Google leads our day with a post on Google Cloud Platform about the release of the consumer surveys API. It is an interesting little feature that could help a lot of companies. KD Nuggets gives us a few excellent posts as well. First, they give us 12 inspiring women in data science. Obviously, there are… Read More Geek Reading April 18, 2016 #1086
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
We start our day with an interesting look at software outsourcing from yegor256.com. Rackspace announces Carina, their container service powered by Docker Swarm. Another interesting post can be found on Java Code Geeks, where they talk about the process of choosing a data management solution. This one is interesting because it really does look like… Read More Geek Reading October 29, 2015
By now you may have heard that scientists have found evidence of water on Mars. We have the Reuters report for this story. HashiCorp announced the release of two new open source tools, Nomad and Otto. High Scalability gives us an interesting post about how Facebook tells your friends that you are safe in a… Read More Geek Reading September 30, 2015
Today we lead off with the start of a fascinating story on Krebs on Security, where he details his tracking of a skimmer gang in Mexico. On Application Security, they give us an example of CSRF against search in Lucene. Flowing Data shows us the new “exploration” features of Google Sheets. This is actually quite interesting for… Read More Geek Reading September 15, 2015
We have a mix of stories today. In development, we have Mark Reinhold talking about the state of the module system, aka Project Jigsaw which will be in Java 9. Next, Daniel Lemire gives us an interesting take on who is typically responsible for progress, hackers or academics. On Mindful Chaos, they talk about how… Read More Geek Reading September 14, 2015
Today, we have a great bunch of articles, but nothing that truly leads the day. You should focus your reading on the development, performance and security sections today. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups, Career and Process Surviving Software Heroes | DaedTech 4 essential how-tos for… Read More Geek Reading September 3, 2015
Today we have a few good security related stories. First, arstechnica reports on a new attack on Tor that can deanonymize hidden services with “surprising accuracy”. Next, The Register talks about Pager Duty being hacked weeks ago and just coming clean about it. The Next Web reports on a DNS exploit that is already in… Read More Geek Reading August 4, 2015
Leading off our stories today is an interview with Microsoft CEO Nadella. It may not be breaking news, but it is an interesting view into the future of Microsoft. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about founders getting “knocked down”. The basic idea is how do you handle it and what do you do next, which… Read More Geek Reading July 16, 2015
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