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1. Awesome Dotnet

Application Frameworks

• CSLA .NET (⭐1.2k) - business layer development framework https://cslanet.com/

Caching

• Akavache (⭐2.4k) - An asynchronous, persistent key-value store

Database

• Realm Xamarin (⭐1.2k) - A fast, easy-to-use alternative to SQLite & ORMs - https://realm.io/docs/dotnet/latest/

GIS

• CoordinateSharp (⭐331) - Easily parse or convert coordinate formats and calculate location based solar/lunar information.

IDE

• Visual Studio Express - The free lightweight version of Visual Studio for .NET programming.

• Visual Studio Community - A full-featured IDE

Misc

• LINQPad - a C#/VB/F# scratchpad that instantly executes any expression, statement block or program with rich output formatting and a wealth of features. Also lets you interactively query databases in LINQ. [$]

MVVM

• Catel - Catel is an application development platform with the focus on MVVM (WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone and WinRT) and MVC (ASP.NET MVC). The core of Catel contains an IoC container, models, validation, memento, message mediator, argument checking, etc.

2. Engineering Blogs

Companies / S companies

• Soshace https://blog.soshace.com/en/

3. Awesome Dash

Contributors

• Sergey Pikhovkin

4. Awesome Appsec

Websites

Blogs

Crypto Fails

Showcasing bad cryptography

NCC Group - Blog

The blog of NCC Group, formerly Matasano, iSEC Partners, and NGS Secure.

Scott Helme

Learn about security and performance.

Cossack Labs blog (2018)

Released: July 30, 2018

Blog of cryptographic company that makes open-source libraries and tools, and describes practical data security approaches for applications and infrastructures.

5. Awesome Quantum Computing

Learning

• Quantum Katas (⭐4.3k) - Programming exercises for learning quantum computing and Q#.

6. Awesome Ros2

Presentations / ROSCon 2018

• Hands-on ROS 2: A Walkthrough

• ROS 2 on Autonomous Driving Vehicles

• RViz – The tale of a migration to ROS 2.0

• Launch for ROS 2

• Getting involved in ROS 2 development

• Planning to Plan: Plugins All The Way Down

• Leveraging DDS Security in ROS2

• Arm DDS Security library: Adding secure security to ROS2

• ROS2: Supercharging the Jaguar4x4

• Performance Test - A Tool for Communication Middleware Performance Measuring

• ROS2 for Android, iOS and Universal Windows Platform: a demonstration of ROS2’s portability, and cross-platform and cross-language capabilities

• Integrating ROS and ROS2 on mixed-critical robotic systems based on embedded heterogeneous platforms

• Towards ROS 2 microcontroller meta cross-compilation

• Node.js Client & Web Bridge Ready for ROS 2.0

• RCLAda: the Ada client library for ROS2

7. Awesome Cpp

Math

• Geometric Tools - C++ library for computing in the fields of mathematics, graphics, image analysis and physics. [Boost] website

8. Awesome Security

Other Awesome Lists / Other Security Awesome Lists

• Awesome Crypto Papers (⭐1.6k) - A curated list of cryptography papers, articles, tutorials and howtos.

9. Awesome Web Security

Preventing / Server-Side Request Forgery

• DOMPurify (⭐9.8k) - DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG by Cure53.

• Acra (⭐1.1k) - Client-side encryption engine for SQL databases, with strong selective encryption, SQL injections prevention and intrusion detection by @cossacklabs.

10. Awesome Java

Security / Other

• Themis (⭐1.8k) - Multi-platform high-level cryptographic library provides easy-to-use encryption for protecting sensitive data: secure messaging with forward secrecy, secure data storage (AES256GCM); suits for building end-to-end encrypted applications.

11. Awesome Cryptography

Other lists / Hash functions

• Awesome crypto-papers (⭐1.6k) – A curated list of cryptography papers, articles, tutorials and howtos.

12. Awesome Broadcasting

Video Production

• MOS-connection (⭐17) - A JavaScript library for connection and MOS messaging either as MOS device or NRCS.

