Infosys Campus Connect Daily K10 : 2019/204

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Dear Professor, Greetings from Infosys Campus Connect Team!!! Infosys : Insights Redefining Customer Experience in Retail with Digital ‘Customer is King’ has held true for generations, particularly in the retail industry. I remember my grandfather was a regular customer at the local drugstore, because they were only a phone call away, and delivered at any point of time. They even gave a friendly call once in a while to check on him and his need for medicines. 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 OpenAI’s AI-powered robot learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed Artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in its quest to build general purpose, self-learning robots. New Alternative to Bitcoin Uses Negligible Energy Novel algorithms are secure like blockchains, but simpler, faster, and more energy-efficient What Your Personal Information is Worth to Cybercriminals Cybercriminals have multiple markets to get illicit goods and prices on these underground forums are likely driven by supply and demand, just like in the legal economy. Programmer News for the Day The Lines of Code That Changed Everything Apollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of software that have transformed our world. Machine Learning Workspace The ML workspace is an all-in-one web-based IDE specialized for machine learning and data science. It is simple to deploy and gets you started within minutes to productively built ML solutions on your own machines. Gaussian Process, not quite for dummies A Gaussian process is a probability distribution over possible functions that fit a set of points. Web Developer News for the Day JavaScript Optional Chaining – An Introduction In general terms, Optional Chaining is an approach to simplify JavaScript expressions for accessing deeply nested values, array items and methods when there is a possibility that a reference may be missing. Why 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.30000000000000004: Implementing IEEE 754 in JS Floating point math is tricky. In this video, we'll learn how these numbers work in computers, and build a software implementation from scratch in JavaScript. JavaScript Iterators and Generators A lot to digest in this series about both synchronous and asynchronous iterators and generators, with each getting a full article. Word for the Day spoonerism noun spoo·​ner·​ism | \ ˈspü-nə-ˌri-zəm  \ : a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) the spoonerism “tons of soil” for “sons of toil” More Puzzle for the Day What am I Puzzle My first is in camel and in hamster. My second is in otter but not in ferret. My third is in mustang but not in horse. My fourth is in snake and in asp. My last is in tiger and in panther. What am I? Solution (Previous Puzzle): Alex Adams Pat Peterson   Ryan Richards    Dale Dartford     Lake Limperton      Jesse Jacks       Terry Tipton        Harper Hall         Mason Miller          Kelly Kirkpatrick Innovation of the Day In 1836, Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts, received the first U.S. patent for the phosphorous friction safety match (No. 68). In 1876, a U.S. patent was issued for the metal case of a one-day back-winding alarm clock to the Seth E. Thomas of New York City, NY (No. 183,725), being the first American patent for an alarm clock of this familiar type. In 1939, nylon stockings went on sale in the U.S. for the first time to employees at DuPont's Wilmington, Delaware nylon factory. Video for the Day Podcast for the Day The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence - Edith Widder In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to film this glimmering world. At TED2011, she brings some of her glowing friends onstage, and shows more astonishing footage of glowing undersea life. Are smartphones killing cameras? : BBC 6 Mins English Many people have a smartphone these days and these devices carry not one, but two cameras! Who buys separate cameras? Catherine and Neil talk about photography and teach you six items of related vocabulary. Idiom for the Day blood, sweat and tears a lot of effort and suffering. Our national freedom is the result of over hundred years' of blood, sweat and tears. More Quote for the Day “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.” Conrad Hilton Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited