What's
weird about seeing my older stuff retweeted is how it reswizzles my mind. Which
of that stuff is worth revisiting? Do I still care?
IBM
#DataWorks comes
to @IBMBluemix offering point and
click data prep. Details here: https://ibm.biz/BdHnd6
jameskobielus Retweeted
These
short promotional videos for motion pictures. Do they call the storage devices
where those are stored the Trailer Park?
Daily
multitasking dilemma: how to give every task my undivided divvied-up attention?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Time Baby 3 by
Medicine JK--1994. LA group. Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser guesting on backgrnd
vox. Very Cocteaus-trippy!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Big Black Coat by
Junior Boys from Big Black Coat JK--2016. Ooh. I like it. A supple old-school
electronic pulse.
Email
systems should have an automated script that immediately deletes any message
with "open immediately" (or variant) in th subject field.
"Big
Data at NASA" (http://ow.ly/VKXHa ) JK--Lends a whole
different dimension to the phrase "big as all outdoors." The void
beckons!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Hey Lucinda by
Tindersticks frm The Waiting Room JK--2016. Love this one. Sounds like
late-nite barstool conversation
Sparkathon:
It's Raining Data. Join hackathon here: http://ow.ly/VKf2U #weathermeans biz
"IBM
Exec: Hackathons Are New Proofs Of Concept" (http://ow.ly/VKeQR )
JK--We have online hackathn on weather data analytcs going on now
RT
@GilPress @IEEEorg Rock Stars of #BigData & #IoT event Austin TX May 24
@KirkBorne @jameskobielus @billfranksga http://www.computer.org/web/rock-stars/big-data-2016?lf1=4631481423c436010112936e53962231 …
…
Developing
a slideshare of analytics industry predictions in 2016. I predict there will be
12 months in 2016. Beyond that, just dart throws.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp She Shakes by Pure
Bathing Culture from Pray for Rain JK--2015. Portland OR
You
know Christmas is getting too commercial when you get more old-fashioned Xmas
cards from businesses than flesh & blood friends & family.
Novo
Nordisk, #IBM Watson
Health to create ‘virtual doctor’ http://on.wsj.com/1NI56uG
via @WSJ @IBMWatson #healthcare
#Quantum computers
won't just be faster - they'll tackle what's impossible today. http://bit.ly/quantum-report #quantumcomputing
"New
Personal Cognitive Assistant Gabriel “Whispers” In User’s Ears" (http://ow.ly/VIbbY )
JK--Really? God instructs you on daily tasks?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp In the Beginning by
Weyes Blood from Cardamom Times JK--2015. Beautiful soul-stirring soaring
folksinging.
"AI
Ethics a New Focus at Cambridge Univ" (http://ow.ly/VI9BS )
JK--"Existential risk" akin to climate change and biological warfare
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Let It Loose by The
Rolling Stones from Exile on Main St. JK--1972. Cool airy soulful in a woozy
sort of way.
"Most
outlandish theory yet 4 what killd off th dinosaurs" (http://ow.ly/VH6g3 )
JK--Dark matter did em in: plot o "Land Before Time XV"
An
implementation of "A neural algorithm of Artistic style" in
TensorFlow http://bit.ly/1OlnPww
jameskobielus Retweeted
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Country Road by Merry Clayton from Gimme
Shelter JK--1970. Love how she funked up this James Taylor song.
Scientists
prove that high-powered computational physics can never definitively predict
all interactions (http://ow.ly/VH2MW )
Because
I'm in high-tech, my wife seems to expect me to have an innate understanding of
every feature in every device containing a microchip
Spent
much of the day doing my 2016 social/content marketing campaign planning at
work. Herding cats large & small, most of them purring.
"Uber
Gets Green Light for Jakarta " (http://ow.ly/VEY3W )
JK--And will intensify the already maddening gridlock in Indonesia 's
capital.
"IBM
Awarded IARPA Grant to Advance Research Towards a Universal Quantum
Computer" (http://ow.ly/VEXdY ) JK--Check out the
infographic.
"Defining
and Sizing the Industrial Internet" (http://ow.ly/VEWm0 )
JK--Floyer's report is more than 2 years old but still very valid
Mouse-blindness:
that freakout moment when you frantically jerk your mouse hand back & forth
searching for that elusive on-screen pointer
"How
2 Build Data Science Teams" (http://ow.ly/VC2JS ) JK--No
unicorns, but green alligators, long-neckd geese & humpty-backed camels OK
"Metaphors
of Big Data" (http://ow.ly/VC2gt ) JK--These are mostly
ridiculous. They're also mostly similes, not metaphors.