13. Typography

Web Fonts & Web Performance

• Tips for balancing web fonts & page load

14. Awesome Qa

Types of QA

• Single-turn QA: answer without considering any context

• Conversational QA: use previsous conversation turns

Events / Subtypes of QA

• Wolfram Alpha launced the answer engine in 2009.

• IBM Watson system defeated top Jeopardy! champions in 2011.

• Apple's Siri integrated Wolfram Alpha's answer engine in 2011.

• Google embraced QA by launching its Knowledge Graph, leveraging the free base knowledge base in 2012.

• Amazon Echo | Alexa (2015), Google Home | Google Assistant (2016), INVOKE | MS Cortana (2017), HomePod (2017)

Dataset Collections / Subtypes of QA

• NLIWOD's Question answering datasets (⭐93)

• karthinkncode's Datasets for Natural Language Processing (⭐920)

Datasets / Subtypes of QA

• Children's Book Test

• It is one of the bAbI project of Facebook AI Research which is organized towards the goal of automatic text understanding and reasoning. The CBT is designed to measure directly how well language models can exploit wider linguistic context.

• GraphQuestions (⭐86)
  • On generating Characteristic-rich Question sets for QA evaluation.

• LC-QuAD
  • It is a gold standard KBQA (Question Answering over Knowledge Base) dataset containing 5000 Question and SPARQL queries. LC-QuAD uses DBpedia v04.16 as the target KB.

• Qestion-Answer Dataset by CMU
  • This is a corpus of Wikipedia articles, manually-generated factoid questions from them, and manually-generated answers to these questions, for use in academic research. These data were collected by Noah Smith, Michael Heilman, Rebecca Hwa, Shay Cohen, Kevin Gimpel, and many students at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh between 2008 and 2010.

The DeepQA Research Team in IBM Watson's publication within 5 years / Subtypes of QA

• 2015
  • "Automated Problem List Generation from Electronic Medical Records in IBM Watson", Murthy Devarakonda, Ching-Huei Tsou, IAAI, 2015.
  • "Decision Making in IBM Watson Question Answering", J. William Murdock, Ontology summit, 2015.
  • "Unsupervised Entity-Relation Analysis in IBM Watson", Aditya Kalyanpur, J William Murdock, ACS, 2015.
  • "Commonsense Reasoning: An Event Calculus Based Approach", E T Mueller, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2015.

• 2014
  • "Problem-oriented patient record summary: An early report on a Watson application", M. Devarakonda, Dongyang Zhang, Ching-Huei Tsou, M. Bornea, Healthcom, 2014.
  • "WatsonPaths: Scenario-based Question Answering and Inference over Unstructured Information", Adam Lally, Sugato Bachi, Michael A. Barborak, David W. Buchanan, Jennifer Chu-Carroll, David A. Ferrucci*, Michael R. Glass, Aditya Kalyanpur, Erik T. Mueller, J. William Murdock, Siddharth Patwardhan, John M. Prager, Christopher A. Welty, IBM Research Report RC25489, 2014.
  • "Medical Relation Extraction with Manifold Models", Chang Wang and James Fan, ACL, 2014.

MS Research's publication within 5 years / Subtypes of QA

• 2018
  • "Characterizing and Supporting Question Answering in Human-to-Human Communication", Xiao Yang, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Madian Khabsa, Wei Wang, Miaosen Wang, ACM SIGIR, 2018.
  • "FigureQA: An Annotated Figure Dataset for Visual Reasoning", Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski, Adam Atkinson, Akos Kadar, Adam Trischler, Yoshua Bengio, ICLR, 2018

• 2017
  • "Multi-level Attention Networks for Visual Question Answering", Dongfei Yu, Jianlong Fu, Tao Mei, Yong Rui, CVPR, 2017.
  • "A Joint Model for Question Answering and Question Generation", Tong Wang, Xingdi (Eric) Yuan, Adam Trischler, ICML, 2017.
  • "Two-Stage Synthesis Networks for Transfer Learning in Machine Comprehension", David Golub, Po-Sen Huang, Xiaodong He, Li Deng, EMNLP, 2017.
  • "Question-Answering with Grammatically-Interpretable Representations", Hamid Palangi, Paul Smolensky, Xiaodong He, Li Deng,
  • "Search-based Neural Structured Learning for Sequential Question Answering", Mohit Iyyer, Wen-tau Yih, Ming-Wei Chang, ACL, 2017.

