Some interesting acquisition news starts our week, with both items reported by VentureBeat. First, Microsoft acquires and shutters messaging startup Wand Labs. Next, Samsung buys Joyent, a cloud infrastructure company. Joyent will continue to operate as a separate company, so no major concerns there. On Digital Trends, they talk about a man who built a… Read More Geek Reading June 20, 2016 #1131
Today we start with a post on AVC about concerns about specific employees. It is interesting to see how different people handle issues like this. On Flowing Data we get a really cool visualization of Kung Fu masters. The movements are converted into different particle and wave formations for very cool effects. Julia Evans talks… Read More Geek Reading May 20, 2016 #1110
Leading our day is an excellent post on First Round Review. They talk about practical frameworks for beating burnout. This topic gets talked about a lot, but burnout is very real for a lot of people. Google Cloud Platform announced the beta availability of Ruby on Google App Engine. Honestly, this feels like a late… Read More Geek Reading May 6, 2016 #1100
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
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
Today is April Fools Day in the US, and it is easily the worst news day of the year. Hopefully, I don’t share something that is actually a prank. With that being said, there is one epic prank, the GMail Mic Drop. In the normal reading, we have The Next Web reporting on Toshiba’s recall of… Read More Geek Reading April 1, 2016 #1075
Another *aaS announcement starts our day as the Google Cloud Platform announces beta availability of Node.js on Google App Engine. Heroku talks about what they had to do in order to patch all of their servers due to the recent glibc security advisory. It is an interesting view into what a company like Heroku needs… Read More Geek Reading March 23, 2016 #1069
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
We have a much shorter list of articles today as many people start taking time off for the holiday season. Over the next week, my posts may be inconsistent as well. The holidays always make for a lighter batch of articles, and the holidays also mean less time for me at the computer. On your… Read More Geek Reading December 24, 2015
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