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Turns Out Schrdinger, the Father of Quantum Physics, Was a Pedophile – Futurism

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A recent investigation that resurfaced damning evidence that famed physicist Erwin Schrdinger was a pedophile is continuing to make waves in the academic community.

Schrdinger, widely cited as the father of quantum physics and perhaps best remembered for his 1935 thought experiment Schrdingers Cat, was widely revealed to be a pedophile by The Irish Times after the newspaper published a report detailing his record as a sexual predator and serial abuser.

Its a stomach-churning revelation about a researcher whose work revolutionized the study of the natural world and even led directly to todays international research frenzy into quantum computing and which shows, once again, that even the powerful and brilliant can be monsters.

The Irish Times identified young girls who Schrdinger became infatuated with, including a 14-year-old girl whom the physicist groomed after he became her math tutor.

Schrdinger, who died in 1961, later admitted to impregnating the girl when she was 17 and he was in his mid-forties. Horrifyingly, she then had a botched abortion that left her permanently sterile, according to the newspaper.

Perhaps most diabolically, the physicist kept a record of his abuse in his diaries, even justifying his actions by claiming he had a right to the girls due to his genius.

Walter Moore, author of the biography Schrdinger, Life and Thought published in 1989, said that the physicists attitudes towards women was essentially that of a male supremacist. Disgustingly, the biography seemed to downplay and even romanticize his abusive habits, and describes him as having a Lolita complex.

Schrdinger also attempted a relationship with a different 12-year-old girl, disgustingly writing in his journal that she was among the unrequited loves of his life. However, he decided not to pursue her after a family member voiced their concerns that the physicist was a, you know, unrepentant abusive predator.

In response, a petition has been launched to change the title of a lecture hall at Dublins Trinity University thats named after him.

We can acknowledge the great mark Schrdinger has left on science through our study, and this petition does not wish to diminish the impact his lectures or ideas had on physics, the petition says. However, it seems in bad taste that a modern college such as Trinity would honor this man with an entire building.

Thats true, of course. You can recognize the contributions someone has had in their field while also acknowledging that they were an absolute scumbag.

Buthonoring them by naming a lecture hall or a giant space telescope is completely unnecessary.

READ MORE: How Erwin Schrdinger insulted his Lolita complex in Ireland [The Irish Times]

More on horrible men: James Webb Hated Gay People. Why Are We Naming a Telescope After Him?

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Jet Suit Testing by the British Royal Navy and Gravity Industries – OODA Loop

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Ever since Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, when Boba Fett busts his jet suit on Jabba the Hutts sail barge during the Battle of the Great Pit of Carkoon, well, this writer was hooked. Jet packs have since been depicted in media and sci-fi, most notably in the dystopian scenario of Spielbergs 2002 Minority Report (an adaptation of a 1956 science fiction novella by Philip K. Dick). The Guardian offers this thorough history of jet packs.

Technological fact now mirrors science fiction, as the British Royal Navy has recently been testing jet suit technology to board ships. A new video (above) was recently released by the UK-based Gravity Industries, which manufactures the jet suit technology.

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International Business Machines : Building on Our History of Innovation for the Future of IBM – marketscreener.com

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For more than a century, IBM has been rooted in the fundamental promise of technology: We believe that when we apply science to real-world problems, we can make progress - for both business and society. And as those problems have changed over time, so have we. IBM has repeatedly reinvented itself to overcome whatever obstacles stand in the way of innovation and value for our clients.

IBM scientists and engineers have been at the heart of our relentless reinvention. They have always been guided by a core principle, to deliver innovation that matters, for our company and the world.

Our commitment to research as part of our business model means we will continue to create the technologies that our clients and the world rely upon. For example, we have led US companies for decades in the number of patents received annually. Today, it was announced IBM has achieved this milestone for IBM's total of more than 8,500 patents led the IFI Claims Patent Service 2021 rankings.29 years in a row.

We are proud of this accomplishment and our leadership. However, the number of patents we receive has never told the full story of the innovation we drive. Our priority has always been leading the frontiers of computing and its relationship to business, science, professions, and society.

