Author: ProHoster

Why corporate blogs sometimes turn sour: some observations and advice

If a corporate blog publishes 1-2 articles per month with 1-2 thousand views and only half a dozen pluses, this means that something is being done wrong. At the same time, practice shows that in most cases blogs can be made both interesting and useful. Perhaps now there will be many opponents of corporate blogs, and in some ways I agree with them. […]

Wolfram Technology Essentials Course: 13+ Hours of Video Lectures, Theory and Challenges

All course documents can be downloaded here. I taught this course a couple of years ago to a fairly large audience. It contains a lot of information about how Mathematica, the Wolfram Cloud, and the Wolfram Language work. However, of course, time does not stand still and a lot of new things have appeared lately: from advanced capabilities for working with neural networks […]

PyTorch 1.3.0 released

PyTorch, the popular open source machine learning framework, has updated to version 1.3.0 and continues to gain momentum with its focus on serving the needs of both researchers and application programmers. Some changes: experimental support for named tensors. You can now refer to tensor dimensions by name, instead of specifying an absolute position: NCHW = ['N', 'C', 'H', 'W'] images = torch.randn(32, 3, […]

NASA's Curiosity rover discovers evidence of ancient salt lakes on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover, while exploring Gale Crater, a vast dry ancient lake bed with a hill in the center, discovered sediments containing sulfate salts in its soil. The presence of such salts indicates that there were once salt lakes here. Sulfate salts have been found in sedimentary rocks formed between 3,3 and 3,7 billion years ago. Curiosity analyzed other […]

Global tablet shipments will continue to decline in the coming years

Analysts from Digitimes Research believe that global shipments of tablet computers will decline sharply this year amid declining demand for branded and educational devices in this category. According to experts, by the end of next year the total number of tablet computers supplied to the world market will not exceed 130 million units. In the future, supplies will be reduced by 2–3 […]

Acer introduced in Russia laptop ConceptD 7 worth more than 200 thousand rubles

Acer presented the ConceptD 7 laptop in Russia, designed for specialists in the field of 3D graphics, design and photography. The new product is equipped with a 15,6-inch IPS screen with UHD 4K resolution (3840 × 2160 pixels), with factory color calibration (Delta E<2) and 100% coverage of the Adobe RGB color space. The Pantone Validated Grade certificate guarantees high-quality color rendering of the image. In the maximum configuration, the laptop […]

Guidelines for running Buildah inside a container

What's the beauty of decoupling the container runtime into separate tooling components? In particular, these tools can begin to be combined so that they protect each other. Many people are attracted to the idea of ​​building containerized OCI images within Kubernetes or a similar system. Let's say we have a CI/CD that constantly collects images, then something like Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes was […]

Analysis of commits and pull requests in Travis CI, Buddy and AppVeyor using PVS-Studio

In the PVS-Studio analyzer for C and C++ languages ​​on Linux and macOS, starting from version 7.04, a test option has appeared to check the list of specified files. Using the new mode, you can configure the analyzer to check commits and pull requests. This article will tell you how to set up checking the list of changed files of a GitHub project in such popular CI (Continuous Integration) systems as […]

Victorian Stealth Action Winter Ember Announced

Publisher Blowfish Studios and Sky Machine Studios have announced the Victorian isometric stealth action game Winter Ember. “Sky Machine has created an immersive stealth game that makes great use of lighting, verticality and a deep toolbox to allow players to sneak around as they see fit,” said Blowfish Studios co-founder Ben Lee. — We look forward to showing more Winter Ember […]

GWENT: The Witcher Card Game iOS CBT Starts Next Week

CD Projekt RED invites gamers to join the closed beta testing of the mobile version of the card game GWENT: The Witcher Card Game, which will begin next week. As part of closed beta testing, iOS users will be able to play GWENT: The Witcher Card Game on Apple devices for the first time. To participate, you only need a GOG.COM account. Players will be able to transfer their profile from the PC version […]

The press praises the action RPG The Surge 2 in a new trailer

The bloody action role-playing game The Surge 2 from Deck13 studio and Focus Home Interactive was released on September 24 on PS4, Xbox One and PC. This means it’s time for the developers to collect the most enthusiastic responses and present a traditional video praising the project. That's what they did: For example, the GameInformer staff wrote: "A thrilling pursuit of dominance, backed by excellent combat." […]

New services based on biometric technologies will appear in Russia

Rostelecom and the National Payment Card System (NSPC) have entered into a cooperation agreement to develop and implement services based on biometric technologies in our country. The parties intend to jointly develop the Unified Biometric System. Until recently, this platform allowed only key financial services: using biometric data, clients could open an account or deposit, apply for a loan or make […]