Happy Labor Day to all of you in the states! The weekend did not have a lot of news, but it did bring us some good reading. There is plenty to read in the development section, but I am going to focus on machine learning today. First, WildML gives us a nice example of building a neural network from scratch. While libraries are helpful for this kind of thing, understanding how it works can help you appropriately define one. Next, depies ml shows us how to implement k-nearest neighbor, another useful ML algorithm. Last for today, is FeatureFu from LinkedIn. FeatureFu is a toolkit to help with feature engineering for many ML models.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Startups, Career and Process

• Salary Negotiation without Bridge Burning | DaedTech
• Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business. Really. | Backblaze
• Improving communication across distributed teams | Twitter Blogs

Design and Development

• Modelling The Effect of your Super Users with Netlogo simulation | loyaltybay
• A new approach to property based testing | David R. MacIver
• Swift Generic Protocols | Milen Dzhumerov
• Friday Q&A 2015-09-04: Let’s Build dispatch_queue | Mike Ash
• Dependency injection: syntax sugar over function composition | Java Code Geeks
• Squeezing data into the data structure | Java Code Geeks
• Zippers And Type Magic | Not Really a Math Blog
• Hello Elixir. Wow. | Rob Conery
• Oracles from the Inside Out, Part 1: Introduction | Developsense Blog
• Dead Code Should be Buried | spaCy Blog
• Hapi HTTP Mocking With Nock.js | Jowanza Joseph
• Extending Advanced Custom Fields With Your Own Controls | Smashing Magazine

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• The insidious cost of allocations | Ayende @ Rahien

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch – An Introduction | WildML
• FeatureFu: Building Featureful Machine Learning Models | LinkedIn Engineering
• Learn By Implementation – K-Nearest Neighbor | depies ml
• Bayesian fantasy football 101 | Flowing Data

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• From Kafka to ZeroMQ for real-time log aggregation | Tomasz Janczuk

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Tarsnap email confirmation bypass | Daemonic Dispatches
• Improving Security for Bugzilla | Mozilla Security
• .ZIP URLs (or, Why You Should Block Domains on a TLD That Doesn’t Have Any) | Blue Coat

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1549 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – September 4 2015 (#2084) | Morning Dew