Heard
neighborhood fox scream in wee small hours last night. You've never heard such
an otherworldly wail. Took me a few hours to doze again
Reading
Graham Nash's gr8 memoir "Wild Tales." Describes two 3-pt harmonies
responsibl 4 his success: Crosby Stills Nash & Clarke Hicks Nash
Watching
infomercial for product "not available in any store." Um, not really.
Online or tollfree number is tantamount to a "store" now.
People
who swear they'll never use Twitter. I'm thinking "What? Why? Typing and
reading short sentences is too difficult?"
Browsing
recent news stories. Anybody getting morally outraged over anything that I care
to join in the umbrage over? No? Good.
"Songwriters
at the End of the World" (http://ow.ly/yO5CL ) JK--WashPost Chris
Richards deserves Pulitzer for these brilliant interviews
Thank
you God for this glorious morning! It's like winter's dream of a summer day.
Rare
4 th WashPost 2 take one side in another country's election. Here's today's
op/ed against Indonesia 's
Subianto (http://ow.ly/yO1B9 )
WashPost
feature on massive "Tysons Central" project going up at Leesburg PIke
& Chain Bridge Rd, along new Silver Line. NoVa's skyscrapers!
Acronym
alert: "STEM" (science tech engineering math). WashPost sez DC area
"brimming with hard-to-fill STEM jobs." That is true. Tech hub.
"Psych
'shrooms put brain in waking dream, study finds" (http://ow.ly/yNXLH )
JK--How do rsrchrs know theyre not dreaming those findings?
"Gigantic
insect lands on James Rodriguez shortly after scoring for Colombia "
(http://ow.ly/yNXd5 )
JK--Bad omen? What's point of story?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp LIving Proof by Cat
Power from The Greatest JK--Wherein the moody chanteuse sounds positively
glory-be ecstatic.
Michael
McDonald's voice. Always sounds like he's straining his vocal cords to the max.
Painful to listen to. Impossible to sing along with
Airborne
explosives remind me of what's great about this country. Always have.
Hey,
when did they change the lyric? I thought it was "Glory glory hallelujah,
teacher hit me with the rulah?"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Almost Independence
Day by Van Morrison from Saint Dominic's Preview JK--Cool. DJ played my
request. dj@kexp.org
Watching
"Walking Dead" with our 14-year-old houseguest. I don't get into
zombie stuff. It's generational. Aging feels like zombification.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp 4th of July by Aimee
Mann from Whatever JK--Nice. She always puts her whole heart into her singing.
RT
@KirkDBorne: Nice! Open book >
Probabilistic Models of Cognition: http://probmods.org #DataScience #Statistics =>
Cognitive #Analytics
Spanish
explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (http://ow.ly/yMMCj ). That
his real surname? Who names self "Head of Cow"? Historical joke?
What
I cant stand about FB "trending" is being notified for any amount of
time that "Dave Coulier's wedding turns into 'Full House' reunion"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp U.S.A. by The
Beat from The Beat JK--1979. LA-based New Wavers best known for NOT being The
(better, English) Beat.
For
me, sharing out something on Facebook is like bookmarking in my browser: a
placeholder to which I might return for further examination
Every
weekend I quickly glance at what I published that week. It's amazing how
quickly I forget about them. I just move on to the next batch
What?
Ike & Tina are in the World Cup? How is that possible? Ohhhh...Argentina .
Never mind.
Cold
front wasted no time in pushing thru! In the 10 minutes it took to drive from
home to club, temp dropped from 88 to 77. A mighty wind!
Thank
U LinkedIn for "finding 695 jobs." At times, my job feels like I'm
doing that much. But no thanks. Mine's fine. Weekends welcome, tho
"Yahoo
releases massive Flickr dataset & supercomputer steps up 2 analyze" (http://ow.ly/yL10r )
JK--Deep-learning feed frenzy in making?
