By: n JuliaLang - The Julia programming language n
Re-posted from: https://julialang.org/blog/2017/05/raspberry-pi-julia/index.html
Julia available in Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi | Recently, Julia was accepted into the Raspbian (https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/) distribution for the Raspberry Pi (https://raspberrypi.org). If you are running the latest Raspbian, all you need to do is apt-get install julia. Most of the common packages can be installed with Pkg,…
By: Tamás K. Papp
Re-posted from: https://tamaspapp.eu/post/privacy-badger/
Firefox has been my primary browser for the last decade. I find it very fast and convenient, and use quite a few addons, including Google Scholar Button, NoScript, and uBlock Origin.
I can’t recall exactly when, but about half a year ago various sites started to break. I have not bothered to debug what’s happening, suspecting it was was a combination of various plugins, but continued to use Firefox and installed openwith to open broken pages in Chromium (yes, I know, the ultimate kludge). More sites became broken, and I found that now I am spending 99% of my time in Chromium, which I don’t like that much, but moreover, it is a resource hog: while using the plugins above I can get the CPU load of Firefox to around 1–2% when I am not using it, Chromium drains my laptop battery in effectively half the time. To make things worse, Chromium apparently can’t open links in the background like Firefox, and insists on raising the window every time I open a link from another process, which is distracting.
Finally, Julia’s Discourse forum started showing up empty, which was the last straw and I went through my plugins. It turns out hat Privacy Badger was responsible for everything: apparently it relies on heavy-handed heuristics and breaks a lot of webpages. One can report this, but instead of reporting around 10–20 pages which were broken, I simply removed the plugin. I have a lot of respect for what the Electronic Frontier Foundation does, but I am not sure that this plugin is very useful.
So finally I got back the web the way I like it. Moral of the story: temporary workarounds become permanent, and bite back.
Rhisco Group and Julia Computing are delighted to announce a new partnership to collaborate in providing solutions in the regulatory risk and capital space.
As a highly-specialised boutique firm with significant expertise in risk analysis and various technologies, Rhisco provides services and solutions on risk capital technology implementations for banks, insurance and other financial companies. Julia Computing builds products focused on productivity, performance and scalability for multiple areas of data science and numerical computing leveraging the Julia programming language. Julia Computing’s products – JuliaPro, JuliaRun, and JuliaFin – are used for modelling financial contracts, asset management, risk management, algorithmic trading, backtesting, and many other areas of computational finance.
By integrating JuliaFin and other products of Julia Computing, Rhisco will significantly enhance its integration platform, Tegra, improving the technology offered to clients that need high performance solutions for risk management and regulatory requirements.
About Julia Computing and Julia
Julia Computing was founded in 2015 by the co-creators of the Julia language to provide support to businesses and researchers who use Julia.
Julia is the fastest modern high performance open source computing language for data and analytics. It combines the functionality and ease of use of Python, R, Matlab, SAS and Stata with the speed of Java and C++. Julia delivers dramatic improvements in simplicity, speed, scalability, capacity and productivity. Julia provides parallel computing capabilities out of the box and literally infinite scalability with minimal effort. With more than 1 million downloads and +161% annual growth, Julia adoption is growing rapidly in finance, energy, robotics, genomics and many other fields.
About Rhisco Group and TEGRA
Rhisco was founded in 2010 by expert professionals, supporting clients internationally through its head office in London, a subsidiary in Mexico, and a network of associates and consulting partners in Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. The people behind Rhisco have professional, quantitative and technical acumen acquired through several years of industry and consulting practice internationally.
Rhisco has developed TEGRA, a modular integration platform to enhance existing client’s risk infrastructure and accelerate implementation of new age risk technology, including cloud-computing. TEGRA software components provide a significant edge to pricing/risk engines developed by third parties or by the client. This is done through innovative technology for data intelligence, distributed computing, and advance aggregation.