October 2020 [Vol. 18]: 10 Important Technology And Innovation Tweets.

Welcome to the October 2020 edition of '10 Important Technology And Innovation Tweets'. The tweets are mostly listed in chronological order. This edition has curated 14 social media posts instead of 10 as there were a lot of good technology and innovation related posts across social media platforms this month.

 
Tweet 01

.@Ripple has won a patent for a smart contract design would allow derivatives to settle based on external data – such as temperature.

Via @paddybaker_ https://t.co/N1qdlX93iM

— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) October 2, 2020

Tweet 02

This innovative bike (Pedicycle? TreadBike?) was developed back in 2016, I believe. Didn’t cause as much disruption then. But post Covid, people may be more receptive to such inventions which are both climate-friendly & health enhancing. Would you use this or stick to pedalling? pic.twitter.com/01hgGgzXl2

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) October 6, 2020

Tweet 03

Strengthening your security stack doesn’t mean a massive overhaul or too much complexity. Check out these 7 ways to amplify and extend your protection with Cisco Umbrella: https://t.co/e7nCCdCN8f // #NCSAM pic.twitter.com/Oqbx2K1qJA

— Cisco Umbrella (@CiscoUmbrella) October 9, 2020

Tweet 04

This autonomous car can drive itself using only 19 control neurons.

Video: https://t.co/oHfvfjkWM0

More: https://t.co/Q8O5uXF40f

(work w/@ISTAustria @tuvienna)#SelfDrivingCars #Autonomy #ML #DL #MachineLearning pic.twitter.com/0xZUTotqEb

— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) October 13, 2020

Tweet 05

Can we view RL as supervised learning, but where we also "optimize" the data? New blog post by Ben, Aviral, and Abhishek: https://t.co/8wZp0pEiOx

The idea: modify (reweight, resample, etc.) the data so that supervised regression onto actions produces better policies. More below: pic.twitter.com/vWBN8CepCo

— Sergey Levine (@svlevine) October 13, 2020

Tweet 06

A quiet experiment in China let users access banned sites like Google and YouTube for 2 weeks.@TomMackenzieTV explores what could be Censorship 2.0 in the country. More @business: https://t.co/1w3jMroFDw pic.twitter.com/RFjWEKia2G

— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) October 13, 2020

Tweet 07

1. Manim

Manim or Mathematical Animation Engine is an animation engine for explanatory math videos. It is basically used to create animations programmatically. Manim runs on Python 3.7.

Github: https://t.co/eBAZShYscx

— Trilochan Parida ☁️🚀 (@TechParida) October 14, 2020

Tweet 08

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

No, it's an unidentified person flying in a jetpack near Los Angeles International Airport - the second such incident in two months https://t.co/matxEPZyek

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 15, 2020

Tweet 09 (not a tweet but a very important tech social media post nonetheless)

 
 

 

Tweet 10

Hackers Claim to Have Access to 50,000 Home Security Cameras #hackers #security #cybersecurity https://t.co/9rbHYz6iJu

— Paula Piccard 🇵🇷 🇺🇸 (@Paula_Piccard) October 21, 2020

Tweet 11

Brian Brooks believes decentralized finance will take over many of the services currently offered by banks https://t.co/kzFpBjthx2

— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) October 21, 2020

Tweet 12

Super excited about our @NVIDIAAI work on single-image #3D reconstruction that utilizes #StyleGAN as a multi-view training data generator. Only a few minutes of labeling required for results below! We also turn StyleGAN into a controllable 3D neural renderer. #MachineLearning https://t.co/IuRKYqij1Z

— Sanja Fidler (@FidlerSanja) October 26, 2020

Tweet 13

Some crazy personal news: I've quit my wonderful job at Bloomberg in a pandemic to launch a subscription newsletter on startups and venture capital.

I'm calling it Newcomer

Read about here: https://t.co/fgQ4HwTiK7

— Eric Newcomer (@EricNewcomer) October 26, 2020

Tweet 14

Coinbase Launches Cryptocurrency Visa Card in the US https://t.co/IZqo9KgGba pic.twitter.com/4B9DclHe19

— Bitcoin News (@BTCTN) October 29, 2020

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