It was a fairly quiet weekend, with several good posts. First, on Java Code Geeks we get an introduction to Otto, the next generation of Vagrant. Facebook Code talks about Torchnet which helps build clean prototypes for deep learning. At Machine Learning Mastery, we get a crash course in convolution neural networks. As always, enjoy… Read More Geek Reading June 27, 2016 #1136
Google leads our day with their release of Spaces. Many news sites are calling it a messaging platform, but it feels more like a collaboration platform almost like a wiki. Overall, it seems like an odd thing for Google to be working on unless they are really focused on the business use cases. Michael Bromley… Read More Geek Reading May 18, 2016 #1108
Leading off our day is a cool article from Fast Co.Exist about a house that costs about $20,000. There is not a lot of detail about the house, but the idea is every cool. At Bothsides of the Table, Mark Suster talks about what will happen in VC in 2016. At Sudophilosophical, we get an… Read More Geek Reading February 5, 2016 #1036
Seth Godin starts our day with another excellent post, this one talking about bravery. This is not the heroism type, but the bravery in our daily lives. Matthew Daniels talks about the new trend of journalist engineers, where the stories are almost all about data and visualization, and only accompanied by some text. On DZone… Read More Geek Reading October 28, 2015
We have another slow weekend of news today. First, the Army National Guard announced that it had a data breach. This does not sound as bad as the last government breach, but it is still bad. MIT News reports on a program that fixes old code faster than “expert engineers”. The ideas in the project… Read More Geek Reading July 13, 2015
Leading today is a post by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent. She really talks about asking the right questions, continuing to ask why. I have been known to annoy my coworkers with lots of questions about why code was written in a particular manner to solve a problem. For me it is more about understanding… Read More Geek Reading July 8, 2015
Today is another slow day as we come out of the holiday weekend. Two security related stories lead the day. As reported by TechCrunch, the security group Hacking Team was hacked. This is not entirely surprising given their high profile in the security space, and no company is perfect. This leads us into a nice… Read More Geek Reading July 7, 2015
