Infosys Campus Connect Daily K10 : 2019/220

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Dear Professor, Greetings from Infosys Campus Connect Team!!! Infosys : Insights Is Your Enterprise Ready For The Growing AI Opportunity? Artificial intelligence (AI) has come to establish itself as one of the enablers in a number of industries such as banking, retail, healthcare, manufacturing and telecom. It has become a competitive differentiator, and enterprises are now asking if AI can help them go a step further from being 'the solution', to helping them 'identify complex problems worth solving'. 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 Google Open Sources its Cardboard VR Platform Low-cost virtual reality (VR) platform Google Cardboard is now available as an open source project to let developers create new VR-powered apps and adapt existing ones to new devices.. Check Out This Drum Machine Created With Microsoft Excel Tallchief took to YouTube the other day to post his latest creation, this insane spreadsheet that doubles as a drum machine. Learning is optimized when we fail 15% of the time To learn new things, we must sometimes fail. But what's the right amount of failure? New research led by the University of Arizona proposes a mathematical answer to that question. Programmer News for the Day Understanding UMAP Dimensionality reduction is a powerful tool for machine learning practitioners to visualize and understand large, high dimensional datasets. Coding habits for data scientists In this article, we’ll share techniques for identifying bad habits that add to complexity in code as well as habits that can help us partition complexity. Causal Inference : What If Book The book is divided in 3 parts of increasing difficulty: causal inference without models, causal inference with models, and causal inference from complex longitudinal data. Web Developer News for the Day 84% of all websites are impacted by jQuery XSS vulnerabilities Welcome to Snyk’s State of JavaScript frameworks security report 2019. In this blog post we’ll review security vulnerabilities found in other frontend ecosystem projects. Exciting new features in Vue 3 Thankfully Vue team mostly introduced additions and improvements over current APIs rather than major changes so people that already know Vue 2 should quickly feel comfortable with new syntaxes. Using functional programming to avoid intermediate variables and nested functions Often when we’re developing a piece of code, we need to take one starting value and apply several functions to it before we return that value. Word for the Day teleological adjective : exhibiting or relating to design or purpose especially in nature Parenting is teleological; parents rear a child to become an adult. More Puzzle for the Day Jam Making Contest Puzzle At the recent inter-departmental jam making contest, four lucky candidates took part to make the juiciest strawberry jam. The ages of the contestants were 24, 27, 30 and 32. As it happens the person who came last was the oldest, whereas Glen was three years older than the person who came second. Drew was neither the oldest nor the youngest and Emery finished ahead of the 27 year old, but didn't win. Alex was also unlucky this time and didn't win either. Can you determine who finished where and how old they are? Solution (Previous Puzzle): Square. Square the first shape's sides and the remaining shapes add up to this number. E.g.    triangle pentagon square       >> 3x3 = 5 + 4    square hexagon hexagon square       >> 4x4 = 6 + 6 + 4 Therefore:    hexagon octagon octagon octagon octagon square       >> 6x6 = 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 4 Innovation of the Day In 1477, English printer William Caxton, (c.1422 - c.1491) produced the first book printed in England, Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres (Sayings of the Philosophers). In 1845, Charles Thurber was issued a U.S. patent for a Writing Machine he named the Chirographer (No. 4272). He is credited with the first U.S. patent on a typewriter with platen movement and automatic letter spacing, which was issued two years earlier, called “Thurber's Patent Printer” (No. 3,228, 26 Aug 1843). In 1950, the first fluoro-record reflector camera was announced. This could make x-ray pictures in one-sixth of the time previously required, and was used for gastro-instestinal surveys. The manufacturer was the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp., Jamaica, N.Y. Video for the Day Podcast for the Day Jellyfish predate dinosaurs. How have they survived so long? - David Gruber Some are longer than a blue whale. Others are barely larger than a grain of sand. One species unleashes one of the most deadly venoms on earth; another holds a secret that’s behind some of the greatest breakthroughs in biology. They’ve inhabited the ocean for at least half a billion years, and they’re still flourishing. David Gruber investigates the secret powers of jellyfish. The benefits of schadenfreude : BBC 6 Mins English Do you take pleasure when someone undeserving of their success has a spot of bad luck? Not even a little pleasure? Well, if you do (like, apparently, most of us) you might like to learn the word 'schadenfreude' and the concept behind it. Rob and Neil talk about this German word also used in English and teach you new vocabulary. Idiom for the Day body and soul with all one's effort and ability. He dedicated himself to science studies and astronomy, body and soul. More Quote for the Day “If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.” Yusuf Tara

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