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Is AI ushring us to an era of “hyper-personalised media”? A time when each person can request the exact type of article, video, story, etc. that they like?

“A diagram of the relationships between Unix systems” by Eraserhead1, Infinity0, Sav_vas (Wikipedia)

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Java 8 Tutorial “Java is still not dead—and people are starting to figure that out.” Welcome to my introduction to Java 8 . (…) At the end of the article you’ll be familiar with the most recent API changes like streams, functional interfaces, map extensions and the new Date API. No walls of text – just a bunch of commented code snippets. Enjoy! Default Methods for Interfaces Lambda expressions Functional Interfaces Method and Constructor References Lambda Scopes Built-in Functional Interfaces Streams Parallel Streams Map Date API Annotations

Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures (by John Goatstream ) We present a muscle-based control method for simulated bipeds in which both the muscle routing and control parameters are optimized. This yields a generic locomotion control method that supports a variety of bipedal creatures. All actuation forces are the result of 3D simulated muscles, and a model of neural delay is included for all feedback paths. As a result, our controllers generate torque patterns that incorporate biomechanical constraints. The synthesized controllers find different gaits based on target speed, can cope with uneven terrain and external perturbations, and can steer to target directions. ...

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