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#kexp Janis Joplin
"Women Is Losers" from The Essential Janis Joplin (disc 1) JK--1967.
Actually, a feminist message. Listen till the end.
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#kexp Hoyt Axton
"California Women" from Country Funk, Volume 2: 1967-1974 JK--1971.
This classic singer-songwriter could do no wrong!
Americans’ geographic ignorance is startling. “You got out
of Indonesia just in time, that tsunami,” said the guy at Trader Joe. Actually,
Jakarta is as far from Palu as San Francisco is from Albuquerque.
Another visit to the fitness club, another bout of enduring
management’s programming of cable sports or news on the main monitors and
overplayed crap pop hits on endless overhead loops. I bring my devices &
buds to tune it all out.
Took no photos in my barely 24 hours in Houston. Only my
second time ever in the city. I’m slightly unnerved by the contrast between the
gleaming downtown and griminess of the surrounding city. And it has the ugliest
highway ramps I’ve ever seen.
"AI and Algorithmocracy: What the Future Will Look
" (http://ow.ly/yo3g30m7z2v )
JK--Wrongheaded concept, unpronounceable term for it, and idiotic painting in
this blog. Future will only be as democratic as humans will it to be. We'll
bend algorithms to our preferred polis
"Instilling the Best of Human Values in AI" (http://ow.ly/SqYv30m7yP5 )
JK--I think we should focus on instilling them in humans first.
"Elon Musk tweets out a new name for the SEC" (http://ow.ly/2EJx30m7ykE )
JK--Whew! At least it has nothing to do with child molestation.
"Boomers Retire, Knowledge Goes With Them" (http://ow.ly/n8Na30m7yd9 )
JK--Serving notice to you young punks that we INVENTED knowledge. So don't get
any funny ideas about taking over from here on in. Check the vast knowledge
corpus we're leaving for you before you do anything dumb
Worked two consulting jobs this week. Saw another one come
to fruition. Did I recently take a long overseas vacation? That was another
(two) continent(s).
"MLflow Opens Up to R" (http://ow.ly/lIrZ30m7gX8 )
JK--Databricks-based open source for manage ML DevOps workflows. Packages code
as reproducible runs, executes & compares 100s of parallel experiments on
any hardware or software platform, including on prem and cloud.
"Expert Interview (Part 3): James Kobielus on the
Future of Blockchain, AI, Machine Learning, and GDPR" (http://ow.ly/2u1e30m76fn )
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#kexp Dum Dum Girls
"Bedroom Eyes" from Only in Dreams JK--2011. This one always makes me
shiver with delight.
“Trump climbed the steps of Air Force One with a thin piece
of paper stuck to his shoe” (https://amp.businessinsider.com/trump-shoe-toilet-paper-napkin-stuck-air-force-one-2018-10 …)
JK--Technically, it wasn’t toilet paper. He was wiping his ass with the
Constitution.
"Cellular automata as convolutional neural
networks" (http://ow.ly/TvwA30m61jo ) JK--Will
this innovation collapse AI's longstanding distinction between evolutionary
algorithms and statistical algorithms?
Cloudera and Hortonworks merging. Hadoop's bloom is off the
rose. Big data isn't the mania it was. I suggest reverting to the older
technical term: "oodles of info." Slightly longer, but fun to say.
"Partners Look to Scale ‘Chomsky Knowledge Graph’"
(http://ow.ly/8z2c30m5Z7D ) JK--Cool.
I'd to see Chomsky's mental graph of
America's "awesome propaganda machine," per this Oct 2 1979 Michigan
Daily article authored by Mary Gaitskill, alongside my own busker review.
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#kexp Townes Van Zandt
"I'll Be Here in the Morning" from For the Sake of the Song JK--1968.
Classic country-folk. Fort Worth native.
Does anybody have a presidential-alert blocker handy for me
to download? I need it before 2:18pm ET today. I expect that the national
crisis to which we’ll be alerted will have something to do with assaults on the
reputation of that fine man Brett Kavanaugh.
