Geeking with Greg

Code Monster from Crunchzilla is now open source , free to use and modify. Code Monster is a tutorial that has been used by hundreds of t...

What has caught my attention lately: "We simply don't know how to securely engineer anything but the simplest of systems" (...

Virtual reality is hot again , with dedicated hardware headsets launching from multiple manufacturers intended for general use. The world i...

In 2012, Professor Daniel Lemire and I bet $100 over the question of whether tablets would replace PCs. Specifically, the bet was , "...

What caught my attention recently: "Big ideas emerge from spills, crashes, failed experiments and blind stabs .... As people dredge ...

I've been working on a couple educational projects since Google, SwipeLingo and Javascript Notebook . SwipeLingo is a quick matching ga...

I'm joining Microsoft! I'll be part of the excellent Analysis and Experimentation team, helping people learn from data. I'm exci...

What has caught my attention lately: Tog (of the famous Tog on Interface) says Apple has lost its way on design: "Apple is destroyin...

It was a surprise, to me at least, that I wasn't able to find a good fit at Google Seattle. Google nowadays is different than I expecte...

I joined Google a few months ago. I've wanted to work at Google for a long time. I first interviewed there back in 2003! I've wr...

Some of the best of what I've been thinking about lately: Amazon now has 109 warehouses and 165k employees. Wow. ( [1] ) Amazon clo...

Amazon.com in late 1996 Amazon.com in mid-1997 I have a long interview with the Internet History Podcast mostly about Amazon around 19...

What I've been thinking about lately: "The chip is so low power that it can be powered off energy capture from the body ... 35 mi...

Crunchzilla just launched Data Maven ! Data Maven from Crunchzilla is a light introduction to statistics and data analysis. For too man...

Some of the best of what I've been thinking about lately: Great TED talk titled "The mathematics of love", but probably sho...

What has caught my attention lately: "Ads are often annoying ... [and] the practice of running annoying ads can cost more money than ...

Some of the advertising out there is getting spooky. If you look at a product at many online stores, that product will then follow you aroun...

Some of the best of what I've been thinking about lately: Tiny cheap satellites will provide near real-time imagery of the entire Eart...

More of what caught my attention lately: "Make infinite computing resources available internally ... Give teams the resources they ...

What has caught my attention recently: Netflix says the value of its recommendations algorithms is $500M/year ( [1] ) Details on the inte...