I believe that today, more than ever, we need innovation to meet the demands of many of the major challenges of our time - from models to create sustainable growth, to addressing future pandemics and climate change, to enabling energy and food security. To address them, we need faster discovery, open collaboration, efficient problem solving, and the ability to push science and business into new frontiers.

This future will be powered by a blend of high-performance computing, AI, and quantum computing, all integrated through the hybrid cloud. The confluence of these technologies represents a step change in computing, and the outcomes will surpass anything we've seen before. Together, these advancements can exponentially alter the speed and scale at which we can uncover solutions to complex problems. We've come to call this accelerated discovery.

Our priority has always been leading the frontiers of computing and its relationship to business, science, professions, and society.

But this will not happen in a vacuum. Strong innovation is built on a collaborative ecosystem, a commitment to long-term investment in hard tech challenges and fundamental materials, and the implementation of an open approach.

We have a long history of putting these principles into practice, and it's in this spirit we undertook some of the most daunting hard technology challenges in 2021 - and delivered on them.

To name just a few: we worked with our partners to demonstrate the first 2 nm nanosheet technology for semiconductors, which will support up to 50 billion transistors on a chip the size of a fingernail and offer enormous gains in efficiency. We also collaborated with Samsung on the successful prototype of a chip that defies conventional semiconductor design, and lays the groundwork to achieve energy density and performance levels previously thought unattainable.

And as we lead the quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing, we stayed true to the ambitious roadmap we laid out in 2020 and In addition to unveiling Eagle, our 127-qubit quantum processor, and previewing the design for IBM Quantum System Two, our next-generation system that will house future quantum processors, we also introduced, Quantum Serverless, a new programming model for leveraging quantum and classical resources. Read more.delivered Eagle, our first 127-qubit processor, which will be critical to growing the nascent quantum industry IBM is pioneering.

To continue to realize a future marked by fundamental technology progress and the exploration of new scientific boundaries, we are deepening our commitment to this approach.

Building open communities for innovation

As part of our strategy, we are doubling down on our already robust and long-standing commitment to open communities. Innovation can emerge from anywhere, from a tech giant or a disruptive startup. In software, the growth of open source has redefined where innovation can come from, and how it is monetized. IBM has a long history in open source, and that continues today. Our pioneering work in serverless computing, which is quickly becoming the leading platform for the hybrid cloud industry because of the significant growth of Red Hat, is just one example of this.

We will also expand our focus to grow communities of innovation. The most successful technologies and innovations are often found when complementary institutions work together. To take one example among many, our collaboration with the The Cleveland Clinic + IBM Discovery Accelerator is a collaboration set to advance pathogen research, and foster the next-gen tech workforce for healthcare. Read more.Cleveland Clinicwill bring together IBM's technology and expertise in hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum computing to help Cleveland Clinic discover solutions to pressing issues around public health.

These sorts of collaborations will help technology to solve truly profound problems, and we hope to do so in partnership with other institutions adopting our technology, including Fraunhofer-Geselleschaft, Germany's largest research institution, the Hartree Centre, a major AI and high-performance computing research facility in the UK, and Japan's University of Tokyo and Keio University. Worldwide, we will continue to forge partnerships with the broader scientific community as we look to accelerate the pace of discovery.

Pushing discovery beyond patent filings

Moving forward, we're strengthening our companywide approach to focus our innovation efforts around the areas that matter most for our business and for society at large. This will include hybrid cloud, AI, quantum computing, systems and semiconductors, and security.

We believe these areas will have the most impact on our clients, industries, and the world. We also believe they're the ones with the greatest potential for ecosystem collaboration.

While IBM will remain an intellectual property powerhouse with one of the strongest US patent portfolios, as part of our heightened focus moving forward, we'll also take a more selective approach to patenting. We are proud of our decades-long history of topping the US patents chart, but in this new era, our position as the recipient of the most patents in any given year will not be a priority. Instead, our focus will be to prioritize growing these key technology areas of our company.

The problems the world is facing today require us to work faster than ever before. We see it as our duty to catalyze scientific progress by taking the cutting-edge technologies we're working on, scaling them, and deploying them with partners across every industry.

