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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 15, 2023
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=> ↺ Late Night Linux – Episode 242
Rare praise for Mozilla as more extensions come to Firefox on Android, Fedora is coming to Arm Macs, a rolling version of “Ubuntu” appears, an unwise solution to the problem of funding open source, SUSE might be the baddies, LXD is forked, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
=> ↺ An Introduction to Bayesian A/B Testing in Stan, R, and Python workshop
Description: This workshop will cover a basic introduction to Bayesian inference, A/B Testing, and decision theory for the analysis of large-scale field experiments in industry settings. After introducing the foundations of the Bayesian approach to A/B Testing, we will work through real-world examples using the probabilistic programming language Stan along with its R and Python interfaces.
=> ↺ HP EliteBook 8470p and Dell Precision T1650 support added to Libreboot
I’ve ported and tested two new boards, and merged them into the lbmk master branch. They will be available in the next regular release: [...]
About 20 years ago, I started my own technology consulting company. We mostly did strategic consulting in IT – architecture, strategy, IT effectiveness, projects rescues and Lean Six Sigma consulting. Those sorts of things.
But at the same time I was fascinated with open source – and I’ve mentioned this before. I couldn’t believe that individuals and even companies would collaborate to develop sophisticated software that could run at an enterprise level and that the source code would be freely available for anyone to take and even modify.
It was a new world. But how did you make money in a world like this? That was the question.
=> ↺ FreeBSD for Research: CHERI/Morello
After his work on Jails, Professor Watson joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge in the UK, where he continues to research and develop breakthrough ways to improve computer system security. His work earned him the EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award, granted annually to European early researchers (i.e., those no more than 10 years on from receiving their PhD) who have demonstrated exceptional creativity and innovation in systems research.
=> ↺ AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux
With some work currently pending to be pulled into Mesa, the open source AMD RADV driver could be about to get much faster with Ray Tracing which is exciting to see.
=> ↺ Debian's Gunnar Wolf: Back to online teaching
Mexico’s education sector had one of the longest lockdowns due to COVID: As everybody, we “went virtual” in March 2020, and it was only by late February 2022 that I went back to teach presentially at the University.
=> ↺ www-zh-cn @ Savannah: Welcome our new member - Jing Luo
Hi, all I am very glad that we have a new member.
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Jing Luo will show his/her passion in Free Software, and try to let more people know about GNU. I wish Jing Luo a pleasant journey to a better world. Let's welcome Jing Luo in this big family. wxie
=> ↺ At Black Hat, Splunk, AWS, IBM Security and Others Launch Open Source Cybersecurity Framework
With security schema, Splunk and collaborators aim to transform alert telemetry from cacophony to chorus with one taxonomy across vendors and tools.
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