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#kexp Liz Phair
"Supernova (edit)" JK--1994. Online source puts lyric as "your
lips are sweet and slippery a cherub's
bare wet ass." I always misheard it as "sheriff's bearded ass."
Either way: disturbing.
"20 Years of IT Conferences: How Tech's Mega-Events
Have Evolved" (http://ow.ly/i7YT30m480V )
JK--They're less fun now, but there's livestreaming and other online media to
help you absorb , social media keeps you up-to-speed on what you miss,
& work gets done
"6 tools to tame your hybrid cloud " (http://ow.ly/jocC30m47dt )
JK--Before long, every enterprise cloud administrator will be well-versed in
the leading tools for managing bridged private/public cloud hybrids.
"Jenkins on Kubernetes is promising, but integration
needs work" (http://ow.ly/QgxW30m46Kv ) JK--Cloud
Native Jenkins will be essential for DevOps in this new era of ubiquitous
microservices containerization.
"Tim Berners-Lee unveils Solid, an open source project
to decentralize the web and give users control of their data, and Inrupt, a
startup to guide the project" (http://ow.ly/tKiA30m469v )
JK--He should hire the Pied Piper team to build it & keep it away from the
evil Gavin Belson
"Building safe AI: specification, robustness, &
assurance" (http://ow.ly/JumA30m45jV )
JK--DeepMind provides useful framework for technical AI safety. See also my
recent Dataversity piece:
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#kexp Nice As Fuck
"Runaway" from Nice as Fuck JK--2016. I hope this Jenny Lewis project
puts out music. Seriously tight and
memorably snappy rock with attitude. Ballsy name.
"Google confirms Dragonfly project in Senate hearing,
dodges questions on China plans" (http://ow.ly/BFB230m44Cw )
JK--No easy answers here. Is a US-based company expected to push a "Radio
Free Europe" operating model of counterpropaganda overseas?
"What’s new in Kubernetes containers" (http://ow.ly/8AkO30m44c6 )
JK--Great rollup by Serdar Yegulalp. This may seem a lot of arcane details, but this is
effectively the kernel of the operating system for our new multicloud world.
"Microsoft’s SQL Server gets built-in support for Spark
and Hadoop" (http://ow.ly/4FhY30m43e7 )
JK--Telling detail: "SQL Server 2019 will support these big data clusters
with the help of the Google-incubated Kubernetes container orchestration
system."
"What’s New for Apache Spark on Kubernetes in the
Upcoming Apache Spark 2.4 Release " (http://ow.ly/hQtp30m42Vo )
JK--Further proofpoint in the ongoing containerization of the big data
analytics ecosystem.
"Expert Interview (Part 2): James Kobielus on Blockchain’s
Sweet Spot in Practical Business Use Cases" (http://ow.ly/bYLH30m3ZOW )
"Five steps to tackle big graph data
visualization" (http://ow.ly/uI9f30m3ZgR ) JK--Very
important set of optimization techniques as graph models begin to consume compute resources and of our human attention span.
"Introducing Petastorm: Uber ATG’s Data Access Library
for Deep Learning" (http://ow.ly/SFY530m3YWL ) JK--Very
cool. A data layer optimized for continual distributed training of AI models
for DevOps.
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#kexp T. Rex "Bang
a Gong (Get It On)" from Electric Warrior JK--1971. Good song, but they
lost me on "you're built a car,
you've got a hub cap diamond star halo." That sounds mechanical engineering than sexual innuendo.
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#kexp dvsn
"Morning After" from Morning After JK--2017. Love this moody
electronic soul dance track.
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp The Dead Milkmen
"Punk Rock Girl" from Beelzebubba JK--1988. If this isn't Nerd Rock,
nothing is. BTW nerds, "California Dreaming" is by The Mamas and The
Papas, not the Beach Boys. Shame on you! I need you to issue a correction on
the lyric.
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#kexp Big Mama Thornton
"Hound Dog" JK--1952. Say what you will about Elvis' version, this
song makes sense sung by a woman: it's
from the point of view of a lady fending off some no-account's sexual advances.
Big Mama rocks it!