"7
things U need to know about Facebook's mood experiment" (http://ow.ly/yKZX7 )
JK--#8 should be you're a sap if you worry about this
"What
does Whale Vomit hav in Common w/ #BigData
Analytics?" (http://ow.ly/yKXYm ) JK--Let's stick to
non-gross-out "Vs," s'il vous plait
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Tangled Heart by
Luluc from Passerby JK--2014. Slow, pretty, quiet, poignant, simple, spare.
"Data
Science: What the Facebook Controversy is Really About" (http://ow.ly/yKWHZ )
JK--Examines what society means by "data science."
"10
things I miss about old technology" (http://ow.ly/yKV9w )
JK--Yeah...and buggy whips were good for shutting up brats in the back seat
"Healthcare
Data Analytics Gone Wrong" (http://ow.ly/yKUd6 )
JK--Discusses risk o target-mrktg unnecessary prescreenings 2 vulnerabl pops
"Case
4 Text Mining in Payment Integrity" (http://ow.ly/yKSB7 )
JK--Healthcare insur claims with identical phrases may indicate collusion
"
#IBM expands #Hadoop commitment
w/support for #Spark
" (http://ow.ly/yKRlD ) JK--"Joining
forces w/ Databricks, Cloudera, Intel & MapR"
"Embedding
Advanced Analytics" (http://ow.ly/yKPP0 ) JK--Analytic
algorithms driving automated processes & systems, per @fhalper
"How
#bigdata may protect
us from NSA spying" (http://ow.ly/yKNf7 ) JK--Oblique
"protection": their human analysts are overwhelmed by it.
"
#BigData security
analytics mantra: Collect & analyze everything" (http://ow.ly/yKIOr )
JK--Discusses the ramifications of "everything"
"Data
Scientist Role: How Will It Evolve?" (http://ow.ly/yKH0g )
JK--"Greater responsib 4 driving product dev, tech adoption,
architctur"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Day My Baby Gave
Me a Surprize by Devo JK--"Surprize"? "Accident"? Why left
& wont look @ him? Disfigurd SpudBoy?
"#BigData makes research
more difficult say data scientists" (http://ow.ly/yKCvf )
JK--But none say they're scaling back their analyses
Ah
yes the Facebook contro will spur some to sensationalize "real-world
experiment" as they've done to "data mining" "metadata"
& "big data"
Responded
to emailed Qs from reporter Mónica Cordero Sancho of El Financiero (San José Costa
Rica ). I speak there on #bigdata on Wed July 16
Wrappd
my mind around th 5 q-h topics 4 nxt wk. More like shrink-wrapped. Conformed my
thoughts to & pressed shape into the contours of each
This
workweek features two N.American country-founding observances: Tues (Canada
Day) & Fri (US Independence Day). Email volumes WAY down
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Goat Shepard by
Mirah from Changing Light JK--2014. Good one. She's rocking harder on this than
she has in the past.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp On Fire by Sebadoh
from Harmacy JK--1996. Great burning yearning classic indie-rock groove on this
one.
Maybe
I'm a curmudgeon but being nagged by a post-visit satisfaction survey often
tips me over th edge into dissatisfaction. Leave me alone!
This
week's #IBMDataMag
quick-hits: http://ow.ly/yJHGJ http://ow.ly/yJHIq
http://ow.ly/yJHKO
http://ow.ly/yJHOb
Engag
customr as individ? Parrying double-edge o customer sarcasm p1: http://ow.ly/yJD7I
p2: http://ow.ly/yJD9d
Thurs #IBMDataMag
qh
Enjoying
"The Most of Nora Ephron." Collected writings of wickedly smart/funny
late journalist-screenwriter-novelist-director-blogger-wit
Damn,
what a busy day. Still has a few hours of work left in it. Wondering if I have
the energy left in me to pour into what awaits.
