F1 racing team relies on cloud-based simulations | Startups help Ukraine
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Hannah
Schmitz describes how she and her team use cloud-based Monte Carlo simulations to help Oracle Red Bull Racing make winning decisions in Formula One racing. Technology startups support victims of the war in Ukraine. Virtual reality gets put to work for our climate future. And DMCI Homes builds beautiful residences throughout the Philippines, with cloud support. Also: Laziness gets results in Java coding.
As
principal strategy engineer for the Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 team, Hannah Schmitz and her teammates run billions of simulations to assess the probability of winning under different scenarios that use various tactics, all to give drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez the best chance to stand on the podium.
Startups,
including Circulor, DoxyChain, aiconix, and Brime, are helping Ukraine by providing support for displaced people and nonprofit organizations, as well as assisting both the Ukrainian and Russian people to evade censorship, says Oracle for Startups head Jason Williamson, who has a personal connection to the region.
Visitors
to the FUTURE of Water exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC use virtual reality to simulate flying over Las Vegas, traveling down into a storm drain, and rescuing a turtle wrapped in plastic. It’s all done to drive home the importance of small activities in improving our climate future.
Oracle
Professional Asian Leadership (OPAL), the company’s fastest-growing employee resource group, provides community for Asian colleagues and allies. “As an Asian, I often felt alone in my struggles. But this community was created so that you don’t have to feel that way,” says Win Chang, OPAL founder and advisor.
DMCI Homes uses the latest design techniques to build beautiful homes throughout the Philippines. By implementing construction management in the cloud, the company can monitor the performance of multiple projects with real-time updates from project sites and strong collaboration.
The
lazy way is often the best way, in life and application development. In software, laziness is called “functional-style programming.” It’s supported in Java with lambda expressions, streams, and other features that help developers produce code that’s easy to read, modify, and test.
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