Innovation is the heart and soul of IBM and serves as the engine to make our clients and the world work better. We made enormous strides in the last year, and we plan to achieve even more in 2022.

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A Modest Proposal: Schools Must Open With Untested, Unmasked, Unvaccinated Children

Kids dont need Covid-19 vaccines to return to school and the downsides of masking young students are real.

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced it is aggressively pursuing clinical trial fraud, where unethical players create fictional trial participants, steal the drugs under study, and fabricate results. But systemic reform of the clinical drug trial system is needed to halt those who endanger public safety with bogus trials.

In a first, a bioengineered pig heart is transplanted into a human donor, indicating we are on the threshold of a game-changing option for organ transplantation.

Blu Rooms are an expensive way to relax. The testimonials and the medical history of the inventor are not believable. No science, but good for a laugh.

With social media companies like Twitter and Facebook/Meta deplatforming those spreading misinformation, COVID-19 quacks, antivaxxers, and conspiracy theorists are flocking to Substack, where they can monetize their misinformation while Substack profits.

COVID mRNA vaccines only result in rare, mild, and transitory myocarditis, but this doesn't stop misinformation from spreading.

Joel Fuhrman thinks his Nutritarian diet will increase longevity and prevent or treat most chronic diseases. He claims it is based on science, but his evidence is far from convincing.

Since the pandemic hit, I've frequently said things like, "Everything old is new again", referring to the antivaccine movement in the age of COVID-19. As 2022 dawned, I thought I'd expand a bit on what I mean. Is there a term for dj vu, but what I'm seeing now is amplified a thousand-fold? Proponents of science-based medicine have been warning us for...

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A Year Ago, Big Tech Declared Open War On America. Here’s What’s Next – The Federalist

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President Donald Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter one year ago this day. In the ensuing turmoil, its easy to forget why. Ask near-any self-declared politico around Washington, D.C., and youll hear an unsure and uncertain allusion to the Capitol riot.

Its important to understand their reasons, however, to understand whats in store for the rest of our country.

Fortunately, we dont need to wonder; Twitter was open and upfront on the issue at least as much as they ever are: The sitting president of the United States, they declared, had sent two terrible and unpardonable tweets.

First, hed written that the political movement hed started would continue into the future, and wouldnt be disrespected:

The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!

Second, he said he wouldnt be attending President-elect Joe Bidens inauguration in two weeks time. To all of those who have asked, he wrote, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.

These violated their Glorification of Violence policy, Twitter claimed, and so the president was immediately permanently suspended from the service.

Its a private company, Twitters defenders insist, so it doesnt need remotely passable reasons to ban the president from messaging his 90 million followers. If you dont like it, build your own, sort of thing.

But that was as much a lie as the justification for banning the president, and the next night, Parler an alternative to Twitter that had rocketed to the most-downloaded app on the planet literally overnight was nearly destroyed by a combined attack from Apple, Google, and Amazon Web Services.

Parler had been used to organize the riot, Big Tech claimed. This turned out to be another lie, but it didnt matter. The weeks riot had given them all the rope they needed for hangings, with corporate media those bold lovers of the First Amendment jeering and cheering them on their way.

The Capitol riot was used as an excuse for deplatforming an American president and smashing a private company, but it wasnt the reason: The illiberal left has long used any pretense at all to justify its centralization of control and crushing of dissent; and Big Tech, once a free-wheeling vehicle for decentralized innovation, is now no more than an arm of the illiberal left.

During the 2020 election, Big Tech worked hand in glove with Democrats and corporate media to suppress the true story of Hunter Bidens corruption and defend their candidate under completely unproven pretenses.

In 2021, they went after conservative leaders on their platforms and cut the foundations out from a competitors platform.

Barring dissenting voices from social media wasnt enough, however. Democratic politicians had fled Texas for weeks in an attempt to stop their colleagues from curtailing their states abortion regime, but once the left was defeated, Big Tech deplatformed Texan Christians on their own website. Corporate media cheered.

Public health is the excuse used to silence doctors, scientists, and parents challenging the administrations COVID orthodoxy. Graphic content is used as the excuse to silence artists highlighting the Talibans brutal rule in the wake of the administrations retreat from Afghanistan.

