The
pace of new follows on Facebook is very slow. The pace on LinkedIn faster. On
Twitter: faster still. Far more promiscuous a social.
Wife
mixed tall Long Island Iced Tea that we're both sharing here at home. Tall cup.
We alternate on same straw. Two-straw'd b more romantic
Did
a Whole Foods run today over in Springfield .
The samples were good & the sample-slingers really got into it. One lady
romanced a...
Hugh
Jackman. Waiting for the day he lets himself go. So we can call him Huge
Assman.
Tabloidosphere
has oversaturated Kate/William baby coverage to the point it seems like she's
already delivered. FYI, she hasn't yet.
On
sofa listening to today's hits. Like (in descending order): Macklemore, Jay-Z,
Lady GaGa, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez.
Supermodels.
At what point did this master race of emaciated runway-dominatrices exterminate
the indigenous lesser models?
I've
come to the conclusion that people use the f-word far more often in the movies
than in real life. In practically every sentence in some
Univision.
El Gordo y La Flaca. Actually, El Gordo looks good in loose all-white.
Demassifies his profile. Blinding!
@Viktor_MS discussing
"dictatorship of data" on #BigDataBytes
(http://ibm.co/BDBytes ).
See my June blog on that (http://ow.ly/n8vkq )
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Paper Planes
by MIA from Kala JK--I consider her the Sarah Silverman of hiphop. Cute
little-girl voice dripping acid.
Countdown
2 #BigDataBytes
videochat w/ @Viktor_MS on #BigData
revolution. Join in 25 minutes! http://ibm.co/BDBytes
Drafted
latest #Dataversity
blog: "Social Data Quality Will Take Back Seat to Data Relevance"
"Detroit ’s demise was
decades in the making" (http://ow.ly/n857j ) JK--Good to see
Detroit-native Keith Richburg POV. I knew him at UMich
Finished
all 5 quick-hits for next week. Pushed my head further into fundamental
computer science, from exascale all-in-memory big-data POV
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Girlfriend
in a Coma by The Smiths from Strangeways, Here We Come JK--Morrissey's most
classic acid kiss-off song.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Folsom
Prison Blues by Johnny Cash from Live @ Folsom Prison JK--Wow! Confesses 2
shooting man in Reno
& watching die
"Businesses
moving to cloud storage despite significant reservations" (http://ow.ly/n7PCs )
JK--Security concerns persist.
"Datafication
of business." At first, the term "datafication" made me gag. But
actually rolls off the tongue as succinct expression of trend
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp A New
England by Kirsty MacColl from The One and Only JK--Billy Bragg song. Her
covers were better than the originals
One
of my #IBM
colleagues recently, as music-festival volunteer in Ottawa , chauffeured Zooey Deschanel (She
& Him). Up close, fame vanishes
Subscribe
online 2 IT pubs. Pulldowns. Careful not click country as "United Arab Emirates " or "Uganda ." United States of America
is between
Thinking
of changing my name to "There." So much faux-intimate spam addresses
me as "Hi There!" Apparently, I look like a "There." So be
it
This
wk #IBM jk q-hs:
http://ow.ly/n7HwG
http://ow.ly/n7HxD
http://ow.ly/n7HyI
http://ow.ly/n7HAk
http://ow.ly/n7HBf
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Liars Beware
by Richard Hell & The Voidoids from Spurts: The Richard Hell Story
JK--Surprisingly light on punky feet!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Ngiculela Es
Una Historia I Am Singing by Stevie Wonder from Songs in Key o Life JK--Gr8
one. Thanks Larry Mizell Jr
Big
Media? Storage optimization even more critical at this scale (http://lnkd.in/C7yp7v )
Friday #IBM
quick-hit
Big
Media? Storage optimization even more critical at this scale: http://lnkd.in/C7yp7v
Jack
Handey's bewilderment at former SNL writer colleague Al Franken becoming a
senator: "It's like hearing Mark Twain had become a florist"
Richard
Hell writes in WSJ about his East
Village
At
this point Virginia Gov. McDonnell should simply resign. He+wife have accepted
so many questionable "gifts" that his credibility is kaput
Majority
of Americans supports fortifying Mexican border. Absurd insult to a neighbor
nation that has never once waged war against the USA .
I
luv spam that addresses me as "my dearest." I always dreamt my
soulmate would be an artificial contrivance with no actual soul.
Twice
today I switched between Metrorail cars mid journey. AC nonoperational in some.
Swelterin!
Good
roundtable on #bigdata
applicability to dementia research. Supersmart highly influential participants.
I learned a lot.
