Leading our day, we have the announcement from the Google Cloud Platform about the general availability of custom machine types. This is very cool, and helps everyone using these platforms. I have always had a problem trying to choose the appropriate configuration for a new server. The Netflix Tech Blog started a series about how… Read More Geek Reading February 18, 2016 #1045
Leading the day is yet another security issue, this one reported on Bits Please. They describe an Android privilege escalation to mediaserver from zero permissions. Some of the security issues that I list tend to be more research based than potential threats, and this falls into the research category. That does not mean that you… Read More Geek Reading January 26, 2016
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
We have lots to share today! First, Expedia buys Orbitz for $1.6 billion. This is news more because it is so rare to see purchases of that magnitude. There are a few good articles on some advanced concepts, the central limit theorem, bayes theorem and paxos, a consensus algorithm. These concepts drive a lot of… Read More Geek Reading February 13, 2015
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