Every week, the left grows bolder in their censorship-and-control campaign: On Jan. 6, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee introduced legislation to, outlaw attempts by candidates and elected officials to spread lies about free and fair elections when it has the likelihood to spread violence.

What constitutes a lie and what constitutes violence well, thats up to Jay and the boys.

There was a day when Americas Democratic leaders claimed to stand for freedom, individuality, and speech. That day is long gone, as is the day Silicon Valley stood for an open and interconnected planet.

Today, these forces stand for centralization. They want to control our opinions, decide who speaks and who doesnt, decide who can do business and who cant, and decide whos in power in Washington. The sooner we understand this, the better.

On Jan. 7 and 8 last year, they went too far, and now an alternative economy is afoot. Its incredibly rare to see a dominant industry turn so wildly on half its customers, and entrepreneurs of all stripes have seized the opportunity it affords.

Big Tech hates us, and they arent going to stop. We, however, can stop working with them. We know who they are; its time they learn what were about.

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How the populist right twists leftwing ideas to appeal to voters – NationofChange

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One of the more interesting aspects of rightwing populism, especially in the form its taken in the United States, is its use of traditionally leftist talking points for reactionary political ends. This is a smart strategy as leftist ideas are broadly popular, especially when directed at the unaccountable power of big business and its servants in the political class.

Part of the appeal of someone like Tucker Carlson is that he pretends to be on the side of the (white) working class (who hes started calling legacy Americans in an obvious racist dog-whistle) against elites and corporations. Hes able to pull this off by being very particular in terms of the businesses he goes after.

A good example of this is offered by the ongoing critique of Big Tech by pundits like Carlson, which is often portrayed in their media as unfairly censoring conservative views. These arguments accelerated when the former U.S. president lost access to his Twitter account after the events of January 6th at the U.S. Capitol. While this is mostly the result of him being out of office, Donald Trumps social media bans seem to have impacted his day to day influence over his MAGA followers and ability to steer the news cycle.

While theres lots to criticize about this huge and varied industry that could encompass everything from app focused startups to industrial giants like Sony and IBM, Big Tech for conservative commentators is mainly the larger social media sites, platforms they argue they are entitled to say and post anything they want to on due to the free speech guarantees of the countrys 1st Amendment.

Although there have been a number of knockoffs like Parler, Gab and Gettr that are intended to directly connect to rightwing audiences, none have taken off enough to compete with older platforms in terms of the number of people using them. These platforms have also tended to be less secure than those that came before them, with Gettr almost immediately hacked upon its launch.

Another problem for users of these sites seems to be the fact that both centrist liberals and the left are almost entirely absent from them, meaning there are no opportunities to troll and own the libs, which seems to be one of the main things much of this audience enjoys about social media just as they did earlier with the comments sections on news sites.

Its hard to get into an argument when everyone agrees with you.

Further, while the 1st amendment is still the global standard in terms of the rights it bestows, including the right to protest, it only protects speech from government interference and doesnt expand these protections to private enterprises. Companies can police speech however they want and did so long before the advent of social media. One example of this is the right of a book publisher to decide what to print and what not to.

These social media companies, which are international in scope and must be careful about local laws, craft their own terms of service (though enforcement can be lax) and users are expected to abide by rules against things like hate speech and medical misinformation.

Despite these rules, it usually takes a long time for rightwing influencers to face consequences for even the most outrageously bigoted commentary. Part of this may be the result of a lack of moderation by human beings, who are more able to understand nuances like satire, but a greater one seems to be money, with those content creators with large numbers of subscribers or followers less likely to face consequences for breaking the rules established by the terms of service they agreed to when they joined. In the U.S., there is also the protection offered to these companies by Section 230 of the countrys Communications Decency Act, which frees them from liability for what their users post.

If one looks at the most popular political voices on the largest of these networks, Facebook, theyre all on the right, exposing the lie in the rights criticism of Big Tech as being controlled by the progressive left rather than the same kinds of business interests that control just about everything else in most Western democracies.

Take the case of failed comedian Steven Crowder, whose Youtube channel has over 5 and a half million subscribers. The former voice actor for the Canadian animated childrens show Arthur, where he somewhat ironically played a character called The Brain, consistently attacks Black Lives Matter activists, feminists and those fighting for the rights of trans and other LGBTQ+ communities.

