Hey millennials, stop ruining emoji for Gen Z Face the facts When emojis were first designed by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, they were intended specifically for the Japanese market. But just over a decade later, theUnicode Consortium, sometimes described as “the UN for tech,” unveiled these icons to the whole world. In 2011,Instagramtracked the uptake of emojis through user messages, watching how ? eclipsed :-) in just a few years. Old-style smileys, using punctuation marks, now look as outdated as Shakespearean English on our LED screens: a sign of fogeyness in baby boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) or an ironic throwback for the hipsters of gen Z....

Python is my bread-and-butter, and I love it. Even though I’ve got somepoints of criticismagainst the language, I strongly recommend it for anybody starting out in data science. More experienced people in the field tend to be Python-evangelists anyway. However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t challenge the limits in your field from time to time, for example by exploring adifferent programming paradigmor a new language. TypeScript: JavaScript, but type-safe About a decade ago, software engineers at Microsoft noticed that JavaScript wasn’t meeting all their needs anymore....

Hey software developers, you’re approaching machine learning the wrong way Most of us learn Machine Learning from the ground up. But the skills developers need to be effective users of ML is something totally different. So what should the forward-looking software engineer learn about AI today? Where we are now Today, if you want to build a neural network that recognizes your cat’s face in photos or predicts whether your next Tweet will go viral, you’d probably set off to learn eitherTensorFloworPyTorch....

The Problem For a network that relies enormously on the interaction between its users, you would thinkTwitterwould have integrated a way to easily follow these social exchanges by now. There is an overwhelming amount of conversations happening on the platform with absolutely no easy way to track them. Sure, you can hashtag everything you say and hope your followers are smart enough to keep the tag in their @replies, but let’s face it: not everyone on Twitter is a social media genius or wants to waste their time with hacks or ugly hash tags....

As a blogger, I speedily rewrite breaking news in haste and hopefully add more than a few viewpoints of my own before hitting publish. But until Sergey Brin has me on speed dial, that’s just the way things have to be in order to get the news from point a to point b to our readers. The blogger’s irony I’m about to showcase here needs only one explanation, I am not trying to pass offthis juicy story from Poynter’sas my own....