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When AI meets quantum mechanics (Practical AI #43) May 14, 2019

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Can AI help quantum physicists? Can quantum physicists help the AI community? The answers are yes and yes! Dr. Shohini Ghose from Wilfrid Laurier University and Marcus Edwards from the University of Waterloo join us to discuss ML/AI’s impact on physics and quantum computing potential for ML/AI.

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Show Notes:

Quantum Emulation project (email marcus@quantumemulation.com/)
Efforts to use Quantum Computing to accelerate ML/AI:
- from Google
- from IBM
Xanadu: a dedicated ML platform for quantum computers
OpenQASM
Rigetti
Quantum open source foundation
TED talk from Dr. Ghose

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LIVE at ReactJS Girls (JS Party #75) May 14, 2019

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Emma Wedekind MC’d a live show at ReactJS Girls with a panel of 3 amazing women — Eve Porcello, Marcy Sutton, and Kate Beard. It was a great discussion covering the biggest challenges they’ve faced, how no matter who you are imposter syndrome occurs and never really goes away, ways to support and encourage under-represented groups and people to get into tech, and how to choose a topic when writing a talk.

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Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Less code, less maintenance, more acceptance testing. Gauge is a free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Gauge tests are in Markdown which makes writing and maintaining tests easier.
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Eve Porcello – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Emma Bostian – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

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Huge thanks to ReactJS Girls Conference for allowing us to crash their conference and throw a JS Party
Want us to throw a JS Party at your conference? Send an email to editors@changelog.com to get in touch.

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Quirk and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (Changelog Interviews #345) May 10, 2019

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We’re talking with Evan Conrad — for most of Evan’s life he has suffered from severe panic attacks, often twice per week. Eventually he stumbled upon a therapy method called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT for short, and saw positive results. This led him to create Quirk, an open source iOS app which allows its users to practice one of the most common formats of CBT.

On the show we mentioned a new podcast we’re launching called Brain Science — it’s hosted by Adam Stacoviak and Mireille Reece, a Doctor of Clinical Psychology. Brain Science is a podcast for the curious that explores the inner-workings of the human brain to understand behavior change, habit formation, mental health, and the human condition. It’s Brain Science applied — not just how does the brain work, but how do we apply what we know about the brain to better our lives. Stay tuned after the show for a special preview of Brain Science.

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Get in touch with Evan via email at ejc@quirk.fyi
quirk.fyi
Quirk is FOSS (Free Open Source Software)
On the topic of Game Juice, read Squeezing more juice out of your game design!
Book: Feeling Good
Flaque/quirk
Flaque/quirk/../TRANSLATIONS.md

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Developers want to develop things (Backstage #4) May 10, 2019

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Nick Janetakis joins Jerod backstage to talk shop. We discuss how Nick is using the Changelog.com source code as a guide to build his video course platform, coding practices we’ve developed over the years, how to balance between shipping features and creating content, newsletters as the new social network, how Nick makes his videos, and a whole lot more.

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Nick gets a mention in The Changelog #344
Check out Nick’s courses on Docker and Flask
We’re both riding the Phoenix
Jeff Atwood wrote about The Rule of Three
This is Nick’s blog post that Jerod was looking at during the discussion
Nadia Eghbal on the perks of patronage
Hacker Newsletter saved Jerod from checking HN every 15 minutes
Read all about Nick’s recording (and other) tools right here
Synergy! (coming to The Changelog real soon)

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Hardware hacking with TinyGo and Gopherbot (Go Time #84) May 08, 2019

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Mat Ryer hosts our first one-on-one interview-style episode with special guest Ron Evans. Mat asks Ron to teach us about Go in IoT, hardware hacking at Gophercon, TinyGo, and Gopherbot.

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Ron Evans – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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Win a Gopherbot!

To take part in the giveaway to win your very own Gopherbot, all you have to do is send a tweet to @GoTimeFM plus any of the following — review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, socialize your favorite episode on Twitter, or recommend the show to a friend. Details for each are below.

Tweet: To be entered you MUST tweet us @GoTimeFM in addition to either a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts, socialize your favorite episode on Twitter, or recommend the show to a friend. Here’s the tweet we’re looking for — I listen to @GoTimeFM and I learned #golang because... — Ron will pick his favorite reason and we’ll announce the winner in a few weeks.

Review: Write a review on Apple Podcasts (5-stars plz). Email a screenshot of the review plus a link to your tweet to gotime@changelog.com with subject “Gopherbot me!” as proof of entry.

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TinyGo
Gopherbot - Robotic Gopher plushie that you can code.
Gophercon in San Diego - where Ron will host the hardware hacking day with Gobots, and other flying objects.
Adafruit - company making tiny chips.
LLVM from GO Perspective - blogpost by Ayke van Laëthem.
Tiny Go and Webassembly

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When in doubt, log an issue (JS Party #74) May 07, 2019

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Nick and Mikeal catch up with Henry Zhu, the maintainer of Babel and host of the Maintainers Anonymous and Hope in Source podcasts. We discuss his path to open source maintainer-ship. We also chat about best practices for interacting with maintainers, while remembering that people are behind open source, and we talk self-care and avoiding burnout, culminating in a self-care repo being created to gather and discuss tips to care for yourself.

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Mikeal Rogers – Twitter, GitHub

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TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019 (Practical AI #42) May 07, 2019

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This week Daniel and Chris discuss the announcements made recently at TensorFlow Dev Summit 2019. They kick it off with the alpha release of TensorFlow 2.0, which features eager execution and an improved user experience through Keras, which has been integrated into TensorFlow itself. They round out the list with TensorFlow Datasets, TensorFlow Addons, TensorFlow Extended (TFX), and the upcoming inaugural O’Reilly TensorFlow World conference.

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Inside 2019's infrastructure for Changelog.com (Changelog Interviews #344) May 05, 2019

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We’re talking with Gerhard Lazu, our resident ops and infrastructure expert, about the setup we’ve rolled out for 2019. Late 2016 we relaunched Changelog.com as a new Phoenix/Elixir application and that included a brand new infrastructure and deployment process. 2019’s infrastructure update includes Linode, CoreOS, Docker, CircleCI, Rollbar, Fastly, Netdata, and more — and we talk through all the details on this show.

This show is also an open invite to you and the rest of the community to join us in Slack and learn and contribute to Changelog.com. Head to changelog.com/community to get started.

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Gerhard Lazu – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

The Changelog #254: Deploying Changelog.com with Gerhard Lazu
The new Changelog.com setup for 2019
This is our Makefile
Here’s the update_service_continuously file we talked about on the show
Linode Kubernetes
View our stats at netdata.changelog.com

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It's time to talk about testing (Go Time #83) May 02, 2019

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Is testing an art or a science? What and when should we test? What’s the point of testing and can it go too far? We explore all this and more in this jam-packed episode on testing.

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Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

The “Golden files” concept from Mitchell Hashimoto’s great 2017 GopherCon testing talk (12:18, if time code does not work properly) — Mitchell Hashimoto at GopherCon 2017 — Advanced Testing with Go

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CTRL-labs lets you control machines with your mind (Practical AI #41) Apr 30, 2019

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No, this isn’t science fiction! CTRL-labs is using neural signals and AI to build neural interfaces. Adam Berenzweig, from CTRL-labs R&D, joins us to explain how this works and how they have made it practical.

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GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data.

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Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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