"Expert Interview (Part 1): James Kobielus on
Separating Blockchain Hype from Reality" (http://ow.ly/WbC830m2SS6 )
"New working group aims to bring Kubernetes to IoT edge
networks" (http://ow.ly/ZCaU30m2LeM ) JK--CNCF +
Ecliipse. I'd be surprised if Eclipse doesn't bring its Ditto digital
twin/device-as-a-service project into this. See my recent piece:
"Deep Learning Framework Power Scores 2018" (http://ow.ly/4bZv30m2KwQ )
JK--TensorFlow + Keras seem to be running away with this.
"What China Can Teach the U.S. About Artificial
Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/gqMm30m2KcV ) JK--This
POV disturbs me. Argues that China's AI advantage is not so much in the amount
of data that their data scientists have access to but the intrusiveness (aka
"depth") of that data.
"Millions of things will soon have digital twins"
(http://ow.ly/gLuG30m2JOq ) JK--Yes,
and those will be used to orchestrate things/devices in amazing distributed
ensembles. See my recent InformationWeek column on device-as-a-service:
"NetApp Kubernetes Service launched to orchestrate
containers" (http://ow.ly/eN4630m2JAj )
JK--Storage containerization is remaking the fabric of distributed data
management all the way to the cloud's finer edges.
"The Secret Behind the New AI Spring: Transfer
Learning" (http://ow.ly/yDoq30m2IWK ) JK--Yeah,
it's key to AI-model reuse. But can we please lose this "spring" vs.
"winter" metaphor regarding this tech? It reeks of manifest destiny
and all that historical-determinism nonsense.
"Just Months Old, a Game-Playing A.I. Takes on the
World" (http://ow.ly/p41n30m2Hwf ) JK--And
here's my August 30 InfoWorld column on the OpenAI Five DotA challenge:
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#kexp King Gizzard
& The Lizard Wizard "The Fourth Colour" from Live at KEXP
JK--2018. Melbourne group I neglected to mention while I was in Melbourne last
week. Yeah, they're from Melbourne too.
"Predictive Analytics in DevOps: Apps &
Benefits" (http://ow.ly/wjUz30m2H3E )
JK--Predictive log analysis for application quality enforcement, application
delivery security, application performance in production, reduction of alert
storm floods, and production failure prevention.
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#kexp Ray LaMontagne
"Homecoming" from Ouroboros JK--2016. Nice recessive one from the
sensitive, bearded singer-songwriter dude.
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#kexp La Luz
"Cicada" from LIVE at KEXP JK--2018. Love these ladies' killer
spaghetti-western vibe on this. The video, with its long sequence of fake
TV-show opening credits, is a perfect one to watch over and over.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Prince "17
Days" from Piano & A Microphone JK--2018. Posthumous release.
Excellent.
"Artificial Intelligence Can Reinforce Bias, Cloud
Giants Announce Tools For AI Fairness" (http://ow.ly/33Hv30m2FBN )
JK--Highlights anti-bias tools from Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, &
IBM. See my InformationWeek column from May on the topic:
"Why building your own Deep Learning Computer is 10x
cheaper than AWS" (http://ow.ly/KpWq30m2FoP ) JK--This
is homebrew-a-go-go for the serious AI hardware-acceleration
geek/hacker/innovator.
"Identify mutable and immutable infrastructures in
action" (http://ow.ly/9Q5W30m2F1o ) JK--The
spread of microservices and edge computing to nanodevices will tip the balance
toward immutable infrastructure. Every component gets refreshed in toto rather
than mutably modified in situ
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#kexp Empress Of
"When I'm With Him" from Trust Me Baby JK--2018. I hope this becomes
a big radio hit. I want to hear it over and over.
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#kexp iLe "Te
Quiero con Bugalú" from Ilevitable JK--2016. Swinging Latin sounds from a
Grammy-winning LP.
"Azure’s new machine learning features embrace
Python" (http://ow.ly/lePt30m2EgO )
JK--Microsoft making significant strides in automated ML with distributed
training, FPGA-accelerated inferencing, container-based model management, and
DevOps for data science pipelines.
