Hardware: Allwinner Processors, Intel SoC and RISC-V

• Project-X A1-Series Production-Ready Pico-ITX SBCs are Powered by Allwinner Processors (Crowdfunding)

• Linux Code Reveals Intel’s New ‘Lightning Mountain’ SoC In The Making

  As per reports, the silicon giant Intel is working on a new Atom SoC which goes by the codename Lightning Mountain. The details of the upcoming chip were spotted in the recently released Linux kernel patch notes by Phoronix (via Tom’s Hardware). It’s speculated that the new SoC will be a “network processor” much like Snow Ridge. The latter was unveiled earlier this year and built to power 5G base stations.

• GigaDevice Releases GD32V RISC-V MCU and Development Boards

  A few years ago, we came across GigaDevice GD32 microcontroller compatible with STMicro STM32F103, but with a higher 108 MHz clock, and zero wait state internal flash.

Programming Leftovers

• 7 Excellent R Natural Language Processing Tools

  Natural language processing (NLP) is a set of techniques for using computers to detect in human language the kinds of things that humans detect automatically. NLP is an exciting field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages. It includes word and sentence tokenization, text classification and sentiment analysis, spelling correction, information extraction, parsing, meaning extraction, and question answering. In our formative years, we master the basics of spoken and written language. However, the vast majority of us do not progress past some basic processing rules when we learn how to handle text in our applications. Yet unstructured software comprises the majority of the data we see. NLP is the technology for dealing with our all-pervasive product: human language, as it appears in social media, emails, web pages, tweets, product descriptions, newspaper stories, and scientific articles, in thousands of languages and variants.

• A muggle's guide to AWK arrays: 3

  Part 2 in this series looked at the 2-file command structure, where the first part of an AWK command created an array based on the first file, and the second part of the command used the array to filter a second file. Another way to think about this command structure is that an AWK array is like a lookup table, held in memory. You can use that lookup table for different kinds of data operations on another file. In this post I'll demonstrate reformatting and table joining.

• Doing Math with Python in Python Humble Bundle

  "Doing Math with Python" is part of No Starch Press's Python Humble Bundle.

• Kushal Das: A new tool to render my blog

  Now, I think it worked for me. I could focus on writing the actual content of the posts than anything else. The tool has a few flaws, but, none of them had any issue with my blogging requirements. It just worked for me. I could have written it in Python (in much less time), but, learning a new language is always fun.

today's howtos

• How to Install NTP Server and Client on Ubuntu

• list human readable files

• How to Create a Group Email in Gmail

• How to Stream Video From VLC

• Hidden gem of Fedora: lbzip2

• Run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 in a container on RHEL 7