There are some cool things going on with transactional package management (Guix specifically). I like how FOSDEM talks feel real and low-key, contrasting with the rockstar attitude that we can see sometimes at other tech conferences.
because it is a community/volunteer run free event of people who care, not a marketing show sponsored by VC money. No need to “sell” something as there are not “buyers” in the audience. We really need more events like fosdem.
The former is a high level functional programming language that compiles down to OpenCL, and provides easy to use Python modules that wrap all your functions. I’m currently looking into creating a similar binding infrastructure for Rust and Futhark. Quite amazing and a low barrier to entry for GPU programming.
The latter gives a good overview of the development and evolution of Valgrind, how it works internally and what the current limitations are.
I’ve found the following link, which lists the talks along side the videos, to be the easiest to browse:
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/events/
There are some cool things going on with transactional package management (Guix specifically). I like how FOSDEM talks feel real and low-key, contrasting with the rockstar attitude that we can see sometimes at other tech conferences.
because it is a community/volunteer run free event of people who care, not a marketing show sponsored by VC money. No need to “sell” something as there are not “buyers” in the audience. We really need more events like fosdem.
I can heartily recommend the talks Purely Functional GPU Programming with Futhark and A dozen years of Memcheck.
The former is a high level functional programming language that compiles down to OpenCL, and provides easy to use Python modules that wrap all your functions. I’m currently looking into creating a similar binding infrastructure for Rust and Futhark. Quite amazing and a low barrier to entry for GPU programming.
The latter gives a good overview of the development and evolution of Valgrind, how it works internally and what the current limitations are.
Thanks, I would have missed that (Furthark).
The link submitted takes you to the talks of a single room.
https://video.fosdem.org/2017/
Would have been a better link
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