"Bezos's
Law" (http://ow.ly/yHomi ) JK--Coined by someone
else, not Jeff Bezos. Unit o cloud computing power price drops ~50% every 3 yrs
#IBM deepens engagement
& expands collaboration beyond organizational boundaries with new #socbiz software http://ibm.biz/BdFxzv
#Bigdata
"lakes." If become magnets for never-ending data-science exploratory
"fishing expeditions," there's a "boil the lake" risk.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Righteous One by
The Orwells from Disgraceland JK--2014. Great arena-grade guitar-rock shouter!
"
#IBM Delivers New #BigData Capabs on IBM
Cloud Marketplace" (http://ow.ly/yGSgv ) JK--IBM Navigator on
the Cloud. Ent content mgt
#BigData service on #IBMCloud marketplace
makes content more interactive and secure http://bit.ly/1pO00jS @cloudcomputing-news
New
#IBMBigData
addition to #IBMCloud
marketplace; 15+ #BigData
services now available via the #cloud http://bit.ly/1pS2ygJ
@eWeek
"
#IBM Delivers New #BigData Capabilities
on IBM Cloud Marketplace" (http://ow.ly/yGQNH ) JK--Enterprise content management in the cloud
Ambient
analytics? Advent of big-data wearables & "unaware-ables" p1: http://ow.ly/yGPtV
p2: http://ow.ly/yGPvV
Wed #IBMDataMag
qhs
Wearable
devices. Essentially, these will be a membrane between your brain and the
universal brain in the cloud.
"7
Millennials Who Are Too Busy Changing The World To Take Selfies" (http://ow.ly/yGfuL )
JK--Condescension-intensive HuffPost headline.
Tabloid
cover shows Faye Dunaway resembling a cadaver. Google Image search shows a
still-beautiful woman in her 70s.
Is
notion of "viewership" too limiting in era of interactive
social-media TV? "Interactorship"? "Engagership"? Nah...too
stilted.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Odessa by Caribou frm Swim JK--Caution:
multilayered bellringing electronic mix might induce virtual tintinnabulation
Healthcare
analytics? #BigData
as factr in life-or-death decisions p1: http://ow.ly/yEzac p2: http://ow.ly/yEzcg
Tues #IBMDataMag
qh
"Jake
Porway wants to turn his ntwk of scientists into league o information
champions" (http://ow.ly/yEvM5 ) JK--Quants Sans
Frontières?
· Jul 1
"Does
Deep Learning Have Deep Flaws?" (http://ow.ly/yEv9Z )
JK--Discusses studies pinpointing weaknesses of deep neural networks.
"#BigData as a Service:
next big thing?" (http://ow.ly/yEuDx ) JK--Yep. Follow my
tweets earlier this morning to #IBM Bluemix BDaaS svcs
"New
Beginnings in Facial Recognition" (http://ow.ly/yEtY1 )
JK--Highlights Facebook deep-learning project called DeepFace.
"Visualizing
Algorithms" (http://ow.ly/yEsLe ) JK--Wow! This is a
highly visual, captivating, and technically deep discussion/preso.
"Jumping
on the bandwagon." What an archaic phrase! The last band that hauled their
gear in one of those was REO Speedwagon.
OK,
more tedious #bigdata
"myths." If Joseph Campbell were still among us, he'd point out that
none of these were mentioned in Bhagavad Gita
"Google:
100,000 lives a year lost through fear of data-mining" (http://ow.ly/yEp9W )
JK--Huh? Healthcare orgs do plenty of data mining
"FDA
baks off reg med device data sys" (http://ow.ly/yEnyF )
JK--But still regs sys that do active monitoring, delivery, patient-data mod
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Modern Man by Arcade
Fire from The Suburbs JK--2010. Great song from Montreal group's Grammy-winning album.
"Rare
genetic disorders diagnosd by computer analysis of photos" (http://ow.ly/yEmHx )
JK--Image analytics, machine lrnng, autoclustering
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Transmission by Hot
Chip from War Child - Heroes: The Ultimate Covers Album JK--Excellent electro
Joy Division cover.
"Medicare:
Predictive analytics working to fight fraud" (http://ow.ly/yElid )
JK--Recovered/prevented > $210M improper paymts in 2nd year
Slightly
unnerved by fact that Facebook has notified me of 2 friends' birthdays
today--both of whom R deceased. Gauche to unfriend the dead?
