The most important transport problem in St. Petersburg is bridges. At night, because of them, you have to run away from the tavern without finishing your beer. Well, or pay twice as much for a taxi as usual. In the morning, carefully calculate the time so that as soon as the bridge is closed, you make it to the station like a nimble mongoose. We don’t […]
We are launching a new course for beginners - “Start in Data Science”. For just 990 rubles, you will immerse yourself in Data Science: learn about specializations, choose a profession and improve your skills in working with data. Data Science is the science of data and its analysis. Many people think that entering the field is very difficult: it’s tedious, long, and requires a physics and mathematics education. But […]
A selection of events for the week. ok.tech: Data Talk #2 August 07 (Wednesday) Leningradsky pr 39str79 free On August 7, ok.tech: Data Talk #2 will take place at the Moscow office of Odnoklassniki. This time the event will be dedicated to education in Data Science. Now there is such a hype around working with data that only the lazy have not thought about getting an education in the field of Data Science. […]
I haven’t written anything for “a thousand years,” but suddenly there was a reason to blow off the dust from a mini-cycle of publications on “learning Data Science from scratch.” In contextual advertising on one of the social networks, as well as on my favorite Habré, I came across information about the “Start in Data Science” course. It cost mere pennies, the description of the course was colorful and promising. "Why […]
A list of interesting statistical facts based on posts from my Telegram channel Groks. The results of various studies described below once changed my understanding of venture capital investments and the startup environment. I hope you find these observations useful too. For you who look at the field of capital from the side of the founders. 1. The startup industry is disappearing amid globalization Young companies less than […]
A new release of the computer role-playing game Veloren 0.3, written in the Rust language and using voxel graphics, has been prepared. The project is developing under the influence of such games as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. Binary assemblies are generated for Linux and Windows. The code is provided under the GPLv3 license. The project is still at an early stage [...]
If I were giving the Nobel Prize to Jean Tirole, I would give it for his game-theoretic analysis of reputation, or at least include it in the formulation. It seems to me that this is a case where our intuition fits the model well, although it is difficult to test this model. This is from a series of those models that are difficult or impossible to verify and falsify. But the idea seems completely […]
The release of the Wi-Fi daemon IWD 0.19 (iNet Wireless Daemon), developed by Intel as an alternative to wpa_supplicant for connecting Linux systems to a wireless network, is available. IWD can act as a backend for network configurators such as Network Manager and ConnMan. The key goal of developing the new Wifi daemon is to optimize resource consumption such as memory consumption and disk size. IWD […]
Added support for new GPUs: GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Quadro RTX 3000 with Max-Q Design And most importantly, bugs regarding kernel configurations with the CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU option have been fixed. Also added support for systems that only have support for the ncurses widechar ABI. Source: linux.org.ru
The release of the Duktape 2.4.0 JavaScript engine has been published, aimed at embedding into the code base of projects in the C/C++ language. The engine is compact in size, highly portable and low resource consumption. The source code of the engine is written in C and distributed under the MIT license. The Duktape code takes up about 160 kB and consumes only 70 kB of RAM, and in low memory mode 27 kB […]
At the end of July, the developers published the long-awaited release of one of the best content management systems - Plone. Plone is a CMS written in Python that uses the Zope application server. Unfortunately, little known in the vast post-Soviet space, but widely used in educational, government and scientific circles around the world. This is the first fully Python 3 compatible release, working on […]
Polygon published a 44-minute demo of the gameplay of The Outer Worlds, an RPG from Obsidian Entertainment. In it, journalists showed the world of the project, in which there are lizard monsters, and demonstrated the variability of dialogues. During the game, the user will earn reputation points with various factions and understand the life of the corporations that rule the planet. The Outer Worlds is a game from the creators […]
