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Recently Saxo Bank published their outrageous predictions for 2022 (and beyond). I also watched the clarifications of chief investment officer, Steen Jacobsen. Very brave and honest! 👍

Here’s my quick overview of the main points:

• Governments do not have a clear plan for the transition to a green future. So, oil and gas still reign. Meanwhile, many billions will be buried in ESG hype.
• Facebook is for oldies. TikTok (and/or other new social platforms) will kill it.
• US faces with crisis: election, integrity, markets volatility, and declining dollar influence
• 15% inflation in USD, and market expects higher rates soon
• New episode of “Star Wars” is beginning with the latest hypersonic missile tests. Military tech will get huge dollar
• Life expectancy extends by 25 years. This will pose new challenges for pension funds and tax systems, the environment, and many new ethical questions.

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The book club of our company has chosen a new wonderful book for reading:

Robert Martin - Clean Architecture - a Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design

👍

The book is superficial so far. Here’s an overview of the second part:

There are three programming paradigms:

• Structured programming - is discipline imposed upon direct transfer of control.
• Object-oriented programming - is discipline imposed upon indirect transfer of control.
• Functional programming - is discipline imposed upon variable assignment

All three paradigms are about what NOT TO DO.

The book club of our company has chosen a new wonderful book for reading:

Robert Martin - Clean Architecture - a Craftsman’s Guide to Software Structure and Design

👍

Here’s an overview of the first part:

• The goal of software architecture
  • to minimize the human resources required to build and maintain the required system.
• Two values of software
  • Behaviour (function) - to satisfy stakeholders’ requirements
  • Structure (architecture) - difficulty of making change should be proportional to the scope, not to the “shape” of the change
• Ease of change is more important!
  • Software Developer should fight 🤺 for it with other stakeholders!

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I just faced with the “State of AI ’2021” report and want to share it.

The authors are experts who analyze AI trends, make predictions, and invest(!) in AI. Last year, 5.5 out of 8 their predictions came true. The report has 188(!) pages.

What I can highlight briefly:

• for data scientists & IT managers:
  • Transformers/LLMs expanded far beyond NLP, they will replace recurrent networks
  • JAX framework worth trying
• for investors & founders:
  • AI-first is now everywhere: new researches in biology, skyrocketing new companies for IPOs and new markets
  • Semiconductor-related companies continue to accelerate and consolidate
  • AI influences politics: army, safety & regulations

Here is the link: https://www.stateof.ai/

I’ve just read recently published Big Ideas 2021 by ARK invest (these guys are investing billions of USD into disruptive tech companies) and want to share it.

I really recommend to download and overview their slides for everybody who works in high-tech (yes, they are probably over-optimistic because of their role, but it’s really worth to look at): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z3LpfrAQLRM07JDTi1ZnHEHPeszgIp7O/view?usp=sharing

I am especially excited by what they call “Software 2.0” (deep learning). Here are their key trends - just for your convenience:

Did you know that the Scrum guide was recently updated and translated to many languages?

Worth reading as most of us are working in Scrum-based frameworks. It is just 11 pages of content in large font 😀

Download links:

• English language: 2020-Scrum-Guide-US.pdf
• All other languages: https://scrumguides.org/download.html