Saturday, 9 December 2017

RX - RX Java vs Java 9 Flow API (Still RX Java is Better)

https://medium.com/@teachpendant/catching-up-rxjava-with-java-9-flow-api-b2e19ec40270

RX Java project was started in 2013.

Friday, 8 December 2017

IT - Docker - Windows 10 Pro

Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise both support up to 512GB on the x64 platform. The x86 versions ofWindows 10 support a maximum of 4GB of RAMWindows 10 supports amaximum of two physical CPUs, but the number of logical processors orcores varies based on the processor architecture.

IT - Docker on Windows 10 Pro or Server 2016

https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/install/#about-windows-containers-and-windows-server-2016

AI - Google AlphaZero beats Stockfish 8

https://www.google.ch/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5155009/amp/Googles-AI-mastered-chess-four-hours-scratch.html

AI - Chess Giraffe 2015

https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/s/541276/deep-learning-machine-teaches-itself-chess-in-72-hours-plays-at-international-master/amp/

AI - Google TPU vs NVIDIA Pascal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2017/04/13/googles-tpu-for-ai-is-really-fast-but-does-it-matter/#5b3b35182f96

Google DeepMind AlphaZero was trained in 2 days from scratch knowledge of chess and is based on 4 TPUs.

Java - JDK 11 - no GC

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318
JDK 11 - no GC (epsillon) useful for testing and microservices with no memory consumption