"New
IBM Cloud Service Enables Developers to Create Apps that Tap into Vast Amounts
of Unstructured Data" (http://ow.ly/VC1gh )
"Beyond
The Beacon.." (http://ow.ly/VC134 ) JK--Forrester sees
scant retailer adoption of in-store beacons 4 location-bsd proximity mktg
"The
Power, Promise and Pitfalls of Big Data" (http://ow.ly/VC0M0 )
JK--Title's hard to say without spraying.
"Wikipedia
Deploys AI to Expand Its Ranks of Human Editors" (http://ow.ly/VC02d )
JK--Auto-identifies cyber-vandalism to site's content
I'm
also surprised that few have included Lord Huron's "Strange Trails"
on their best-albums list of 2015. I dig it: http://ow.ly/VBhRy
"NPR
Music's 50 Favorite Albums o 2015" (http://ow.ly/VBgLq )
JK--Surprised nobody mentiond Panda Bear's gr8 LP: http://ow.ly/VBgUX
#KEXP last week at Dexter
& Denny studio. Here's me & DJ Kevin Cole in station lobby in Sept
2007.
#KEXP last week at Dexter
& Denny studio. Here's me & DJ Riz in station podcast booth in Sept
2007.
#KEXP last week at Dexter
& Denny studio. Here's me & DJ Jon Kertzer in station library in Sept
2007.
It
seems like every day that the GOP plutocrat racist frontrunner opens his mouth
is a day that will live in infamy. Too many to count.
Letting
this nauseating presidential campaign play itself out. I already know I'm
voting for Hillary. I don't need a real-time idiocy feed
Charlie
Hilton "Pony" (http://ow.ly/VBcVc ) JK--2016. Portland artist.
Charlie's a she, by the way. Good one. Debut LP in January.
Eleanor
Friedberger "He Didn't Mention His Mother" (http://ow.ly/VBcup )
JK--2016. Upcoming release. Good one.
Watching
“Annie Hall” rather than the news. Nostalgia, you might say. 1977 was a
simpler, happier time. Everybody got along. La-dee-da.
New
#IBM jk blog:
"Zeitgeists, wind gusts and the analytics of environmental
turbulence" (http://ow.ly/VAR01 )
I've
winterized th yard. By that I mean I've removed every fallen leaf from th lawn,
beneath thoroughly bare trees. A blank slate soon blanc
A
good morning. Another day of use-or-lose vacation time. Use it or lose my
marbles.
Pete
Seeger's Rainbow Quest TV show. 1966. Johnny Cash and June Carter (http://ow.ly/VxIBU ).
Episode never aired. Johnny was wasted.
Glad
to have given the workouts a rest for a few days. Been happily lazy as guest in
our friends' house. Watching far more cable than usual
Thanks
LinkedIn for informing me how several hundred people I may/may not know are
progressing/stagnating in their careers. Keep me posted
Was
fun attending a piano recital for music students in Philadelphia this afternoon. Wife & I
both sensed which kids had a real feel for it.
Our
host Stuart showed us th townhouse they're in the process of flipping in inner Philadelphia . The
building's perched on a massive spatula
We
parked in Cherry Hill NJ
At
Barnes & Noble reading first few pages of actress Judy Greer’s memoir about
growing up in the typical midwestern suburb Livonia Michigan
Contemplating
the analytic substrate of modern experience is like fussing over threadcount of
your silk sheets. Don’t think. Just luxuriate
Watching
a San Antonio
travelogue. What most people remember about the Alamo
is that it lacks a basement. Thank you Pee-wee!
Watching
“Good Day Philadelphia
Weekend.” Commercials for Poconos resort we stayed at a few years ago. Fairly
relaxing, quiet, forested.
The
older I get the more conscious I am of the contours of the back of every seat I
occupy. I want a subtle Shiatsu while I sit.
Checking
the morning’s headlines online. Too many. Where to start? What to pretend isn’t
happening in the world?
"Donald
Trump: CNN Says Will Not Pay Pres Candidate to Appear at Upcoming GOP
Debate" (http://ow.ly/VvA2i ) JK--Then pay him to
shut up!
My
2 non-selling tech/biz books soured me on ever doing it again. By
"it," I mean spending months on any composition that's not pure me.
Love
this Twitter spam: "Dear friend: As one of best seller on http://amazon.com ,
Do you want to cooperate with us?" I authored 2 dogs
RIP
Scott Weiland. Leader of grunge hitmaker Stone Temple Pilots. Here's one of
their big ones from 1992: http://ow.ly/Vvxaf
"11
Cool Ways to Use Machine Learning" (http://ow.ly/Vvw0B )
JK--You know what would be even cooler? A 12th that summarizes it in 1 page
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Power Child by Night
Beats from Who Sold My Generation JK--2016. New Sounds very 1968 psychedelic
acid rock. Great!
