quoted an unnamed source "close to a major Chinese carrier" saying that the major Chinese technology companies "are actively working with Huawei to push forward the release of HongMeng OS, which is also considered as a major blow to the US-led crackdown.""
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/12/tencent-xiaomi-and-oppo-all-testing-huaweis-faster-android-os-report-claims/#2707ffbe388e

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Google Tried to Prove Managers Don’t Matter. Instead, It Discovered 10 Traits of the Very Best Ones
https://www.inc.com/scott-mautz/google-tried-to-prove-managers-dont-matter-instead-they-discovered-10-traits-of-very-best-ones.html
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Drug to Replace Chemotherapy May Reshape Cancer Care
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-11/drug-to-replace-chemotherapy-may-reshape-cancer-care
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Saving the Planet With Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-11/saving-the-planet-with-electric-cars-means-strangling-this-desert
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Gasoline Prices Set to Plunge at the Pump
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-10/hold-up-on-the-fill-up-gasoline-is-set-to-plunge-at-the-pump
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The U.S.-China Race for Tech Dominance Is the Worst Game of Twister Ever
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/the-digital-iron-curtain-looks-like-spaghetti?srnd=premium
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The dirty dozen: 12 top cloud security threats
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3043030/the-dirty-dozen-12-top-cloud-security-threats.html
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6 ways malware can bypass endpoint protection
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3400860/6-ways-malware-can-bypass-endpoint-protection.html?upd=1560353757211
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America’s Largest Retailer Sued For Selling Fake Medicine
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolefisher/2019/05/31/americas-largest-retailer-sued-for-selling-fake-medicine/#5c1c278a38c4
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the-future-of-car-ownership-building-an-online-dealership/
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/the-future-of-car-ownership-building-an-online-dealership/

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Jun 12

Of Interest: Linux/VPS/Politics/Cpanel/Vultr/DigitalOcean

VPS server on Digital Ocean (Vultr, Hostwind, namecheap, vps.net are other options also amazon lightsail)
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/

Hongkong:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/demonstrators-block-key-downtown-roads-hong-kong-protest-update

Unions in Grad School:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-12/university-of-chicago-walkout-keep-unions-out-of-grad-school?srnd=premium-canada

Getting the most out of your Data Scientist

https://www.meetup.com/Cognitive-Toronto/events/261422564/

Deploy apps on Vultr platform, One click installs
https://www.vultr.com/docs/

How to Install cPanel/WHM on CentOS

https://hostpresto.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-cpanel-whm-centos-7/
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How to Install cPanel on Centos?

https://www.photonvps.com/billing/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=64

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Jun 11

Of Interest: Technology, Engineering, AI, Finance, Economy, Politics

Xi Has Few Good Options After Trump’s Ultimatum on G-20 Meeting

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-11/xi-has-few-good-options-after-trump-s-ultimatum-on-g-20-meeting

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Apple’s U.S. iPhones Can All Be Made Outside of China If Needed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-11/hon-hai-has-enough-ex-china-capacity-to-make-u-s-bound-products?srnd=premium

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6-steps to a long-term care plan


http://cawidgets.morningstar.ca/ArticleTemplate/ArticleGL.aspx?culture=en-CA&id=932795

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How First Citrus Bank got rid of employee passwords

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3399536/how-first-citrus-bank-got-rid-of-employee-passwords.html

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Mobile games now account for 33% of installs, 10% of time, and 74% of consumer spend

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/mobile-games-now-account-for-33-of-installs-10-of-time-and-74-of-consumer-spend/

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Jun 10

Of Interest Today: Finance, Technology, Economy, and Security

Stocks Gain, Bonds Slide After Mexico Trade Relief: Markets Wrap

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-09/asia-stocks-set-for-gains-u-s-futures-higher-markets-wrap?srnd=premium

Jun 06

AI and Ethics. Algorithms and Fairness

AI Ethics 100 Stories

https://www.technologyreview.com/ethical-tech/ai-ethics/
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Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/01/artificial-intelligence-limitations
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
https://intelligence.org/files/EthicsofAI.pdf
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Top 9 ethical issues in artificial intelligence

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/top-10-ethical-issues-in-artificial-intelligence/
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Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/business/ethics-artificial-intelligence.html

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We Need Transparency in Algorithms, But Too Much Can Backfire

https://hbr.org/2018/07/we-need-transparency-in-algorithms-but-too-much-can-backfire

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The growing ubiquity of algorithms in society: implications, impacts and innovations

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6107538/

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China’s new ‘social credit system’ is a dystopian nightmare

https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/chinas-new-social-credit-system-turns-orwells-1984-into-reality/

