Catharsis Computer Club July 2022

almo
Jul 20, 2022

​Dear tech fellows,

​​​​Welcome to the July 2022 edition of the Catharsis Computer Club Magazine. Here you can find the most interesting technical news from my timeline in July, organised in categories.

​​​​This is just a small collection of news; if you don't want to miss anything, you can also follow me on Twitter or join the Catharsis Computer Club in Linkedin.

​​​AI

  • ​Google’s TPU v4 ML supercomputers set performance records, with an average speedup of 1.42x over the next fastest non-Google submission. (link)

  • ​Our new Quantum Virtual Machine will accelerate research and help people learn #quantum #computing (link)

  • ​MLGO: A Machine Learning Framework for Compiler Optimization (link)

​​Software

  • ​Introducing new Google Cloud Armor features including rate limiting, adaptive protection, and bot defense (link)

  • ​The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) is a set of generic attack detection rules for use with ModSecurity or compatible web application firewalls. (link)

  • ​The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (link)

​​Science & Research

  • ​Establishing a paper-reading habit and workflow is key to be a better scientist (link)

  • ​​Marian is an open source efficient Neural Machine Translation framework written in pure C++ with minimal dependencies. (link)

  • ​ResearchHub's mission is to accelerate the pace of scientific research (link)

​​​Open Source

  • ​The Rust Performance Book: This book contains many techniques that can improve the performance—speed and memory usage—of Rust programs. (link)

  • ​OpenThread released by Google is an open-source implementation of Thread, a low-power and low-latency wireless mesh networking protocol built using open and proven standards. (link)

  • ​Juicy interview to Linus Torvalds, including some thoughts about Rust (link)

​​​Startups

  • ​Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition (link)

  • ​US National Institute of Standards and Technology Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms (link)

  • ​Startup Venture in China: disorderly expansion of communism (link)

​​​Misc

  • ​​​How we tech computing! The Big book of Computing Pedagogy (link)

  • ​People behind maths: life, research and future (link)

  • ​DDoS attack trends for 2022 Q2: insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape (link)

​Music

  • ​Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna (Official Audio) (link)

  • ​Bruce Hornsby - Maybe Now (link)

  • ​Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is (Special Album version) (link)

​I hope you enjoyed this new edition. Do you have feedback? Feel free to answer this mail with your comments or join to the discussion on Twitter or the Catharsis Computer Club.

​​​@almo

​​​Photo by Linus Nylund on Unsplash