This is a special Sunday edition of Geek Reading for one simple reason. I am taking a break from posting Geek Reading for a while. Life and work are always very busy and I am hoping to get back to writing again. Maybe in the near future I will post an original article or opinion,… Read More Geek Reading July 17, 2016 #1150
It was another slow news day, but there is always something interesting to read. First, High Scalability gives us an interesting post on Machine Learning Driven Programming. This is really a post on the directions that companies like Google and Facebook are going, with deep learning replacing whole subsystems. At Ayende @ Rahien, we get… Read More Geek Reading July 7, 2016 #1143
It was another slow news day but there is still plenty of good reading. On Java Code Geeks, we get a good post on using TF-IDF in practice. This is one of the main indexing methods behind libraries like Lucene, so if you are interested in document searches or indexing in general, it is a… Read More Geek Reading July 6, 2016 #1142
It was a slow news day, but there is still plenty to read. CoinLab shows us that anonymity is not quite guaranteed when dealing with Bitcoin. They give us an interesting looks at what information you can find when looking at the data. Mark Suster has an excellent article on Both Sides of the Table… Read More Geek Reading July 1, 2016 #1140
Overall, the Apple WWDC was somewhat underwhelming. However, The Next Web reports on an interesting tidbit about Siri opening up to all third-party apps. Chef released Habitat a new open source project for automating applications. I have not dug into it yet, so I can’t comment too much, but it is good to see the… Read More Geek Reading June 16, 2016 #1129
Some big news leads the day. First, LinkedIn announced they are being acquired by Microsoft. According to reports, the purchase price is over $26 Billion in all cash. I have no idea why Microsoft wants this deal, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Google announced Tango, with the first enable phone,… Read More Geek Reading June 14, 2016 #1127
We start our day with a report on re/code about Microsoft giving up on consumer smartphones. Part of this is the impending layoffs of about 2000 jobs. Stratechery talks about the curse of culture and how it affects your business. Culture is a frequent topic here because it affects everything at your job, how coworkers… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2016 #1114
There was no major news from yesterday, so our focus will just be on good content. Ilya Sher gives us an excellent article on threads, race conditions and deadlock. This is a good read for anyone that needs to write code using threads or locks. On FastML, they talk about adversarial validation, something that is… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2016 #1113
Well, it is Tuesday and that seems to be security day. First, Reuters reports on SWIFT saying a second bank is hit by a malware attack. The Cisco Talos blog talks about multiple vulnerabilities in the 7-Zip application. 18F gives us some interesting information on how they deal with information security and third party applications.… Read More Geek Reading May 17, 2016 #1107
Starting our day, the Google Big Data blog talks about new integration of BigQuery with Google Drive. Google Cloud Platform gives us some goodies when they talk about Kubernetes and container portability. WordPress releases 4.5.2, a minor but important security release. I know that doesn’t sound like big news, but when security fixes are made… Read More Geek Reading May 10, 2016 #1102
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