Have
written 4 of next week's 5 quick-hits. One on vehicular IoT apps for driver
experience. Calling them "fahrvergnügen optimization"
"Belly
dancing math" (http://ow.ly/n5pbM ) JK--Non-boring title o
followup 2 "Structuredness coefficient 2 find patterns & associations"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp While You
Were Sleeping by Elvis Perkins from Ash Wednesday JK--"They hung young
Cain from the Adam tree."
Speaking
this PM on panel w/ Sir Mark Walport (chf UK sci advsr) at N.Ireland Bureau
WashDC (http://ow.ly/n5o94 ) on #bigdata &
dementia
Probably
just summer deep in its doldrums. But most of today's commentary on the socials
feels like reruns. Everybody's head's in a hammock
Every
day. Somebody I've never heard of emails me a request to help them. Doesn't
tell me what's in it for me. Delete.
Meaty
metadata? SPARQL deserves a second look for big-data query standard (http://lnkd.in/PmknCt )
Thursday #IBM
quick-hit
Meaty
metadata? SPARQL deserves a second look for big-data query standard: http://lnkd.in/PmknCt
Nice
again to have my bare feet back on the cool floor of my basement office. For me
at work, physically, it's home plate. Pitch it!
"'Superman'
crystals could store 360TB of data forever" (http://ow.ly/n41pu )
JK--Perfect for multitemperature storage mgt (yuk yuk).
On
Delta flights with entertainment, I frequently space on LPs--notably Zero 7's
greatest collection: "Record." Perfect mellow atmospherics!
Met
fellow #IBM-er
and ex- #Forrester
analyst Brian Hill at Silicon Valley Lab. Didn't realize he was with us. Great
to reconnect.
"Analysts
see room 4 growth on #Hadoop,
other '#bigdata'
technologies" (http://ow.ly/n2WXH ) JK--Article's 2 years
old. Cites prior me
"How
to use a graph database to solve #BigData
problems" (http://ow.ly/n2WHH ) JK--Cool discussion of
graph data structure in nature.
Karma.
It's a predictive model on the supernatural plane.
""What’s
Yr Social-Media Genotype?" (http://ow.ly/n1xNV )
JK--Fixed set o personal interests describes/predicts behavior on social nets
"The
hot new technology in #BigData
is decades old: SQL" (http://ow.ly/n1wls ) JK--Good market
overview includes #IBM
BigSQL
"Why
#BigData
will never beat business intuition" (http://ow.ly/n1sir )
JK--Interesting POV. And John Henry was a steel-drivin' man!
"Social
media analytics: are we nearly there yet?" (http://ow.ly/n1rTZ )
JK--Discusses challenges assessing quality of this intelligence
"IoT
may drive U nuts before it makes things better" (http://ow.ly/n1qLD )
JK--Dont make us reboot our fridge as often as Windows
"Bill
Gates on future of...just about everything" (http://ow.ly/n1q1w )
JK--Sez climate change models fit historical, not very predictive
"The
best way to predict the future is to invent it." Google search shows
ALincoln, FNietzche, PDrucker, AKay, & SJobs all coined this
"Big
Brother." It's essentially the paranoiac mindset that sees nothing but
censors and sensors everywhere.
"Data
Sci & Semmelweis Reflex" (http://ow.ly/n1m4b )
JK--Nothing like Heimlich Maneuver. Reject new data cuz conflicts w/received
wisdom
@kfalconspb What Louis CK didn't
mention is that your "chariot in the sky" is no fun if you're
squished like cargo w/no view of Earth.
Delta
is good! They just gave me 500 bonus miles plus free drink coupon to apologize
for yesterday's middle-seat discomfort. Thanks Delta!
People
comment how ridiculous it was that Jimi Hendrix opened for The Monkees. But he
was there for simple reason: Micky dug Hendrix.
Political
rhetoric. Why is calling for simple majority vote "nuclear" (ie,
extremist)? And what gives GOP the nerve to lecture on extremism?
Security
o #bigdata?
Implementing trustwrthy MpReduce infrastructur fundamental (http://lnkd.in/V4m5N8 )
Wed #IBM qh in
adv. Travel tomorrow
Security
of big data? Implementing trustworthy MapReduce infrastructure is fundamental: http://lnkd.in/V4m5N8
Social
sentiment as valuable market intel? It's easy to squander it through naive
interpretations (http://lnkd.in/BPNsbs ) Tuesday #IBM q-h
Social
sentiment as valuable market intelligence? It's easy to squander it through
naive interpretations: http://lnkd.in/BPNsbs
When's
that drink cart coming? I need something to dull the pain of Mr.
