Monday Cup of Coding #1

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Articles

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks as Models of the Visual System: Q&A

Probably the deepest of dives yet in this newsletter, Grace Lindsay uses her expertise to explain what is the cutting edge state of deep convolution neural networks (CNNs) when it comes to modeling biological vision.

A Deep Dive into Monte Carlo Tree Search

Our next article is yet again related to AI. This time Brian Lee talks about the Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm as used by AlphaGoZero, brief history included.

Compile Time Prevention of SQL-Injections in Rust

And, would you believe it, the next one is again about using AI, in SQL no less! I kid, I kid. Actually the author of this next article, using Rust’s Lifetime concept, shows us a neat trick to prevent SQL injection by enforcing compile-time validations.

Fun

Weird operators in PHP

Ever heard of the Spaceship operator? How about the b` operator? X-fighters operator? The article in Exakat.io finds a few more old and new weird PHP operators and gives us a brief explanation of each.

Programming language of the day: Smalltalk. “Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the “new world” of computing exemplified by “human–computer symbiosis”. It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist learning, at the Learning Research Group (LRG) of Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Scott Wallace, and others during the 1970s”. -Wikipedia

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