Starting our week, we focus on job related posts. First, on Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about mastering skill as the foundation for creative work. Johanna Rothman explains the difference between Velocity and Acceleration on Agile projects. I have seen many instances of this problem before. DaedTech has an interesting post about getting a raise.… Read More Geek Reading May 23, 2016 #1111
Well, it is Tuesday and that seems to be security day. First, Reuters reports on SWIFT saying a second bank is hit by a malware attack. The Cisco Talos blog talks about multiple vulnerabilities in the 7-Zip application. 18F gives us some interesting information on how they deal with information security and third party applications.… Read More Geek Reading May 17, 2016 #1107
Today we have some very good AI/ML posts. First, Pete Warden tells us how to break into machine learning. It is some very practical advice on how to get started. Machine Learning Mastery, my new favorite ML blog, talks about boosting and AdaBoost. David Lettier shows us how to develop K-Means from scratch. Lastly, on… Read More Geek Reading April 26, 2016 #1092
Leading our day is an excellent post on Stratechery about the various social platforms and digital advertising. It is definitely an interesting read if you have a startup that depends on advertising for revenue. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the growth mindset. One thing that really made sense to me is the idea… Read More Geek Reading February 11, 2016 #1040
Leading today we have a post on Psy-Q’s Braindump about how we need to save Mozilla in order to defend the free web. I am not sure if I agree with the premise that Chrome and its engine are taking over the web, especially given the size of Facebook and its ecosystem, but it is… Read More Geek Reading December 1, 2015
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
Now that the holiday in the US is over we can get back to our normal programming. Today we are going to focus on performance. First, on msol, they talk about why you are probably wrong about caching. The idea is that caching is not entirely easy and it opens up a different class of… Read More Geek Reading September 8, 2015
Our focus for today returns to security. First, on Google Webmaster Central they talk about identifying and diagnosing injected gibberish URL hacking. Anyone that runs their own or others’ websites should definitely read this. On thecomputerperson, they relate how Twitter is leaking your friends’ and family’s emails. Granted, you need to know what email address… Read More Geek Reading August 19, 2015
Leading off today, Google Cloud Platform lowers their prices and announces the availability of preemptible VMs. These are short-term, volatile instances that are useful in large compute clusters because they can be taken down at any moment. It is an interesting idea and something to watch long term. Amazon AWS did not announce a similar… Read More Geek Reading May 19, 2015
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