Firebase Summit Extended 2018 Singapore was recently and I gave a talk on Firebase MLKit and TensorFlow Lite. If you've not used Firebase before, its a mobile platform by Google to make developing Android, iOS and webapps easier and quicker. Originally Firebase was Analytics, Admob and a database but has been expanding quite a lot over the last few years. One of the new additions to the Firebase family is MLKit. It makes it easier to use machine learning features in your app (both Android and iOS) without the hassle it might otherwise be. more ...

If you've installed TensorFlow from pip, you've probably come across this message:

tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:141] Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: AVX2 FMA

Well, I did too and it got me wondering how much of a difference those instructions end up making. People often say GPUs are required for any non-trivial ML work so I wanted to see if that was really true. I decided to delve in and optimize TensorFlow and make it faster on my machine. I gave a talk about this yesterday at the TensorFlow and Deep Learning Meetup in Singapore, the slides will be attached at the end as well.

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A month ago was FOSSASIA 2018 and I got to give another talk about SELinux. Last years talk was only about the basics of how things SELinux works and labels and allow rules. This year covered more of the policy side of things. I went over now to write a Reference Policy module and did a quick demo. more ...

FOSSASIA 2017 was this weekend and I gave an introductory talk on SELinux. The event details are here. There were a lot of great talks over the three days. Engineers.sg filmed all the talks too so you can see them all on the FOSSASIA youtube channel. more ...

GDG-SG had its annual DevFest on Saturday. I gave a talk on a quick overview of the internals of Android. more ...

The SELinux userspace libraries and programs recently released version 2.6. I bumped them in Gentoo a couple days ago. They add a ton of new features, here are a few of the main points: more ...

SELinux desktop profiles came up on IRC earlier and I thought it might be a good idea to make a post about. Currently in gentoo there are only two selinux profiles: more ...

I finally managed to get tboot working in a way that makes sense to me. For those unfamiliar, tboot uses Intel's Trusted eXecution Technology to invoke a dynamic root of trust and then measure all the components you boot with (eg kernel and initrd). What took me ages to figure out was how one can upgrade kernels while keeping this chain working. more ...

Hello World. I've been meaning to start a blog for a while but never got around to it. Russell Coker posted on the SELinux mailing list yesterday asking about Planet SELinux so I figured now is as good a time as any for starting one. more ...