Sunday, August 27, 2017

Aweekstweets July 9 to August 27 2017: the weeks spent in sarcastic gradient descent


Washington Post Guide to the Lively Arts. Capitol Steps doing “Orange Is The New Barack.” What year is this? I want the old Barack back!


78°F, 48% humidity, calm, clear, and the air smells like autumn. Perfect!


I sat out last season’s SNL. Why? I don’t like being reminded of Trump.


"MIT 3D Printer Turns Anyone Into a Roboticist" (http://ow.ly/ejSD30eG7VV ) JK--Cyborg origami transformers? Yes!


"18 Elon Musk quotes that'll make you believe in the future" (http://ow.ly/vxIx30eG3d5 ) JK--He confirmed that time moves forward! Genius!


Grow #ML #AI #datacapital. Join #Oracle Crowdchat: Deepening Data Capital, 9-13 10am PDT http://bit.ly/2w3RKHH  #oraclebdcm

  Aug 25

Extract value from infrastructure data. Join #ExtraHop CrowdChat Sept 7 10am PDT http://bit.ly/2ibVOzF  #DataFriction


Cross-post of my latest KDNuggets column: "Wrapping Our Primate Brains Around AI’s Next Grand Challenge"

  Aug 24

New jk #KDNuggets column: "Wrapping Our Primate Brains Around AI’s Next Grand Challenge" (http://ow.ly/F8al30eEBnj )

  Aug 24

Need lip-reading AI bots to detect when Trump is telling the truth & knows what he's talking about. Happens so seldom. Would be newsworthy

  Aug 24

"How I Used DL To Train A Chatbot To Talk Me" (http://ow.ly/yWeN30eE19F ) JK--Don't train them to talk about chatbots. Too self-involved

  Aug 24

"Microsoft Brainwave AI on FPGAs" (http://ow.ly/Pu2330eE0pq ) JK--FW-neutral feder8d DL compile/runtime. See my recent

  Aug 24

"How to Hack a Robot" (http://ow.ly/9qMT30eDZCQ ) JK--Introduces interesting coinage: "cobots" (collaborative robots).

  Aug 24

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Mars "Helen Forsdale" from Complete Studio Recrdngs NYC 77-78 JK--1978. Also on classic Eno-produced "No New York"

  Aug 24

"Pentagon Struggling to Take Advantage of AI" (http://ow.ly/4VnK30eDYO3 ) JK--Start by losing the dumb "buy AI like lettuce at Safeway" wish

  Aug 24

"I was worried about AI—until it saved my life" (http://ow.ly/YfFi30eDYdl ) JK--So, now it can do no wrong--is that what you're saying?

  Aug 24

"Musk, tech leaders urge UN to ban AI-powered lethal autonomous weapons" (http://ow.ly/pfzO30eDXS4 ) JK--But not nuclear weapons? Or cyberwar?

  Aug 24

Need reverse-Pinocchio chatbots that display lengthening avatar nose every time you lie to them. Trump's would reach to the Moon.

  Aug 24

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp D. Tiffany "How RU Plush" from Blue Dream JK--2017. Excuse me. The lady's trying to dance. She's good.

  Aug 24

"Create Neural Net in JavaScript in 30 lines o code" (http://ow.ly/vqYx30eDX9Q ) JK--Build/train using Synaptic.js for DL in Node.js & browser

  Aug 24

"Alphabet’s hate-fighting AI doesn't understand hate yet" (http://ow.ly/sVQ630eDWsa ) JK--Needs some serious verbal abuse to teach it a lesson

  Aug 24

"Beyond HAL: How AI changing space systems" (http://ow.ly/Xx7630eDVXf ) JK--Post-"2001" homicidal computers pre-equipped w/AI-driven karaoke

  Aug 24

"LinkedIn loses legal right to protect user data from AI scraping" (http://ow.ly/NgIa30eDVJY ) JK--Case concerns scraping of AI training data

  Aug 24

"MIT’s AI streaming SW aims 2 stop video stutters" (http://ow.ly/l5Is30eDVsl ) JK--Learns 2 optimize via reward sys for smoother playback

  Aug 24

"‘AI learns from pro gamers — then crushes them" (http://ow.ly/Hetd30eDVil ) JK--But the bot also accelerated mastery thru "self-play."

  Aug 24

"Supercharging your image: ML for photography applications" (http://ow.ly/kfL530eDV4K ) JK--Cool infographic timeline of Google image search

  Aug 24

"Fatal Flaw of AI Implementation" (http://ow.ly/9r3g30eDUOt ) JK--How is it "fatal" when users fail to heed statistical confidence intervals?

  Aug 24

Interesting when someone announces the launch of "the world's leading such-and-such product." Apparently, it vaulted to the lead on Day One

  Aug 23

Watching Carol Burnett rerun. Curious whether the producers ever required her to take on Earlobe Dislocation Insurance.


Investigating the proper use of a bidet. Also, looking into the proper unspooling of toilet paper. Clockwise or counter? Hygiene is tricky.

  Aug 23

Weather app sez when there’s moderate rain in th vicinity. Please tell me when gray skies are going to clear up so I can put on a happy face

  Aug 23

I don't know what the big deal is about "self-driving cars." I've had a self-driving car from the start. I've always driven myself in my car

  Aug 23

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Filthy Friends "Editions of You" from Any Kind Of Crowd JK--2017. That's the crazy electric voice of Corin Tucker

  Aug 23

Drafted next #Datanami column: "Giving Machine Learning Freer Rein to Design Next-Generation Communications Protocols"

  Aug 22

Rumor is there's an Eclipse Deniers faction of the Alt-Right. They're pissed that the Moon challenged the supremacy of the Sun's white light

  Aug 22

I'm a klutz with an unfamiliar coffee maker. I don't care if I roast the beans properly. I just don't need my fingers roasted in the process

  Aug 22

Boost #ML #AI #bigdata value. Join #Oracle Crowdchat: Deepening Data Capital, 9-13 10am PDT http://bit.ly/2w3RKHH  #oraclebdcm

  Aug 22

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Tortoise 'The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls" from TNT JK--1998. Lite instrumental. C'est très Van Dyke Parks

  Aug 22

"GGL devs ML algo that can easily remove watermarks from images" (http://ow.ly/zP6U30eAzEK ) JK--And approach for making them harder to remove

  Aug 21

Google describes Red Lobster as “New England themed seafood restaurant.” How so? I’ve never once heard them trash-talk the Yankees.

  Aug 21

“Olive Garden.” Actually, that’s the one thing in the garden I always leave on my plate. They should call themselves “Crouton Garden.”

  Aug 21

The hot humid afternoon here in Virginia’s Tidewater region has noticeably cooled in advance of eclipse max. 8 mins from now. 85%

  Aug 21

"10 Hours of Paint Drying" (http://ow.ly/b2yS30ezfQb ) JK--This won't blind you, but you may succumb from the fumes. Wear protection!

  Aug 21

"Why chatbots are somewhere between overhyped and overblown" (http://ow.ly/2Ij430ezcBg ) JK--Those the X & Y axes? What's on the Z? Oversexed?

  Aug 21

"SMASH: 1-Shot Model Architecture Search thru HyperNets" (http://ow.ly/zZR130ezbIq ) JK--U-Edinburgh proj 2 radically acceler8 DL optimization


"Eliminating the Human" (http://ow.ly/Cr4K30ezb6z ) JK--David Byrne asks "Is it possible that less human interaction might save us?"

  Aug 21

DAY GIVES WAY TO SPACE//When you block the sun/you smear the universe’s/color all over. --James Kobielus

  Aug 21

"Introducing AWS Glue: A[n]...ETL Service" (http://ow.ly/TriK30eza1w ) JK--Managed serverless ETL for Spark cloud service.

  Aug 21

"art-DCGAN" (http://ow.ly/gWTf30ez7Q3 ) 0JK--Cool open-source tool for training GANs to generate visual artistry.

  Aug 21

"TVM: IR Stack for Deploying Deep Learning Workloads to Hardwares" (http://ow.ly/B1G330ez7vh ) JK--Cool initiative for any DL to run on any HW

  Aug 21

New jk #Dataversity column: "Putting 'AI-First' Into Its Proper Context" (http://ow.ly/vF2z30ez6jT )

  Aug 21

"Cooperatively Learning Human Values" (http://ow.ly/fbJO30ez3EI ) JK--Research where AI iteratively learns (uncertain) human reward function.

  Aug 21

"It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s MSFT using AI to teach machine to stay aloft " (http://ow.ly/r2cH30ez1Xh ) JK--Dynamic avionic shape-warping?

  Aug 21

"DARPA tunes machine learning to radio signals" (http://ow.ly/dLV830ez1pQ ) JK--ML for public RF frequency-utilization monitoring/enforcement

  Aug 21

"5 Q’s for Daryn Nakhuda, Co-Founder of Mighty AI" (http://ow.ly/r63830ez15I ) JK--Startup in ML training-data crowdsourcing-as-a-service

  Aug 21

"How Governments Are Preparing for Artificial Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/jBCV30ez0RJ ) JK--Specifically, US, Canada, UK, China, Japan

  Aug 21

"Deep Learning is not th AI future" (http://ow.ly/gA8S30eyVtI ) JK--Author means "the WHOLE future" but offers no vision for what that will be

  Aug 21

"AWS Lambda vs. Azure Functions vs. Google Functions" (http://ow.ly/r5qF30eyTfa ) JK--AWS has added stateful hooks into their serverless cloud

  Aug 21

"MSFT Next Serverlss Computing Bid: Azure Event Grid" (http://ow.ly/YMnC30eyPZy ) JK--Eventing 4 compute (Functions) & orchestr8n (Logic Apps)

  Aug 21

"Visual Data and the ‘Killer App’ for AI" (http://ow.ly/Sb5u30eyP1K ) JK--Bulk photo auto-tagging, perhaps. Tag for search faces, objects, etc

  Aug 21

"Serverless Architecture Could Cure DevOps Pain" (http://ow.ly/1YSS30eyOEL ) JK--Not really. Most apps are stateful. Serverless for stateless


  Aug 21

"Synopsys&Morpho Accel Deep Learning Proc for Embedded Vision Apps" (http://ow.ly/QwVl30eyNVD ) JK--DL-driven photo auto-tagging is the future

  Aug 21

"Data Science and DevOps Convergence" (http://ow.ly/w5tI30eyMTp ) JK--Good discussion of opn-src Data Version Control: http://ow.ly/Uks730eyMXQ 

  Aug 21

"More on Fully Automated Machine Learning" (http://ow.ly/eQfj30eyK2d ) JK--Vorhies researches more commercial tools.

