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Issue 12

The AI-ndustrial Revolution is coming. Check out which job of the future you are best suited to. In the most conclusive test of potential humanity: AI cheats at old Atari games by finding unknown bugs

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Mar 06, 2018

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Evening viewers,

The freelancer's conundrum: making money and achieving security.

I found some pretty cool stuff on the gig economy; the real wage and a game that simulates the experience. I played the game so I could pretend I lived in San Francisco.

Some awesome broader tech-stuff with drones modeling for D&G, AI cheating at Atari, and a fun application of deepfakes in a marriage.


📰 From the Newsroom

The AI-ndustrial Revolution is coming. Check out which job of the future you are best suited to.

I discovered I would be an organ designer; a job that could be here sooner than we expect.

hubot.org  


In the most conclusive test of potential humanity: AI cheats at old Atari games by finding unknown bugs.

Who hasn't put a bucket on a shopkeeper's head in Skyrim? Steal all the things!

newscientist.com  


Dolce & Gabbana replaces millennials with drones for Fall 2018.

Warning: Fashion heavy post. Scroll below the fold to see the drones modeling 'handbags'.

fashionista.com  


Joys of marriage: Man creates deepfakes of his wife and puts her on The Tonight Show.

svencharleer.com  


In some AI-related areas China has six times more patent publications than the US.

qz.com  


Nokia, Vodafone and Audi..Audi? to build a 4G network on the moon.

Man on the moon said to be "excited" to finally watch 'Twin Peaks'.

techcrunch.com


🕷️ Design & Development Arena

10 cheat codes for designing User Interfaces

The hacks for color picking are worth my weight in moon cheese.

medium.com  


Learn CSS flexbox by getting the frogs on the lily pads with flexbox froggy.

flexboxfroggy.com  


A giant, hand picked list of technical talks and articles about **real-world** enterprise frontend development

github.com  


🥇 World of WordPress

Becoming a freelance WordPress developer – how to make a career.

Two parts hard work, three parts hustle, mixed with a healthy pinch of luck.

wpshout.com  


Inspiring website menu designs and the best practices for better navigability.

wpmudev.org  


5 pieces of AI software for your WordPress site.

torquemag.io  


All of the biggest WordPress news from March.

codeinwp.com  


😱 Slightly Terrifying

Skate punk album created by neural network trained on NOFX's classic "Punk in Drublic" .

The band is called DadaBots and the album is Bot Prownie

theoutline.com  


This Uber driver's elaborate custom playlists are going viral.

Side gigging the side gig.

pigeonsandplanes.com  


How underground club music in China is thriving against the odds.

factmag.com  


🔖 Nice work if you can get it

Could you make it as an Uber driver? Uber fun game from Financial Times.

While I've got you here, an MIT paper showed that most drivers make $3.37/hour working for Uber and Lyft.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the study was flawed and then tweeted a qualified burn “MIT = Mathematically Incompetent Theories (at least as it pertains to ride-sharing),”.

ft.com  


Check out how these guys launched an MVP for ShoptoList in a month and got 1200 users in < a week.

hackernoon.com  


Outro

Well, that's this week done. I am going to spend the rest of the week designing the world's first splidney.

It's cool to slide the odd forward towards your best friends.

Live long and prosper, Chris


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