#IBM Bluemix data analytics
service: Time Series Database: http://ow.ly/yEhik
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#IBM Bluemix data analytics
service: IBM Analytics for Hadoop (beta): http://ow.ly/yEh8h
#IBM Bluemix data analytics
service: Geospatial Analytics (beta): http://ow.ly/yEgXH
#IBM Bluemix data analytics
service: Analytics Warehouse: http://ow.ly/yEgIM . Formerly known as
"IBM BLU for Cloud." Out of beta now.
#IBM Bluemix data analytics
service: SQL Database: http://ow.ly/yEgyT
"
#IBM Bluemix General
Availability!" (http://ow.ly/yEdZK ) JK--Further details.
Service catalog here: http://ow.ly/yEeJq
"#IBM Bluemix Now GA: Signif
Momentum Since Open Beta" (http://ow.ly/yEdjU ) JK--Includes > 50
svcs for build secure cloud-based biz apps
"BLU
Acceleration & Analytics in a Single DB (http://ow.ly/yE91X )
JK--Redbook: “Architecting & Deploying #IBM DB2 w/ BLU...” #IBMDataMag
"Enhanced
Web & Mobile Application Developmt" (http://ow.ly/yE8HZ )
JK--Redbook: "IBM Cloudant: The Do-More NoSQL Data Layer" #IBMDataMag
"Making
It Big with #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/yE8dW )
JK--#IBM ebook, “Big
Data Analytics Infrastructure for Dummies” #IBMDataMag
"A
Well-Suited Database for #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/yE7xs )
JK--#IBM ebook: “DB2 11
for z/OS: Database 4 Big Data Analytics" #IBMDataMag
Happy
Canada Day 2 our friends north of th border--or east if you're Alaskan, west if
Buffalonian, or south if Detroiter considering Windsor
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Lloyd, I'm Ready to
Be Heartbroken by Camera Obscura JK--2006. Response to Lloyd Cole "Are You
Ready 2 B Heartbroken"
"Executing
on Vision" (http://ow.ly/yE6sT ) JK--Gartner Magic
Quadrant: structured data archiving and application retirement #IBMDataMag
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'm Not Talking by
A.C. Newman from Shut Down The Streets JK--2012. Great solo release by New
Pornographers principal
"Delivering
Minimum Viable Analytics" (http://ow.ly/yE5A5 ) JK--M.Cavaretta on
iterative analytics development @mjcavaretta
#IBMDataMag
"The
Joy of Continuous Models for Streaming Data" (http://ow.ly/yE5ou )
JK--D. Birmingham
on #IBM PureData in
streaming apps #IBMDataMag
"Trading
the Currency of Relevance" (http://ow.ly/yE55C ) JK--G.
Noseworthy on analytics in media/entertainment @graemeknows #IBMDataMag
"Is
"Data Scientist" nothing more than euphemism 4 "Data
Analyst"?" (http://ow.ly/yDgqw ) JK--U mean
"synonym." Euphemism masks nastiness
Internet
Of Things? The next big Thing? Or the next big Internet? Or the next big Of?
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Facebook
birthday reminders. Possible to specify just family reminders? Wait...I don't
need reminding on those. How about none at all?
Catch
me speaking on "#IBM
#Watson: Core of the
Cognitive Revolution" at IBM Insight 2014 (http://ow.ly/yCbET ). Oct
26-30. Las Vegas .
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Everybody Knows by
Leonard Cohen frm Im Yr Man JK--"People U have 2 meet without yr
clothes"? Not in my line of work!
Drafted
new #IBM jk blog:
"Streaming media and narrative power of video content analytics"
WSJ
article says people get depressed by Facebook posts o friends' seemingly wonderful
lives. Ever think they're NOT POSTING their problems?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Goodbye Sweet Dreams
by Roky Erickson With Okkervil River JK--2010. Has fought mental illness, stays
productive.