4Q. Fork you. Today's the first day of either the most
obscene time of the year, or the beginning of the season in which open-source
developers are given license to take their code as proprietary as their little
hearts desire (which would be an obscenity in its own right).
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#kexp Hot Chip
"These Chains" from In Our Heads JK--2012. A perfect early morning
groove.
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#kexp Low
"Fly" from Double Negative jk--2018. Lovely, chill. A nice bit of
ambience for early autumn back in the northern hemisphere.
RIP Marty Balin. Founder of Jefferson Airplane and male
pop-honed tenor voice that defined their classic sound from the start. His
duets with Grace were electric and he authored many of their best songs.
Doing work while on overseas vacation was the perfect
middle-of-night jetlag remedy. It put my head into a timezone of its own for
several hours at a clip.
Enjoyed our overseas trip. But got a bit tired of Trump
entering seemingly every conservation over there too. Enough already!
Hey Alaska Airlines: the SFO -> IAD final leg of my
journey home last night was uncomfortable. Let's focus on those stupid
recessed-handset arm-rests: how do you expect someone's elbow to relax into
that? Thank goodness my wife had a neckrest pillow I could adapt for that.
Caught the 2-hour HBO documentary retrospective on Robin
Williams on the Emirates flight from Melbourne to Singapore yesterday. Didn't
quite answer why he was such a brilliant comedic actor, but I don't think such
things are answerable.
Caught 1st few season 1 episodes of "The Marvellous
Mrs. Maisel" on the Singapore Airlines flight home yesterday. Terrific.
The characters were all exceptionally well sketched and the pace kept me tuned
into every turn of events. Transgressive feminist stand-up ~60 years ago
Connecting in SFO. Coming from Melbourne via Singapore.
Ironically, they’re playing Men At Work “Down Under” overhead. I hadn’t heard
it before on this trip.
Watched the documentary "Won't You Be My
Neighbor?"on the flight from Melbourne to Singapore. Fred Rogers was one
serious empath. His wife and sons sound slightly in awe of him.
"Five Characteristics of a Data-Driven Company" (http://ow.ly/7qg730lZbhq )
JK--Irina Peregud quotes me.
"Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in
two — and one part will be led by China" (http://ow.ly/x6bh30lXllQ )
JK--I dunno. Doubtful whether other nations will acquiesce to PRC leadership's
demands to censor PRC-unfriendly news from their domestic Internets.
"Microsoft Delivered a Ton of GA Releases at Ignite:
Here They Are" (http://ow.ly/XNET30lXl2k ) JK--I'm
glad somebody compiled these into a single article. Hard to keep up with what
they're doing on every level.
"Benchmarking RL Algos on Real-World Robots" (http://ow.ly/NhgN30lXjCJ )
JK--Standard suites enable researchers to benchmark effects of hyperparameter
& other choices, and running on real-world platforms helps understand how
well these algorithms deal with robotics challenges.
"Microsoft Ignite 2018: 7 New Azure And IoT Products,
Features" (http://ow.ly/wouC30lXjn5 ) JK--
automated ML and public previews of SQL Svr 2019, Azure SQL DB Hyperscale,
Azure Data Explorer, Azure Digital Twins, Azure Data Box Edge, and Azure
Sphere.
"Gmail's Smart
is an example of what real AI will look
for frontline workers" (http://ow.ly/SyAQ30lXiH4 )
JK--I've seen a few of those auto-suggests and I'm starting to dis them as much
as spam. Just another distraction. Hopefully they'll get better in the future.
"Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the
Room" (http://ow.ly/rKfs30lXilx ) JK--Computer
vision AI focusing selective attention in a crowded environment. See this post
of mine:
"Cisco: How AI & machine learning are going to change
your network" (http://ow.ly/SHFl30lXhWh ) JK--Having
encrypted traffic end2end, identify that there’s malware in that traffic
without decrypting that content, building sanctioned connectivity graph to
drive whitelisting policy
"AI Chips Put to Data Center Tests" (http://ow.ly/2VPI30lXhvM )
JK--Data centers are ly to adopt multiple AI accelerator hardwares, each mapped
to specific workloads that they best fit. Some apps use as many as 20 types of
neural nets, making cross-model flexibility a must.
