I want to apologize to the 3 people that really await this post every day, I was sick on Friday and unable to post:) That means we have a lot of articles today. Leading the weekend edition, Reuters reports on another Earth-like planet discovered using the Kepler telescope. There seems to be more excitement surrounding… Read More Geek Reading July 27, 2015
Two machine learning topics lead today. First, Google Research announced the release of DeepDream an example of visualizing neural networks. Also, Airbnb talks about designing machine learning models. It is interesting to hear the perspective of a more recent startup that does not have a large research group. In data visualization, Flowing Data shows us… Read More Geek Reading July 3, 2015
The Next Web leads the day with reporting on Google’s Project Soli. It is some more cool stuff from Google I/O. There are several other Google related items as well. Polymer 1.0 was announced, a new GMail push API is available, and the new Google Identity Platform was announced. As always, enjoy today’s items, and… Read More Geek Reading June 1, 2015
To start our day, Amazon announced the EC2 Spot Fleet API which allows you to manage spot instances through a simple API. A very cool addition to their offering. First Round Review follows with the difficulty in building engineering team, based on the perspective of Tiho Bajic, CTO of Nitro. Ayende @ Rahien presents a… Read More Geek Reading May 20, 2015
Leading off today, we have Microsoft talking about bringing asm.js to Microsoft Edge. It is definitely interesting to see Microsoft making such a decision. At Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the learning process and the role of experience. Following that same theme, Adrian Pelletier thinks there are no experts in the web industry mainly… Read More Geek Reading May 8, 2015
A Smaller Piece of a Bigger Pie starts our day with a good post on cap-table dilution. Most people don’t understand how this works, so it is definitely worth a look. Otherwise, some security news should be a focus for today. Auth0 talks about vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token libraries. The Next Web reports on… Read More Geek Reading April 2, 2015
Yes, it is already September, but I am only a day late for the NoSQL installment of the August job trends. In this update, I am splitting the graphs into two as I include more products. So, for the NoSQL job trends, we will be looking at Cassandra, Redis, Couchbase , SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase, Riak, Neo4j and MarkLogic. I am including Neo4j for two… Read More NoSQL Job Trends – August 2014
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