  Aug 21

During a solar eclipse, the dark side of the moon is actually the bright side of the moon.

  Aug 20

Hanging in Williamsburg. Not all that interested in the colonial stuff or Jamestown. I’d like to see Powhatan history. Pocahontas stuff.

  Aug 20

RIP Jerry Lewis. Iconic funnyman and telethon pioneer. Often looked uncomfortable, nasty, vindictive.

  Aug 20

RIP Dick Gregory. He’s on the shortlist of people I want to meet (again) in Heaven. Brief impromptu chat at a protest rally in DC in 1981.

  Aug 19

WSJ advises against Lee statue removals. Sez should keep history on display. By that logic, should put statues of Benedict Arnold everywhere

  Aug 18

Friends inform me that hotel room minibars at MGM National Harbor are booby traps. Sensors detect if you use fridge, and charge outrageously

  Aug 18

Just a matter of time before Trump pardons Joe Arpaio and nominates him to be the new Director of Strategy or Ambassador to Mexico.

  Aug 18

That Steve Bannon guy really did his strategy job well. If his strategy was to inflict total chaos on the country/world & let Trump run amok
  Aug 18

"Encartopedia" (http://ow.ly/NWsz30evRZe ) JK--Advanced for 1154? How could a Sicily-based cartographer get the Italian peninsula so wrong?

  Aug 18

"13 frameworks for mastering machine learning" (http://ow.ly/4WYu30evLoV ) JK--Some (eg Apache Singa) I wasn't aware of.

  Aug 18

"We Need Nxt-Gen Algorithms To Harness The Power Of Today's AI Chips" (http://ow.ly/lmXP30evKdG ) JK--Perform many tasks on-chip on same data

  Aug 18

"Cheat Sheets for AI, Neural Nets, Machine Learning, Deep Learning ..." (http://ow.ly/RQFM30evJBI ) JK--Nah-ah! No cheating! Memorize it all!

  Aug 18

To everybody a few months ago who said we should "give Trump a chance"--WTF!!--his chance to trash our system of government? Satisfied now?

  Aug 18

"Silicon Valley escalates war on white supremacy despite free speech concerns" (http://ow.ly/sDzG30evmaK ) JK--Violence-inciting hate speech

  Aug 18

Bought/downloaded new Grizzly Bear LP "Painted Ruins." Released today. Been awaiting this one eagerly for many weeks. Listening now.

  Aug 18

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Jane Weaver "Loops in the Secret Society" from Modern Kosmology JK--2017. Another cool new one from this UK artist

  Aug 18

"August 21, 2017 — Great American Eclipse (Total Solar Eclipse)" (http://ow.ly/T4UO30evkaW ) JK--Great resource to find your exact time/%

  Aug 18

Got solicitation from a self-styled "micro-consulting company." What is that? Drive-by consulting? Do fries come with that shakedown?

  Aug 17

Managed not to lose my marbles today. Which is a good thing. Except for the fact I'm not particularly good at marbles. Saving up for nothing

  Aug 17

New jk #TechTarget column: "The deepening decoupling of the deep learning ecosystem" (http://ow.ly/arfy30eub3l )

  Aug 17

Drafted next #KDNuggets column: "Wrapping Our Primate Brains Around AI’s Next Grand Challenge"

  Aug 17

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Iggy Pop "New Values" from New Values JK--1979. Easily one o my favorite punk songs of late 70s. Dopamine-addictive

  Aug 17

"Why organizations need data ethics strategy" (http://ow.ly/TCNB30etDTM ) JK--OK but strains credulity to claim it'll give "competitive edge."

  Aug 17

"Paul Allen’s AI institute..." (http://ow.ly/2k3F30etDkt ) JK--"Allen Institute for AI." Why no "Artificial Institute for Alien Intelligence"?

  Aug 17

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Mazzy Star "Ghost Highway" from She Hangs Brightly JK--1990. Great loud/hard rock from band known for the opposite

  Aug 17

"Teaching AI Sys to Behave Selves" (http://ow.ly/9reI30etCKS ) JK--Human curation guides algo discrim, per my recent

  Aug 17

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Paul Simon "Can't Run But" from The Rhythm of the Saints JK--1990. Tingly skitterbeat. Feels like a naughty dream

  Aug 17

"AI artist conjures up convincing fake worlds from memories" (http://ow.ly/GyTk30etClo ) JK--Generative geog sprung faux & whole from a dream?

  Aug 17

"Meet th Company That’s Using Face Recognition to Reshape China’s Tech Scene" (http://ow.ly/zfYw30etCcZ ) JK--Will prosthetic noses fool this?

  Aug 17

"Google protest Saturday just the start as far right targets Bay Area" (http://ow.ly/9cY930etBwP ) JK--Free bodycams for identifying Nazis?

  Aug 17

Wishing a happy 72nd independence day to all our family and friends in Indonesia. Great country, great people!

  Aug 17

This Monday's USA-wide total solar eclipse has been eclipsed by an eclipse o US democracy. Let's pray the larger darkness is blessedly brief

  Aug 16

No one ever had good definition o New Wave. Then physicists got involved & started confusing it with New Particle. The Knack swung both ways

  Aug 15

"Where Is My Male Sex Robot?" (http://ow.ly/i7h430eqhXv ) JK--Stuck in neutral. His chatbot can't stop chattering about his prowess w/ladybots

  Aug 15

#AWS announces winners of its Chatbot Challenge (http://ow.ly/OXdS30eqgEh ) JK--Nearly 200 submissions. All use Lex DL & Lambda serverless

  Aug 15

"DeepMind and Blizzard open StarCraft II as an AI research environment" (http://ow.ly/56qR30eq2nd ) JK--To enrich multi-layered gameplay

  Aug 15

"How AI became Instagram weapon of choice in war on cyberbullying" (http://ow.ly/gWi630eq1ju ) JK--Text analytics to block harassing comments

  Aug 15

"Twitter campaign outing people who marched with white nationalists in Charlottesville" (http://ow.ly/KlAO30eq18p ) JK--Hold them accountable

  Aug 15

"Researchers Find a Malicious Way to Meddle with Autonomous Cars" (http://ow.ly/2oR430eq0li ) JK--Only if cars lack cached street database

  Aug 15

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Sheer Mag "Meet Me in the Street" from Need to Feel Your Love JK--2017. Good Joan Jett-fueled rocker-girl vibe.

  Aug 14

Watching “Diana: In Her Own Words” on National Geographic channel. Latest in their series of expeditions into deepest darkest Britain.

  Aug 14

On Aug 21, people in the path of totality are cautioned to use protective specs while watching Johnny Cash do “Ring of Fire” on YouTube.

  Aug 14

"Deep Teaching" (http://ow.ly/virl30eoZ6U ) JK--Abstraction layer to automate outcome-driven composition of optimal deep-learning models.

  Aug 14

"How AI Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art" (http://ow.ly/4Mnw30eoYtd ) JK--Everything is going generative.

  Aug 14

"Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd " (http://ow.ly/NUt930eoXeN ) JK--More often than not, those types are team morale-killers

  Aug 14

New jk #Datanami column: "Training Your AI With As Little Manually Labeled Data As Possible" (http://ow.ly/97d930eoQTq )

  Aug 14

"ML could B key 2 producing stronger less corrosiv metals" (http://ow.ly/zsmN30eodLk ) JK--Predict which atom grain-boundary configs do th job

  Aug 14

"DeepMind AI teaches self about world by watching videos" (http://ow.ly/Ertv30eodg0 ) JK--Plus listening to & correlating w/associated audio

  Aug 14

"Mattis: SiliconValley cyber unit...AI/autonomous machines...will grow under Trump" (http://ow.ly/mDQK30eobRn ) JK--Staffed 100% domestic? Ha!

  Aug 14

"Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization" (http://ow.ly/pCd430eobjE ) JK--Enterprise-wide ML/DL hyperparameter optimization.

  Aug 14

"DoD Secy James Mattis Envies Silicon Valley's AI Ascent" (http://ow.ly/7cCJ30eob3e ) JK--Ideological polarization o Valley denizens will grow

  Aug 14

"Project Maven 2 Deploy [AI] to War Zone by Year’s End" (http://ow.ly/6Umb30eoaPa ) JK--DL/ML computer vision for autonomous SIGINT under fire

  Aug 14

"Learning to Infer Graphics Programs from Hand-Drawn Images" (http://ow.ly/JBQM30eoat2 ) JK--Cool CNN-driven auto-programming implementation

  Aug 14

"How Disney is using AI to figure out exactly how much you enjoy its films" (http://ow.ly/kvwQ30eo9lG ) JK--Would AI have offed Bambi's mom?

  Aug 14

"AI will lead to the human soul, not destroy it" (http://ow.ly/ZRGq30eo95s ) JK--But reading religion into this risks destroying your sanity

  Aug 14

"How AI could create a world of haves & have-nots" (http://ow.ly/R0HA30eo89w ) JK--BS. Don't misconstrue structural shifts as class conflict

  Aug 14

"Opioid." Took me a while to figure out this wasn't a bunch of Ron Howard wannabes.

