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NIKITA NAMJOSHI: I'm Nikita for "The Developer Show."
This is your weekly update on the coolest developer
news from Google.
"Coding Practice with Kick Start's"
third and final session for the year is coming up on August 26
through 30.
Don't miss your chance to grow your coding skills
with this unique opportunity.
"Coding Practice with Kick Start"
is a four-day practice session where you'll have the chance
to learn more about the Kick Start platform,
utilize starter code to help frame your solutions,
and interact with Google engineers.
It's not a timed round, and there
is no scoreboard, which makes this a great way
to hone your coding skills and get better acquainted
with competitive programming.
Make sure to check out the "Coding Practice with Kick
Start" at g.co/kickstart, where you can register and learn
more.
Each year, Google Developer groups
come together for DevFest conferences around the world,
not only to exchange knowledge and share experiences,
but also to get inspired, celebrate the community,
and simply be together.
The developer community in Ukraine and abroad
decided to use the 2022 DevFest conference to raise awareness
and funds for those in need.
In July, DevFest for Ukraine gathered
more than 20 industry-leading speakers over two days.
All of the funds raised go to three NGOs
that are supporting the country at this turbulent time.
DevFest for Ukraine raised over $130K for the cause
so far and counting.
You can still access the recorded sessions
to learn about the future of tech
by clicking the link below.
Google Cloud's managed machine learning platform, Vertex AI,
now includes custom prediction routines,
which simplify the process of writing pre and post-processing
code.
When getting predictions from machine learning
models, the data at serving time is rarely in the format
your model expects.
Transforming the data can be as important as the prediction
itself.
With custom prediction routines, you
can provide your data transformations as Python code.
And behind the scenes, the Vertex AI SDK
will build a custom container that you can test locally
and deploy to the Cloud.
To get hands-on experience using this new feature,
check out the blog below.
More AI news for this week comes from the Google AI Research
team working on robotic learning with advanced language models.
Robotic systems today are capable of executing only very
short, hard-coded commands like pick up an apple.
But they struggle with learning to perform long horizon tasks
and reasoning about abstract goals, like I just worked out.
Can you get me a healthy snack?
In partnership with Everyday Robots,
the Google AI Research team has published a new approach
that uses the knowledge contained in language models
to determine and score actions that
are useful towards high level instructions.
It also uses an affordance function
that enables real-world grounding
and determines which actions are possible to execute in a given
environment.
Using the PaLM language model, the researchers
have called this approach PaLM-SayCan.
Check out the blog links below to learn more
and read the original paper.
Android 13 source has been pushed to the Android Open
Source Project.
And the newest version has officially been released.
Android 13 is focused on the core themes of privacy
and security, as well as developer productivity,
making it easier for you to build
great experiences for users.
The team has continued to make Android an even better OS
for tablets and large screens, giving you better tools
to take advantage of the 270-plus million
of these devices in use across the world.
To learn about all of the new features in detail,
click the article link below from the Android Developers
blog.
Lastly, if you're a Firebase user,
be sure to check out the new Project Shortcuts
feature, which makes it much easier for you
to find the products that you're actually using.
You can think of Project Shortcuts as a recently visited
products list.
They get added automatically as soon as you
engage with any product in any of your Firebase projects.
With the new custom nav, the products
you engage with the most are the products that you'll see first.
And the All products page will help
you discover that Firebase has more
to offer than you might have realized.
We hope you find that the new nav saves you some time.
To learn more about all of this week's stories,
make sure to check the description
box below for all of the links.
Please remember to like, subscribe, share,
and stay safe.
I'm Nikita for The Developer Show.
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next week.
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This actually is a pineapple.
It grew one pineapple and then it never grew another one.
So I'm hoping it'll grow another pineapple.
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