Most computer programmers tend to make technical decisions based on cliches they read about on the Internet, and unfortunately I don't know the cure for being dumb. - Vladimir Sedach
Bary Ritholtz's The Fine Art of Doing Nothing
More on machine learning in 2015?
07 Feburary 2015
Machine Learning/Deep Learning
Very very interesting: Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning
Text Understanding from Scratch.
Google and deep learning.
A Deep Dive into Recurrent Neural Nets.
Lisp
January 2015 QuckLisp download stats. I'm a bit suprised at the number of downloads.
2015 European Lisp Symposium. will be at Goldsmiths University London 20/21 April.
Security
Anthem breakin. Not sure I buy the Chinese did it explanation. I think that companies overestimate their defenses, underestimate the stupidity of their policies and users, overestimate the bad effects of complexity, and way way underestimate how easy these breakins could be.
Related, TurboTax no longer does electronic filing for US state returns.
Bruce O'Neel
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