It does seem that Crowder, who at the end of 2021 received a 2 week suspension from Youtube for hate speech, actually wants a permanent ban so that he can claim hes been cancelled and use this to raise more money from his fans while growing his other platforms like Rumble, a Toronto based site that seeks to be the video streaming platforn for the far right.

The left in general takes a more nuanced approach to arguments against these Big Tech companies, understanding that deplatforming almost always applies to them as well and that these companies will not hesitate to go after progressive voices in the interest of fairness. Most also understand that bans are just the most powerful tool available to the companies to silence those deemed outside of the mainstream, with unaccountable algorithms determining how far a post travels online.

An obvious solution to this, which would ensure the 1st amendment would apply to users of these sites in the United States would be to make these social networks public utilities or at least regulate them to ensure fair access for all, solutions free market loving rightwingers would probably have a hard time backing.

More dangerous than these free speech battles is the global far rights new found dislike for Big Pharma, which is being weaponized by some commentators to argue against Covid 19 vaccination campaigns.

There are legitimate criticisms that can be made about these massive companies, not the least of which is that Americans pay far more for life saving drugs than citizens of other countries like Canada or the UK. The anger against Big Pharma seems more legitimate than the ire directed at Big Tech considering how the opioid crisis hit red states as hard blue ones, devastating many of these communities. Still, this righteous anger is being misdirected against safe, freely available vaccines that have been shown to prevent hospitalizations and death from the novel coronavirus.

Just as QAnon did in 2020 with the hashtag Save the Children, the overwhelmingly rightwing anti-vaccine crowd have decided to co-opt another slogan, My body, my choice from those fighting for womens reproductive freedom. This is all the more despicable considering that many of those using the slogan oppose a womans right to choose and have control over her own body, rights that seem more imperiled than ever at present.

Always prone to contradicting themselves, many of the same rightwing commentators that express scepticism about vaccines also tout an ever evolving list of unproven miracle cures from hydroxychloriquine to ivermectin to Viagra. All of these drugs produced by Big Pharma.

What should really scandalize the public is the fact that companies like Pfizer and Moderna received billions of dollars in taxpayer money and benefited from the work of publicly funded scientists and agencies but see no reason not to demand full ownership of the vaccines and the huge profits to be derived from them. This has in turn ensured unequal distribution, with poorer countries in the global south unable to provide the shots to their populations while citizens in richer countries receive boosters, a situation that might extend the pandemic as new variants emerge in these places.

Personally, I am not a believer in the idea that progressives should expend resources and energy trying to pull the far right to our side but the left should definitely be ready to point out their hypocrisy and the inconsistencies in their arguments in order to win over people sitting on the fence. After all, there are more non voters than supporters of any political party in most Western democracies.

Culture war talking points aside, the fact that the populist right feels the need to pretend they embrace so many progressive ideas shows that the left can win.

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Chances are unless you're a JavaScript programmer, you've never heard of the open-source Javascript libraries 'colors.js' and 'faker.js." They're simple programs that respectively let you use colored text on your node.js, a popular JavaScript runtime, console, and create fake data for testing. Faker.js is used with more than 2,500 other Node Package Manager (NPM) programs and is downloaded 2.4 million times per week. Colors.js is built into almost 19,000 other NPM packages and is downloaded 23 million times a week. In short, they're everywhere. And, when their creator, JavaScript developer Marak Squires, fouled them up, tens of thousands of JavaScript programs blew up.

Thanks, guy.

This isn't the first time a developer deliberately sabotaged their own open-source code. Back in 2016, Azer Koulu deleted a 17-line npm package called 'left-pad, 'which killed thousands of Node.js programs that relied on it to function. Both then and now the actual code was trivial, but because it's used in so many other programs its effects were far greater than users would ever have expected.

Why did Squires do it? We don't really know. In faker.js's GitHub README file, Squires said, "What really happened with Aaron Swartz?" This is a reference to hacker activist Aaron Swartz who committed suicide in 2013 when he faced criminal charges for allegedly trying to make MIT academic journal articles public.

