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Keras 1.0 – Python deep learning framework
Keras was initially released a year ago, late March 2015. It has made tremendous progress since, both on the development front, and as a community.
Brian Kernighan on the Typesetting of “The Go Programming Language” Book
A while ago, I bought the book “ The Go Programming Language ” written by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan. I have always been a fan of Brian Kernighan’s writings. I should admit that I bought the book mainly for his great examples and writings than for the Go language itself, but since then have got interested in the…
Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power
The Scala language is large and complex, and it provides a variety of tools that a developer can use to do the same thing in a variety of ways. Given the range of possible solutions to every problem, how can a developer choose which one should be used? This is the first in a series of blog posts aiming to provide…
Erlang 19.0 Garbage Collector
Each Erlang process has its own stack and heap which are allocated in the same memory block. When the stack and the heap meet, the garbage collector is triggered and memory is reclaimed. Find out more on our blog.
Android Studio 2.0 Released
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU
This post describes the text rendering algorithm I used on thetamath.com, a GPU-powered 2D equation renderer I wrote for fun last December…
RethinkDB 2.3: user accounts, network encryption, Windows support
Today we’re pleased to announce the release of RethinkDB 2.3 (Fantasia). Download it now !
Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit
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Grunt 1.0.0 released
This release is made possible by @shama , @vladikoff , @jkaussieskater , @dmethvin .
AWS Lambda: a few years of advancement and we are back to stored procedures
Serverless computing is the new buzzword. AWS describes Lambda (their implementation of Serverless) as the way how you’ll do things post containers. Go figure …
Rust via its Core Values
I have a couple of ideas about learning programming languages. The first is that we do it wrong. I’m sure you’ve experienced this. You try learning a new language and can’t quite see how it all works. Why do I use this syntax here and some other syntax over here? We get frustrated by all the weird bits and go back to…
Go 1.7 toolchain improvements
This is a progress report on the Go toolchain improvements during the 1.7 development cycle. All measurements were taken using a Thinkpad x220, Core i5-2520M, running Ubuntu 14.04 linux.