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While at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference 2019 in Silicon Valley, Chris enjoyed an inspiring conversation with Anima Anandkumar. Clearly a role model - not only for women - but for anyone in the world of AI, Anima relayed how her lifelong passion for mathematics and engineering started when she was only 3 years old in India, and ultimately led to her pioneering deep learning research at Amazon Web Services, CalTech, and NVIDIA. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – Check out DigitalOcean’s dedicated vCPU Droplets with dedicated vCPU threads. Get started for free with a $100 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. DataEngPodcast – A podcast about data engineering and modern data infrastructure. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.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:Anima Anandkumar – Website, LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: Anima Anandkumar on Wikipedia NVIDIA GTC Speaker NVIDIA GTC Presentation: Role of Tensors in Machine Learning NVIDIA GTC Presentation: Infusing Physics into Deep Learning Algorithms with Applications to Stable Landing of Drones CalTech CMS TensorLab Google Scholar Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We discuss the news (built-in modules, OpenJSFoundation, Lambda School stipends), chat about the internet of JS things, and finish up with one of our favorite segments: shout outs! 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. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Manifold – Manifold is the easiest way for you to discover, buy, and manage the best developer services for your application, regardless of your cloud. Discover the best cloud services for your projects at manifold.co 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, XChristopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XShow Notes:News Roundup Philip Walton KV storage and built-in modules TC39’s proposal for a JavaScript standard library. The OpenJSFoundation is official This was first discussed on JS Party #48 Lambda School is giving $18k in stipends to select students Co-founder Austen Allfred’s tweet with the options diagram Austen will be interviewed on Founders Talk soon The internet of JS things Suz is working on making her plants chirp Speaking of, check out Chirp For more of the backstory listen to this episode from OSCON She uses KiCad to design her PCBS Here’s the YouTube channel which was the most helpful when learning KiCad Nick built a Raspberry Pi powered photoboot for a wedding Shouts outs! Suz is stoked about GitHub Actions and has a blog post upcoming Listen to GitHub Actions is the next big thing while you wait for beta access Nick gives a shout to GitHub’s Suggested Changes feature Chris would like to thank Jory Burson for all the awesome she’s doing Jerod shouts out Turbolinks, Tmuxinator, and tree Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chris Coyier joins Suz and Jerod to continue the discussion on The Great Divide in front-end-land. We also use this as an opportunity to gush on how much CSS-Tricks has done for the community, get Chris’ perspective on the history of the website, and finish up by sharing some amazing Pens on CodePen.io. 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. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. 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:Chris Coyier – Website, GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XSuz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Read The Great Divide on CSS-Tricks For more discussion, listen to our previous show on the topic If you liked this, you will probably like listening to Shop Talk Suz suggests anything by Ana Tudor or Sarah Drasner on CodePen Chris mentioned A CSS Approach to Trap Focus Inside of an Element Jerod got nostalgic with Nintendo Pens 1, 2, and 3 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Clément Delangue, the co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face, joined us to discuss fun, social, and conversational AI. Clem explained why social AI is important, what products they are building (social AIs who learn to chit-chat, talk sassy and trades selfies with you), and how this intersects with the latest research in AI for natural language. He also shared his vision for how AI for natural language with develop over the next few years. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – Check out DigitalOcean’s dedicated vCPU Droplets with dedicated vCPU threads. Get started for free with a $100 credit. Learn more at do.co/changelog. GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data. Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.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:Clément Delangue – Website, LinkedIn, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes: Hugging Face Voice Boloss Transformer model episodes: BERT GPT-2 Hugging Face’s Pytorch pre-trained model repo Rasa Lyrebird Allen Institute for AI AllenNLP OpenAI Fast.ai Betaworks Synthetic camp Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We’re talking with Mehan Jayasuriya program officer at Mozilla about MOSS — the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program which recognizes, celebrates, and supports open source projects. Earlier this year we caught the “MOSS 2018 Year in Review” blog post — this post highlighted many of their efforts in 2018 so we reached out to talk through the history, goals, and impact of this very generous project. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – The simplest cloud platform for developers and teams Whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand, makes managing your infrastructure too easy. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days. GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data. Raygun – The Raygun platform let’s you see a complete picture of your software health in one place by monitoring every part of your software stack in one tool. Bring your whole team together and break down the walls between your monitoring tools. Do it all in one fully integrated platform. Learn more at raygun.com/platform. 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:Mehan Jayasuriya – Website, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) awards program MOSS 2018 year in review Mitchell Baker on Wikipedia + Mitchell Baker on Twitter Mozilla Foundation Apply for a MOSS award Open source inclusion basic checklist for open source projects on mozilla/diversity In Memoriam: Gervase Markham The Changelog #335: Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS MozFest Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

