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
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
Leading our day is a post from Kent Beck about mastering programming. It is more of an outline than a full post, but it still has a ton of excellent information. At Ayende @ Rahien we have a great series of posts regarding the “guts n’ glory” of database internals. Today’s installment talks about the… Read More Geek Reading June 10, 2016 #1125
It was a fairly light day yesterday, so there is not a ton of reading for today. First, on Machine Learning Theory they talk about how AlphaGo is not the solution to AI. People involved in the industry have really started to bang this drum considering people think AlphaGo is a much larger step than… Read More Geek Reading March 15, 2016 #1063
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 our day is a post on Conversation Agent, where Valeria Maltoni talks about what happens when technology fails to fade into the background. The post focuses on many healthcare systems, which can be amazingly bad, but every application needs to look at their user experience and design. Simplicity is hard, but it makes user… Read More Geek Reading November 17, 2015
Leading off our Monday morning is a description of MoMA’s digital art vault. It is interesting to see how technology is used outside of our core industry. Variance Explained talks about the journey programmers must take in writing a million lines of bad code. The Chromium blog gives us an update on Google’s experimental protocol… Read More Geek Reading April 20, 2015
Today we lead off with a post from Dave Winer at Scripting News. It is not really about reporters, but more about making applications simpler to use. Admin Ofunne has a good post regarding when to scale. The main point is that if you have done this long enough, you start making applications fairly complex… Read More Geek Reading March 3, 2015
After a slight delay we finally get to the third part of the programming language job trends. Today we review Erlang, Groovy, Scala, Lisp, and Clojure. If you do not see some of the more popular languages, take a look at Part 1 and Part 2. Lisp is included almost as a baseline, because it has had sustained usage for… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 3 – August 2014
Today we have the third part of the programming language job trends series. In this, we review Erlang, Groovy, Scala, Lisp, and Clojure. To recap, in part 1 we looked at Java, C++, C#, Objective C, and Visual Basic and in part 2 we had PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and PERL. You may be wondering why your favorite language is not included. In some cases, like Go… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 3 – February 2014
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