Today we have some cool news from MIT where they figured out how to watch immune cells communicate. Also from MIT, researchers used evolutionary algorithms to determine how to plan a wind farm with 1000 turbines, a highly complex problem with a cool solution. And finally, Flowing Data shows another fine example of people abusing… Read More Geek Reading January 16, 2015
We keep hearing about 3D printing advances in the medical industry, and today we have a story of printing a skull and tumor based on MRIs. Blind Five Year Old, aka AJ Kohn, drops knowledge on Google search autopredict. I know it looks like SEO, but AJ always goes very deep so that it is… Read More Geek Reading January 15, 2015
Lots of interesting things for today. In the top stories, Mozilla decided it was announcement day. First, they make it simpler to have video chats, then they added enhancements to “share more” on the web. Really interesting additions to Firefox. Not to be outdone, Google makes Google Translate awesome with WordLens. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading January 14, 2015
This installment starts with more genius from Seth Godin. Mozilla announces a science lab fellowship. And High Scalability shows us what scale really means when looking at Amazon AWS. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Top Stories Failure imagined (24 variations) | Seth Godin Announcing the Mozilla… Read More Geek Reading January 13, 2015
Today we have an article about student’s favorite teacher deciding to leave teaching. It is a good read and an indictment of funding at public schools. WIRED shows some cool “technology” that captures water from the air, which could be good for remote areas where clean water is hard to find. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading January 12, 2015
Career stagnation is a threat for a lot of developers, and my favorite recruiter has some good advice at Job Tips For Geeks. If you like math and Alan Turing, there is an interesting post about some of his work when he was only 15. Lastly, make sure you check out the link collections at… Read More Geek Reading January 9, 2015
Today we have a very cool device from CES, the Kraftwerk. Johanna Rothman tells us not to be indispensable, and if you care about your job besides the coding you should subscribe to her blog. If you ever wondered how some basic decisions in your code affect revenue, look no further than the article at… Read More Geek Reading January 8, 2015
Even with CES in high gear, there were not a lot of interesting articles to share. In cool stuff, Twitter announced an anomaly detection package for R. This is cool for two reasons, it is a package for anomaly detection in a time series and it is written in R. This is a very good… Read More Geek Reading January 7, 2015
There was some good news today that is a little outside of the typical development articles. Google introduced Google Cast for audio, think of this as Chromecast for speakers. High Scalability had a really interesting article about some of the early computers. Lastly, Dish announced SlingTV, one of the first real TV streaming services from… Read More Geek Reading January 6, 2015
For today, we have a few more top stories. First, if you don’t already read XKCD’s What If, then you should hand in your geek card. It is basically XKCD, but long form posts of awesomeness. Louis Gray gives us some good ideas to follow in 2015. And finally, Seth Godin gives us some genius,… Read More Geek Reading January 5, 2015
