today's leftovers
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Open-source technology founder Dr Sanjiva Weerawarana to visit Australia
The founder of open-source technology provider WSO2, Dr Sanjiva Weerawarana, is visiting Australia this month to discuss the latest in technology innovation and showcase the recently announced Avinya Foundation, a not-for-profit giving more children in Sri Lanka the opportunity for a professional future via vocational careers.
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Zoom SFS created using deb2sfs
It is on the to-do list that will record these extra dependency requirements somewhere in /usr/local/easy_containers/templates/zoom. So won't have to remember them when do a future zoom deb2sfs.
The SFS has been uploaded, so you can click on "sfs" icon to download and install it. It will only install to the main desktop, as audio is broken in a container.
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Data scientist: A day in the life
Over the last six years, I’ve made a living from modeling, primarily in New York City but also in Seattle and various countries worldwide. While I enjoy dressing up in NYC’s trendiest streetwear, by “modeling,” I mean predictive modeling, a central element of the applied data science I’ve done throughout my career.
I started my data science journey at Custora, a New York-based company that built predictive marketing software for eCommerce businesses. After Custora was acquired by Amperity, I joined their data science team, where I’m now a lead data scientist. Amperity is partially remote, which has allowed me to work from anywhere with solid Wi-Fi and even more solid espresso.
My experience in data science has been focused on building machine-learning pipelines as part of enterprise software. Such work relies more heavily on engineering prowess, infrastructural considerations, and high performance both computationally and efficaciously (I had to look that one up.) It also requires regular coordination between data scientists, machine learning engineers, back-end engineers, and product managers.
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Remote working: Red Hat tells staff they don't have to return to the office [Ed: Too late. A lot of the important technical and management staff from Red Hat already left the building. And the company, too.]
Enterprise Linux heavyweight Red Hat will let its nearly 20,000-strong workforce choose whether or not to come back into the office.
Red Hat chief people officer Jennifer Dudeck said in a blogpost the maker of the enterprise Linux platform Red Hat Enterprise Linux is going for an "office-flex" model where it allows staff to "come to the office as much as they need to, or not at all if they choose."