Infosys Campus Connect Daily K10 : 2019/171

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Dear Professor, Greetings from Infosys Campus Connect Team!!! Infosys : Insights Living with Ambient Intelligence: So at Home with Technology "The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it."- Late Mark Weiser, who was the chief scientist at Xerox PARC. True to Mark Weiser’s words, technology today has become all pervasive to the point of being ‘taken for granted’. Take for example our smart phones. They have become a ubiquitous part of our lives. INFYTQ Shaping a Better Tomorrow for Tech Talent with Infosys Industry-grade Certification Infosys Certification : Course Modules 1.       Programming Fundamentals using Python 2.       OOP using Python 3.       Data Structures & Algorithms using Python 4.       Learning DBMS and SQL Certification Slots will be re-opened in the month of Feb’ 2020 Get Ready! https://infytq.infosys.com Please find below links for the information related to latest technology and trends. This could help your faculty members and/or your college students. Tech News for the Day Eavesdropping smartphones: Fact or fiction? It’s an oft-repeated tale: Someone talks with a friend about a certain thing, and then, bang, an ad for it appears on the smartphone screen. Step up your interviewing game with Byteboard Our project-based interview assesses for engineering skills that are actually used on the job. The structured, identity-blind evaluation process enables hiring managers to reliably trust our recommendations, so they have to conduct fewer interviews before reaching a confident hiring decision. Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them Elon Musk’s Neuralink, the secretive company developing brain-machine interfaces, showed off some of the technology it has been developing to the public for the first time. Programmer News for the Day Three Strategies for Working with Big Data in R For many R users, it’s obvious why you’d want to use R with big data, but not so obvious how. In fact, many people (wrongly) believe that R just doesn’t work very well for big data. Hands On Bayesian Statistics with Python, PyMC3 & ArviZ Gaussian Inference, Posterior Predictive Checks, Group Comparison, Hierarchical Linear Regression PyTorch Transformers for state-of-the-art NLP Hugging Face open sources a new library that contains up to 27 pretrained models to conduct state-of-the-art NLP/NLU tasks. Web Developer News for the Day Mark Erikson - A Deep Dive into React-Redux | React Next 2019 Redux and React are frequently used together, and many people are familiar with the "Provider" and "connect" APIs from React-Redux. But how does React-Redux work, and why do we even need it in the first place? Using Typescript to make invalid states irrepresentable One of the principles of good Haskell, and in general good Typed Functional Programming, is the principle of making invalid states irrepresentable. What does this mean? Recording : Microservice architecture with Node.js: Should you jump on the hype train? It seems that everyone is migrating to microservices from the monolithic architecture. But is it really the best solution for every business scenario? Word for the Day fecund adjective fe·​cund | \ ˈfe-kənd : intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree the Franklin stove, bifocals, and the lightning rod are just a few of the inventions that we owe to the fecund creativity of Benjamin Franklin More Puzzle for the Day Race Puzzle At the recent BrainBashers Festival, the 100 metres heats were closely monitored. Each contestant had to run in two races so that the average place could be determined. Only one runner finished in the same place in both races. Alex was never last. Chris always beat Dale. Blake had at least one first place. Alex finished third in at least one of the races. Both Dale and Chris had a second place. What were the two results? Solution (Previous Puzzle): Innovation of the Day In 1819, a U.S. patent for a profile lathe was issued to Thomas Blanchard of Middlebury, Connecticut. It was capable of manufacturing irregular forms, such as gun stocks. In 1879, Telephone Company Ltd opened the first public British telephone exchange in Lombard Street, London using Edison's system. In 1947, the aircraft-carrier Midway became the first U.S. vessel from which a long-range rocket was launched. Video for the Day Podcast for the Day Beware online "filter bubbles" - Eli Pariser As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. What’s in a name? : BBC 6 Mins English In the UK women traditionaly take their husband's surname when they get married - but are things changing? A growing number of western millennial men are ignoring tradition and taking their new wife's name when they get married. Dan and Neil discuss this trend and teach you six items of vocabulary. Idiom for the Day Bless Your Heart a spoken expression of good wishes, endearment, affection, fondness, sympathy. It can also be a way of saying someone is a good person or did a good thing. Bless his heart, Wesley is going to fix my roof for free. More Quote for the Day “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.” Beverly Sills Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited