Microsoft starts our week with their open source release of the Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for big data. They really need to work on naming things, Google has TensorFlow and Microsoft has DMLT, it just does not sound exciting. On Made of Bugs, they talk about what MongoDB got right. This is an interesting post because… Read More Geek Reading November 16, 2015
For a slow day, we have a great collection of articles. First, on Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about grit as a predictor of success. I am a big believer in hard work and perseverance being key ingredients to success. At Atlassian, there is a very good post on maintaining focus with a growth mindset.… Read More Geek Reading November 13, 2015
Seth Godin leads us off with an excellent post about taking your own progress report. Are you asking yourself the hard questions? On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about watching what users do, not what they say. Granted, this is based on the Twitter favorite changes, but it applies to any startup with users. On the… Read More Geek Reading November 12, 2015
Google leads the day again, this time with the announcement of offline maps and searching. Adam Bourg gives us an interesting look at scrum as a poor process and not truly agile. There are some good ideas and others that you may not agree with. Baremetrics has an excellent post on the potential perils of… Read More Geek Reading November 11, 2015
Google leads the day with the open sourcing of TensorFlow, their machine learning library. Following on the intelligence thread, WildML gives us an excellent explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks for NLP. Alex H Woods completes the idea with a nice post on Bayes Theorem and Naive Bayes. While applications of Bayes Theorem may not seem… Read More Geek Reading November 10, 2015
TechCrunch leads our Monday morning with a good post on warning signs of a security breach. Also on TechCrunch, we get some details on some Linux ransomware attacking webmasters. On Java Code Geeks we have an interesting post on when to grow your technical stack. The big question is when you add new technologies. As always,… Read More Geek Reading November 9, 2015
Krebs on Security starts our day with an interesting story that begins with a simple hack for a short Twitter username and evolves into the arrest of one of the people involved in the TalkTalk hack. In data visualizations, Flowing Data has a video about the evolution of US boundaries. It is based on the… Read More Geek Reading November 6, 2015
Today we start with two excellent career oriented posts. First, at PagerDuty they talk about why VPs (or any managers) should care about engineer burnout. This is a very real issue that people try to sweep under the rug frequently. On the Agile zone at DZone, there is a post about why the author will… Read More Geek Reading November 5, 2015
Google leads the day with their smart replies for Inbox by Gmail. There is also a post on Google Research regarding these sorts of replies. Overall, a very cool idea, but we will see how it works in practice. For those of you in the startup world, Jared Cohen has an interesting post on the… Read More Geek Reading November 4, 2015
Job Tips For Geeks starts our day with some excellent advice on learning new technologies, try to teach something in order to learn it. Kim Schmidt gives us a very long overview of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Deep Learning. High Scalability talks about a recent paper regarding coordination avoidance in distributed databases. This is… Read More Geek Reading November 3, 2015
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