  Aug 14

"Learning From the Feynman Technique" (http://ow.ly/iaJV30eo52T ) JK--Break complex unknowns down to simplest terms & then build back up

  Aug 14

"Why Successful People Spend 10 Hours/Week On “Compound Time”" (http://ow.ly/Hfv930eo4xo ) JK--All of which superficially resemble goofing off

  Aug 14

"5 Morning Success Hacks From Millionaires" (http://ow.ly/My8e30eo3Te ) JK-- #6: Stuff  $ in your pillow & go back 2 sleep--you're loaded!

  Aug 13

Read Springsteen’s memoir “Born To Run.” So good I wanted to stand on my seat, flick my Bic & scream for an encore (which of course he’d do)

  Aug 13

Did a bit of touristing w/friends in DC today. Did not see even a hint of touristy kitsch referencing th current White House occupant. Good!

  Aug 12

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” FDR failed to mention th Great Depression & World War II. But that would have been a downer

  Aug 12

Wegman’s comfy lounging room. TV plays HGTV on mute. Closed caption sez “[whimsical-suspenseful tune plays].” Wish I could hear that

  Aug 12

That so-called “OCD test” making the rounds on Facebook. Tests whether people will compulsively obsess over vacuous Facebook crap.

  Aug 11

"Are You Ready for the Next Total Solar Eclipse?" (http://ow.ly/znpp30elrVV ) JK--Sadly, no. I'm addicted to staring directly into the sun

  Aug 11

"Crowdsourcing may have just helped close "analogy gap" 4 computers" (http://ow.ly/1CEM30elrvh ) JK--Semantic graphs contextualize AI patterns

  Aug 11

"Elon Musk and Amber Heard overcome distance to be together in Australia" (http://ow.ly/lj4u30elq6R ) JK--Did they bring their dogs?

  Aug 11

"The Carly Simon problem" (http://ow.ly/AeJb30eldX6 ) JK--Digital? That's the way I always heard it should be.

  Aug 11

When I hear "the bottom line" invoked over and over, I tend to wonder if we're dealing with a bottomless line. A deep moneypit or honeypot?
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  Aug 11

"Ever wonder “what th fuck am I doing with my life?”" (http://ow.ly/ZGA230ekUyO ) JK--No, I don't wonder what the f you're doing with yr life

  Aug 11

New jk #InfoWorld column: "How to prevent the hacked AI apocalypse" (http://ow.ly/8L1K30ekU1H )

  Aug 11

"The truth behind Facebook AI inventing a new language" (http://ow.ly/veFX30ekT6C ) JK--Agents fabricate dialects to advance positive outcomes

  Aug 11

"10 Advanced Deep Learning Architectures Data Scientists Should Know!" (http://ow.ly/E6hV30ekR4j ) JK--Patterns for configuring neural nets

  Aug 11

"Graph Convolutional Networks" (http://ow.ly/CL2s30ekQJh ) JK--Incredibly arcane mathematics. But incredibly important research 4 AI over IoT

  Aug 11

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp David Rawlings "Cumberland Gap" from Poor David's Almanack JK--2017. Nice one of this folk traditional. Diff lyrics

  Aug 10

Trump says threatening a nuclear attack on Pyongyang wasn't "tough enough." Is he plotting an armageddon-grade response to Kim Jong-un?

  Aug 10

Drafted next #InfoWorld column: "Building Adversarial Defenses into the AI Development Pipeline"

  Aug 10

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Aretha Franklin "Respect" JK--1967. Fun fact: Otis wrote this out of disrespect for people who misspelled the word

  Aug 10

"This is what will keep us human in the age of AI" (http://ow.ly/WNOW30ej8T5 ) JK--My plan is to avoid being reincarnated as another species

  Aug 10

"Robotic Process Automation" (http://ow.ly/q6rE30ej8i3 ) JK--Conversational, contextual, in-app digital accelerator/assistant/recommenders

  Aug 10

"You Are Being Exploited By The Opaque, Algorithm-Driven Economy" (http://ow.ly/l15o30ej85u ) JK--Oh, really? Compared to what analog utopia?

  Aug 10

"Evolution of ML" (http://ow.ly/aJHn30ej7uj ) JK--Interesting call-out to FB's internal AI-devel pipeline backbone:

  Aug 10

"BuzzFeed News Trained A Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes" (http://ow.ly/QFXm30ej6to ) JK--I'm sure US govt/adversaries reading this

  Aug 10

"The Rise of AI Is Forcing Google & Microsoft to Become Chipmakers" (http://ow.ly/qNMv30ej6he ) JK--Encroaching on turf of Intel, Nvidia, etc.

  Aug 10

"Chinese chatbots apparently re-educated after political faux pas" (http://ow.ly/n3Yc30ej62l ) JK--New tool 4 mass indoctrin8n or subterfuge?

  Aug 10

"Facebook finishes its move to neural machine translation" (http://ow.ly/H7vW30ej5KM ) JK--ML-driven neural more accurate than phrase-based

  Aug 10

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp The Clientele "Lunar Days" from Music For The Age Of Miracles JK--2017. Thoroughly immersive autumnal vibe.

  Aug 10

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Vashti Bunyan "Rose Hip November" frm Just Anthr Diamond Day JK--1970. Quiet/devastating. Actual 1st name: Jennifer

  Aug 10

"'AI the new electricity' & millions of people should learn it, expert sez" (http://ow.ly/wUU130ej4ms ) JK--Become AI electricians? AI yi yi!

  Aug 10

Quantum computing's future. Radically uncertain. At any time, you can measure its PR spin with precision, but not its monetization momentum

  Aug 10

"2 Giants of AI Team Up 2 Head Off Robot Apocalypse" (http://ow.ly/4g9Y30ej2Rw ) JK--Not so fast. We'll need them 2 head off Zombie Apocalypse
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  Aug 10

"AI." By the time you break paradigm down to something concrete about which to speak with precision, your audience's attention has wandered

  Aug 9

Wife had can of some traditional dark German beer. I had some untraditional bitter domestic with Jesus in its name. I’m a better man for it

  Aug 9

Did our yoga in the morning. I’m still working on my knees and ankles. Not terribly flexible. Hard to loosen tendons taut as steel cable.

  Aug 9

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Interpol "Evil" from Antics JK--2004. Love how this quickly modulates from sweetly barbed to full-pumping rocknroll

  Aug 9

"Google releases TensorFlow Serving library" (http://ow.ly/KePo30ehDGD ) JK--AI industry maturation milestone: OSS 4 productionizing DL models
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  Aug 9

"Google & MIT’s new ML algorithms retouch your photos before you take them" (http://ow.ly/emFP30ehBFs ) JK--Gak! Need ML-tamper evidence
  Aug 9

"Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated?" (http://ow.ly/iPmG30ehAQN ) JK--No way. Innovation killer. Voluntary codes of conduct better

  Aug 9

"Netflix Changed Rating System 4 AI" (http://ow.ly/bXex30ehA7R ) JK--ML collab filtrng recom engine more accurate w/thumbs-up-down than 5-star

  Aug 9

"Why I Never Meet Someone for Coffee" (http://ow.ly/EKhs30ehvrl ) JK--Why some people never truly get the concept of a coffee break.

  Aug 9

"Great Digital Companies Build Great Recommendation Engines" (http://ow.ly/kfCe30ehgDR  ) JK--For sure. They accelerate targeted transactions

  Aug 9

"AWS Market Share Is Triple Azure's" (http://ow.ly/ZJL830ehg7q ) JK--Impressive but cloud space not yet hugely consolidated. Top 4 have 56%

  Aug 8

RIP Glen Campbell. Excellent singer & guitarist. Could joke, act, and host variety shows with good-natured ease. Devilishly handsome to boot

  Aug 8

"Million-dollar babies" (http://ow.ly/RCff30efAXk ) JK--You wonder who's left doing AI research in academia.

  Aug 8

"IoT-device swarm intelligence: Think about security before it's too late" (http://ow.ly/JO0B30efyOh ) JK--Think swarm vs. counterswarm

  Aug 8

"Terrified of AI? Don't, It May Be Th Key to Tomorrow's Survival" (http://ow.ly/Jfti30efyrP ) JK--Enough of the armchair apocalyptics, already

  Aug 8

"Who's Right About AI? Musk's Dire Warnings Meet Zuckerberg's Cheerful Optimism" (http://ow.ly/9OFC30efy5r ) JK--Need billionaire to referee?

  Aug 8

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Broken Social Scene "Hug of Thunder" from Hug of Thunder JK--2017. Love that insistent bass. Love Feist's voice

  Aug 8

"Quantum leap: Obstacles remain, but revolution in computing is almost here" (http://ow.ly/n02y30efxuO ) JK--$5B market by 2020? #SiliconANGLE

  Aug 8

"IBM says...breakthru...improve DL speed" (http://ow.ly/XrvG30efvQF ) JK--SW library/algo for cross-GPU cluster accel on PowerAI #SiliconANGLE


Taking very interesting briefing from #Kogentix: DevOps for data science with transfer learning & ensemble modeling built into the pipeline

  Aug 7

"Dozen Times AI Startled World" (http://ow.ly/X10t30edYug ) JK--Or GANs did their jobs so well U simply didn't notice/care no humans involved

  Aug 7

"You can be an AI designer" (http://ow.ly/XVEP30edYay ) JK--How can you design "artificial superintelligence" if you're not a super-designer?

  Aug 7

"Evolutionary computation: the next major transition of AI?" (http://ow.ly/WOAZ30edX4p ) JK--Algo inheritance, random variation, & selection

  Aug 7

"Robots created a language. No need to panic" (http://ow.ly/1aYZ30edWpe ) JK--Worse stuff could happen--eg Trump has his finger on the button

  Aug 7

"To Build a Smarter Chatbot, First Teach It a Second Language" (http://ow.ly/2XPk30edVLt ) JK--Tunes it to sublingual conceptual/contextuals.

  Aug 7

"Are we entering a post-app world?" (http://ow.ly/fPnU30edVt4 ) JK--Are bots kicking app butts? Not so fast. "Not all apps are botifiable."