The White House recently published an “Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” In this fully connected episode, we discuss the executive order in general and criticism from the AI community. We also draw some comparisons between this US executive order and other national strategies for leadership in AI. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.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:Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:Relevant learning resources: AI for Everyone Intel AI list of Ethics toolkits Government data Federal data portal Chicago data portal References / notes: The White House Executive Order 4 Experts Respond to Trump’s Executive Order on AI Trump’s executive order on AI, explained Trump to launch artificial intelligence initiative, but many details lacking (Science) National AI strategies overview (Medium article) China Is Leading in Artificial Intelligence–and American Businesses Should Take Note China plans to be a world leader in Artificial Intelligence by 2030 Global AI talent Report SUMMARY OF THE 2018 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY: Harnessing AI to Advance Our Security and Prosperity Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help? DOD Takes Strategic Approach to Artificial Intelligence Books “AI Superpowers” by Kai-Fu Lee Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

KBall and Suz interview Ashi Krishnan, visual poet and senior software engineer at GitHub. Topics include how Ashi got into programming, her upcoming talk at React Amsterdam, code bootcamps, and developer tools. 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. Raygun – The Raygun platform let’s you see a complete picture of your software health in one place by monitoring every part of your software stack in one tool. Bring your whole team together and break down the walls between your monitoring tools. Do it all in one fully integrated platform. Learn more at raygun.com/platform. Gauge – Low maintenance test automation! Gauge is free and open source test automation framework that takes the pain out of acceptance testing. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Featuring:Ashi Krishnan – Website, GitHub, XKevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XSuz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, XShow Notes: GitHub VSCode Extension GitHub Unity Extension GitHub’s GraphQL API Rakshasa React Amsterdam React Amsterdam’s open source awards WebGL Commodore64 Emulator Fullstack Academy Promises Async/Await Metaprogramming An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2019 BrowserStack Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

We’re talking with Mike McQuaid about Homebew 2.0.0, supporting Linux and Windows 10, the backstory and details surrounding the security issue they had in 2018, their new governance model, Mike’s new role, the core team meeting in-person at FOSDEM this year, and what’s coming next for Homebrew. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – The simplest cloud platform for developers and teams Whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand, makes managing your infrastructure too easy. New accounts get $100 in credit to use in your first 60 days. GitPrime – Download GitPrime’s 20 Patterns book, a field guide to help engineering managers recognize achievement, spot bottlenecks, and debug development processes with data. Raygun – Unblock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with Raygun APM. Smarter application performance monitoring (APM) that lets you understand and take action on software issues affecting your customers. 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:Mike McQuaid – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Homebrew on HackerOne brew.sh Donate Homebrew on Patreon Here’s how Eric Holmes gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes adamstac/laptop thoughtbot/laptop MikeMcQuaid/strap - Bootstrap your macOS development system Homebrew governance Homebrew formulae analytics “This is why people don’t contribute to your open source project” —Mike McQuaid Hot Shots! Part Deux - starring Charlie Sheen Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Panelist Jerod Santo and first-time panelist Adam Stacoviak talk with Adam Wathan of Full Stack Radio fame about his CSS utility library called Tailwind CSS that’s growing in popularity to rapidly build custom user interfaces. 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. Raygun – Unblock your biggest app performance bottlenecks with Raygun APM. Smarter application performance monitoring (APM) that lets you understand and take action on software issues affecting your customers. Algolia – Our search partner. Algolia’s full suite search APIs enable teams to develop unique search and discovery experiences across all platforms and devices. We’re using Algolia to power our site search here at Changelog.com. Get started for free and learn more at algolia.com. Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Featuring:Adam Wathan – GitHub, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XAdam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes: Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces. Adam’s post “Going Full-Time on Tailwind CSS” Adam’s post “CSS Utility Classes and ‘Separation of Concerns’” Full Stack Radio Sass control directives: @if, @for, @each and @while Post CSS CSS Stats ~> Tailwind CSS Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

While covering Applied Machine Learning Days in Switzerland, Chris met El Mahdi El Mhamdi by chance, and was fascinated with his work doing AI safety research at EPFL. El Mahdi agreed to come on the show to share his research into the vulnerabilities in machine learning that bad actors can take advantage of. We cover everything from poisoned data sets and hacked machines to AI-generated propaganda and fake news, so grab your James Bond 007 kit from Q Branch, and join us for this important conversation on the dark side of artificial intelligence. Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Linode – Our cloud server of choice. Deploy a fast, efficient, native SSD cloud server for only $5/month. Get 4 months free using the code changelog2018. Start your server - head to linode.com/changelog Rollbar – We move fast and fix things because of Rollbar. Resolve errors in minutes. Deploy with confidence. Learn more at rollbar.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:El Mahdi El Mhamdi – Website, XChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: El Mahdi El Mhamdi on LinkedIn Google Scholar Personal blog World Health Organization | Ten threats to global health in 2019 AggregaThor The Hidden Vulnerability of Distributed Learning in Byzantium Machine Learning with Adversaries: Byzantine Tolerant Gradient Descent Asynchronous Byzantine Machine Learning (the case of SGD) Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!