Top Open Source Machine Learning Tools

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January 15, 2020

Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft and other tech giants including renowned developers have already taken a nimble step towards the Machine learning and Artificial intelligence to make the dream of human beings of creating a highly intelligent machine. And to armed others to partake in this journey of building a conscious machine for the future, there are quite a good number of open source tools avail by tech giants to integrate artificial intelligence into applications.

Yet, the artificial intelligence and machine learning are at very early stage, so don’t expect something like some sci-fi movie, however developers those are into AI and ML can use the open-source software we are going to discuss for writing apps for better speech recognition, Image recognization, Voice assistance, developing a neural network and more… Take a look at some of the most popular open-source solutions.

[Source: H2S Media]

Microsoft and IBM: Here’s why we back Google in Oracle Java API copyright case

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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January 15, 2020

IBM, Microsoft and other tech companies have filed court documents in support of Google ahead of the Supreme Court of the US hearing over whether copyright applies to software application programming interfaces.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the Google vs Oracle case in March, after the court last year agreed to reconsider a favorable decision towards Oracle by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 2014. The court reversed a federal court jury decision that Google’s use of Java API packages in its Android operating system constituted “fair use”.

[Source: ZDNet]

Wind River acquires Star Lab to improve its Linux security

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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January 15, 2020

Once upon a time Wind River was best known as a leading embedded operating system (VxWorks) and Linux (Wind River Linux) company. It still is. But things have changed. Now its customers want their devices to work in the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and that requires much better security. That’s one reason why Wind River just acquired the Linux security company Star Lab.

Star Lab brings its Titanium Security Suite to Wind River’s table. It uses a threat model that assumes an attacker will gain root (admin) access to your system, but makes it harder for them to do your system any harm.

[Source: ZDNet]

Comparing Workload Performance

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Jason Perlow

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January 14, 2020

In this blog post, Oracle Linux performance engineer Jesse Gordon presents an alternate approach to comparing the performance of a workload when measured in two different scenarios. This improves on the traditional “perf diff” method. The benefits of this approach are as follows: ability to compare based on either inclusive time (time spent in a given method and all the methods it calls)…

Click to Read More at Oracle Linux Kernel Development

Comparing Workload Performance

By

Jason Perlow

-

January 14, 2020

In this blog post, Oracle Linux performance engineer Jesse Gordon presents an alternate approach to comparing the performance of a workload when measured in two different scenarios. This improves on the traditional “perf diff” method. The benefits of this approach are as follows: ability to compare based on either inclusive time (time spent in a given method and all the methods it calls)…

Click to Read More at Oracle Linux Kernel Development

Comparing Workload Performance

By

-

January 14, 2020

In this blog post, Oracle Linux performance engineer Jesse Gordon presents an alternate approach to comparing the performance of a workload when measured in two different scenarios. This improves on the traditional “perf diff” method. The benefits of this approach are as follows: ability to compare based on either inclusive time (time spent in a given method and all the methods it calls)…
Click to Read More at Oracle Linux Kernel Development

Why Should You Use Linux?

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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January 14, 2020

When people debate which operating system is the best-either MacOS or Windows-not many mention the third option: Linux. Why is that? See, Linux has its own niche in the tech industry, but that’s it. Yes, you can use Linux as your daily driver, but learning Linux can take a long time depending on which distro, Linux’s word for “version”, you have.

But I’m not saying you shouldn’t use Linux. In fact, if you’re into technology at all, I recommend using Linux for a month or two just to see how it works and the things you can do with Linux. But what if you’re not that into tech? Here are several reasons why you should use Linux, if only for a limited time!

[Source: Tech Times]

Fedora 32 Greenlit For Enabling FSTRIM Support By Default

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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January 14, 2020

Back in December was the proposal to finally enable FSTRIM by default for Fedora 32 in benefiting solid-state storage. Today the formal approval was given by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee to go ahead with this long overdue change.

The change is to enable the systemd fstrim.timer unit by default for running FSTRIM weekly on EXT4/XFS/Btrfs/F2FS file-systems running on flash-based storage devices. FSTRIM is used for notifying the underlying storage devices about unused blocks for wear leveling and more efficient handling.

[Source: Phoronix]

Google gives $1 million to UVM to advance open source research

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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January 14, 2020

The Google Open Source Programs Office, a division of Google that manages Google’s use and release of open source software and promotes open source programming, has provided the University of Vermont (UVM) Complex Systems Center a $1 million unrestricted gift to support open source research.

The goal of the UVM project is to deepen understanding of how people, teams and organizations thrive in technology-rich settings, especially in open-source projects and communities. The Google award will establish a collaboration between the Google Open Source team and UVM to begin building a community-oriented body of research focused on understanding how open source platforms are used and what makes technology-rich environments thrive.

[Source: Vermont Biz]

Linux Lite 4.8 Arrives as a Windows 7 Alternative, Based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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January 14, 2020

Linux Lite creator Jerry Bezencon announced today the release and general availability of the Linux Lite 4.8 operating system as an alternative to the soon-to-be-deprecated Windows 7 OS.

Based on Canonical’s Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system, the final release of the Linux Lite 4.8 operating system ships with the Linux 4.15 kernel and updated apps, including Mozilla Firefox 71.0, Mozilla Thunderbird 68.2.2, LibreOffice 6.0.7, VLC 3.0.8, GIMP 2.10.14, and Timeshift 19.08.1.

[Source: Softpedia]