Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 30, 2023

• [GSoC 2023] VPN Support Project Update #4

  So we are just past the midway point for GSoC and last update I told you guys that I had a working (albeit somewhat buggy) TUN Driver working. I had gotten great feedback from Pulkomandy, Axel, and Korli to help with a more efficient driver and to make it more human-readable because it made no sense the way I had written it. I have very good news to bring to everyone in that all of the 3 main problems that I talked about last time are all solved! I think most of them got solved after I fully understood creating semaphores and imposed execution order by adding a write semaphore. While this new code made the driver much more efficient and less error-prone, there were two new errors that popped up during testing: [...]

• 10 Excellent R Natural Language Processing Tools

  Natural language processing (NLP) is a set of techniques for using computers to detect in human language the kinds of things that humans detect automatically.

• Pedro Sader Azevedo: 1st Contribution Hackathon, by LKCAMP

  Thank you for coming to the the 1st Contribution Hackathon at GUADEC 2023. As the name implies, in this event, we’ll teach you how to make your first code contribution to GNOME. Buckle up!

  Setup

  There are three components that we need for making the contribution: flatpak, flathub, and GNOME Builder. Here’s how to get each of them:

  Flatpak

  Flatpak is a packaging format for graphical applications that works on any GNU/Linux distribution. It is the most widely embraced packaging format for GNOME applications. To get flatpak on your distro of choice, run:

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• Git Merge Strategies and Algorithms

  How does git merge one or more branches? A look at the different merge strategies and algorithms.

• Numerical prediction

  In late 2018, when I still worked at the Met Office, I sent a document to some people there which explained why I thought AI would come to dominate weather forecasting, and why weather forecasting organisations should be looking at AI, urgently. Today, the 28th of July 2023, there is a leader on the subject in The Economist as well as an extended article in its Science and Technology section.

• Quantum programs

  Remember, quantum programming can seem daunting at first, but with practice and patience, you'll start to grasp these new concepts and begin to appreciate the immense potential that quantum computing offers. Happy coding!

• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 3 -- frictionless {plumber} api deployments with Nix

  This is the third post in a series of posts about Nix. Disclaimer: I’m a super beginner with Nix. So this series of blog posts is more akin to notes that I’m taking while learning than a super detailed tutorial. So if you’re a Nix expert and read something stupid in here, that’s normal. This post is going to focus on R (obviously) but the ideas are applicable to any programming language.

  This blog post is part tutorial on creating an api using the {plumber} R package, part an illustration of how Nix makes developing and deploying a breeze.

• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 1 -- what is Nix

  This is the first of a (hopefully) series of posts about Nix. Disclaimer: I’m a super beginner with Nix. So this series of blog posts is more akin to notes that I’m taking while learning than a super detailed tutorial. So if you’re a Nix expert and read something stupid in here, that’s normal. This post is going to focus on R (obviously) but the ideas are applicable to any programming language.