Ford Is Fined in China

Ford Is Fined in China

BEIJING — China’s antitrust regulator on Wednesday announced a fine of around $25 million on Ford’s main joint venture in the country, the latest action against an American company amid the widening economic battle between China and the United States. Changan Ford, which is owned equally by the Detroit automaker and a state-backed Chinese company, was fined as Washington and Beijing have taken aim at each other’s businesses after the collapse of trade talks last month. First, the Trump administration barred American technology companies from selling to Huawei, the Chinese maker of smartphones and telecommunications equipment, denying it access to vital software, microchips and other components.

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Forecaster: The Man Who Decided D-Day

The Forecaster: The Man Who Decided D-Day

May 28 1944, SHAEF Advanced Headquarters, Portsmouth (D-Day -8)
Group Captain James Stagg was a worried man. May 28 1944, Senior Commander’s Briefing, Portsmouth (D-Day -8)
As Stagg prepared to deliver his daily briefing to Eisenhower, he thought about what the Supreme Commander would be hoping to hear. Comparing these collected requirements with historic weather patterns in the Channel was, in part, what had led Stagg and Yates to originally inform Eisenhower that May, June and July represented the best hope for suitable conditions.

Source: blog.usejournal.com

Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source ‘Google’

Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source ‘Google’

Bloom is an organization which use open source / access / data… to redistribute freely its production, relying on new technologies to do it cheaply at scale, rather than using them as an imperialist weapon. Bloom is an organization which use open source / access / data… to redistribute freely its production, relying on new technologies to do it cheaply at scale, rather than using them as an imperialist weapon. Today productivity oriented we will contribute tomorrow to more diverse sectors such as agriculture, architecture, transport…

Bloom conciliate the best of the Startuplaland religion: radical execution rather than bureaucracy, scalability, flawless user experience, strong product culture, iterative process, and open source: a mode of development that has proven its superiority, open governance, an unmatched sustainability and a perfect symbiosis between the interests of developers and those of users.

Source: www.kerkour.fr

Using machine learning to estimate lost demand in a fulfillment chain

Using machine learning to estimate lost demand in a fulfillment chain

A look at how our lost demand estimation has improved over the years.Now, we think the smarter way of estimating lost demand is to build a model that estimates the customer conversion probability as a function of the fulfillment option availability. To estimate the total demand from conversion data, all we would have to do is to sum the conversion probabilities over all customer visits:
As an example, let us say that a customer opened up their app and only saw 3 out of 8 possible fulfillment options available. In our more recent iterations of the lost demand estimation model, we’ve actually opted to build two different conversion models — one that uses fulfillment option availability data from the pre-checkout stage and another that relies on similar data from the checkout stage.

Source: tech.instacart.com

Amazon Unveils New Alexa Dialog Modeling for Natural, Cross-Skill Conversations

Amazon Unveils New Alexa Dialog Modeling for Natural, Cross-Skill Conversations

In his talk at re:MARS, Rohit Prasad, Alexa VP and head scientist, said machine learning capabilities are advancing such that Alexa can predict a customer’s true goal from the direction of the dialogue and proactively enable the conversation flow across skills. “With this new approach, Alexa will predict a customer’s latent goal from the direction of the dialog and proactively enable the conversation flow across topics and skills,” Prasad says. With Alexa Conversations, developers provide (1) application programming interfaces, or APIs, that provide access to their skills’ functionality; (2) a list of entities that the APIs can take as inputs, such as restaurant names or movie times; and (3) a handful of sample dialogs annotated to identify entities and actions and mapped to API calls.

Source: developer.amazon.com

The Surprising Complexity of Animal Memories

The Surprising Complexity of Animal Memories

Recent studies suggest that in order to decide which way to go, a mouse has to project itself into the future. We know that rodents replay previous action sequences in their hippocampus, so the wavering mouse in the maze probably compares the memory of old routes with imagined future ones. In order to do so, it will have to be able to tell the difference between experienced and projected actions, which requires a primal sense of self.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

PSPTool Is a Swiss Army Knife for the Firmware of the AMD Secure Processor

PSPTool Is a Swiss Army Knife for the Firmware of the AMD Secure Processor

PSPTool is a Swiss Army knife for dealing with firmware of the AMD Secure Processor (formerly known as Platform Security Processor or PSP). It locates AMD firmware inside UEFI images as part of BIOS updates targeting AMD platforms. PSPTrace can be used to correlate an SPI capture of a boot procedure recorded with a Saleae Logic analyzer to the PSP firmware of a UEFI image.

Source: github.com

Our ongoing work to tackle hate

Our ongoing work to tackle hate

Thanks to these investments, videos that violate our policies are removed faster than ever and users are seeing less borderline content and harmful misinformation. Based on those learnings, we are making several updates:

Removing more hateful and supremacist content from YouTube

YouTube has always had rules of the road, including a longstanding policy against hate speech. Reducing borderline content and raising up authoritative voices

In addition to removing videos that violate our policies, we also want to reduce the spread of content that comes right up to the line.

Source: youtube.googleblog.com

The Weatherman: The Man Who Decided D-Day

The Weatherman: The Man Who Decided D-Day

May 28 1944, SHAEF Advanced Headquarters, Portsmouth (D-Day -8)
Group Captain James Stagg was a worried man. May 28 1944, Senior Commander’s Briefing, Portsmouth (D-Day -8)
As Stagg prepared to deliver his daily briefing to Eisenhower, he thought about what the Supreme Commander would be hoping to hear. Comparing these collected requirements with historic weather patterns in the Channel was, in part, what had led Stagg and Yates to originally inform Eisenhower that May, June and July represented the best hope for suitable conditions.

Source: blog.usejournal.com

Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust

Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust

, several other resources are available:

To get started navigating the API documentation you may want to consider looking at the following pages:

App: This struct represents an actix-web application and is used to configure routes and other common settings. HttpServer: This struct represents an HTTP server instance and is used to instantiate and configure servers. web: This module provide essentials helper functions and types for application registration.

Source: docs.rs