DevOps teams widely use chat rooms as communications hubs where team members interact—both with one another and with the systems that they operate. Bots help facilitate these interactions, delivering important notifications and relaying commands from users back to systems. Many teams even prefer that operational events and notifications come through chat rooms where the entire […]

fd, is a simple, fast and user-friendly tool meant to simply perform faster compared to find, but it not meant to completely replace find, but rather provide a better performance.

usbrip (inherited from "USB Ripper", not "USB R.I.P.") is an open source forensics tool with CLI interface that lets you keep track of USB device artifacts (i.e., USB event history) on Linux machines.

usbrip is a small piece of software written in pure Python 3 (using some external modules, see Dependencies/pip) which analyzes Linux log data (journalctl output or /var/log/syslog* and /var/log/messages* files, depending on the distro) for constructing USB event history tables. Such tables may contain the following columns: "Connected" (date & time), "Host", "VID" (vendor ID), "PID" (product ID), "Product", "Manufacturer", "Serial Number", "Port" and "Disconnected" (date & time).

Full featured and highly configurable SFTP server software.

A simple walkthrough of what RNNs are, how they work, and how to build one from scratch in Python.

A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data as something too futuristic to have any practical value. Today, you can extend PostgreSQL with the right software and bio-chemical modules, and run SQL on DNA.

A communication system built on MQTT consists of the publishing server, a broker and one or more clients. The publisher does not require any configuration concerning the number or location of subscribers receiving messages. Likewise, subscribers do not need publisher-specific setup. There may be more than one broker on the system distributing messages.

This article explains how to edit PDF metadata tags on Linux, using either a GUI or from the command line.

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A curated list of applied machine learning and data science notebooks and libraries across different industries.

Deep learning techniques have become the method of choice for researchers working on algorithmic aspects of recommender systems. With the strongly increased interest in machine learning in general, it has, as a result, become difficult to keep track of what represents the state-of-the-art at the moment, e.g., for top-n recommendation tasks. At the same time, several recent publications point out problems in today's research practice in applied machine learning, e.g., in terms of the reproducibility of the results or the choice of the baselines when proposing new models.

In this work, we report the results of a systematic analysis of algorithmic proposals for top-n recommendation tasks. Specifically, we considered 18 algorithms that were presented at top-level research conferences in the last years. Only 7 of them could be reproduced with reasonable effort. For these methods, it however turned out that 6 of them can often be outperformed with comparably simple heuristic methods, e.g., based on nearest-neighbor or graph-based techniques. The remaining one clearly outperformed the baselines but did not consistently outperform a well-tuned non-neural linear ranking method.

Overall, our work sheds light on a number of potential problems in today's machine learning scholarship and calls for improved scientific practices in this area. Source code of our experiments and full results are available at: https://github.com/MaurizioFD/RecSys2019_DeepLearning_Evaluation.

Signed/Encrypted ARchive: always-encrypted tar-like archive tool with optional signature support.

Argdown is a simple syntax for complex argumentation. Writing pro & contra lists in Argdown is as simple as writing a twitter message, but you can also use it to logically reconstruct whole debates and visualize them as argument maps.

Argdown is a simple syntax for complex argumentation. Writing pro & contra lists in Argdown is as simple as writing a twitter message, but you can also use it to logically reconstruct whole debates and visualize them as argument maps.

org-mode on the web, built with React, optimized for mobile, synced with Dropbox and Google Drive.

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For the past few years, I've been building and operating a large distributed system: the payments system at Uber. I've learned a lot about distributed architecture concepts during this time and seen first-hand how high-load and high-availability systems are challenging not just to build, but to operate as well.

In this guide, we will discuss four unofficial google drive clients for Linux. Using them, you can mount Google drive locally as a virtual file system.

Talk - an open-source comments platform built with journalists and their communities in mind. Currently used by industry leaders and small newsrooms alike.