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Book Review of the Week
Alex Armstrong recommends this slim volume to data scientists committed to Linux or Mac OS. Awarding a rating of 4.5 out of 5 he concludes: 
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You can use Canvas to draw new graphics or you can load existing images and process them at the pixel level. In this extract from a chapter in my new book on JavaScript Graphics we look at how it works.
Using ifs and loops is one of the most difficult parts of learning how to program. Our beginners introduction to Java reaches the part all programmers have to know and know well - how to write code. 
We all look up code online and then modify it and incorporate it into our programs, but is this a safe practice? New research suggests that it most definitely isn't. 
Google's Project Jacquard has finally launched wearables that seem stylish and incorporate technology in an appropriate and practical manner. Your choices are an Yves St Laurent backpack and range of Levi's jackets for both men and women. 
Apache Rya has become an Apache top level project. Rya is a cloud-based big data triple store (subject-predicate-object) database used to process queries in milliseconds. 
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks - not only do we trip over them at every other turn, the message that they are the way of the future is constantly reiterated. Coursera, in partnership with IBM now has two Professional Certificates for those who want an AI credential or to embark on an AI career. 
A Python library offering Natural Language Processing for TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch has been released by HuggingFace. 
and all the other smart speakers. A new study attempts to characterize our relationship with these comparative newcomers to the tech ecosystem. 
A comic strip approach to machine learning? Could it possibly work? The hero is a cat, so of course it can. 
TED-Ed has a new resource to interest kids in coding. It's an animated story, the first episode of which lasts less than seven minutes and introduces for, next, and while loops. 
A recent blog post promises that C++/CLI will be available in the next version of .NET Core. but this begs the question of why it isn't available in this version of .NET Core. Does C++ love .NET? 
Cloudera has updated Cloudera Data Platform to provide a way for Apache HBase deployments to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as its main persistence layer for saving table data. 
Mozilla Developer has a new YouTube Channel where you will find videos to help you do your job as a web designer, developer, or person involved making websites or web apps. 
The OpenJS Foundation has announced that Node Version Manager (nvm), has been taken in as a project by the foundation. Nvm is a POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active Node.js versions.