"Help! I can’t reproduce a machine learning
project!" (http://ow.ly/IYBr30lXh7u ) JK--Check
out my latest InfoWorld column on this very topic: http://ow.ly/oZMP30lXh8C .
"Microsoft acquires Lobe to help bring AI development
capability to everyone" (http://ow.ly/KyAm30lXgXZ ) JK--What
will be impressive is when small children can create powerful AI apps in the
act of play, and then build on them the
coolest constructive toy in all creation.
"Talend Speeds Apache Spark and Machine Learning
Implementations without Coding" (http://ow.ly/8Ju130lXgLr )
JK--Throws its hat into the ever crowded data science toolchain solution arena.
"The building blocks of cloud-native application
development" (http://ow.ly/jsYV30lWp01 ) JK--Good
piece suggests that there should be a standard maturity model for cloud-native
computing.
My favorite thing about traveling the world is looking up
and seeing that the sky is still blue, the sun still moves from east to west,
and that children still talk out of turn.
"IKEA designs future autonomous cars that work as
hotels, stores, & meeting rooms" (http://ow.ly/rd2Q30lWnPs )
JK--Use them in every way we now live/work aboard airplanes, trains, buses,
ships, etc. Not inconceivable that people will use them as primary residence, a
la houseboats
"Adobe continues innovating storytelling with AI"
(http://ow.ly/CBW830lWcY1 ) JK--Makes
you kinda wonder how the Goldilocks story would've been written if she'd've had
access to a porridge-temperature sensor and optimization algorithm.
"How Nvidia is using its autonomous car platform to
drive into health care" (http://ow.ly/JAX630lWcUo )
JK--Project Maglev: uses semi-autonomous methods originally developed for
self-driving cars to automate collection and labeling of data for many other
apps.
"Alexa and Google can tell Eufy's new RoboVac to get
cleaning" (http://ow.ly/vxFG30lWcQs ) JK--Pure
overkill for a housekeeping chore that people with reasonably tidy habits only
need to do once a month or so, and for which a whisk and dustpan are often
sufficient (and cheaper).
I love Melbourne’s system of free trams for trips within
downtown. Great way to keep people there longer, combining shopping, dining,
sightseeing, and other personal business. Fosters a lively community
atmosphere.
Melbourne has a great Chinatown. A fairly large one with
several arches and block after block of restaurants with buzzy foot traffic.
Significantly 20-something and affluent in demographics.
Having a pleasant time on my overseas vacation. I’ve
experienced a summer equivalent in Indonesia, late winter and early spring in
Australia, and vicarious back-home autumn. A full year’s worth of ambience.
New jk #InformationWeek
column: "Device-as-a-Service Will Power the Access Economy" (http://ow.ly/EMRl30lUYKX )
"If Software Ate the World, What In the World Happens
Next?" (http://ow.ly/wzgm30lUMWj )
JK--Software would puke it right back up. The world's a pretty disgusting
place.
I’ve prepared one consulting deliverable, two articles, and
nine poems on this Indonesia/Australia trip, which is mixing pleasure and work
in a weird blur of nights of restlessness and deep snoring sleep.
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#kexp Emmylou Harris
"Deeper Well" from Wrecking Ball JK--1995. Love this. Sounds a dark night of the soul.
"This blockchain-based company got $30M to build a ‘new
internet’" (http://ow.ly/CeJe30lSRlQ ) JK--That
overstates it by a wide margin. DADI is one of several P2P compute brokering
initiatives that use blockchain. See my recent InformationWeek article:
"Strata NYC 2018: AI, data governance, containers and
production-ready data lake" (http://ow.ly/3wex30lSPCt )
JK--Covers announcements by Cloudera, Information Builders, Trifacta, Sprint,
Rubrik, Hortonworks, Waterline Data, MapR, Alation, Okera, SAP, Dataiku, and
Nvidia.