Money
is root of all evil? If that's so, did the snake stash a cashwad inside that
apple in Garden of Eden? Or did he swallow it all whole?
My
daughter raised good objection to film "Her" concept: no gadget maker
would build an AI-OS that you'd want to dump in a hurt-feeling snit
The
#CRM industry needs to
grapple with issue: when does "customer experience management" become
"mood manipulation"? And does it matter?
"Hadoop
Summit: Where is th value? Where are th apps?" (http://ow.ly/yBfX3 )
JK--Good summary. Essentially, #Hadoop market not yet
mature
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Cherry Blossom Girl
by Air from Talkie Walkie JK--2004. Pretty electronica with a (real or
synthesized?) flute sound
"What
Is #Hadoop….Now?"
(http://ow.ly/yBeu2 )
JK-- #Gartner @merv points up persistent lack of industry
consensus on this question.
"4
reasons why Spark could jolt #Hadoop into
hyperdrive" (http://ow.ly/yBdJd ) JK--Fast, flexible,
"easy (relatvly spekng)," "plays nice"
"
#Hadoop: the Third
Wave Breaks" (http://ow.ly/yBd4E ) JK--BDevlin says it's
new emphasis on higher-layer DBMSs above HDFS, plus tools
Good
preso on building a #Hadoop-based
application for clickstream analysis (http://ow.ly/yBcDN )
"#IBM InfoSphere BigInsights
V3.0 delivers advancd Big SQL component & integr8n w/Apache Solr srch
engine" (http://ow.ly/yBbmB ) #Hadoop
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Blue Eyes Crying in
the Rain by Willie Nelson from The Essential Willie Nelson JK--Beautiful simple
melody.
IoT?
Potential 4 sensor-driven hyperlocalized weather forecasting p1: http://ow.ly/yB86z
p2: http://ow.ly/yB88R
Mon #IBMDataMag
qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Harry Hippie by
Bobby Womack JK--"I'd like 2 help a man when he's down but how can I when
he's sleeping on th ground"
Facebook
mood-alteration experiment. Would it've been OK if they'd tried 2 sway user
feelings only about FB rather than feelings generally?
Facebook
controversy highlights ethics of customer experience management within
real-world experiments powered by big-data analytics.
Facebook's
mood-altering real-world experiment. Would it have been less controversial if
they'd only tried to make people happier?
Saw
"Her" on DVD. It's fine. What I didn't get was biz model of writing
personal letters for others. People don't care about those anymore
Gluten-free
Rice Krispies. Tastes like stale Rice Krispies. The worst to you each morning.
RT
@SocialTrep: "The IPO is
dying. Marc Andreessen explains why" (http://flip.it/t3J55 )
JK--Lays the blame on Sarbanes-Oxley.
RT
@Competia: France in 2000:
futuristic pictures issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910 http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910/?elq=2ad1b1a2055642d7bddc3de4500c9f8d&elqCampaignId=289#sthash.tnIS2r9Q.dpuf …
RT
@merv: London ’s deputy Mayor want to “take Oracle
down.” Strong words. Interesting read at http://read.bi/1r1aRc0
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp St. James Infirmary
by Bobby "Blue" Bland from Two Steps From the Blues & Here's The
Man JK--My fave rendition o this
Yes,
guys, the louder you grunt the harder you're working those muscles. So just go
at it like a pack of wild boars in rutabeggy heaven.
"Debunking
conventional wisdom about conventions" (http://ow.ly/yzghe )
JK--Convention centers: the big-empty-space race among US cities
Willie
Nelson "Mr. Record Man" (http://ow.ly/yzerF ) JK--On
1st LP in 1962. Failed to sell it in 1958. One of 1st songs he shopped around
I'd
estimate that ~50% of people I knew growing up are inaccessible via social
media. Either they have no accounts, or have but don't check
Found
something didnt realize I had: 10 year highschool reunion book from '86. Our
class was ~70% married off by age 28. ~90% college grads
