Google leads our day with a post on Google Cloud Platform about the release of the consumer surveys API. It is an interesting little feature that could help a lot of companies. KD Nuggets gives us a few excellent posts as well. First, they give us 12 inspiring women in data science. Obviously, there are… Read More Geek Reading April 18, 2016 #1086
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
Leading the day is a post on ReadThink by the HubSpot CEO. It is an excellent look at how to manage things when dealing with the switch between pure startup and scaling a business. Tom Blomfield gives us a slightly humorous look at when to join a startup. Its’ target may be humor but there… Read More Geek Reading January 15, 2016
TechCrunch leads the day reporting on a new type of metallic glue that can replace solder, MesoGlue. This is really interesting because it has the potential to change the electronic hobbyist industry and potentially more. High Scalability gives us a very nice introduction to scaling to 11M+ users on Amazon AWS. Not surprisingly, there is… Read More Geek Reading January 12, 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
Now that vacation is over, it is time to get back to the daily links. First, we have Rands in Repose talking about employees leaving when they are happy. In particular, the focus is on when the employee let’s his “shields down” and goes for coffee or lunch with someone. Paul Graham has an interesting… Read More Geek Reading January 4, 2016
Google leads the day with their smart replies for Inbox by Gmail. There is also a post on Google Research regarding these sorts of replies. Overall, a very cool idea, but we will see how it works in practice. For those of you in the startup world, Jared Cohen has an interesting post on the… Read More Geek Reading November 4, 2015
By now you may have heard that scientists have found evidence of water on Mars. We have the Reuters report for this story. HashiCorp announced the release of two new open source tools, Nomad and Otto. High Scalability gives us an interesting post about how Facebook tells your friends that you are safe in a… Read More Geek Reading September 30, 2015
Two good startup articles lead today. First, Paul Graham talks about why it is safe for founders to be nice. It was good to see this because so many people think the founders need to be much tougher. On TechCrunch, we have the math behind SaaS startup valuations. This is a good read for people… Read More Geek Reading August 31, 2015
Today we are focusing on the job and learning. First, on TechCrunch they talk about their lessons learned from their first startups. This is not a typical article from TechCrunch, so definitely take a look. Dan Luu follows with his lessons learned from reading post mortems. You can learn a lot from reading about other… Read More Geek Reading August 21, 2015
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