Ted
Cruz's roommate in college wins for quote of the year.
jameskobielus Retweeted
"Could
Self-Driving Cars Spell End o Ownershp?" (http://ow.ly/Vve8u )
JK--Ownd autos sit idle 95% o time. Ride-as-a-svc makes more sense
"New
& much improved Google+" (http://ow.ly/Vvd71 )
JK--Really? Then don't tell me someone "added you back." Don't need
disloyal friends
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Gravity's Gone by
Drive-By Truckers frm It's Great To Be Alive! JK--2015. My fave of theirs.
Sound like indie Skynyrd
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Don't Wanna Be
Anywhere by La Luz frm Weirdo Shrine JK--2015. Bandname means "the
light." Fitting. Like golden sunset
"Quantum
dots could bridg gap btwn electronic & quantum computers" (http://ow.ly/VuYdV )
JK--Nanostructure, electron spin, strong magnet
"Zuckerberg
and Chan Pledge Billions to Charity in Love Letter to Baby" (http://ow.ly/VuUKj )
JK--I love the photo of the 3 of them.
"Gartner’s
Strategic Predictions Spotlight Digital Assistants" (http://ow.ly/VuTJS )
JK--Smart agents to drive mobility in "postapp era"
"Watson
Says Wearables Will Sell This Season" (http://ow.ly/VuT45 )
JK--Especially among movie-goers and video-gamers
Comedy
Central has transitioned its late-night hosts very well. Noah & Wilmore
both occupy their timeslots very well. Fun to watch.
Got
far more sleep than normal last night. Put stresses on my lower back. Walking
it off. Diminishingly rural distant Philly suburbs. NJ.
I
told little Lauren that if she counts sheep she’ll fall asleep. If they baa baa
softly, sleepy bye will come faster.
I
always enjoy driving on I-95 in Baltimore .
The extensive port reminds me this is the very heart of the Eastern Seaboard.
"Tracking
and monetizing the genome of human mobility" (http://ow.ly/Vsyjw )
JK--My third favorite thing I wrote this year.
"The
Bogus Bogeyman of the Brainiac Robot Overlord" (http://ow.ly/VsxWU )
JK--My second favorite thing I wrote this year.
"The
Fantastic Visualization Voyage Through the Deep Data of Human Physiology"
(http://ow.ly/VsxKu )
JK--My fave thing I wrote this year
I'm
pretty burned out on social media. I don't need online friends. I simply need
friend friends. Call me oldschool.
One
of my favorite chuckles in the later seasons of "Mad Men" is all
these easterners imagining that California
would be their salvation.
Looking
forward to a day's worth of manual labor in & around Philly tomorrow with
Stuart & his crew. I like doing real stuff. Really mean it
Hanging
with our friends Antonius & Seri in south Jersey
at their daughter's place. Hung with them last year at their place in east
Java.
Vacation.
It's only been a few days and already I have more than 500 unchecked emails
among my various accounts. The pile comforts me.
Took
a detour off I-295 here in southern New
Jersey . Glad we did. We find the fields and towns
down here to be very pleasantly Americana .
"Mad
Men" season 6 episode 12. Pete Campbell, meeting GM in Detroit , says he's excited to eat at London
Chop House. I found it ordinary.
"Amazon
Reveals New Delivery Drone Look" (http://ow.ly/Vly9C )
JK--OK. So why does the idea still feel harebrained?
"The
Race to Create Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Heats Up" (http://ow.ly/VlxOv )
JK--OK. I'll believe it's real when I see a working prototype
Today
is first day of "meteorological winter." If I understand correctly,
the Weather Gods opted to sync their season with a human calendar?
I
enjoy watching my randomest tweets retweeted by the randomest bots. The
universe is just waiting to catapult my stray bits every direction
Dreary
drippy cold raw end of November. Gotta get away from this. Where to? Philly?
Yeah, that makes sense.
Bought
& downloaded "The Very Best of the Fleetwoods." Huge guilty
pleasure. Feather-light romantic pop confections from late 50s/early 60s
Four-day
weekend, followed by one day of work, followed by seven days of vacation and
weekend. I’m cool with that cadence.
"Scientists
developing solar panel that doubles as Li-Fi receiver" (http://ow.ly/VhAMo )
JK--Li-Fi uses LEDs for networked comms
Tommy
James & Shondells "Hanky Panky" (http://ow.ly/Vhcbe ) JK--No
truth to the rumor that it was originally called "My Baby Puts Out."