  Aug 7

"Algo Trained on Emoji Knows U’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter" (http://ow.ly/WsxR30edU2C ) JK-And that U consider "Emoji Movie" Oscar contender

  Aug 7

"Technical Debt in Machine Learning" (http://ow.ly/1RxN30edTnw ) JK--Model-correction hotfixes add up, causing ML to drift away from accuracy

  Aug 7

"The 409 AI startups of Europe" (http://ow.ly/7OTY30edSG7 ) JK--London far outweighs continent-based cities in AI-startup density.

  Aug 7

"Neuroreality: New Reality is Coming & It’s a Brain Computer Interface" (http://ow.ly/QKNM30edS05 ) JK--I need it to bend spoons, Geller style

  Aug 7

"Exponential AI Can Immortalize Human by Digitizing Conscious" (http://ow.ly/M8fN30edRza ) JK--OMG! I'm shorting all my cryogenics stocks now!

  Aug 7

"Big Data as a Service: What Can it Do for Your Enterprise?" (http://ow.ly/O9YZ30edQO7 ) JK--BDaaS? Lets you matter-of-factly say "badass"

  Aug 7

"AI & Big Data R Changing Our Attention Spans" (http://ow.ly/PwVM30edP6G ) JK--Nice one about neural nets &...oh god, what's Trump up to now?

  Aug 7

"Cars Suck Up Data About U. Where Does It All Go?" (http://ow.ly/TrYV30edOcL ) JK--To that Big Black Box in the Sky. Please: no more questions

  Aug 7

"Microsoft, Please Cut th Digital Transformation Hype!" (http://ow.ly/HVgQ30edEhI ) JK--Thank U Mary Jo Foley 4 calling out this useless term

  Aug 7

"Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" (http://ow.ly/djTd30edDIF ) JK--Yep. iPhone has us starving hysterical naked looking 4 an angry fix

  Aug 7

"Flashcards to Learn 168 Cognitive Biases" (http://ow.ly/xjNW30edDgt ) JK-But won't that bias you toward these biases? Name for THAT bias?

  Aug 7

"I'll never compare my life to yours. That’s why I’m happy" (http://ow.ly/yh3n30edCUA ) JK--That's why I'm happier than you'll ever be--loser!

  Aug 7

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Jimmy Cliff "The Harder They Come" JK--1972. Yesterday was the 55th anniversary of Jamaica's independence from UK

  Aug 7

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Aretha Franklin "Rock Steady" JK--1971. Good, but didn't call it exactly what it is. Funk, not Jamaican rocksteady.

  Aug 6

Springsteen is one of those people raised Catholic who makes a big deal about its superstructure of superstition. That never impressed me.

  Aug 6

Facebook says you can shut down with a single tweet everybody & everything you disagree with forevermore. It’s all in the wrist action.

  Aug 6

Reading Springsteen’s well-written self-mythologizing autobiography. Also checking out his childhood haunts on Google Maps to de-mythologize

  Aug 6

Plan to mow lawn as soon as I’m 100% sure I won’t wake th neighbors. But don’t know if they’re asleep. Think I’ll ring their doorbells & ask

  Aug 6

“CBS Sunday Mrng” looks at possibility of robots throwing everyone out of jobs. Apparently, future economy will thrive on mass unemployment.

  Aug 6

Another article about Millennials fleeing “deepest darkest suburbia” for th city. Gimme a break. It’s cleaner, brighter, safer, spacier here

  Aug 5

Trump’s paranoid. Not only is he investigatng every possible leak, he even told his staff they need his OK whenever they want to take a leak

  Aug 5

I like the classical radio station but switch it off when they put on opera. If I wanted bombastic oversinging, I’d put it on classic rock.

  Aug 5

Nice Saturday. So here I am minding my own business & all these businesses are minding their own business too. All is well in the world.

  Aug 5

Beautiful architectural discussion of how event-driven stateful & stateless semantics interweave in recomm engines.

  Aug 4

"Building Music Recommender w/DL" (http://ow.ly/qc5t30ealzQ ) JK--Avoid training on data labelled by Beavis/Butt-Head. Binary "sucks v. rocks"

  Aug 4

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Willie Nelson "Somebody Pick Up My Pieces" from Teatro JK--1998. Gorgeous duet w/ the unmistakeable Emmylou Harris.

  Aug 4

"Inside Salesforce’s Quest To Bring AI To Everyone" (http://ow.ly/oVn130eakdr ) JK--In-app CRM recommendation engine (what do I do next?)

  Aug 4

"Data Lake" (http://ow.ly/6cfc30eajqo ) JK--Says "concept has been around for some time now." Not really. Been the buzz for 2-3 years, max.

  Aug 4

"Top 5 Smart City Predictions: AI and the Birth of Self-Aware Cities" (http://ow.ly/LAug30eaiWt ) JK--This is way too pollyanna utopian.

  Aug 4

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Brian Eno "Baby's on Fire" from Here Come the Warm Jets JK--1973. Love Eno's punky vocal & th wild instrumental jam

  Aug 4

"Bill To Secure IoT" (http://ow.ly/AAND30ead1q ) JK--What? Blanket ban on devices possessing "known security vulnerabilities"? Even low-risk?

  Aug 4

"British Pubs Ban Swearing, Are Accused of Having %$&# for Brains" (http://ow.ly/JBo130ea8LR ) JK--Never mind the bollocks, here's your beer.

  Aug 3

"Why one of these 5 US cities could be the next Silicon Valley" (http://ow.ly/1QP830e8M94 ) JK--Seattle #1? Duh! Detroit #3? Wow!

  Aug 3

"Ions Power Machine-Human I/F Demo" (http://ow.ly/dz9D30e8L7k ) JK--Pls assure us "Matrix" bots won't use this to harvest human bioelectricity

  Aug 3

"Few Jobs Safe From Robotics, AI Advances" (http://ow.ly/TenW30e8KkW ) JK--Until the fabled Luddbot comes & puts things back as they were

  Aug 3

"Ranking the Top Chatbot Apps" (http://ow.ly/aByY30e8K52 ) JK--Holy crap! There are "100,000 monthly active bots on Facebook Messenger alone"

  Aug 3

"Machine learning comes to your browser via JavaScript" (http://ow.ly/QNua30e8Jsq ) JK--Runs TensorFlow in browser with GPU acceleration

  Aug 3

"How I Used DL to Train Chatbot to Talk Me" (http://ow.ly/OU8w30e8In9 ) JK--"Cornell Movie Dialog Corpus"? Sure, if U want a Stallone-bot

  Aug 3

"Use Machine Learning to Find Waldo" (http://ow.ly/2SiB30e8ykp ) JK--Why don't you find Carmen Sandiego & Amelia Earhart while you're at it?

  Aug 3

"No, FB Did Not Panic & Shut Down an AI That Was Getting Dangerously Smart" (http://ow.ly/oWGZ30e8xje ) JK--Negotiation-bots lost transparency

  Aug 3

"Future will B voice-operated but digital assistnts need 2 learn apps" (http://ow.ly/3ey330e8wHp ) JK--Apps need 2 B subservient 2 user intent

  Aug 3

Keep a lookout for two upcoming #Wikibon reports from me: one on the art of developing chatbots, the other on the art of optimizing them.

  Aug 3

"Facebook acquires Ozlo to build up AI for Messenger" (http://ow.ly/2miq30e8wsG ) JK--Knowledge graph for conversational contextualization

  Aug 3

"True random numbers R here: what that means 4 data ctrs" (http://ow.ly/aEna30e8wdk ) JK--Numerological disorder puts security house in order

  Aug 3

"Rethinking JavaScript: Death of For Loop" (http://ow.ly/H9Bl30e8vJJ ) JK--Practically invites hellish debugging. Risks funky state-mutations

  Aug 3

"Progressive Web Apps" (http://ow.ly/wAIS30e8v54 ) JK--"Load instantly & never show the downasaur, even in uncertain network conditions." LOL!

  Aug 3

Pacific Northwest baking in string of unusual 100-degree days. Curious if Seattlites have considered switching to iced coffee at this point

  Aug 3

"Experts believ AI will B weaponized in next year" (http://ow.ly/lfMB30e8tdv ) JK--"In the next year"? AI-driven military drones already exist

  Aug 3

"NASA Has a New Job to Protect Earth From Aliens" (http://ow.ly/c1vP30e8sRa ) JK--Please also protect White House from demonic possession.

  Aug 3

"AI vs AI: New algo automatically bypasses your best cybersecurity defenses" (http://ow.ly/KRvk30e8szw ) JK--GANs as insider-perpetrated hack?

  Aug 3

"Frustrated senators seek path forward 4 new FBI HQ" (http://ow.ly/pkna30e8sme ) JK--Can't help thinking this was Trump vengeance against FBI

  Aug 3

Advising the government to regulate AI is futile. Unless U tell THIS government innovation is a form of immigration. Then they'll crack down

  Aug 3

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Mosca "Peyote Stitch" from Don't Take This the Wrong Way JK--2017. Trippy electronica beat w/drop-in sound effects

  Aug 3

So little time, so many choices. Shall I read "14 Timeless Reference Books"? As indicated, that'll take no time at all. Timely suggestion!

  Aug 2

Watching “Wild Ireland” on PBS. Will vacation there in wild November. The wild wild west coast.

  Aug 2

#Wikibon colleague @NeilRaden & I are speaking to #TechTarget reporter @PariseauTT on #AI & #DevOps

  Aug 2

"How 2 erase yourself from internet" (http://ow.ly/AQHG30e6uY4 ) JK--Would work, except other people/orgs hold emails etc from or mentioning U

  Aug 2

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp SassyBlack "Games" from New Black Swing JK--2017. Nice beat under this cool lounge soul.

