Sunday, July 17, 2016

What have I been reading this week? (20160717)

Having issues getting Windows installed in a Xen VM. Will try XenServer 7.0 next. Issue may be with my hardware (odd make DVD drive), though it does work with Virtualbox.

Crossed the 5000 document mark this week (for docs in the document management engine). Processing seems to be okay, though midnight re-indexing is taking longer. May need to switch to differential indexing and moving full indexing to a longer periodicity (weekly/monthly?). It took roughly the first year to enter 500 docs and the second year to enter the next 1000. The remainder have been entered in the last six months, thanks to a bit of automation. Most articles are "captures" via PrintFriendly, which employs a common format where some metadata can be easily extracted. Makes adding docs a bit less of a manual process.

In any case, here's what I've been reading this past week.

2016-07-13

- Let's Play a Game - find bugs in popular open-source projects
- SYN Flood Mitigation with synsanity
- FBI officially closes its investigation into famous 'DB Cooper' hijacking

2016-07-14

- Race conditions on the web
- A Course in Machine Learning
- The Fight for the "Right to Repair"
- Bayesian machine learning

2016-07-17

- Sandstorm
- Book of Proof

Above was generated by a homegrown bolt-on script for Wallabag, which is a free utility for capturing web content so that it can be read later.

Sunday, July 10, 2016

What have I been reading this week? (20160710)

Considering making this a monthly post (to stand apart from "normal" traffic). Have built the code for WBIMB (the tool that produces this text) into a Docker container. Will post it on Github in the coming weeks (still tweaking stuff). The Frankenbox continues to work (ignoring that the low-end video card makes a lot of noise).

2016-06-29

- How to Start Learning Deep Learning
- Notes for PulseAudio 9.0
- There Is No Handbook for Being a Writer

2016-07-01

- Information about DuckDuckGo's Partnership with Yahoo
- How Sony Microsoft and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law

2016-07-08

- Visual Studio Code June 2016 1.3
- Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
- joshnewlan/say_what (Okay, this is silliness, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone actually uses it.)
- My favorite meme has been erased from the internet by copyright claims
- 32 Animated Videos by Wireless Philosophy Teach You the Essentials of Critical Thinking

2016-07-09

- In Siberia in 1908 a huge explosion came out of nowhere
- Skype protocol dumps
- Pittsburghese Expertise: Dropping "To Be" The Glassblock (Interesting (to me) 'cause I grew up in the North end of that area.)
- Never a Hippie Always a Freak
- Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method BetterExplained
- Data mining reveals the six basic emotional arcs of storytelling

2016-07-10

- Life Behind the Stacks: The Secret Apartments of New York Libraries 6sqft
- Video Conference Part 1: These Things Suck
- Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell

Above was generated by a homegrown bolt-on script for Wallabag, which is a free utility for capturing web content so that it can be read later.