"AI mashes up existing games to create new ones" (http://ow.ly/Z8ky30lSPhm )
JK--Analyzes levels of already developed games; converts them into a graph that
lays out the environments, objects, and rules for a new video game; turns game
graphs’ into new playable levels of a game.
Want to thank the fellow Yank who lent/gave me his North
America-to-Australia AC adapter in a pinch. I brought two with me, but they
both essentially went deep-six long before I went Down Under. You saved my
computer-dependent traveler's tail.
Didn't realize how cold it can get in Australia. It's 46
degrees Fahrenheit this evening in the Melbourne area. I know this is still
winter in the southern hemisphere. Glad our friends have a spare jacket for me
to wear. Brrrr!!
First time in Australia. Yes, we declared everything (i.e,
nothing that the authorities might find objectionable). I'm no Johnny Depp http://ow.ly/Trxg30lSsU3
.
While I'm in Indonesia, all the banner ads I'm seeing
digitally in my Web, email, and mobile apps are in Bahasa. I'm sure there's a
reason why. Advertisers are interested
in testing my language comprehension than pitching me products while I'm
overseas.
"Moving Towards Autonomous Driving Networks" (http://ow.ly/OaLb30lQk2K )
JK--Interesting Huawei blog ties it to digital twin technology.
"Google Cloud's new AI chief is on a task force for AI
military uses and believes we could monitor 'pretty much the whole world' with
drones" (http://ow.ly/BeB830lQjQP ) JK--And
this pretty much assures that guerillas everywhere will deploy ruthless
anti-drone tactics.
"Introducing a New Framework for Flexible and
Reproducible Reinforcement Learning Research" (http://ow.ly/1J7830lQj5O )
JK--Google Dopamine: TensorFlow-based supports fast RL-algo prototyping in
"small, easily grokked codebase in which users can freely experiment with
wild ideas"
"Using AI to Design Deep Learning Architectures" (http://ow.ly/hgHI30lQj0J )
JK--Much of IBM's most cutting-edge R&D in advanced AI approaches seems to
be coming from their Ireland lab. Case in point.
"Baidu launches EZDL, an AI model training platform
that requires no coding experience" (http://ow.ly/c5ha30lQiWV )
JK--I count a few dozen such solutions on the market. The number and variety
will grow. Most will be as-a-service offerings.
"Cisco joins the AI hardware fray with new deep
learning server powered by 8 GPUs" (http://ow.ly/YYFC30lQiO6 )
JK--Collab w/ Hortonworks to validate for Hadoop 3.1. Promising support for
Kubeflow to make TensorFlow compatible with Kubernetes software container
orchestration engine.
"Hortonworks, IBM, Red Hat Collaborate to Help Accel
Containerized Big Data Workloads for Hybrid Architectures" (http://ow.ly/KJhl30lQiJH )
JK--AI ecosystem been shifting toward decoupled, orchestrated, containerized,
hybridized for some time. See my 2017:
"Deep image reconstruction from human brain
activity" (http://ow.ly/FnnD30lPYKv ) JK--Mind
reading. Now you're blowing mine
"What-If Tool: Code-Free Probing of Machine Learning
Models" (http://ow.ly/HR3730lPYIB ) JK--Cool
new interactive feature in Google's TensorBoard to help data scientists understand
their model better--e.g., how would changes to a datapoint affect the model’s
predictions.
"Anatomy of an AI System" (http://ow.ly/8BP130lPYH2 )
JK--As far as I can tell, this weird diagram is intended to show the place of
an AI-infused device (Amazon Echo) within the connected cosmic fabric of
humanity, geology, ecology, and physics.
"Skydio Autonomy Platform brings R1 self-driving drone
smarts to devs" (http://ow.ly/rfRI30lPYEb )
JK--Interesting drone AI development platform.
"Microsoft announces Azure DevOps, will succeed Visual
Studio Team Services" (http://ow.ly/ed0s30lPXTi ) JK--Notice
how integral their GitHub acquisition is to this. This will also be fundamental
to Azure Machine Learning for DataOps, I'm expecting.
