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"How to put networks on novice analysts" or an overview of the online course "Start in 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 […]

13 facts about venture craft for founders

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 […]

Release of multiplayer RPG game Veloren 0.3

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 [...]

Alexey Savvateev: Jean Tirol Nobel Prize for the analysis of imperfect markets (2014) and collective reputation

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 […]

IWD Wi-Fi daemon 0.19 release

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 […]

New NVIDIA driver 430.40 (2019.07.29)

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

Duktape 2.4.0 embeddable JavaScript engine released

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 […]

Release of content management system Plone 5.2

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 […]

A 44-minute demonstration of The Outer Worlds gameplay has been published online

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 […]

Halo series premiere pushed back to 2021

Showtime's Halo series won't begin production until later this year, with actors including Natascha McElhone and Bokeem Woodbine attached. While expanding the main cast and setting a production date is a step forward for the film adaptation, there is some bad news: the release has been pushed back from 2020 to the first quarter […]

Free Destiny 2: New Light and Shadowkeep DLC Coming Two Weeks Later

Bungie has announced that it will need a little more time to prepare the releases of Destiny 2: New Light and the Shadowkeep expansion. They were originally planned to be released on September 17, but now they will have to wait another two weeks - until October 1. New Light is a free-to-play adaptation of the multiplayer shooter Destiny 2, which is planned to be released on the Steam store. The composition will include not only [...]

Trailer for ANNO: Mutationem, a cyberpunk action RPG from China with a mixture of pixel art and 3D

While brothers Tim Soret and Adrien Soret are still working on their cyberpunk 2,5D platformer The Last Night and facing new challenges, a spiritual successor to the game is already being prepared in China. At the ChinaJoy 2019 event, Beijing-based ThinkingStars presented a new trailer for its action role-playing game ANNO: Mutationem for PlayStation 4 (the project debuted […]