Last
day of the month. I'm never sure when the right time is on this day to tear the
page off the paper calendar. Remove the past from view.
"IBM’s
Watson Predicts Cyber Monday’s Top Products and Trends" (http://ow.ly/VgyGh )
JK--Download the app here: http://ow.ly/VgyN0
"All
Things Open 2015 - Spark & Storm: When & Where?" (http://ow.ly/VgxSf )
JK--Good comparative slideshare by @carsondial
"How
Silicon Valley is disrupting space" (http://ow.ly/VgxcI )
JK--Launching low-cost low-footprint satellites into low earth orbit.
"Who
Can Successfully Regulate Artificial Intelligence?" (http://ow.ly/Vgusc )
JK--The infographic expresses powerful decision framework
"How
machine learning will affect your business" (http://ow.ly/VgtuD )
JK--Good overview of likely impact on business cost structures.
"Big
Data & Law o Diminishing Returns" (http://ow.ly/VgsiX )
JK--"If too many degrees o freedom, U R begging for a spurious
correlation"
"Education
not adequate defense against rise of th robots" (http://ow.ly/VgizC )
JK--No, but a few good karate chops might subdue them
Robots
will take our jobs. And then a new race of robot Johnny Paychecks will come and
tell us to shove it: http://ow.ly/VgieT
Spark:
Fostering community innovation http://bit.ly/1NDvoQn
"Introducing
a Universal Translator for Big Data & Machine Learning" (http://ow.ly/Vgd1N )
JK--SystemML accepted into Apache Incubator.
Cyber
Monday. I think it means you need to buy online today because at midnight all
retailers shut off online shopping forever. Last chance.
Latest
scientific study reveals that nothing is good for you, everything causes
cancer, and the conventional wisdom is pure hooey.
"Your
Adult Siblings May Hold Secret To A Long Happy Life" (http://ow.ly/VeYkg )
JK--"Secret"? Why didn't Mom+Dad share it with you too?
"The
problem with endless discussion of disruptive innovation" (http://ow.ly/VeYcj )
JK--You mean apart from the vacuous abstractions?
Hmm,
ok, brick&mortar retailers not freaking out over "showrooming" as
much anymore. Doesn't mean they're not toast, though.
Oh,
that's good. Not a lot of IT industry news over this past 4-day weekend.
Apparently, people know how to give it a break.
Dear
http://HillaryClinton.com : No I
dont want 2 meet th candidate her husband or any1 else in her campaign. And
won't donate. But I will vote
Left
bodyworks class this morning at the very start. Instructor who cant modulate
her voice below a shout turned up stereo volume full-blast
No
point commenting on all the depressing things going on in the world right now.
Social media has become an echo chamber for all that.
People
exaggerate the weight gain attributable to a single meal: Thanksgiving dinner.
We shrugged ours off. And continued our workouts.
I’ve
long had a thing for that Blondie singer. When’s she gonna divorce that Dagwood
doofus?
Glad
I have Obamacare as an option for my grown children. A national online
healthcare insurance marketplace simplifies lives.
I
always count on the holiday season to dissolve my memories of the year now
ending. It’s all too close for true perspective. Give that time
Contemplating
my navel. Or, rather, the fact that “navel” is “Levan” backwards & I grew
up near Levan Rd. Cosmic connection. Ommmmmmm
Shirtsleeve
weather. Perfect way to begin the Christmas shopping season. In a T-shirt here
sipping coffee at Panera.
On
the whole, a good Thanksgiving. By which I mean the communal feast progressed
deliciously in keeping with my people's sacred tradition.
63°
sunny and pleasant. Something else to give thanks for.
These
Broadway musical dance numbers are great on 34th St , but I’d like to see off-Broadway
actors screaming edgier material at each other
Obama
pardons the national turkey. Which raises a disturbing question: How many of the
birds are doing hard time in our nation’s prisons?
That
sake really hit the spot. No I’m not gonna show you my spot.
New
#IBM jk #Dataversity
column: "Data Science to Change The World or Scratch an Itch" (http://ow.ly/V5a1E )
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp What Part Of Me by
Low from Ones and Sixes JK--2015. Love this song. It's got a great romantic
make-out vibe to it.
Drafted
next #IBM jk blog:
"Zeitgeists, Wind Gusts, and the Analytics of Environmental
Turbulence"
Let's
see. As jingle-bells season gets underway, who'll jangle, wrangle, and strangle
the joy by pointlessly politicizing it all. Go away!
