Some interesting news to start our day. Twitter finally seems to be moving to longer messages, possibly as big as 10k. Oracle acquired AddThis for $200M. This is interesting because it really feels outside of what Oracle has purchased in the past. Flowing Data has an excellent visualization on the cause of death over various… Read More Geek Reading January 6, 2016
Leading off our Monday is a presentation on Slide Share from Xavier Amatriain. In the slides, he shows us lessons learned from building machine learning systems. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about how to make hard choices. She uses information from an excellent TED presentation by Ruth Chang to really get into why some choices are… Read More Geek Reading November 23, 2015
Google starts our day by announcing a new design for Google+. The focus is on the more community related items and not a general social network. I think it makes sense based on what I have seen in the past few years. On Google Cloud Platform we now get custom machine types, which is a… Read More Geek Reading November 19, 2015
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