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Daniel and Chris have a fascinating discussion with Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini from Google Brain about the use of reinforcement learning for chip floor planning - or placement - in which many new designs are generated, and then evaluated, to find an optimal component layout. Anna and Azalia also describe the use of graph convolutional neural networks in their approach. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack. Get 10% off using the code PRACTICALAI10. To learn more and purchase tickets go to datadan.io. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Anna Goldie – GitHub, LinkedIn, XAzalia Mirhoseini – LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Their research paper Google Brain Google is using AI to design chips that will accelerate AI | MIT Technology Review Practical AI episode #47: GANs, RL, and transfer learning oh my! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Emma, Divya, and Suz are joined by Quincy Larson from freeCodeCamp where they chat about virtual conferences. Are they better than in-person conferences? What are the differences? Let’s find out! Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Gatsby Cloud – Incremental builds are here! Enjoy build times for your Gastby site up to 1000x times faster than ever before. This is the feature you’ve been waiting for. It’s totally free for personal projects and single purpose sites. Read all about it and get started at gatsbyjs.com/changelog Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. Featuring:Quincy Larson – Website, GitHub, XSuz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XEmma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, XDivya – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: Free Code Camp Lockdown Conf NG-Conf Perf Matters Live Coders Conf Concatenate Conf Hashnode Base Rebels Monster Cat The Big Mac Index Egghead.io JS Party I Do, We Do, You Do with Jason Lengsdorf Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The gang discusses WebRTC with Sean DuBois, creator of the Pion project and author of a pure Go WebRTC implementation. What exactly is WebRTC? Why is it so popular for video chatting? How does it work under the hood, and how does it compare with other real-time communication options? Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Featuring:Sean DuBois – GitHub, LinkedIn, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: WebRTC Pion on Github Discuss Pion in the Gophers Slack NAT traversal Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

It’s been said that happy people are thankful, but maybe it’s the other way around. Thankful people are happy. In this episode we discuss the value of and the way that practicing gratitude can improve your overall outlook and mental health. Mireille and Adam talk through some of the underlying neuropsychological aspects of this habit including the key brain structures and neurotransmitters that are affected by practicing this routinely. This is one show that will pay–over and over again–that is, if you’re willing to put the knowledge into practice. Just how “happy” do you want to feel? Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Counting Blessings Versus Burdens: An Experimental Investigation of Gratitude and Subjective Well-Being in Daily Life Positive thinking opens your eyes to more opportunities Gratitude and your brain The Neural Basis of Human Social Values: Evidence from Functional MRI The Science of Gratitude The Cultivation of Pure Altruism via Gratitude: A Functional MRI Study of Change with Gratitude Practice The Grateful Brain - The neuroscience of giving thanks Try gratitude journaling Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Today we’re featuring conversations from different perspectives on working from home from our JS Party, Go Time, and Brain Science podcasts here on Changelog.com. Because, hey…if you didn’t know we have 6 active podcasts in our portfolio of shows. Head to changelog.com/podcasts to collect them all! Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Retool – Retool makes it super simple to build back-office apps in hours, not days. The tool is is built by engineers, explicitly for engineers. Learn more and try it for free at retool.com/changelog Algolia – Our search partner. As the world is spending even more time online, search will be a critical lever for engaging your own users and customers. Algolia made their Pro Plan free to any developer or team working on a COVID-19-related, not-for-profit website or app. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XSuz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XMark Bates – Website, GitHub, XCarmen Andoh – GitHub, XJon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XMireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedInShow Notes:Check out the following links for the show notes of each show featured: JS Party #120: WFH!? Go Time #123: WFH Brain Science #15: Working from home Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel and Chris have a timely conversation with Lucy Lu Wang of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence about COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19). She relates how CORD-19 was created and organized, and how researchers around the world are currently using the data to answer important COVID-19 questions that will help the world through this ongoing crisis. