Weekly Digest #25
3 min readMay 17, 2021
Articles
- I Mailed an AirTag and Tracked Its Progress; Here’s What Happened. AirTag is a new device introduced by Apple. The device supports tracking functionality. In this article, the author mails an AirTag in the tracking package and sees how it behaves.
- The next-generation of AutoML frameworks. A quick comparison of the existing AutoML tool
- How Pinterest Fights Spam Using Machine Learning. An abstract of ideas that Pinterest used in detecting spam.
- Why do we buy into the ‘cult’ of overwork? The eight-hour day movement was introduced back in 20 century. At that period, the social economics stops after 5 pm. However, in 21 century, we live in a 7 day 24hrs continuous operating world. Social media, Telecommunication, Online Store all operate 24/7 without a defined relax time.
Tutorials
- Tiny Container Challenge: Building a 6kB Containerized HTTP Server! Teaches how to build a minimum docker file image. This image contains a simple HTTP server with only 6KB in size.
- My current HTML boilerplate. The author introduces his current HTML page template with a line-by-line explanation.
- Advanced usage of Python requests — timeouts, retries, hooks. Python uses “requests” library for HTTP request. It is simple, easy to use and understand. In this article, the author teaches us how we can do various things such as retry or debug with the “request” library.
Tools
- cpufetch, a simple yet fancy CPU architecture fetching tool
- MarkShow. An online tool that automatically transforms your markdown to PPT for presentation
For Fun
- Person Uses Artificial Intelligence To Make Anime And Cartoon Characters Look More Realistic. An American student creates 3D representations of anime characters usingArtbreeder (StyleGAN and BigGAN).
- Vibrant Basketball Court Pops Up Between Two Buildings in Paris. A fashion brand from pair redesigns a street basketball court. Transforming it into an internet attraction