  Aug 2

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Thunderpussy "Velvet Noose" from Velvet Noose/ No Heaven JK--2017. All ladies. Guitar crazy! Sleater-Kinney-ish

  Aug 1

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Grateful Dead "Friend of the Devil" from American Beauty JK--1970. Confesses to bigamy? Wives in Chino & Cherokee

  Aug 1

"AI analytics expected to rise" (http://ow.ly/fZGk30e4CzT ) JK--AI metaphors are also expected to rise. "The new black"? "The new bacon"? Geez

  Aug 1

"Get Ready for Augmented Analytics" (http://ow.ly/Fapa30e4BVf ) JK--Nothing new in this facile attempt to rename "advanced analytics"

  Aug 1

"All your streaming data are belong to Kafka" (http://ow.ly/UDfe30e4BuG ) JK--Big data metamorphosis from lakes to streams?

  Aug 1

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp The Drums "Blood Under My Belt" from Abysmal Thoughts JK--2017. That's one seriously great propulsive beat.

  Jul 31

"The Overthinker’s Guide to Taking Action" (http://ow.ly/Mhu330e2qsF ) JK--My advice is to think long & hard before doing anything whatsoever

  Jul 31

The weekend could not have been nicer. Good friends stayed over. The weather was ideal. I even managed to nap a few times. Ahhhh.

  Jul 30

Saw “20th Century Women.” Excellent evocation of the weird state of US culture in 1979. Annette Bening & Greta Gerwig especially good.

  Jul 29

I want to check out film “Detroit” about the 1967 riots. WashPost says one actor hasn’t “mastered Detroit’s distinctive accent.” But I have

  Jul 29

OMG! Scaradouchebag’s even in the sportspages, praising late pedophile-protector Paterno for “honor, dignity, respect.” This has to stop!

  Jul 28

Pretty good week. Published a few things I’m proud of, and drafted a few more . At the end of any week, that’s all I really care about.

  Jul 28

Aging has given me emotional shock absorbers. I’ve lived through shit without letting it soil my soul. Or so I tell myself.

  Jul 28

Waiter breaks a dish. We’re in an Indian restaurant. My Chinese wife says that’s good luck. I tell her your superstition doesn’t cross over

  Jul 28

"Recommendation System Algorithms" (http://ow.ly/9r8h30dZJXf ) JK--Deeper into app logic than I chose to explore in my latest #Wikibon notes

  Jul 28

"Kalashnikov to Demonstrate AI-Controlled Combat Robots" (http://ow.ly/984b30dZJNf ) JK--You know we're also doing this in spades.

  Jul 28

"Learning to Cooperate, Compete, & Communicate" (http://ow.ly/8ngd30dZIES ) JK--Agent-based AI coop. See my piece: http://ow.ly/7PDp30dZILQ 

  Jul 28

"AI: Will It Kill Your Job or Let U Live The Dream?" (http://ow.ly/1Ali30dZI69 ) jK--Or let you live the dream of killing other people's jobs?

  Jul 28

A lot of rain predicted over the next several days. Thinking of getting a big fast 3-D printer to build an ark in a holy hurry.

  Jul 28

New jk #Wikibon Premium research note: "Maintaining the Business Logic That Drives Recommendation Engines" (http://ow.ly/18T330dZngj )

  Jul 28

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp U2 "Bullet the Blue Sky (live)" from Rattle & Hum JK--1988. Coincidence: out my window this morning, it's America!

  Jul 28

New jk #InfoWorld column: "Data is eating the software that is eating the world" (http://ow.ly/JccZ30dZ4T0 )

  Jul 28

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Daniel Johnston "Don't Let th Sun Go Down on Yr Grievances" frm Yip/Jump Music JK--1988. Pronounces it "grieviance"

  Jul 28

After Scaramucci’s Mafia-grade homicidal rant, we now have greater insight into why Spicer resigned. #theyoumoreknow

  Jul 27

RIP June Foray. Woman of a thousand cartoon voices. Rocket J. Squirrel, among them. Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle!

  Jul 27

Drafted new jk #Dataversity column: "Putting 'AI-First' Into Its Proper Context"

  Jul 27

"Purpose-trained AI flunky does dirty work in diverse industries" (http://ow.ly/Xq3530dXR1t ) JK--AI 4 people w/no coding skills #SiliconANGLE

  Jul 27

Curious how many people went blind from trying to view solar eclipses with the naked eye before the age of being warned not to do that.

  Jul 27

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp The Avalanches "Frankie Sinatra" from Wildflower JK--2016. It's true: he didn't have the voice to sing calypso.

  Jul 27

"Microsoft Adds AI to HoloLens Silicon" (http://ow.ly/yWYe30dXiWv ) JK--Local instantaneous deep learning 4 real-time mixed-reality processing

  Jul 27

"Why Kubernetes...bigger threat to Amazon than containers" (http://ow.ly/RMWm30dXiuy ) JK--Cross-cloud competitive leveler re wkld execution?

  Jul 27

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Joni Mitchell "Hejira" from Hejira JK--1976. Gorgeous floating jazzy meditation.

  Jul 27

"Google launches studio to help AI startups scale" (http://ow.ly/1oz330dXgLh ) JK--Free mentoring, services, toolkit, datasets.. #SiliconANGLE

  Jul 27

Library of Congress' John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive (http://ow.ly/3QNg30dXecB ). JK--He focused on the outsized outlandish

  Jul 27

"Apple Park would have made Le Corbusier happy [not] in a good way" (http://ow.ly/iYiu30dXdMZ ) JK--Boyd calls it "shiny, high-tech brutalism"

  Jul 27

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Wolf Parade "Valley Boy" from Cry Cry Cry JK--2017. Full-tilt awesome one from new LP to be released in October.

  Jul 26

"Technical Debt in Machine Learning" (http://ow.ly/LLHY30dW3tH ) JK--Avoiding stupid design decisions that'll kick your maintenance butt later

  Jul 26

New jk #Wikibon Premium research note: "Developing the Business Logic That Drives Recommendation Engines" (http://ow.ly/X7Ek30dVYKJ )

  Jul 26

Forecaster says rain is "possible." Just once, I'd like to hear them say rain is impossible, implausible, impractical, and/or inconceivable

  Jul 26

"How 2 Improve Yr Skills by Follwng Isaac Newton's Strategies" (http://ow.ly/xhDY30dVQc7 ) JK--I'm going to have people drop apples on my head

  Jul 26

"Could Apache Spark become a universal computation engine?" (http://ow.ly/DwNo30dVP0a ) JK--Bloomberg technologist i/vu #theCUBE #SiliconANGLE

  Jul 26

"The Secret Sauce of Incredible Productivity" (http://ow.ly/wzI330dVNFG ) JK--Just lay off the sauce you've stashed in your lower desk drawer

  Jul 26

"Warning for the post-augmented age" (http://ow.ly/m64O30dVN9L ) JK--So soon? Will we need to discard all our augmented reality paraphernalia?

  Jul 26

"How Too Much Coffee Ruined My Health & Nearly Destroyed My Business" (http://ow.ly/LUIz30dVMmk ) JK--Maybe decaf will redeem your wicked soul

  Jul 26

New jk #TechTarget column: "Digital twins will revolutionize the Internet of Things" (http://ow.ly/cLon30dVJiu )

  Jul 26

Drafted next #TechTarget column: "Digital Twins Will Revolutionize the Internet of Things"

  Jul 26

"The Human Army Using Phones to Teach AI to Drive" (http://ow.ly/ZyWH30dVlat ) JK--Crowdsourced photo/labels to identify potential hazards

  Jul 26

"Machine Learning to Predict Childhood PTSD" (http://ow.ly/CFmq30dVkEz ) JK--Search 4 markers in genes, neurochemistry, parental profiles, etc

  Jul 26

"Google’s AI Fight Club Will Train Sys 2 Defend Against Future Cyberattacks" (http://ow.ly/aheJ30dVkh0 ) JK--Rule #1 is U don't talk about it

  Jul 26

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Smashing Pumpkins "1979" JK--1995. '79 was year o Chicago's Disco Demolition Night, the nadir of '70s rock culture

  Jul 26

"AI's Secret Weapon: The Data Corpus" (http://ow.ly/iPtF30dViBW ) JK--Huh? Nothing terribly secret about them. Petabytes tend to loom large.

  Jul 26

"Data Scientists Automated .... by 2025 - Update!" (http://ow.ly/ITk830dVisA ) JK--Vorhies does interesting automation-tool market update

  Jul 26

I assume that Trump talked up the need to be loyal & obedient to him, and gave short shrift to the other 10 qualities in the Boy Scout Law.

  Jul 26

Trump’s obsession with “plugging leaks” is what you’d expect from a paranoiac. The more  he freaks out about it, th more frequent they become

  Jul 25

PBS program shows scientists attempting to jerk off an endangered Chinese tortoise. Softshell hardcore? I’m appalled!

  Jul 25

“Viewer discretion advised.” True confession: there have been occasions when I’ve failed to use discretion, and I’m a sadder viewer for it.

  Jul 25

"You Can Reprogram Yourself to Be a Positive Person & U Should" (http://ow.ly/DZ9k30dTOWJ ) JK--Geez, no. You're not an app. Just be authentic

  Jul 24

TECH//Know this. Nobody/and nothing stays. Money is/spent. Moments are logged.

  Jul 24

Drafted next #Infoworld jk column: "Data Is Eating the Software That’s Eating the World"

  Jul 24

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Spoon "I Ain't the One" frm Hot Thoughts JK--2017. Fast becoming my favorite Spoon LP. Havent heard a weak song yet

  Jul 24

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Damien Jurado "Silver Timothy" from Brothers & Sisters of the Eternal Son JK--2014. Makes his ungainly voice glow

  Jul 24

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp David Bowie "The Jean Genie" from Aladdin Sane JK--1973. Must've been a bluegrass fan. Talkin' about (Bill) Monroe

  Jul 24

"Firefox can open over 1,500 tabs in 15 seconds" (http://ow.ly/XIyJ30dRLGy ) JK--Browser from hell, or another sign of the robot apocalypse?

  Jul 24

"Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry" (http://ow.ly/2ODu30dRKs5 ) JK--ML to illuminate mental-health disorder borderlines.

