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5 polarizing Quotes from Professor Stephen Hawking on artificial intelligence

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Professor Stephen Hawking died today (March 14, 2018) aged 76 at his home in Cambridge, UK. Best known for his theory of cosmology that...
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Common big data design patterns

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Design patterns have provided many ways to simplify the development of software applications. Now that organizations are beginning to tackle applications that leverage new...

How to plan a system migration in 10 steps

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How do I plan a system migration? A system migration refers to the process of moving an application from one environment to another (such as...
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Top frameworks for building your Progressive Web Apps (PWA)

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The hype and rise of progressive web apps are tremendous. A PWA is basically a web application that feels like a native application to...
Is web development dying or just changing?

Is web development dying?

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It's not hard to find people asking whether web development is dying. A quick search throws up questions on Quora, Reddit, and other forums....

What is a convolutional neural network (CNN)? [Video]

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What is a convolutional neural network, exactly? Well, let's start with the basics: a convolutional neural network (CNN) is a type of neural network that...
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5 examples of Artificial Intelligence in Web apps

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Modern day web app development is increasingly focused on building a customer-facing front-end presence with the use of Artificial Intelligence. Web apps, use Artificial...
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6 common use cases of Reverse Proxy scenarios

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Proxy servers are used as intermediaries between a client and a website or online service. By routing traffic through a proxy server, users can...
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Is Dart programming dead already?

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Dart is an open-source, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language developed by Google in 2011. Dart uses a 'C' style syntax and optionally transcompiles into JavaScript....
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Will Rust Replace C++?

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This question has been asked several times, showing that developers like yourself want to know whether Rust will replace the good old, painfully difficult...

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Understanding the Foundation of Protocol-oriented Design

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When Apple announced Swift 2 at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2016, they also declared that Swift was the world’s first protocol-oriented...

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