Your guess is as good as mine as to what this has to do with anything.

What's more likely to be the reason behind his putting an infinite loop into his libraries is that he wanted money. In a since-deleted GitHub post, Squires said, "Respectfully, I am no longer going to support Fortune 500s ( and other smaller-sized companies ) with my free work. There isn't much else to say. Take this as an opportunity to send me a six-figure yearly contract or fork the project and have someone else work on it."

Excuse me. While open-source developers should be fairly compensated for their work, wrecking your code isn't the way to persuade others to pay you.

This is a black eye for open-source and its developers. We don't need programmers who crap on their work when they're ticked off at the world.

Another problem behind the problem is that too many developers simply automatically download and deploy code without ever looking at it. This kind of deliberate blindness is just asking for trouble.

Just because a software package was made by an open-source programmer doesn't mean that it's flawless. Open-source developers make as many mistakes as any other kind of programmer. It's just that in open source's case, you have the opportunity to check it out first for problems. If you choose to not look before you deploy, what happens next is on you.

Some criminal developers are already using people's blind trust to sneak malware into their programs. For example, the DevOps security firm JFrog recently discovered 17 new JavaScript malicious packages in the NPM repository that deliberately attack and steal a user's Discord tokens. These can then be used on the Discord communications and digital distribution platform.

Is that a lot of work? You bet it is. But, there are tools such as NPM audit, GitHub's DependendaBot, and OWASP Dependency-Check that can help make it easier.

In addition, you can simply make sure that before any code goes into production, you simply run a sanity check on it in your continuous integration/continuous distribution (CI/CD) before deploying it to production.

I mean, seriously, if you'd simply run either of these libraries in the lab they would have blown up during testing and never, ever make it into the real world. It's not that hard!

In the meantime, GitHub suggests you revert back to older, safer versions. To be exact, that's colors.js 1.40 and faker.js 5.5.3.

As CodeNotary, a software supply chain company, pointed out in a recent blog post, "Software is never complete and the code base including its dependencies is an always updating document. That automatically means you need to track it, good and bad, keeping in mind that something good can turn bad." Exactly!

Therefore, they continued, "The only real solution here is to be on top of the dependency usage and deployment. Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) can be a solution to that issue, but they need to be tamper-proof, queryable in a fast and scalable manner, and versioned.

CodeNotary suggests, of course, you use their software, Codenotary Cloud and the vcn command-line tool, for this job. There are other companies and projects that address SBOM as well. If you want to stay safe, moving forward you must -- I repeat must -- use an SBOM. Supply chain attacks, both from within projects and without, are rapidly becoming one of the main security problems of our day.

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10 Backend Programming Languages that You Should Know in 2022 – Analytics Insight

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Learn these programming languages to perform efficient backend development.

Backend development includes the process of using languages and frameworks to facilitate the development of robust systems for web applications. Web development activities at the backend of programs are referred to as backend development. It covers server-side web application logic and integration activities, like writing APIs, creating libraries, and working with system components, unlike frontend development. Backend developers build codes using programming languages that allow databases and applications to communicate with one another. With the rising development in technology, the usefulness of backend programming languages is increasing. In this article, we have listed the top backend programming languages that aspiring professionals should learn in 2022.

JavaScript is one of the most trustworthy programming languages. Coders and developers use this language for both server-side and frontend tasks. It offers many advantages, including rich interfaces, virtual availability of enormous resources, and interoperability. Furthermore, it is also considered one of the top programming languages in the industry.

Python is quite famous among individuals for its compatibility with advanced technologies like machine learning, IoT, data science, and others. Leading tech giants rely on Python for its functionality. One of its major advantages is that it can be used for web development due to its huge collection of standard libraries that makes the developers work more efficient and easier.

Ruby is another widely-used programming language for backend development. Time efficiency is one of the main advantages of using Ruby. The language facilitates the users with a variety of coding tools to accelerate the backend development process. Ruby is a convenient programming language where data types are not defined while declaring the variables.

Java is another ideal programming language. It is an object-oriented programming language that is widely used for developing enterprise-scale web applications, desktop applications, scientific applications and much more. The main advantage of using Java is that it offers multithreading that allows two or more threads to run simultaneously to maximize CPU usage.

PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language that is specifically designed for web development. The language does not require a compiler and includes features such as cross-platform compatibility, OOPs, and provides support for various standard databases such as MySQL, SQLite, and others.

Rust is famous for being a multi-paradigm programming language. The language guarantees memory safety by using a borrow checker for validating the references in itself. The error messages are much more evident in Rust than in other programming languages.

Kotlin is a well-known programming language that is especially used for Android app development. The language allows the developers to add extensions to the classes without modifying the source code. Kotlin is quite efficient for writing complex programs.

C# is one of the most widely used languages for creating system backends due to its incredible features, such as Windows server automation. It is quite efficient to use since it can run codes faster. Some other features which make the language special are cross-platform compatibility, garbage data, and value collection, to name a few.

Solidity is another beneficial programming language that is used to write complex programs and applications. The language is mostly preferred by experts and professionals who are focused on developing blockchain or contract applications.

Perl is a multipurpose programming language originally designed for text manipulation. But it is used for various activities, including system administration, network programming, web development, GUI construction and so much more. Perl can handle encrypted web data that enables secure e-commerce transactions.

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WebAssembly, also known as WASM, is being touted as one of the top cloud native trends to watch out for in 2022. WASM a fast, secure and powerful way to run code across a variety of platforms bears an uncanny resemblance to container runtimes. A number of projects and startups are working on accelerating its adoption.

The technology is relatively new it was first released just under five years ago. So theres still a lot of work being done to improve the toolchain setup, as Fintan Ryan, a senior analyst at Gartner, noted in a previous New Stack article.

The newness of WASM, and the rapid innovation around it could feel daunting to those from the web developer background, However, knowledge of TypeScript, a strongly typed language building on JavaScript, might just make taking those first steps a little less intimidating.

JavaScript wasnt designed to be a compilation target for the web. Owing to its ubiquity and lower entry-level barrier for adoption, it ended up becoming one. But JavaScript brings with it some pitfalls.

Although portable and fast, the performance of JavaScript was unpredictable when it came to complex web applications. This paved the way for efforts to design a compilation target for the web that was fast, secure, portable and enabled high performance and for standardizing those efforts.

Enter WebAssembly. With a bytecode format and an associated text code format that could be used by virtually every browser irrespective of the platform as a compilation target, it won on almost all these fronts.

But one look at the compiled code was enough to intimidate programmers, because it lacked all the high-level abstractions that a programming language offered. While its purpose was not to be manually written, since it was designed to be a compilation target, adopters did need to learn one of the languages that could compile to WASM.

While compilers were developed for typed languages like C, C++, and Rust, those without a type system like JavaScript were left behind, owing to the fact that WASM itself was statically typed.

It was only in 2017 that AssemblyScript made its way into the ecosystem and eliminated the need for web devs to learn a new language altogether if they wanted to harness the benefits of WASM.

A variant of TypeScript, AssemblyScript targets the WASM feature set and allows programmers to have low-level control over their code. Like TypeScript, AssemblyScript is also open source.

The documentation for AssemblyScript states, Unlike TypeScript, which targets a JavaScript environment with all of its dynamic features, AssemblyScript targets WebAssembly with all of its static guarantees, hence intentionally avoids the dynamicness of JavaScript where it cannot be compiled ahead of time efficiently.

Unlike TypeScript that compiles to JavaScript, AssemblyScript is compiled to WebAssembly directly by Binaryen, correlating to higher speed and performance.

If JavaScript is your preferred programming language, TypeScript is pretty much its superset, with an addition of optional static typing while remaining syntactically similar. AssemblyScript, as mentioned previously, is a stricter variant of TypeScript which means that there isnt a requirement to start from scratch and adopters are therefore able to build upon existing knowledge.

TypeScript, the statically typed variant of JavaScript, is a widely adopted and easy to understand type safety system for web apps, Connor Hicks, founder and CEO of the serverless engine company Suborbital, told The New Stack.

