Google Research starts us off with the announcement of a distributed version of TensorFlow. Neo4j follows with two interesting posts. First, they analyze the Panama papers. This gives us some fascinating visualizations of the groups involved. Second they use a specialized ETL for their graph DB to analyze citizen data. This is more interesting because they… Read More Geek Reading April 15, 2016 #1085
Leading our day is a report from VentureBeat about Twilio adding Facebook Messenger as a supported platform. This is interesting because Twilio has been focused on SMS/MMS for a long time and adding Messenger could change the pricing and overall dynamics of the service. WordPress released v4.5 “Coleman” of their CMS. As always, it is… Read More Geek Reading April 14, 2016 #1084
On Google Webmaster Central we get a nice feature from Google about deceptive download sites. Google continues to fight for a safer internet. Netflix shows us some really good ways to analyze performance using flame graphs. At KD Nuggets, they give us the “pocket guide” to data science. Obviously, data science is a lot bigger… Read More Geek Reading April 13, 2016 #1083
I am not sure how I forgot to post it yesterday, but our lead story comes from The Next Web. SpaceX finally lands its rocket on a drone ship! Geeks around the world were going nuts and the various videos of the landing were shared all over. Wordfence continues their analysis of the Panama Papers… Read More Geek Reading April 12, 2016 #1082
Today we have a mixed bag of articles. On DZone Agile, we get a good post on how to describe accomplishments on a resume. If you have ever been on the hiring side of an interview, you know that geeks have a terribly difficult time with this. At Machine Learning Mastery, we have an excellent… Read More Geek Reading April 11, 2016 #1081
We have some interesting stories for today. First, from The National Museum of Computing, we get the “Lorenz” story. It is a bit of historical computing that many people tend to forget about. At Overtone Recipes, we get a way to recreate Daft Punk’s Da Funk. I know it is a bit different than my… Read More Geek Reading April 8, 2016 #1080
Today we are going to focus on the career. At The Codist, we are told a story about regret in a career. This is an interesting perspective of someone that has been a programmer for a very long time, had opportunities to really get into technical leadership, but never took a full leap into it.… Read More Geek Reading April 7, 2016 #1079
A slice of Kimchi leads our day with some information about vulnerabilities in Quanta LTE routers. Yes, it is another day and another security problem. At Rewriting the Code, we get a great post about being a “dumb girl” in computer science. It is more about a story of asking questions and not being afraid… Read More Geek Reading April 6, 2016 #1078
Amazon leads our day with the announcement of their Amazon Payments partner program, reported by TechCrunch. On Signal v. Noise, we get an interesting post about being a boring programmer. This is a different perspective on the “rock-star” requirements we continuously see and there is definitely a case for finding “solid” talent. Michael Schmatz gives… Read More Geek Reading April 5, 2016 #1077
Microsoft leads the day again with one of its last announcements from last week. SQL Server Developer Edition is now free. This could help get SQL Server into some more companies that are looking to support it but the cost was somewhat prohibitive. On KD Nuggets we get a list of 10 essential books for… Read More Geek Reading April 4, 2016 #1076
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