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Jun 06

Of Interest: Economy : Finance: Technology

A Four Day Workweek Could Be Coming to the U.K.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-06/a-4-day-workweek-could-be-coming-to-the-u-k?srnd=premium-asia

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Trade War Ended China’s First Bull Market After Only 69 Days

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-06/trade-war-claims-china-s-first-bear-market-after-just-69-days?srnd=premium-asia

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Singapore Has 24,000 Empty Apartments (And 44,000 More on the Way )

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-06/24-000-vacant-apartments-in-singapore-show-extent-of-oversupply?srnd=premium-asia

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The Trade War Could Pop Hong Kong’s Property Bubble

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-05/sky-high-hong-kong-home-prices-may-not-last-as-trade-war-bites?srnd=premium-asia

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Jun 02

On Autonomous vehicles: On Driverless Car. On Creating

Self-driving car (autonomous car or driverless car)

https://searchenterpriseai.techtarget.com/definition/driverless-car
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Book: Creating Autonomous Vehicle Systems

http://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/samples/9781681730080_sample.pdf
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Self-Driving Cars Might Need Standards, but Whose?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/automobiles/wheels/self-driving-cars-standards.html

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Your Self-Driving Car – How Did It Get So Smart?

https://hortonworks.com/blog/your-self-driving-car-how-did-it-get-so-smart/
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NVIDIA introduces DRIVE Constellation Simulation System to drive autonomous vehicles in virtual reality

https://www.designworldonline.com/nvidia-introduces-drive-constellation-simulation-system-to-drive-autonomous-vehicles-in-virtual-reality/

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MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars

https://selfdrivingcars.mit.edu/

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Development and Testing Autonomous Vehicles in Simulation

https://github.com/vojtamolda/autodrome

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Reinforcement Learning: From Grid World to Self-Driving Cars
https://towardsdatascience.com/reinforcement-learning-from-grid-world-to-self-driving-cars-52bd3e647bc4
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THE SELF-DRIVING CAR IS HERE

https://www.drive.ai/

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MADRaS: A Multi-Agent DRiving Simulator for Autonomous Driving Research

https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2018/10/madras-multi-agent-driving-simulator/
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Car Makers Are Expanding & Diversifying Self-Driving Business
https://syncedreview.com/2019/03/17/car-makers-are-expanding-diversifying-self-driving-business/

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Jun 02

Of Interest Today on Bloomberg

China: Trade War Has Not ‘Made America Great Again’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-02/china-says-it-doesn-t-want-u-s-trade-war-but-won-t-shy-from-one?srnd=premium

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China Says It Doesn’t Want to Replace U.S. as ‘Boss of World’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-02/china-won-t-be-bullied-by-u-s-but-open-to-talks-general-says?srnd=premium

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Trump’s Huawei Problem: Asia Doesn’t Want U.S. to Kneecap China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-02/trump-s-huawei-problem-asia-doesn-t-want-u-s-to-kneecap-china?srnd=premium

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May 31

On Bloomberg Today: Of Interest

China Has Rare Earths Plan Ready to Go If Trade War Deepens

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/china-has-a-rare-earths-plan-ready-to-go-if-trade-war-deepens?srnd=premium

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A 600-Page Textbook About Modern Monetary Theory Has Sold Out

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/a-600-page-textbook-about-modern-monetary-theory-has-sold-out?srnd=premium

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Flying Has Become More Dangerous. Don’t Just Blame Boeing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-30/flying-has-become-more-dangerous-don-t-just-blame-boeing?srnd=premium

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Apple to Reveal Glimpses of Its Next Era of Apps and Devices

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/apple-s-future-ios-13-macos-10-15-watchos-6-tvos-13-mac-pro?srnd=premium

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China Has Rare Earths Plan Ready to Go If Trade War Deepens

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/china-has-a-rare-earths-plan-ready-to-go-if-trade-war-deepens?srnd=premium
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China Threatens Sweeping Blacklist of Firms After Huawei Ban

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/china-to-set-up-unreliable-entity-list-after-u-s-huawei-ban?srnd=premium

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May 29

Hiring and Skills

I see: WHY YOU SHOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE HIRING BASED ON SKILLS

https://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/rework/why-you-should-think-twice-hiring-based-skills

Disadvantages of Skill-Based Pay – USI

https://lnkd.in/eHZHu-5

The advantages and pitfalls of the modern hiring process

https://mashable.com/2015/01/22/modern-hiring-problems/

The Pros And Cons Of Pre-Employment Testing

https://www.jumpstartinc.org/pros-cons-pre-employment-testing