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Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Machine unlearning is a subfield of machine learning that aims to remove the influence of a specific set of training examples — the "forget set" — from a trained model, say Fabian Pedregosa and Eleni Triantafillou, research scientists at Google.  “Fully erasing the influence of...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Open source hardware has developed into a flourishing industry, says Phillip Torrone, with many companies adhering to the “open source hardware definition which means products meet a uniform and well-defined standard for open source software and hardware.” “However, recently some open source hardware companies have...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Also, you can pass a file name as an argument, and df will report on the filesystem that contains the specified file – which could be handy if you don’t remember where a particular filesystem is mounted. Finally, a few options exist to make df...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Cloud computing has three primary types — public, private, and hybrid — which offer various advantages and potential challenges, explains Collins Ayuya.  This article provides definitions along with a comparison of the three models to help you determine the most suitable option for your organization....
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The Debian Project has announced that RISC-V 64 is now an official Debian architecture. Previously, if you wanted to run Debian on RISC-V, “you had to rely on a Debian port for 64-bit little-endian RISC-V hardware running the Linux kernel," explains Marius Nestor.  That’s no longer...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Meta has released a commercial version of Llama 2, its open source AI large language model (LLM), reports Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. Llama 2 is available free of charge for research and commercial use, and “Meta is including model weights and starting code for the pre-trained...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The time has come for a clear definition of “Open Source AI,” says the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Toward that end, the organization has undertaken a “multi-stakeholder process to define machine learning systems that can be characterized as Open Source.”  In a recent meeting, representatives...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife Today, however, the company website raises some misgivings. Purism invested heavily in the Librem 5, its Linux phone, and there may have been some cost overruns (the price of the finished product is $1,299, or $1,999 for an American-built one), and some customers are...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The Raspberry Pi Foundation has open-sourced its online, text-based Code Editor, reports Julian Horsey.  The recently introduced Code Editor, which is designed to aid young learners, “simplifies the process of learning text-based coding.” It currently supports Python as the first programming language; however, “the Foundation...
Dit bericht verscheen eerder bij FOSSlife The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced the creation of the Open Policy Alliance (OPA), which aims to “bring non-profit organizations together to participate in educating and informing US public policy decisions related to Open Source software, content, research, and education.”   The program, led...