Free Software Leftovers
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Z80 Gets New OS
If you have a soft spot for a Z80 computer but want a new operating system experience, try Zeal. You can watch a demo of the open-source OS in the video below.
As you might expect, the whole system is written in Z80 assembly language. The features you expect are there: files, directories, device drivers, a clock, and even memory banking to support up to 16M of memory. The work isn’t totally done, nor is the initial target computer — Zeal — but it looks like a great piece of work so far and will be of interest to anyone who has a Z80.
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Goodbye Twitter, Hello Blog!
It’s quickly become clear that the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk means the end of the site as I’ve known it since 2008. Instead I’m going to collect all the stuff I would have tweeted about & post it to this blog roughly once a week. If you have an RSS reader you can follow along there. I’ve also created a subreddit where I’ll link to each post, so that folks can follow via Reddit if they prefer, and also comment on what I’ve written. I’d also appreciate comments over email!
My goal is to post fewer things, more thoughtfully, to a smaller audience for a while, and see how that goes.
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Top 9 Open Source Graph Databases
Understanding most domains requires processing large sets of connections along with individual values. Along with financial services providers, even social networks, payment networks or road networks depend on understanding relationships between individual values to establish recommendation engines and detect fraud.
This is where the importance of graph databases is highlighted as they utilise topographical data models to store data. They store nodes and relationships instead of documents or tables. Traversing through nodes, joins, and relationships is a lot faster than assessing individual values.
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10 MLflow Features to 10 Million Downloads
This milestone, which few open source projects achieve, was accomplished through contributions from the MLflow community’s many open-source developers and users. As we celebrate the community’s success, we think it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on how MLflow reached this level of adoption in the emerging MLOps ecosystem. I’d like to highlight ten design principles and features that contributed to MLflow passing 10,000,000 monthly downloads by making users successful with a wide variety of model development and MLOps initiatives.
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The Africa Legal Innovation Week
The Africa Legal Innovation Week is a hybrid, annual conference that brings legal technologists across the African Continent together to discuss the role of technology in supporting access to justice. The event that is taking place from 22 to 29 November 2022, will give the attendees a chance to meet, interact and network with the leading digital justice and legal innovation experts, as well as engage with Africa’s disruptive justice and legal innovations.
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EUPL in Encyclopedia
The E – Scolarship Community Encyclopedia is a user-generated content collection platform for researchers with additional contributions published on scientific websites by competent experts. It focuses on scientific topics and concepts, including Mathematics and Computer Science.