  Jul 24

"Houdini: Fooling Deep Structured Prediction Models" (http://ow.ly/eTQJ30dRJAf ) JK--Automate adversarial example creation. GAN Kryptonite?

  Jul 24

"Neural Accelerator Battle Begins" (http://ow.ly/Want30dRIAC ) JK--AI on a (USB) stick. Best thing since soap on a rope? Discuss.

  Jul 24

"DARPA Calls 4 Post-Moore Ideas" (http://ow.ly/kbZq30dRI8g ) JK--Time to declare post-Moore-tem on the miniaturization-stoked law of scaling?

  Jul 24

"Data Structures Related to ML Algorithms" (http://ow.ly/DIwY30dREBb ) JK--Arrays, lists, trees, heaps, stacks, queues, sets, etc.

  Jul 24

"Learning to Learn" (http://ow.ly/DiTz30dREft ) JK--Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning: initial representation fine-tunable from few examples

  Jul 24

"Stanford's Flexible Robot Grows a Vine" (http://ow.ly/X8IZ30dRDe9 ) JK--Smart camera head. Compressed air/liquid grows tube inside-out

  Jul 24

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp The Velvet Underground "Pale Blue Eyes" JK--1968. When Lou mellowed the VU sound, got unnervingly beautiful.

  Jul 24

"How I used ML as inspiration 4 physical paintings" (http://ow.ly/62yq30dRBMo ) JK--Fanciful brush-renders o ML graffiti2photo style-transfers

  Jul 24

"End o app stores (as we know them)" (http://ow.ly/fkvb30dRAv2 ) JK--No need to install apps when on-demand contextual recommenders everywhere

  Jul 24

"Facets: Open Source Visualization Tool for Machine Learning Training Data" (http://ow.ly/BcZo30dRyPN ) JK--Key to tweaking your ML algorithms

  Jul 24

"Google's updated feed taps machine learning to show new topics before U search 4 them" (http://ow.ly/GKSF30dRyw2 ) JK--Predictive recommender

  Jul 23

They’ve turned on HBO for free on our system. Watching “Game of Thrones.” Not getting into it. Nerdcore medieval phantasmagoria.

  Jul 23

"Here’s every total solar eclipse happening in your lifetime. Is this year your best chance?" (http://ow.ly/FPAW30dQIO0 ) JK--Very cool!

  Jul 23

Aug 21 will be first total solar eclipse that crosses entire US since country founded. I'm interpreting this as God cross with us re Trump

  Jul 22

Ate at the Asian bistro tonight. Not terribly authentic. The appetizer was iceberg lettuce with thousand island dressing.

  Jul 22

Fortune cookie. Chinese delicacy. In Hunan province, they eat the paper.

  Jul 22

Another self-driving car startup? Anyone working on a self-driving startup that uses AI to navig8 funding rounds & burn cash at hi velocity?

  Jul 22

Trump starts with same 4 letters as Truman. Low-bar criterion for presidential?

  Jul 22

Trump seems to think high TV ratings are a mark of quality. If so, he should appoint the cast of “The Big Bang Theory” to his administration

  Jul 21

Days like this make me thankful for air conditioning. And hair conditioning. My stringy mane is simply unmanageable in hot weather.

  Jul 21

"McKinsey's State Of Machine Learning And AI, 2017" (http://ow.ly/NCVi30dOr9n ) JK--Interesting quantitative market-sizing estimates.

  Jul 21

"The future of deep learning" (http://ow.ly/W4mA30dOjxe ) JK--Development automated through reusable components & transfer learning

  Jul 21

"Revisiting Unreasonable Effectiveness o Data" (http://ow.ly/HU6L30dOiWJ ) JK--Supervised learning effectiveness linear to training-data scale

  Jul 21

The more things stay, the more they change the same.

  Jul 21

Drafted next #Datanami column: "Training Your AI With As Little Labeled Data As Humanly Possible"

  Jul 20

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Roger Miller "Dang Me" JK--1964. This was the radio-friendly version. In '64, DJs wouldn't play original: "Darn Me"

  Jul 20

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Spoon "Do I Have to Talk You Into It" from Hot Thoughts JK--2017. Gr8 new one from the veteran Austin indie rockers

  Jul 20

"Dbl-edged sword o AI" (http://ow.ly/ClQe30dMDLi ) JK--Interesting role breakdown: trainers, explainers & sustainers (http://ow.ly/vCKs30dMDY4 )

  Jul 20

"You don’t have to fit someone else’s story" (http://ow.ly/h8ow30dMwmS ) JK--Exactly. Don't let other people tell you what your life means.

  Jul 20

"The Futurist’s Dilemma" (http://ow.ly/2R0E30dMvPR ) JK--Futurists can't really predict what's coming, but can help us brace for likely shocks

  Jul 20

"House Dems say Potomac should stay open near Trump golf course" (http://ow.ly/3Cw430dMh0S ) JK--Don't shut down our river to indulge him!

  Jul 20

"House bill would exempt selfdriving cars frm existing auto safety stds" (http://ow.ly/C3xK30dMgwi ) JK--No! Dont risk lives testing new tech!

  Jul 20

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp This Heat "Health and Efficiency" JK--1980. English industrial postpunk band. Grindingly relentless 3-piece assault

  Jul 20

"NIST Backs Quantum-level Temperature Measuremt" (http://ow.ly/wGl730dMfrK ) JK--Far more accurate. Freezing point of water imprecise baseline

  Jul 20

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Miaow "When It All Comes Down" JK--1987. Power-pop with a slight yodel-y chorus midway through.

  Jul 20

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Empress Of "Go to Hell" from Go to Hell JK--2017. Sweetly acidic.

  Jul 20

Expected high today: upper 90s. Expected humidity: upper 80s. Chance of rain: 0. Feel my innards becoming a glistening stewed tomato.

  Jul 19

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" JK--1979. CGI, motion capture, & deep learning are killing the video star.

  Jul 19

"Musk's Freakout Over Killer Robots Distracts Frm Real AI Problems" (http://ow.ly/NY3o30dKwNt ) JK--I assume he'll flee them in his rocketship

  Jul 19

"Amazon Alexa is so smart it's stupid" (http://ow.ly/DrFu30dKtB4 ) JK--It's voice apps--aka "skills"--are kluge to use. Most R soon forgotten

  Jul 19

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Bill Withers "Use Me" from Lean On Me: The Best of Bill Withers JK--1972. Great use of pauses in the melodic line.

  Jul 19

"Models hinting at serious, triple-digit heat wave late this wk in Washington" (http://ow.ly/dAt530dKr1u ) JK--DC will actually feel swamplike

  Jul 19

"A security robot fell into a water fountain at a D.C. office building" (http://ow.ly/Ll5430dKqTl ) JK--It was a hot day. He needed a dip.

  Jul 19

"Google Glass rises again — at work" (http://ow.ly/gnqC30dKqD1 ) JK--Anywhere heads-up displays are a safety must and/or productivity booster

  Jul 19

"GGL pushing hard 2 bring quantum computing 2 mainstream" (http://ow.ly/oUfd30dKps4 ) JK--Last time qubits trended was when Noah built the ark

  Jul 18

Free dinner to hear retirement-community marketing pitch. Not to our taste. Too golf-y/boat-y. And, quite frankly, the steak was undercooked

  Jul 18

Counter-intuitive? #datascience & #machinelearning #ML without math? What do you think?  @kkmaurya @afigueiredo @mrfuryo

  Jul 18

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp The Cactus Blossoms "Mississippi" from Twin Peaks Soundtrck JK--2017. Wonderful. Sounds like lost Everly Bros track

  Jul 18

"Free AI Chatbot Goes 2 Bat 4 Beleaguered Consumers" (http://ow.ly/Ajbd30dIzTc ) JK--Virtual personal ombudsperson on civic & consumer matters

  Jul 18

"New Google Project Sets Out 2 Solve Artificial Stupidity" (http://ow.ly/aj1c30dIzr9 ) JK--Make chatbot-smarts limitations transparent to user

  Jul 18

"Neuroevolution: A different kind of deep learning" (http://ow.ly/s2qj30dIzdl ) JK--Evolutionary algo decides which neurons connect to which

  Jul 18

"DeepMind Has Taught AI to Do Something Quite Remarkable" (http://ow.ly/vNtb30dIy2b ) JK--Locomotion like "Looney Tunes" cartoon characters

  Jul 18

"General Electric Builds an AI Workforce" (http://ow.ly/dSZs30dIxLj ) JK--Use sensor-fed “digital twin” AI models of all machines they manage

  Jul 18

"Which Is Best, Waterfall or Agile?" (http://ow.ly/GRGj30dIxfk ) JK--Why choose? Do an agile bellyflop over the waterfall into the data lake.

  Jul 18

"Understanding the limits of deep learning" (http://ow.ly/peGc30dIwRx ) JK--Not suited to abstracting & generalizing from one-off simple rules

  Jul 18

Need to do algorithmic urine test on every phenom that's been referred to metaphorically as being "on steroids." Performance-enhancing hype?

  Jul 18

"People fall off a 'humor cliff' when they start working" (http://ow.ly/zw5H30dIvwn ) JK--That's for sure. Don't overdose on grim seriousness.

  Jul 18

"Elon Musk to governors: AI software could replace you, too" (http://ow.ly/SzzR30dIv1J ) JK--Anybody else think this is slightly unhinged?

  Jul 18

"Google San Jose: Can th search giant prevent traffic, housing woes?" (http://ow.ly/hZEG30dIuC5 ) JK--Should build huge dorm to house them all

  Jul 18

"In era o relentless data breaches, IBM focuses ... on ‘pervasive’ encryption" (http://ow.ly/CSVE30dIuc8 ) JK--Quotes me #SiliconANGLE

  Jul 17

My wife fights lions in her sleep. I fight technical issues. None of them nightmare-grade.

