Aarthi Kumaraswamy

Managing Editor, Packt Hub. Former mainframes/DB2 programmer turned marketer/market researcher turned editor. I love learning, writing and tinkering when I am not busy running after my toddler. Wonder how algorithms would classify this!

OK Google, why are you ok with mut(at)ing your ethos for Project DragonFly?

Wired has managed to do what Congress couldn’t - bring together tech industry leaders in the US and ask the…

6 years ago

PyTorch 1.0 preview release is production ready with torch.jit, c10d distributed library, C++ API

Back in May, the PyTorch team shared their roadmap for PyTorch 1.0 release and highlighted that this most anticipated version…

6 years ago

How far will Facebook go to fix what it broke: Democracy, Trust, Reality

Facebook, along with other tech media giants, like Twitter and Google, broke the democratic process in 2016. Facebook also broke the trust of…

6 years ago

Baidu Security Lab’s MesaLink, cryptographic memory safe library alternative to OpenSSL

X-Lab, Baidu’s security lab focused on researching and developing industry-leading security solutions, today released the latest version of MesaLink, a…

6 years ago

Weekend tech news you may have missed – 8th Sep, 2018

If you have time to read only one thing from this post, read the essay by Kate Crawford and Vladan…

6 years ago

Tech News Today: Facebook’s SUMO challenge; Netflix AVA; inmates code; Japan’s AI, blockchain uses

Tech, Culture, and Society Google is using AI to help organizations detect and report child sexual abuse material online (Google blog)…

6 years ago

‘Think different’ makes Apple the world’s most valuable company, crossing $1 Trillion market cap

After a record high June quarter performance results in this year, it came as no surprise that today Apple greeted…

6 years ago

Time for Facebook, Twitter and other social media to take responsibility or face regulation

Of late, the world has been shaken over the rising number of data related scandals and attacks that have overshadowed…

6 years ago

Implementing feedforward networks with TensorFlow

Deep feedforward networks, also called feedforward neural networks, are sometimes also referred to as Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs). The goal of a feedforward network is to approximate…

6 years ago

Asking if good developers can be great entrepreneurs is like asking if moms can excel at work and motherhood

You heard me right. Asking, ‘can developers succeed at entrepreneurship?’ is like asking ‘if women should choose between work and…

6 years ago