Big
Data University
"AI's
largest-scale innovs aren't happening in cars or robots but in customer
svc" (http://ow.ly/V3Pau ) JK--Learning from
interactions
"The
Algorithms of Self-driving Cars" (http://ow.ly/V3OlB )
JK--Effort underway to model selfish/social behaviors inspired by bumblebees
Bezos
& Musk spar over respective space-commercialization exploits on Twitter (http://ow.ly/V3NPm ).
Elon posts smartypants tweaks.
"Bidirectional
Traversals in Space" (http://ow.ly/V3MZO ) JK--They considered
attempting that during the Apollo program. But too risky
Trump
had never publicly revealed his full brutality & racism until this presidential
run. American public needs to note 4 future reference
#IBM Turns Up Heat Under Competition
in Artificial Intelligence (http://ow.ly/V2BK1 ) SystemML open-sourced.
Thanksgiving
week at work is a good time to wrap up threads of tasks ongoing. Fewer new
tasks enter the stream. People drifting holiday-ward
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Lakes of Canada
by The Innocence Mission from Birds of My Neighborhood JK--1999. A total winter
vibe to this song
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Maybe Love by Weyes
Blood from Cardamom Times JK--2015. Exquisitely beautiful voice of yearning
& mourning.
New
#IBM jk #InfoWorld column:
"It's springtime at last for cognitive computing" (http://ow.ly/V2fed )
New
#IBM jk #TechTarget column:
"Social learning to instill confidence in data science applications"
(http://ow.ly/V1TSX )
Drafted
latest TechTarget column: "Social Learning To Instill Confidence in
Data-Science Applications"
3
Keys to a Smooth Migration from Data Science to Predictive Analytics http://bit.ly/1Hkb1Fr
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Duncan by Paul Simon JK--1972. From his first
solo LP. Sort of a maritime equiv of "The Only Living Boy in New York "
"How
DIY Could Help User Adoption of Big Data" (http://ow.ly/V13kS )
JK--Discusses how APIs & cloud svcs, eg Watson, enable DIY data-sci
"Timeline
of Terrorism" (http://ow.ly/V12Ki ) JK--Longitudinal study
'70-'04. Data shows most terrorist groups only active 4 single year
"NIST
Announces Winners of Its First-Ever App Challenge" (http://ow.ly/V11W6 )
JK--Data-sci-app devel on NIST's rich reference data set.
"AI
Draws New Connections 4 Personalization" (http://ow.ly/V11tQ )
JK--Sensing taste "in the moment," not historical buying affinities
Wife
& I both rooting 4 current “Jeopardy” champ to lose. This Laura woman’s
whiny trail-out down-dipping vocal tic is seriously irritating
"Satellite
Sensors Would Deliver Global Fire Coverage" (http://ow.ly/UZvoa )
JK--That's a cool animation.
"How
Robots Can Quickly Teach Each Other 2 Grasp New Objects" (http://ow.ly/UZvaH )
JK--Social learning o algorithmic neuromusculr intel
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Deeper Water by
Public Image Ltd JK--2012. Lydon turns 60 in January. His punk pipes now sound
cinematically majestic
"Sabermetrics:
Baseball Analytics & Science of Winning" (http://ow.ly/UZtJm )
JK--Practice been around longer than Louisville Slugger
"PLOS
& DBpedia: experiment towards Linked Data" (http://ow.ly/UZsU5 )
JK--Cool proj uses Wikipedia 2 drive online-science auto-indexing
Old
big-data myths dont die. They just retire to engage in endless big-data orgies
up in Valhalla, Olympus or wherever it is
busted myths go
"Machine
Learning & ‘Human-In-the-Loop’ Computing" (http://ow.ly/UZrw8 )
JK--Human judgment adjust algorithm-generated confidence scores
"Rock-hard
abs." As if we literally want to resemble Thing from Fantastic Four. Some
of those dudes actually do: http://ow.ly/UZq7H
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Good Morning Good
Morning by The Beatles JK--1967. Lennon said song inspiration was Kellogg's
Corn Flakes advert.
Streaming
analytics now on #Bluemix
https://ibm.biz/BdHyNS
designed to help visualize and continuously analyze data #IBMStreams
"Preparing
the next generation for the cognitive era" (http://ow.ly/UYtDl )
JK--Excellent #IBM preso
by @brandsteve
"D.C.
smells like marijuana, and residents don’t really care" (http://ow.ly/UYrMc )
JK--Dulls the pain of living amid politicians.
"Motorized
unicycles whiz through city streets" (http://ow.ly/UYr3r )
JK--Last week I saw biz-suited dude on one of these. Gimme gimme!
It's
fairly ridiculous to kickoff what most people think of as a season of lights
with an event called "Black Friday."
RT
@harrymccracken: Do you have
to pay the fine before or after you die?
