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== September 11th, 2017 == | |||
* '''Project Things mentioned in a publication''' - The MagPi publication (official Raspberry Pi magazine) has an article about our Things project ([https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/61/ issue 61]) in the September issue which talks about Mozilla’s efforts in the area of IoT and Web of Things in particular. | |||
* '''More companies announce they are using Rust in production''' - Atlassian & Tumblr have indicated they are doing so and will add their names to the [https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html “Friends of Rust” page]. In case you’re curious, adding those two brings the official total to ninety five -- so stay tuned for word that we’ve reached one hundred organizations with Rust in production. | |||
* '''We’re number one!''' - Initial integration of language model into a TensorFlow connectionist temporal classification beam search yielded a 6.48% word error rate on the Librivox clean test data set for DeepSpeech. What the heck does that mean? It means we have '''''the best open source speech recognition engine''''' (as our closest alternative, Kaldi, has a 8.01% word error rate on that same test data set). Booyah! | |||
* '''More languages for Deep Speech''' - Oh, and we’ve landed the code that provides multi-language support for Deep Speech so the Community is now actively working on adding French, German, Spanish, Macedonian, Urdu, Persian, and Kurdish. | |||
== August 28th, 2017 == | == August 28th, 2017 == | ||
* '''RustConf 2017 happened this past week in Portland, Oregon and was a big success.''' The event was completely sold out, which translates into 275 attendees all involved in and excited about Rust -- and we had lots of positive reactions from them during the conference. We also had conversations with a number of important tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Intel, and Baidu, all of whom are looking at Rust and some already using it . (We even heard that Amazon is hiring for Rust so they’re active too.). RustBridge, an all-day diversity-focused initiative, had their fifth meeting at RustConf, with 20 attendees from underrepresented groups learning to program in Rust. Here's a picture: https://twitter.com/ag_dubs/status/898687617427881985 | * '''RustConf 2017 happened this past week in Portland, Oregon and was a big success.''' The event was completely sold out, which translates into 275 attendees all involved in and excited about Rust -- and we had lots of positive reactions from them during the conference. We also had conversations with a number of important tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Intel, and Baidu, all of whom are looking at Rust and some already using it . (We even heard that Amazon is hiring for Rust so they’re active too.). RustBridge, an all-day diversity-focused initiative, had their fifth meeting at RustConf, with 20 attendees from underrepresented groups learning to program in Rust. Here's a picture: https://twitter.com/ag_dubs/status/898687617427881985 | ||