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack. Get 10% off using the code PRACTICALAI10. To learn more and purchase tickets go to datadan.io. Featuring:Lucy Lu Wang – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Lucy Lu Wang - Google Scholar Kaggle: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19) CORD-19 Explorer Semantic Scholar | CORD-19 Allen Institute for AI Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The quality of your thinking depends on your mental framework. To become a better thinker you need to have an understanding of this mental framework and how you view the world. But, what exactly is a mental framework? How have we all been programmed throughout our lives? In what ways have you been programed that you like, don’t like, or want to change? Join us as we explore and examine the key components of developing a mental framework. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Mireille Reece, PsyD – LinkedInAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Classical conditioning That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief The Danger of Absolute Thinking Is Absolutely Clear Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Our Jeopardy-style (but don’t call it Jeopardy) game is back! This time Jerod plays the part of Alex Trabeck and Emma tries her hand at contestant-ing. Can Scott Tolinski from the Syntax podcast hang with Emma and Nick? Listen and play along! Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.com/changelog. Gatsby Cloud – Building ambitious websites just got easier with Gatsby Cloud. Simply sign up with your GitHub account. No credit card necessary. It’s totally free for personal projects and single purpose sites. Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. Featuring:Scott Tolinski – GitHub, LinkedIn, XEmma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XNick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Play the game yourself: round 1 Play the game yourself: round 2 All market share stats via StatCounter About Flock About Opera A random gist with the shortest valid HTML Gary Bernhardt’s wat Sindre Sorhus WebGPU on Can I Use? Prefetch on Can I Use? WebP on Can I Use? SVG Favicon on Can I Use? About Knockout.js Johnn-Five Blitz.js npm’s most depended on packages PouchDB (not CouchDB) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

What is a microservice, and what is a monolith? What differentiates them? When is a good time for your team to start considering the transition from monolith to microservice? And does using microservices mean you can’t use a monorepo? Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud of choice and the home of Changelog.com. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2019 OR changelog2020. To learn more and get started head to linode.com/changelog. Algorithms with Go – A free Go course where panelist Jon Calhoun teaches you how algorithms and data structures work, how to implement them in Go code, and where to practice at. Great for learning Go, learning about algorithms for the first time, or refreshing your algorithmic knowledge. Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. For free. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com/changelog Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Tom Wilkie – GitHub, XMatt Heath – Website, GitHub, XMat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, XJaana Dogan – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Jsonnet - A data templating language for app and tool developers. Monzo - Where Matt works with 1600+ microservices. Grafana Labs - Where Tom works. Prometheus - Open Source monitoring software Tom contributes to. Community events Go Remote Fest go get -u community Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Harry Stevens is a Graphics Reporter at The Washington Post and the author of “Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to ‘flatten the curve’” — the most popular post in The Washington Post’s online history. We cover the necessary details of this global pandemic, the journalist, coding, and design skills required to be a graphics reporter, the backstory on visualizing this outbreak, why Harry chooses R over Python, advice for aspiring graphics reporters, and how all of this came together at the perfect time in history to give Harry a chance to catch lightning in a bottle. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. Mux – Mux has done for video what Stripe has done for payments If you’re trying to build video into your app, you’ll have to decide between building it yourself or using an out-of-the-box platform. Mux simplifies all things video to an easy to use API. Get $50 in credit to play with at get.mux.com/changelog. Pluralsight – Stay home. Skill up. For free. Pluralsight is totally free for the entire month of April! With over 7,000 courses from experts in software development, security, cloud and data there’s never been a better time to skill up. Learn more and get started at pluralsight.com/changelog Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Harry Stevens – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” ~ discuss COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) real time dashboard ~ full view ‘Contagion’ is one of the most popular thrillers on iTunes because of the coronavirus outbreak. Here’s how the film compares to reality. D3.js RStudio The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What’s Coming - Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots more testing. Deadliest Enemy by Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker — Our War Against Killer Germs Michael Osterholm on Joe Rogan Experience #1439 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!