  Jul 17

"How St. Augustine Invented Sex" (http://ow.ly/VvpX30dHst1 ) JK--Wow! Says he also overheard people singing with their butts. Fake news?

  Jul 17

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp St. Vincent "New York" from New York JK--2017. Dear Radio-Edit People: What's the word she sings after "mother"?

  Jul 17

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Lou Reed "Vicious" from Transformer JK--1972. "You must think I'm some kind of gay blade."

  Jul 17

"What You See When You Close Your Eyes: Brion Gysin at the New Museum" (http://ow.ly/YIGI30dH1D6 ) JK--This artist was totally cool. Cut-ups.

  Jul 17

Now that software becoming deeply probabilistic, only a matter of time before it executes on processors that screw up every nth calculation

  Jul 17

"Tech Requirements for DL/ML" (http://ow.ly/Vjzi30dGVn6 ) JK--Highlights importance o scalable memory capacity/bandwidth 4 calcul8ng gradients

  Jul 17

"What AI Researcher Fears about AI" (http://ow.ly/zOea30dGUO7 ) JK--Fails to mention soul-gnawing Fear of Missing Multi-Billion $ Opportunity

  Jul 17

"Musk told governors need to regulate AI before it’s too late" (http://ow.ly/u5mS30dGTQe ) JK--Yep. Imminent threat of marauding killer robot

  Jul 17

"Building a Chatbot: Analysis and Limitations of Modern Platforms" (http://ow.ly/FNRf30dGRFf ) JK--Good taxonomy & comparative assessments.

  Jul 17

"MIT researchers can now track AI’s decisions back to single neurons" (http://ow.ly/mOSU30dGQ6n ) JK--Think of it as algorithmic fMRI

  Jul 17

"3 rules on how to use VR data analytics 4 your product" (http://ow.ly/Gx0F30dGPs6 ) JK--Great guidance, when mass usage begins to materlalize

  Jul 17

"Compuware Ties COBOL Unit Testing Tool to DevOps Platforms" (http://ow.ly/JLbV30dGOMY ) JK--"Mainframe renaissance" is a bit too hopeful

  Jul 17

A pleasant palindrome day to one and all: 7-17-17.

  Jul 17

"The 'Sunday Scaries' Are Real: This is Why" (http://ow.ly/9ENF30dGDPt ) JK--Yeah, it's scary to have income & useful stuff to occupy you M-F

  Jul 17

"What it was like making Kool-Aid Man commercials in the 1980s-90s" (http://ow.ly/UrHA30dGDov ) JK--After Jonestown, he was ostracized

  Jul 17

RIP Charles Bachman. Invented the database management system. So foundational to all that came later that we can scarcely imagine otherwise

  Jul 17

RT @KEXPNowPlaying #kexp Billie Holiday "Fine and Mellow" from Legacy 1933-1958 JK--1939. Died on this day in 1959, age 44. She wrote this

  Jul 17

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Gil Scott-Heron "Lady Day & John Coltrane" from Black & Proud: Soul of Black Panther Era Vol 2 JK--1971. Tres cool!

  Jul 16

Watching “The History of Comedy” on CNN. My wife of a different race & I are debating topic of racial humor. We’ve been frank from the start

  Jul 16

The 13th Doctor Who will be a woman. I’m in my 54th year of never having watched any of them.

  Jul 16

Thank U Time-Life Music for assuring us that th Cold War McCarthyism era was a “simpler, more innocent time.” People were so nice back then!

  Jul 16

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Odetta "It's A Mighty World" JK--1964. That amazing brassy righteous voice!

  Jul 16

RT @KEXPNowPlaying #kexp Inez & Charlie Foxx "I Fancy You" JK--1964. Good one from duo best known for original "Mockingbird."

  Jul 16

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Bo Diddley "Soul Food" JK--1965. Great one. Backed by The Cookies ("Don't Say Nothing Bad About My Baby")

  Jul 16

“Mayo Clinic Guide To Healthy Living.” They advocate spreading mayo on every meal. No surprise there.

  Jul 16

Trump’s getting creative. One of his new lawyers is Ty Cobb. Reincarnated jackass baseball Hall of Famer visibly sharpening his legal spikes

  Jul 15

The online Spanish-English dictionary translates "ay carramba" as "oh no." OK. From now on, I'll negate all Spanish verbs with "carramba"

  Jul 15

Drinking pale ale. I prefer it to near beer. But I prefer fine wine or risky whisky.

  Jul 15

"People Accidentally Agree to Clean Toilets for Free Wi-Fi" (http://ow.ly/yMqG30dF6OU ) JK--Just to show how few people read before clicking.

  Jul 15

Picked up brother & his wife from airport. They had a fine time in Sonoma. Must remember to help Donna consume th fine wine I helpd carry in

  Jul 15

Jimmy Carter spending his ex-presidency working with Habitat for Humanity. Trump working hard making planet uninhabitable for all humanity
  Jul 14

118 over 62. Told the nurse I hope that means I’ll live to 118 and have $62 billion to my name by that time.

  Jul 14

While software is eating the edge, probabilities soften the software. Statistics are the new logic, machine learning the new programming.

  Jul 14

It's gotten to the point where I do, say, and publish so much stuff, and have over so long a period, I have to self-Google to locate it.

  Jul 14

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue" JK--1969. Back before people were allowed to change their names or use nicknames

  Jul 14

"PAIR: the People + AI Research Initiative" (http://ow.ly/p8KN30dDbKP ) JK--Google project on human factor in engagement with AI.

  Jul 14

"Who Needs Hard Drives? Scientists Store Film Clip in DNA" (http://ow.ly/WGp530dDaPl ) JK--Catch the Muybridge allusion in their demo.

  Jul 14

"Microsoft intros Azure Stack" (http://ow.ly/NWoC30dDaso ) JK--Important platform for hybrid-cloud appdev. See upcoming #Wikibon research note

  Jul 14

"Best Tool 2 Use 4 JS Apps: Angular JS, React JS, Node JS" (http://ow.ly/VXze30dDacS ) JK--Framework prolif shows how pervasive JavaScript is

  Jul 14

"AI Is the Future of the Internet...." (http://ow.ly/QOb130dD9Xs ) JK--Actually, article shows how pervasive it is in real apps in here & now

  Jul 14

"Me, Myself & Digital Twins" (http://ow.ly/IpFY30dD9ac ) JK--Yep. It's "ground truth" data anchoring ML on any physical person place or thing

  Jul 14

"'Trump criticised 4 'creepy' comment 2 Brigitte Macron" (http://ow.ly/k9mu30dD8zH ) JK--Then the jerk repeated it loudly twice to her husband

  Jul 14

"IBM, Automation Anywhere partner on SW bot solution 2 replace manual tasks" (http://ow.ly/nCiV30dD7L6 ) JK--Relieve knowledge worker tedium

  Jul 14

RT @KEXPNowPlaying #kexp The Halo Benders "Virginia Reel Around the Fountain" JK--1998. The Smiths have song with same name minus "Virginia"

  Jul 14

"Why SV magnate funding new wave of political candidates" (http://ow.ly/rxWV30dD70y ) JK--Y Combinator's Altman: “tech, fairness, liberty”

  Jul 14

"7 keys to structuring yr Node.js app" (http://ow.ly/6LRG30dD5Oi ) JK--Hot web dev language. I'm doing Node.js Interactive, Vancouver, Oct 3-6

  Jul 14

"Apache Spark 2.2 gets streaming, R language boosts" (http://ow.ly/wgLf30dD5oa ) JK--More of a true streaming backbone. Larger developer reach

  Jul 14

"Kubernetes's days may be numbered...." (http://ow.ly/LkdD30dD57z ) JK--Good idea. Today is Kubernetes 7.14.2017, tomorrow 7.15.2017, & so on

  Jul 14

RT @KEXPNowPlaying #kexp Black Moth Super Rainbow "Born On A Day The Sun Didn't Rise" from Eating Us JK--2009. Deeply extruded electronica

  Jul 14

"How To Stop an Imminent Reboot" (http://ow.ly/X8I930dD4Fe ) JK--Sounds like the perfect title for a Hollywood cliffhanger.

  Jul 14

Difference between hype and saturation coverage: the former overstates the importance of a topic, the latter overassumes your interest.

  Jul 13

Local anchor just referred to this region as “the DMV.” Huh? We don’t live in Department of Motor Vehicles. Oh. District Maryland Virginia

  Jul 13

FBI doomed to inhabit a crumbling brutalist fortress in perpetuity? It seems fitting that top cops work in something resembling a cellblock

  Jul 13

Definitely one of those dog days. One of those when they’re slack-jawed, panting, & let their long lazy red tongues hang out of their mouths

  Jul 13

"9 cutting-edge programming languages worth learning now" (http://ow.ly/sGWJ30dBpE8 ) JK--Good rollup. We're seeing strong uptake on all these

  Jul 13

"Electric Glove Transl8s Sign Language Into Txts In Rl-Time 2 Help Deaf People Communic8" (http://ow.ly/4VEZ30dBVQ2 ) JK--With the rest of us

  Jul 13

Maybe I'm oldschool, but I generally require that people respond to the actual substance of my question in the spirit in which it was asked

  Jul 13

Nice to see POTUS showing his son some support on all this. Donald Jr. is indeed a high-quality idiot. He'll be a high-quality inmate.

  Jul 13

"Infor’s AI efforts sincere, but not killing enterprise complexity yet...." (http://ow.ly/CRLB30dBs32 ) #Inforum2017 #SiliconANGLE #Wikibon

  Jul 13

"The Strange Loop in Deep Learning" (http://ow.ly/VtN130dBqfL ) JK--Explains Generative Adversarial Networks in a Hofstadter frame.

  Jul 13

"“Deep State” (http://ow.ly/Fupb30dBqZk ) JK--That phrase is evil Trumpism designed to stigmatize constitutional government & rule of law.

