As part of Xeiam’s Datasets open source project, we’ve built a basic WAV audio file explorer which displays the spectrogram and waveform of ten second audio clips of birdsong from the HJA Birdsong machine learning dataset. Since this project i... read more
Abstract We present a high level design of kT-RAM and a formal definition of its instruction set. We report the completion of a kT-RAM emulator and the successful port of all previous machine learning benchmark applications including unsupervised clusteri... read more
Migrating to Dropwizard version 0.8.0 was easier than the update from 0.6.x to 0.7.0, but there were still some hang ups, so I thought I would share some of the migration changes need for upgrading to the latest release of from version 0.7.x. The Release ... read more
Since version 1.5, there is a new plugin management system for Logstash. Plugin repositories are now located at github.com/logstash-plugins. Plugins are now self-contained Ruby gem whose source code lives in its own GitHub repository. The Ruby gem is host... read more
The Bro Network Security Monitor is an open source network monitoring framework. In a nutshell, Bro monitors packet flows over a network with a network tap installed with optional bonded network interfaces, and creates high-level “flow” events... read more
The Bro Network Security Monitor is an open source network monitoring framework. In a nutshell, Bro monitors packet flows over a network and creates high-level “flow” events from them and stores the events as single tab-separated lines in a lo... read more
Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana – the ELK Stack – is emerging as the best technology stack to collect, manage and visualize big data. If you came here looking for help installing the ELK stack, you don’t need an introduction, so let&... read more
Mimicking Nature’s Computers How does nature compute? Attempting to answer this question naturally leads one to consider biological nervous systems, although examples of computation abound in other manifestations of life. Some examples include plant... read more
Introduction Many memristive materials have recently been reported [1–5], and the trend continues. New designs and materials are being used to create a diverse range of devices and Knowm Inc. is now selling discrete memristors! Memristor models are also... read more
Introduction The Knowm Development Team needs access to affordable research and development platforms for distributed computing. To address this need, we have paired Adapteva’s powerful and affordable Parallella boards with Apache Storm to create an... read more