• 2016
  • "Stacked Attention Networks for Image Question Answering", Zichao Yang, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng, Alex Smola, CVPR, 2016.
  • "Question Answering with Knowledge Base, Web and Beyond", Yih, Scott Wen-tau and Ma, Hao, ACM SIGIR, 2016.
  • "NewsQA: A Machine Comprehension Dataset", Adam Trischler, Tong Wang, Xingdi Yuan, Justin Harris, Alessandro Sordoni, Philip Bachman, Kaheer Suleman, RepL4NLP, 2016.
  • "Table Cell Search for Question Answering", Sun, Huan and Ma, Hao and He, Xiaodong and Yih, Wen-tau and Su, Yu and Yan, Xifeng, WWW, 2016.

• 2015
  • "WIKIQA: A Challenge Dataset for Open-Domain Question Answering", Yi Yang, Wen-tau Yih, and Christopher Meek, EMNLP, 2015.
  • "Web-based Question Answering: Revisiting AskMSR", Chen-Tse Tsai, Wen-tau Yih, and Christopher J.C. Burges, MSR-TR, 2015.
  • "Open Domain Question Answering via Semantic Enrichment", Huan Sun, Hao Ma, Wen-tau Yih, Chen-Tse Tsai, Jingjing Liu, and Ming-Wei Chang, WWW, 2015.

• 2014
  • "An Overview of Microsoft Deep QA System on Stanford WebQuestions Benchmark", Zhenghao Wang, Shengquan Yan, Huaming Wang, and Xuedong Huang, MSR-TR, 2014.
  • "Semantic Parsing for Single-Relation Question Answering", Wen-tau Yih, Xiaodong He, Christopher Meek, ACL, 2014.

Google AI's publication within 5 years / Subtypes of QA

• 2018
  • Google QA
    • "QANet: Combining Local Convolution with Global Self-Attention for Reading Comprehension", Adams Wei Yu, David Dohan, Minh-Thang Luong, Rui Zhao, Kai Chen, Mohammad Norouzi, Quoc V. Le, ICLR, 2018.
    • "Ask the Right Questions: Active Question Reformulation with Reinforcement Learning", Christian Buck and Jannis Bulian and Massimiliano Ciaramita and Wojciech Paweł Gajewski and Andrea Gesmundo and Neil Houlsby and Wei Wang, ICLR, 2018.
    • "Building Large Machine Reading-Comprehension Datasets using Paragraph Vectors", Radu Soricut, Nan Ding, 2018.
  • Sentence representation
    • "An efficient framework for learning sentence representations", Lajanugen Logeswaran, Honglak Lee, ICLR, 2018.
  • "Did the model understand the question?", Pramod K. Mudrakarta and Ankur Taly and Mukund Sundararajan and Kedar Dhamdhere, ACL, 2018.

• 2014
  • "Great Question! Question Quality in Community Q&A", Sujith Ravi and Bo Pang and Vibhor Rastogi and Ravi Kumar, ICWSM, 2014.

Books / Subtypes of QA

• Natural Language Question Answering system Paperback - Boris Galitsky (2003)

• New Directions in Question Answering - Mark T. Maybury (2004)

• Part 3. 5. Question Answering in The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics - Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan (2005)

• Chap.28 Question Answering in Speech and Language Processing - Daniel Jurafsky & James H. Martin (2017)

Links / Subtypes of QA

• Building a Question-Answering System from Scratch— Part 1

• Qeustion Answering with Tensorflow By Steven Hewitt, O'REILLY, 2017

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