Nexttomecontinualpenclicking.
Having
tons of fun in the middle seat in coach in a cross-country flight. Tons of it.
@melizeche I just made it public.
Thanks
Business
travel is an oddly calming experience for me. Even thru all the travel hassles,
I stay centered. Mostly on my own.
@melizeche I just did. Anybody can
follow my FB (http://ow.ly/mZozb )
Another
approach is to say #bigdata
IS advanced analytics at extreme scale, hence IS NOT basic analytics (i.e., BI)
at traditional scale
My
Facebook post on "what #bigdata is
NOT" (http://ow.ly/mZnJR ). Just bullet points.
Not a blog or quick-hit.
I've
addressed "what big data is NOT" question by adapting some thoughts
from my 2012 "big-data mythbusting" blogs. See my FB for details.
Microsoft
Bob. IMHO it would have succeeded if they'd asked Bob Newhart to voice the cute
little doggy.
Corpse
flower at US Botanic Garden. Everyone waiting for it to open and stink. I'm
waiting for it to say "feed me Seymour!"
DCA
recorded robo-announcements. Repetition accentuates qualities I deem prissy,
insincere, and/or patronizing. All in my mind?
Someone
asked for a list of everything #bigdata is
NOT. Something tells me it's a futile task.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Bagboy by
Pixies from single JK--2013. I'm not a Pixies geek, but I like this as much as
any of their classic stuff
"Increasing
Meaninglessness of Data-Metadata Distinction" (http://ow.ly/mYswU )
JK--Metadata is data (that describes other data).
"20
Inspiring #BigData
Visualization Examples" (http://ow.ly/mYrsN ) JK--Cool and useful,
all of them.
"Structuredness
coefficient to find patterns..." (http://ow.ly/mYotP )
JK--Ignore the boring headline. Dig the mesmerizing visualizations
"Kaggle
now has 100K data scientists, but what’s a data scientist?" (http://ow.ly/mYn3K )
JK--Lowering bar of skills required to compete?
"Data
Cleanup: #BigData
Can Pose Big Risk" (http://ow.ly/mYmkL ) JK--Common retention
period, filtering criteria, intelligent indexing
"Data,
Metadata & the Assumption of Quality" (http://ow.ly/mYlZm )
JK--Alludes to "relevance" rather than accuracy o social intelligence
With
the fascination 4 "moneyball" & all that, it's only a matter of
time before sportsfans start assembling Fantasy Data Scientist Leagues!
I
can't believe people in the whateverosphere still parsing distinctions among
data insight intelligence knowledge wisdom. Give it a rest!
Graph
analysis? Identifying moving targets demands #bigdata &
fancy math (http://lnkd.in/H7Higq ) Monday #IBM quick-hit
Graph
analysis? Identifying moving targets demands big data & fancy math: http://lnkd.in/H7Higq
A
good day gallivanting and touristing around DC. Ended it with a little Whole
Foods action in Arlington .
Places jumps on a Sunday.
Future
visions of the past? I suspect they'll re-imagine us as knuckle-dragging morons
who imagined that our lame gadgets were "smart."
Flying
cars have always been insane dream. Not only would they B incredibly dangerous
to "drive," imagine the air traffic control nightmares
Jetsons.
Cartoon's tech "vision" was entirely based on advances in avionics +
robotics. Not electronics. Not materials. Not life sciences
Why
U should care about multicloud (http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/why-you-should-care-about-multicloud-222173?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2013-07-12 …)
JK--Good Linthicum piece on challenges o bridging myriad public & private
clouds
Scientists
create liquid metal structures with 3D printer (http://www.techhive.com/article/2044274/scientists-create-liquid-metal-structures-with-a-3d-printer.html#tk.nl_today …)
JK--Lithium-ion batteries the size of grain of sand. Cool
WashPost
review of US airline hijackings of 1960s & early 1970s. 9/11 was a tragic
anomaly. Tight airport security has made huge difference.
Why
is it said outrageous events among the living might cause the departed to
"turn over in their graves"? Too ashamed to face coffin lid?
I
like lying on the floor with my head and knees slightly elevated. Puts my back
muscles at absolute peace.
Rewatching
Clint Eastwood "Gran Torino" with my guests. The Asian-Americans are
realistic in their portrayal of family dynamics.
Lying
here processing my seconds of Vietnamese eggrolls. Socializing with family
& friends at home. I'm on the sofa relaxing.
Android
on the Samsung smartphone is annoying, hard to find stuff I need.
I
think it's important that we romanticize every last square inch of the places
where we grew up. They don't make dirt like that anymore.
