CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)
Guest Post Every once in a while I get a question, either privately or in a department meeting, regarding CUNYFirst. Here is what I know of CUNYFirst, based on a few years of working with the project as a “training liaison” (which is a fancy term for room-scheduler). (1) The idea of CUNYFirst is […]
Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue
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Things I’ve learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation
18th September 2024 Two years ago I was elected to the board of directors for the Python Software Foundation—the PSF. I recently returned from the annual PSF board retreat (this one was in Lisbon, Portugal) and this feels like a good opportunity to write up some of the things I’ve learned along the way. What […]
0day Contest for End-of-Life Devices Announced
Give Us your Best (Or Worst) Zero-day VulnS. The Junkyard is a platform to showcase novel security research and support hobby and career development for security researchers. We want you to bring your most impactful, creative, or most meme-worthy bugs in end-of-life (EOL) products, and demonstrate them live on stage. Winners get 💰 prizes 💰 […]
Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document and serves a wide range of use cases at Meta from prototyping to complex machine learning workflows. Pascal Hartig […]
A Subway Named Mobius (1952)
A Subway Named Mobius Book Details Title: A Subway Named Mobius Author: Published: 1952 Publisher: Omnibus of Science Fiction Tags: fiction, science fiction, short story Description: Modern city subway has a series of subway tunnels so complex that they lead into other dimensions. A classic science fiction story of topology. [Suggest a different description.] Downloads: […]
Launch HN: Cerebrium (YC W22) – Serverless Infrastructure Platform for ML/AI
Hi HN, We are Michael & Jono, and we are building Cerebrium (https://www.cerebrium.ai), a serverless infrastructure platform for ML/AI applications – we make it easy for engineers to build, deploy and scale AI applications. Initially, we’ve been hyper-focused on the inference side of applications, but we’re working on expanding our functionality to support training and […]
Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray
The majority of open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security than they did three years ago, and have become less trusting of contributors following the xz backdoor, according to open source package security firm Tidelift. Small wonder then that the maintainer population is […]
Papermill: Parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks
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AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds
Inside a bustling unit at St. Michael’s Hospital in downtown Toronto, one of Shirley Bell’s patients was suffering from a cat bite and a fever, but otherwise appeared fine — until an alert from an AI-based early warning system showed he was sicker than he seemed. While the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon, […]