There was not much news yesterday, but there were plenty of good articles. First, at Cambridge Coding we have a presentation on a “gentle and structured” introduction to machine learning. I like these types of presentations because people unfamiliar with the field can get a high level overview of what is going on and it… Read More Geek Reading February 16, 2016 #1043
Leading our day is a post by Mark Suster on Bothsides of the Table. He talks about the resetting of the startup industry, which is interesting reading if you are trying to get your own startup funded. Gil Zilberfeld gives us an entertaining post about “estimate theater”. With a dialogue, he tries to get to… Read More Geek Reading February 9, 2016 #1038
Starting our week, we have an article from the Smithsonian about Babylonians using geometry centuries earlier than previously thought. This is just a cool tidbit that you don’t run across every day. In the “another day another security problem” category, fin1te explains the findings of an XSS bug on Facebook. Google announced the open source… Read More Geek Reading February 1, 2016
Dan Luu leads the day with an interesting look at the effect of markets on discrimination. Not surprisingly, this post stems from the ideas of discrimination and diversity in the technical industry, but it is not entirely focused on that. Johanna Rothman gives us an excellent post on architects as servant leaders. Much of the… Read More Geek Reading January 5, 2016
We start our day with VentureBeat reporting on a new CDN available from Google. It is not huge news, but it is an interesting development for people building out scalable sites. Alvaro Videla has an excellent post on what people talk about when they are talking about distributed systems. Distributed systems are generally, highly complex… Read More Geek Reading December 11, 2015
VentureBeat leads the day with reporting on Pandora purchasing some of the assets of Rdio. This is interesting because it could mean that on-demand streaming is coming to Pandora, or at least we can hope. Docker made a bunch of announcements at DockerCon EU, and today we have a post on Integrated Content Trust and… Read More Geek Reading November 18, 2015
There are a lot of interesting articles today, but not one particular area of focus. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about why simple rules produce better decisions. Google Webmaster Central continues their #NoHacked series, giving us information on how to fix the injected gibberish URL hack. Google Cloud Platform announces the ability to backup… Read More Geek Reading August 25, 2015
It was another slow news weekend. So, we lead with another car hacking story from VentureBeat. A researcher is claiming to be able to hack GM’s OnStar app, open the vehicle and start the engine. This is not entirely surprising, but thankfully not as bad as the hacked Jeep story we had recently. On the… Read More Geek Reading August 3, 2015
Leading today’s stories is a Logjam. The Next Web reports on a new bug found in SSL called Logjam. Yahoo Labs open-sourced EGADS, a scalable, configurable and novel anomaly detection system. On High Scalability, we have a very good article about scaling demanding queries, high velocity data modifications and fast indexing. There is a lot… Read More Geek Reading May 21, 2015
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