Ep 20 – 18 July 2017 – ..Books, bots and..
…tales from the crypto!!!
Location: Starbucks, 37-39 High Holborn, London WC1V 6BG
Order: Cwaffeee!!!
Review: 4/5
Comment: Given the morning rush, it’s one of the quieter central Sbx. You can actually hear yourself and others talk here. As ever, coffee is country fresh, like the morning after a rainstorm.
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News and Links
- General:
- Postcapitalism: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/PostCapitalism-Guide-Our-Future-Paul-Mason/0141975296/
- Sofie’s World: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sophies-World-Anniversary-Jostein-Gaarder/dp/1474602282
- How to stop time: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782118616
- AI stuff..
- Driverless cars go on trial this yr in UK (via click tv show): http://www.wired.co.uk/article/driverless-cars-uk-self-driving-cars
- Sex robots: http://thehookmag.com/2017/07/brothel-renting-sex-robot-88-hour-despite-chilling-warning-scientists-143151/
- Better regulation for AI from Musk: https://readwrite.com/2017/07/17/elon-musk-regulate-ai-dl1/
- Google glass update out after 3yrs of nothing (click): https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/21/google-glass-is-apparently-still-around-and-just-got-its-first-update-in-nearly-three-years/
- Monzo current account is coming: https://t.co/A18FFqIuDi
- Female Dr Who: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40626224
- DoppioJVM.. A JVM in JS! https://t.co/ihl5vJij42
- SoundCloud…https://t.co/eHTwLYNbC2
- Making gossip more robust: https://t.co/pRs8YH46Vf
- …and SWIM with situational awareness: https://t.co/5li4AvRCgr
- The joys of WFH: https://t.co/UPnZyKVO9I
- 3D scanning magic! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHvyPnkuAiw
- Lightboard: http://lightboard.info
- Update on paper on Google spanner: https://t.co/KeYnqFw42v
- Snapchat for medicine: https://t.co/nGGpadRWzZ
- Distributed teams: https://t.co/roV9mafFR9
- Wildcard certs coming to Let’s encrypt: https://t.co/qiocV5UwU8
- Scala/FP related:
- State of Scala 2017: https://t.co/07EN9bgvwv
- FP in Scala with FunctorHub: http://functorhub.com/
- Akka, Scala, ES and CQRS: https://t.co/rxG8rn9NCC
- Releases:
- Scala.js 1.0.0-M1 out: https://t.co/T1jut9WBKI
- Sbt errors summary 0.3: https://t.co/dy10iL1N6b
- Ammonite 1.0.0: https://t.co/tFMjiIeVmR
- Haskell style ADTs for Scala: https://t.co/sRyRBrCJp6
- Spark 2.2.0 released! http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-2-2-0.html
- New in play 2.6 – summary: https://t.co/qpQkMWHRrL
- Graal compiler by Oracle labs: https://graalvm.github.io/
- AFX and Scala: https://t.co/GK32Jpflon
- Blockchain/post cap/ubi/privacy/politics:
- Coursera cryptocurrency course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency
- Udemy trading bitcoins: https://www.udemy.com/bitcoin-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-crypto/
- First production ready Hyperledger release: http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-blockchain-hyperledger-idUKKBN19W1TT
- Is crypto going mainstream: https://t.co/tEl7yOeTT6
- Blockchain and energy markets: https://t.co/qnBKdcEBMV
- Microchipping employees: https://t.co/8aUdKGOxNh
- Blockchain analysis using blockbench: https://t.co/SQ01C0jMzj
- BigchainDB 1.0: https://t.co/IJzcOPwAZb
- Blockchain in the real World:
- The Circle on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80098473
- Docker/Ops:
- K8s 1.7 released: https://t.co/W9hUibbe9n
- Vagrant 1.9.6 released: https://t.co/Qu4qKdZ6H7
- K8s intro with k8s by example: https://t.co/4QM1KpAKGf
- What is CloudNative by Anne Currie: http://container-solutions.com/what-is-cloud-native/
- Katacoda Istio mesh tutorial: https://twitter.com/mhausenblas/status/882320854490677252
- Containerd 1.0.0-alpha released: https://t.co/gSlKRqwaSl
- Cluster schedulers: https://t.co/u4dJGqTXMX
- And finally…
- Winning at snake: https://twitter.com/DestroyingClip/status/876982882610200578
- Kotlin Jin Yang or Jin Wang!!! https://dev.to/clarifai/not-kotdog-using-computer-vision-to-detect-hot-dogs-in-kotlin
- Thomas Turgoose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Turgoose
- Old, but doing the rounds again:
- New balls ? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/15/wimbledon-fan-invited-court-put-skirt-face-kim-clijsters-serve/
Events
Infinite Conf – 6th-7th July – London, UK
Material Conf – 17th Aug – Iceland
ScalaWorld – 8 – 13th Sept – Lake District
SwanseaCon – 25th & 26th Sept – Swansea
ContainerSched – 28th Sept – London
Lambda World – 30th Sept – 1st Oct – Cadiz
DockerCon Eu -16th – 18th Oct – Copenhagen
Velocity EU -17th – 20th Oct – London
Scala IO -2nd & 3rd Nov – Paris, France
MuCon – 6th Nov – London, UK
Meaning Conf – 16th Nov – London, UK
Functional Conf – 16 – 19th Nov – Bangalore, India
ChainConf -7th Dec – London, UK
ScalaX -14th-15th Dec – London, UK
Lambda Days – 22nd – 23rd Feb – Krakow, Poland
ScalaX -14th-15th Dec – London, UK
That’s all folks!