  Jul 13

"In a few years, no investors going 2 B looking 4 AI startups" (http://ow.ly/FR3D30dBmVR ) JK--It's becoming table stakes, not differentiator


  Jul 13

"Michigan’s New Motor City: Ann Arbor as Driverless-Car Hub" (http://ow.ly/CZLb30dBlu1 ) JK--Exciting times in & around my alma mater.

  Jul 13

"Avoiding AI/Chatbot Failures" (http://ow.ly/nQzN30dBkRM ) JK--I suggest using Sarcastic Gradient Descent to help bots spot snark in the wild

  Jul 13

"EU Developing Robot Badgers 4 Underground Excavation" (http://ow.ly/QRwO30dBkiY ) JK--Will also 3D-print walls to stabilize tunnels it bores

  Jul 13

"Adversarial Attacks & Defenses" (http://ow.ly/z7lv30dBjE3 ) JK--Kaggle competition: how 2 fool ML/DL algos & defend against ML/DL tricksters

  Jul 13

"Neural SLAM" (http://ow.ly/ZPSZ30dBiYh ) JK--Simultaneous Localization &Mapping. Agents dynamically learn infer global map from sensor data

  Jul 13

"2 Giants o AI Team 2 Head Off Robot Apocalypse" (http://ow.ly/GpU830dBiig ) JK--No. Piece simply about human-guided training o robot RL algos

  Jul 13

"How to Create a Smart Chatbot" (http://ow.ly/mp6j30dBh2a ) JK--Presents a useful "conversational framework" for developers.

  Jul 13

"Semantic Segmentation w/Deep Learning" (http://ow.ly/OqUI30dBg1e ) JK--Seriously arcane algorithms that treat every last pixel as an object

  Jul 13

This morning in high-tech news: Everybody's disrupting everybody, but somehow many of them are still making lots of money.

  Jul 12

Alec Guinness. Alec Baldwin. One of them's American, right? One's still alive, I'm sure. One also does comedy. Help me out here.

  Jul 12

#Infor president Duncan Angove keynotes final day of #Inforum2017. Catch him later live on #theCUBE: http://bit.ly/2t0fICH 

  Jul 12

As a courtesy to other attendees, we request that U silence, power off, disassemble, pulverize & purée all electronic devices at this time.

  Jul 12

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Beastie Boys "An Open Letter To NYC" from To The 5 Boroughs JK--2004. JimmyK thanks DJ Abbie for playing my request

  Jul 12

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp Cat Power "New York, New York" from Jukebox JK--2008. Better than Frank Sinatra's. See also her "Manhattan"

  Jul 12

"Why ML Doesnt Work Well for Some Problems?" (http://ow.ly/A0qM30dzczD ) JK--Cool discussion. "Strong emergent" phenoms may not be predictable

  Jul 12

"Understanding Changing Position Roles in Data Science" (http://ow.ly/zi2x30dzclq ) JK--Disagree. Feels like evolving a more perfect unicorn

  Jul 12

RT @kexpnowplaying #kexp The War on Drugs "Holding On" from A Deeper Understanding JK--2017. Another great one from the Philly-based group.

  Jul 12

Let's keep score: we now have proof Russia sought to interfere & had direct access to highest levels of very-eager Trump family & campaign.

  Jul 12

Rumor in Manhattan is that Trump has greenlighted his next real-estate project on the west side & will call it “Moscow on the Hudson.”

  Jul 12

What smoking gun are we still waiting for in case of Trump Jr & Russians? An email where he exclaims gleefully “oh goody I’ll tell daddy!”?

  Jul 11

"[ERP] SaaS vendors... [infuse] AI [into suites]....,[says Kobielus]" (http://ow.ly/IizZ30dyBsR ) #theCUBE #Wikibon #SiliconANGLE #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

"Analysts assess strategic detail around Infor’s Coleman & Birst" (http://ow.ly/NDVh30dyBmt ) #theCUBE #Inforum2017 #Wikibon #SiliconANGLE

  Jul 11

New jk #Wikibon #SiliconANGLE blog: "Infor Launches AI-First Cloud ERP Strategy" (http://bit.ly/2ugbyqr ) #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

"Will AI Replace ERP?" (http://ow.ly/MUGw30dytWC ) JK--Tom Siebel and I share a perspective on this. See my latest blog.

  Jul 11

New jk #Wikibon #SiliconANGLE blog: "Infor Launches AI-First Cloud ERP Strategy" (http://ow.ly/jyTg30dytON )

  Jul 11

Angove: #Infor not building horizontal machine-learning platform. Coleman is verticalized AI/ML for industry-focused value #inforum2017

  Jul 11

Angove: Coleman leverates open-source AI framework. #inforum2017

  Jul 11

Angove: Coleman is conversational, augments your work, automates you to free up valuable time, assists in making best decision. #inforum2017

  Jul 11

Angove: Coleman is industry-focus Cloud Suite AI to maximize human potential. #Inforum2017

NASA's Katherine Coleman Johnson. I knew it wasn't Joe Coleman, though his 23 victories for the '73 Tigers was not too shabby. #inforum2017

  Jul 11

My POV: #Infor, with its new AI + BI strategy, seems to be playing competitive catchup to ERP rivals SAP, Microsoft, & Oracle. #inforum2017

  Jul 11

My POV: #inforum2017 is #Infor coming-out for true end-to-end enterprise embedded-analytics strategy: AI+BI. Coleman + Birst.

  Jul 11

Brad Peters: #BirstBI provides end-to-end analytic decision-suppt dashboards within #Infor CloudSuite apps, or as stand-alone. #inforum2017

  Jul 11

Phillips: Networked CloudSuites deliver metadata-driven ERP/process insights in context anywhere in the suite. #inforum2017

  Jul 11

My POV: #Infor should spell out timeline for making Coleman AI digital assistant/recommender functionalty GA across whole suite #inforum2017

  Jul 11

"Infor & LinkedIn Partner 2 Boost Sales Productvty" (http://ow.ly/2hCI30dxnXn ) JK--integr8s Infor CRM w/LinkedIn Sales Navigator #inforum2017

  Jul 11

"Infor Amplifies Cust Svc by Delivering Access 2 Rich Personalized...Information" (http://ow.ly/3yco30dxnDW ) JK--Infor Concierge #inforum2017

  Jul 11

"Infor Expands ERP into the Extended Supply Chain" (http://ow.ly/7B2230dxniU ) JK--Networked CloudSuites w/GT Nexus core functs #Inforum2017
  Jul 11

"Infor Announces Coleman AI Platform" (http://ow.ly/NEuH30dxmRd ) JK--Conversational digital assistant in its CloudSuite ERP apps #inforum2017

  Jul 11

Charles Phillips & other Infor execs live on #theCube from #Inforum2017 today/tomorrow. Register here: http://bit.ly/2t0fICH 

  Jul 11

Phillips presenting the details of microvertical industry architecture. Hugely text-dense eyechart. Packed with features. #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

Phillips: Manufacturing CloudSuites. Core features: multi-company, multi-site, single logistics #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

Philips: When we do customizations, it's not really customizing. It's per-customer "mashups." #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

Philiips: CloudSuite: common analytics, UI, fed security, cross-suite search, 5000+ APIs to access objects/svcs from other apps #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

Philips: Main product line is CloudSuite. My industry products incorporated with core ERP engine. #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

Phiillips: adding analytics and AI. Acquired Birst. Introducing new AI product. #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

Phillps: Choosing AWS for cloud partner has been "great decision for us." #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

Phillips: AI, analytics (Birst BI) network (commerce/IoT), cloud (Industry CloudSuites), industry ("last-mile features") #Inforum2017

  Jul 11

Infor CEO Charles Phillips kicks off Day 1 keynote of #Inforum2017. Highlights many new products, integrations, features, users.

  Jul 11

Waiting for keynote to begin at #Inforum2017. They've made considerable progress in evolving ERP portfolio. Recent Birst acq adds analytics

  Jul 11

Interesting that New York City gives nation its first president since Teddy Roosevelt & it's someone who embodies the worst NYC stereotypes

  Jul 11

Dave & I went Italian last night. Octopus isn't my thing. Spaghetti is. I don't mind floppy food as long as it's pasta-based, tentacle-free

  Jul 11

Doing #Inforum2017 in NYC. Met CEO Charles Phillips yesterday. We hadn't met during his Oracle years. Interesting pre-brief. Keynote at 9am

  Jul 11

Moving at a Manhattan pace. Grabbed quick breakfast, did quick walk to Times Square, then quickly realized I've been there done that.

  Jul 10

New York, New York, it’s my kind of town, the Bowery’s up and my battery’s down. Where’s that charger?

  Jul 10

"Low-Code/No-Code Far More  Disruptive than U Think" (http://ow.ly/iKuU30dw9Zb ) JK--Do traditional coders feel more threatened than empowered?

  Jul 10

Down in the Meatpacking District. Preparing to pack down one of Bubby’s burgers. Well done. With fries. Chase it with cool clear water.

  Jul 10

Not to worry. Jayden K. Smith is no friend o mine. She’s disappointed me & dishonored th memory o her late anchorman grandpa Howard K. Smith

  Jul 10

"NASA Wants Tricorder for Mars" (http://ow.ly/HBiW30duY9I ) JK--Needs to have a built-in tribble detector. Otherwise, it's useless.

  Jul 10

"Expert Panel Debunks AI Hype" (http://ow.ly/bJzC30duXEo ) JK--I'd like to convene a panel of experts to assess the quality of the hype itself

  Jul 10

Heading to Lagyooahdeeah. Doing a few days in Noo Yawk. I plan to adjust my accent accordingly. Appease the locals, if nothing else.

  Jul 9

I am going to immediately unfriend everybody on Facebook who doesn’t “like” everything I post! I mean it! Consider this an ultimatum!

  Jul 9

Watching NatGeo doc on Yellowstone. Narrator milks all scenes for max dramatic impact. Every dumb wolf symbolizes brutal nature come calling

  Jul 9

I’d like an analytic that analyzes all my analytics, tells me whether I’ve overanalyzed it all, & indicates whether I myself need analysis