[lug] LUG Digest, Vol 211, Issue 1

[Evelyn Mitchell]

Weka is a machine learning library from the university of Waikato in
New Zealand:
https://waikato.github.io/weka-wiki/

Is it possible you installed it once for testing, and then when you
removed it, the
hidden file didn't get cleaned up?

(Insert mumblings about environment hygiene being better in notebooks
and containers...)

And for  those who haven't heard, you can use juypter notebooks on
google colab with your
choice of either GPUs or TPUs for only $10/month. By far the cheapest
way to do data science/
machine learning in the cloud. Python and R.

Evelyn Mitchell
tummy.com, ltd.

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:00 PM <lug-request at lug.boulder.co.us> wrote:
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>    1. Q: why is there a wekafiles folder in my home directory?
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> Subject: [lug] Q: why is there a wekafiles folder in my home
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> I can't remember if this was discussed earlier - I found a 'wekafiles'
> directory in my home directory and I don't know why it's there. It just
> appeared a few days ago, and the 'weka' packages are NOT installed so it
> wasn't just transitive dependencies.
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> I seem to recall reading something about Ubuntu using weka for indexing
> user files, etc., but I have all of that turned off. The directories
> (appear to be) empty.
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> I'm a bit concerned since I'm pretty sure I caught some malware earlier
> that was using my broadband connection to scan IP addresses and it used an
> illicit copy weka to index the information it collected. ("Illicit" in the
> sense of maintaining its own copy.)
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> It's also possible it's our own product. Not my team - but I just noticed
> our machine learning group uses an 'autoweka' java library and it's
> possible it's leaking.
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> Thx
>
> Bear
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