Leading the day we have another security issue, this time with the ImageMagick library. Some details can be found at the ImageTragick site. LuanchDarkly gives us an interesting post on feature flags mitigating risk in database migration. At Requests for Startups, we get getting started guide for deep learning. At Count Bayesie, we get an… Read More Geek Reading May 5, 2016 #1099
Benedict Evans leads our day with an excellent post about the end of a mobile wave. Basically, we are getting to a mobile saturation point, so growth likely needs to come from someplace other than devices. XKCD gives us some funny with their comic “Message in a Bottle”. As usual, the image hover text is… Read More Geek Reading May 4, 2016 #1098
To start our day we have a post from Machine Learning Mastery about the Python ecosystem for machine learning. Josh Juneau talks about the state of Java EE8 and the question of Oracle’s leadership of various JSRs. This has become a common topic lately, so it is definitely something we need to keep watch on.… Read More Geek Reading May 3, 2016 #1097
Leading our day is a post on Both Sides of the Table, where they explain how misunderstanding startup metrics can cost you your business. Google’s Big Data blog gives us an introduction to Capacitor, the new BigQuery columnar storage format. High Scalability has an excellent post on the “platform advantage” and its relation to Google,… Read More Geek Reading April 28, 2016 #1094
Reporting from The Next Web leads our day. The Tesla Model X is having some software problems and locking some owners out of their cars. This is probably one of the biggest concerns about software-pervasive cars, bugs. A “highlight” of our childhood is getting modern 🙂 As reported by TechCrunch, Highlights magazine reinvents itself as… Read More Geek Reading April 22, 2016 #1090
Today we start with some local flavor. Ebay Enterprise, located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, merges with Innotrac to become Radial. Like many local software developers, I also spent part of my career at what used to be GSI Commerce. Google Research tells us about how they are helping webmasters re-secure their websites. The strangest… Read More Geek Reading April 20, 2016 #1088
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
My apologies to those of you that expect a new post every weekday. I took a day off from work and the internet 🙂 While I am sure I missed a bit of news over the weekend, I still have a good list of articles for you today. First, Docker announced the beta of clients… Read More Geek Reading March 28, 2016 #1071
A post on Mozilla Hacks leads our day as they announce experimental support in multiple browsers for WebAssembly. This is a big milestone and could have a significant impact on website performance. Google Analytics announces their 360 Suite, a set of analytics applications for premium subscribers. It is good to finally see Google put some… Read More Geek Reading March 16, 2016 #1064
It was a fairly light day yesterday, so there is not a ton of reading for today. First, on Machine Learning Theory they talk about how AlphaGo is not the solution to AI. People involved in the industry have really started to bang this drum considering people think AlphaGo is a much larger step than… Read More Geek Reading March 15, 2016 #1063
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