Techblogging

Current AI companies ignore licenses such as the GPL, and often train on anything they can scrape.

Azul’s State-of-Java report is full of nonsense, and no worth looking at.

The Amazon Kids “parental controls” are extremely insufficient, and I strongly advise against getting any of the Amazon Kids series.

The following contents are generated by prompting AI with a bad pun, cherry picking, and do not reflect my personal opinion.

I have uploaded most of my “Machine Learning” lecture to YouTube.

I have written my first Rust crate: kmedoids.

The publisher MDPI is a spammer and lies.

Some people believe that automatic contact tracing apps will help contain the Coronavirus epidemic.

As pointed out by RetractionWatch, AltMetrics even tracks the metrics of a retraction notices.

RetractionWatch published in Feburary 2018 an article titled “A journal waited 13 months to reject a submission.

Facebook is too optimistic when it comes to Cambridge Analytica extends.

I got spammed again by SciencePG (“Science Publishing Group”).

Elsevier Scopus is crap.

In Winter Term 2017/2018 I was substitute professor at Univeristy Heidelberg, and giving the lecture “Knowledge Discovery in Databases”, i.e., the data mining lecture.

Recently, tons of website ask you for the permission to display browser notifications. 99% of the time, you will not want these.

Daniel Pocock (via planet.debian.org) points out what tracking services online dating services expose you to.

Booking.com just spammed me with an email that claims that I were a “frequent traveller” (which I am not), and thus would get “Genius” status, and rebates (which means they are going to hide some non-partner search results from me…) - I hate such marketing

I haven’t blogged in a long time, and that probably won’t change.

I know, all the Scala fanboys are going to hate me now.

The “Locky” trojan and similar trojans apparently can cause havoc on your file servers (you may have heard the reports of hospitals that had to pay thousands of dollars to be able to decrypt their files).

Version 0.7.0 of our data mining toolkit ELKI is now available on the project homepage, GitHub and Maven.

Unity, that is the Ubuntu user interface, that nobody else uses.

A quick reply to Zigo’s post: Well, I looked at the Bigtop efforts because I needed Hadoop packages.

This post is a follow-up to my earlier post on the “sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers”.

System administration is in a sad state.