Since WebAssembly is very strongly typed, it made a lot of sense to create a language using TypeScript syntax for web developers to easily build with WASM, Hicks said. AssemblyScript is one of the easiest ways for developers to use a familiar language while getting the performance and portability benefits of WebAssembly

However, even though it bears some similarities to TypeScript, AssemblyScript should not be mistaken as a subset of it. Behavioral and feature-specific surprises need to be accounted for because, after all, they are compiling to two very different targets.

A quick glance at the documentation is enough to understand that the features making JavaScript (and TypeScript) a favorite among web devs have been stripped off when it comes to the development of AssemblyScript.

Whether that means the absence of common operators like any, void, and undefined or of DOM access due to WebAssembly modules running in sandboxes, there is definitely a lot of cultural and mindset shift that accompanies the adoption of AssemblyScript (and WebAssembly).

With greater maturity, some important features of TypeScript, like closure support for all functions, will likely get incorporated into AssemblyScript. However, one must remember that while familiarity with TypeScript could be a stepping stone towards WebAssembly adoption via AssemblyScript, keep in mind that AssemblyScript is not an exact subset of TypeScript.

Because it was tailor-made for WebAssembly, AssemblyScripts evolution will be tied to the ways in which WebAssembly specifications develop. If you know Typescript, theres much to build upon in the syntactic similarities between that and AssemblyScript but the latter is writing a brand new story with elements of a familiar language.

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How to address the yawning skill gap in AI/ML sectors – Analytics India Magazine

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Job portal monster.coms annual trend report has projected big data, AI and ML as the hottest job sectors in 2022.

Nitin Agarwal, Google Head of Cloud AI Industry Solution and Services (India), recounted the challenges he faced while hiring his team in India. One common theme that I found, in the candidates that didnt get selected, is that they prepared for the interviews well but lacked the real work But the time I started having a detailed conversation on their projects, the problem starts coming up. Answers were very shallow and very textbook-ish, said his LinkedIn post.

Though the demand for AI/ML roles is at an all time high, the niche talent is in short supply. A KPMG survey predicted 50% of the workforce will be preparing for AI, ML and related technologies in the next few years.

Of late, companies have started investing in their own employees to help them adapt to the latest technologies by putting them in upskilling and reskilling programmes. Experts believe incorporating AI/ML courses in the curriculum can make the workforce future-ready. However, with over 5000 engineering colleges still sticking with the traditional courses, the skill gap has increased in the industry.

Data science is an umbrella term for multiple disciplines. While data scientists focus on algorithms and ensure the entire data processing pipeline is in order, ML engineers focus on the deployment of models.

A data scientist needs to have a deep understanding of a programming language, an IDE/visualization platform and a querying language.

Data Scientist is expected to be fluid in programming languages including Python and R. The goal is to ingest data, process it, feature engineer, build models and communicate results.

Data scientists also often use Jupyter Notebook or a popular IDE to code, write text, and view various outputs like results and visualizations from one place. Other popular IDEs include PyCharm and Atom.

Data scientists utilise structured query language (SQL) to query the first data, create new features, etc., after which the model is run and deployed.

Machine learning engineers come into play after the model has been built by the data scientist. They need to dive deeper into the code and deploy it.

Both data scientists and ML engineers are expected to know Python. However, machine learning engineers focus on more object-oriented programming (OOP) in Python, whereas data scientists are not as OOP-heavy. Most ML engineers also need to use Git and GitHub to version and store code repositories.

ML engineers are experts with deployment tools. There are plenty of tools like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Docker, MLFlow, Flask, and Airflow that ML experts are expected to know. Also, the title machine learning engineer means machine learning operations engineer (MLOps) as well in the job market.

While some companies prefer a well-rounded candidate capable of both data science and machine learning (operations), many prefer a specialist.

The option of doing an added ML course from EdTech companies is always open. Companies always look for experienced candidates for ML deployments. Freshers find it hard to land big shot jobs in this area.

But candidates can overcome such limitations by demonstrating value via personal projects, open-source projects, hackathons, and coding challenges.

The AI industry is rife with opportunities. However, the market is still nascent, with a high demand for a skilled workforce. Therefore, it is essential to put in the time, by both employers and employees, to bridge the skill gap and take the AI/ML industry to the next level.

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