Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Over a decade ago, Peter Flach of Bristol University wrote a paper on the topic of "On the state of the art in machine learning: A personal review" in which he reviewed several, then recent books, related to developments in machine learning. This included Pat Langley’s Elements of Machine Learning (Morgan Kaufmann), Tom Mitchell’s Machine Learning (McGraw-Hill), and…
Makes for a "light" sunday morning reading list 🙂 P&P -Data Access for Highly-Scalable Solutions: Using SQL, NoSQL, and Polyglot Persistence NoSQL Performance & Failover benchmarking Ultra-High Performance NoSQL Benchmarking: Analyzing Durability and Performance Tradeoffs "Quick" NoSQL Comparison: Measuring performance and failover of Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase, and MongoDB NoSQL Failover Characteristics: Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase,…
Threat modeling and diversion tactics; a good high level overview on software security. There are only a handful of threat modeling approaches in the industry which are difficult to implement due to the subjective guidelines. Our training session will focus on best practices and a hands-on approach that will provide attendees a better understanding of…
“The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect…. a triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection.” -The Architect. The Matrix Reloaded (Wachowski & Wachowski, 2003) A…
My recently published IEEE Paper Cyber security for service oriented architectures in a Web 2.0 world: An overview of SOA vulnerabilities Service oriented architecture is fast becoming ubiquitous enterprise software architecture standard in public and private sector alike. Study of literature and current attacks suggests that with the proliferation of Web API and RESTFul services,…
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I spoke to LA C# User group last night in Pasadena on the topic of Web Application Security with OWASP. The slide deck of my talk can be downloaded from here. LA C# OWASP Presentation Links from the talk follow. Open Web Application Security Project IIS Lockdown tool Configuring SSL on IIS7 Disabling the directory browing…
Speaking of intelligence and foresight.... The Mother of All Demos is a name given retrospectively to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968, demonstration of experimental computer technologies that are now commonplace. The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and…
AngularJS Overviews/Whirlwind Tours Everything you need to understand to start with AngularJS http://stephanebegaudeau.tumblr.com/post/48776908163/everything-you-need-to-understand-to-start-with AngularJS 101: Everything you need to know to get started http://www.slideshare.net/sbegaudeau/angular-js-101-everything-you-need-to-know-to-get-started One Hour AngularJS Boot Camp AngularJS Fundamentals in 60-ish Minutes (free video training) http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin/archive/2013/04/12/video-tutorial-angularjs-fundamentals-in-60-ish-minutes.aspx AngularJS in 60 Minutes (free eBook) http://fastandfluid.com/publicdownloads/AngularJSIn60MinutesIsh_DanWahlin_May2013.pdf In-Depth Online Courses A Better Way to Learn…
Going for a little Benoit B. Mandelbrot recursion joke here with the title. Seth Juarez (github) recently spoke to Pasadena .NET user group on the topic of Practical Machine Learning using nuML. Seth is a wonderful speaker, educator and nuML is an excellent library to get started with machine learning in .NET. His explanations are very intuitive; even…