Adrin's Blog

Twice in the past year, installing an update from the Arch User Repository (AUR) could have handed your machine to somebody else.

Being a maintainer in the age of AI.¶ Ralf Gommers wrote a really nice blog post around 6 years ago about the cost of an open source contribution , where he talks about what happens when a contribution comes in, the challenges, and the bottlenecks.

Image on: https://blog.1password.com/remote-work-tips/ Remote Work¶ I’ve been working mostly remotely / from home for the past couple of years.

Image by: opensource.com This post is about how a team or project can benefit from engaging with open source communities related to that project.

The idea behind this post is not to show how to install the tools you need, or to list a bunch of [at a first glance seemingly random] git commands.

(Since I don’t know individuals’ pronouns involved in this post, they/them is used instead.)

This was my first FOSDEM, which has been happening in Brussels every year for the past 20 years!

This is a repost of what I posted on twitter.

Almost a year ago, after being the co-speaker of a “My first open source contribution” talk at PyData Berlin 2018, I myself became very motivated and started actively contributing to the scikit-learn project.

Writing code is not the only way you can contribute to an open source project.

When looking for a project to which you’d like to contribute, there are two major aspects you may want to consider.

I’ve been a fan of open source software for a long time.

Background¶ A weekend in October (15-17.10.2017), on the side of the 9th World Health Summit (WHS) I attended a hackathon called Hacking Global Health.

I’d like to talk about this study: Deep neural networks are more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation from facial images, and it’s not going to be a praise of the research!

Although the context of this post is bioinformatics and cancer, it applies to many other fields as well.

Reproducibility (in science)¶ It’s almost not a word, to the extent that as far as I know it’s only used in the context of science, and it has its own Wikipedia page.

Hackathon¶ To me, a hackathon is when a group of people gather for a day or two, working for a somewhat common goal, develop, have fun, meet new people, and to home.

Problem description:¶ This work was done in Mister Spex GmbH, and slides of a presentation I gave at PyData meetup are available now here.

I was reading this article on the ethics of editing human genome and I realized there’s a missing point in there.

After quite a few days struggling to configure a Zimbra server so that it automatically fetches users from our freeIPA (LDAP) server, I finally managed to have a configuration which works.

I decided to actually write on this blog (decision was made this morning and is final :D ).