Leading our day is a post from Signal v. Noise. They have a rant about “eat, sleep, code, repeat”, basically complaining that people can not sustain that pace and generally have other interests as well. On the same topic, we have Belen Albeza talking about developers having a life outside of coding. I have always found… Read More Geek Reading May 24, 2016 #1112
Google Research starts us off with the announcement of a distributed version of TensorFlow. Neo4j follows with two interesting posts. First, they analyze the Panama papers. This gives us some fascinating visualizations of the groups involved. Second they use a specialized ETL for their graph DB to analyze citizen data. This is more interesting because they… Read More Geek Reading April 15, 2016 #1085
Today we start with some job-focused posts. Johanna Rothman gives us a good post on requirements gathering and agile processes. If your organization really requires a lot of requirements analysis, maybe agile is not for your organization. On DaedTech, we get an interesting post about software metaphors. Admittedly, our industry overuses metaphors, but this might… Read More Geek Reading March 1, 2016 #1053
Leading off our day is a cool article from Fast Co.Exist about a house that costs about $20,000. There is not a lot of detail about the house, but the idea is every cool. At Bothsides of the Table, Mark Suster talks about what will happen in VC in 2016. At Sudophilosophical, we get an… Read More Geek Reading February 5, 2016 #1036
Starting our week, we have Sam Altman ranting against the growth at all costs pattern in startups. His take is that finding the right type of growth is more important, mostly with product-market fit. On KD Nuggets we get a discussion on the differences between machine intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. Lastly,… Read More Geek Reading January 18, 2016
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
To start our day, Priceonomics has a story on the Guinness brewer who revolutionized statistics. There are a few interesting points here, the brewer is the source of “Student’s t” which is something I was always curious about. In our world of bigger data, statistics will become increasingly useful to more people. And you never… Read More Geek Reading December 15, 2015
Today we have a number of good articles in various groups, so make sure you take a look at everything. The Amplitude Blog talks about changing employee equity and generally how to make it better for the employees who are not founders. On Publishing Silicon they have an interesting read on the fall and rise… Read More Geek Reading December 7, 2015
Not a lot of news over the weekend, but there were a lot of good reads. Krebs on Security talks about a new card breach at Hilton Hotel properties. This one is still in the analysis phase, so we will probably hear more about this later. Mozilla gives us their version of a healthy and… Read More Geek Reading September 28, 2015
Leading off today is another security issue, iDigitalTimes reports on malware found pre-installed on Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo phones. In the development section, we have several good articles. First, at the Developsense Blog we have a series of posts regarding “Oracles” in testing, with today’s installment being part 4. NCZOnline talks about the size of… Read More Geek Reading September 9, 2015
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