Cryptography often feels like an ancient dark art, full of math-heavy concepts, rigid key sizes, and strict protocols. But what if you could rethink the idea of a “key” entirely? What if the key wasn’t a fixed blob of bits, but a living, br…
The last couple of weeks were super busy in “PyTorch Land” as we are frantically preparing the release of PyTorch v1.10 and TorchVision v0.11. In this 2nd instalment of the series, I’ll cover some of the upcoming features that are currently included in…
I’m starting a new blog post series about the development of PyTorch’s computer vision library. I plan to discuss interesting upcoming features primarily from TorchVision and secondary from the PyTorch ecosystem. My target is to highlight new and in-de…
DejaDup is the default backup application for Gnome. It’s a GUI for duplicity, focuses on simplicity, supports incremental encrypted backups and up until recently supported a large number of cloud providers. Unfortunately as of version 42.0, all major …
The Datumbox Framework v0.8.2 has been released! Download it now from GitHub or Maven Central Repository. What is new? The version 0.8.2 is a limited incremental release that focuses on resolving bugs and updating the dependencies of the framework. Her…
As of mid-2019, Dropbox announced that they no longer support symlinks that point outside of the main Dropbox folder. In this tutorial, we show a workaround on Linux that enables us to store in Dropbox any file, even if it is not located within the mai…
UPDATE: Unfortunately my Pull-Request to Keras that changed the behaviour of the Batch Normalization layer was not accepted. You can read the details here. For those of you who are brave enough to mess with custom implementations, you can find the code…
Deep Learning (the favourite buzzword of late 2010s along with blockchain/bitcoin and Data Science/Machine Learning) has enabled us to do some really cool stuff the last few years. Other than the advances in algorithms (which admittedly are based on id…
On October 19 2017, Ubuntu 17.10 will be released and as many of you know it packs lots of significant changes. I spend a week testing the Beta 2 and in this “last minute” review, I document some of the less obvious features/gotchas of Ubuntu 17.10. I …