"AI can recognize images. But can it understand this
headline?" (http://ow.ly/QdC630lPVyv )
JK--"“We’re never going to be able to get enough labeled data...We really
need to develop models that take messy, unlabeled data and learn as much from
it as possible.”
"Put on your dancing algorithm" (http://ow.ly/zuNS30lPVuc )
JK--"Do as I do" motion transfer: AI that could revolutionize how
choreographers communicate their compositions, instruct dancers to enact them,
& dancers visualize themselves doing so before they actually do it.
"Google unveils search engine for open data" (http://ow.ly/JCTE30lPVr9 )
JK--Does this mean they have no plans at any point in the future to make money
from selling data that competes with free & freely discoverable alternative
sources?
I sincerely hope that they doublecheck the number of deaths
caused by Hurricane Florence. Wouldn’t want to make Donald Trump look bad.
“Kamar kecil.” The Bahasa Indonesia phrase literally means
“small room.” I love non-literal idiomatic phrases for the place with the
toilet. Makes our “rest room” seem less dumb, in context. I never rest there
and I don’t care about its dimensions.
Been in several houses in the week I’ve been in Jakarta.
Haven’t seen a single house gecko (cicak). Wondering why. I kind of miss the
little guys. Or their song, at the very least.
Verbatim PR email intro: “Hey James, quick question for you:
How much do you know about artificial intelligence?” Hey PR, quick question: Do
you know how to type my name into a Google search box?
The driver performed flawlessly on our shortcut-intensive
intra-city trip across Jakarta. Even in normal traffic on main roads, it’s
usually a hair-raising odyssey of close calls.
Excellent 2-hour deep-tissue massage in central Jakarta. The
girl really did me right. Couldn't have been
than 25. Wife was right next to me, getting hers. So don't get any funny
ideas.
"We’re living in the Last Era Before Artificial General
Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/Q5DF30lMB2b ) JK--Yep.
End of days is approaching. No better time to rend our garments, let our eyes
bug out, pull our hair out of our heads, and run screaming through the streets
at dawn.
"7 Short-Term AI ethics questions" (http://ow.ly/rf0A30lMAWP )
JK--I don't see what's "short-term" about weaponization of AI. Death,
destruction, tyranny, terrorism, and balance of power are pretty much for
keeps. Don't relegate this discussion to namby-pamby anodyne
"philosophy."
"Panacea or Alchemy the Truth About AI" (http://ow.ly/bn8E30lMASf )
JK--Apparently, Jason Silva has upgraded himself from "futurist" to
"futurist/philosopher." I guess that gives him free range to make one
breathlessly over-the-top prognostication after another.
"The Reality of Digital Twins for IoT" (http://ow.ly/bSSs30lMAMU )
JK--"A digital twin is the virtual representation of a physical asset.
Some refer to a digital twin as the virtual doppelganger of a thing. I
also the analogy that a digital twin
enables a device-as-a-service."
"Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in
a cage, on top of a robot" (http://ow.ly/FW4l30lMAnI )
JK--Sounds perfect for 60s nostalgia installations where caged android go-go
girls do the watusi above audio-animatronic re-enactments of Sam the Sham and
the Pharaohs.
"The AI calculus – Where do ethics factor in?" (http://ow.ly/5AxC30lMrys )
JK--The data-science mainstream is to factor ethics in right after you've
recouped your investment in AI + a tidy profit. Bu probably need to transfer
financial suffering to "ethical" AI developers early on
"With $65M, ThinCI Joins Elite AI Startup Club" (http://ow.ly/SedN30lMroA )
JK--What's interesting about this article is the table showing how much funding
is flowing to so many AI integrated circuit startups and how global this is
(US, UK, India...)
"Amazon Rekognition Mistook Congressmen for Criminals?
A Closer Look" (http://ow.ly/kqiu30lMqGt ) JK--It was
ACLU's stunt. They didn't follow Amazon's recommended practices (says Amazon).
And at what point are vendors responsible for customer misuse of their
solutions?
"Models Will Run the World" (http://ow.ly/zt4Z30lM2sB )
JK--Will that be before or after they do their little turn on the catwalk?
"GitOps — Git Push All the Things" (http://ow.ly/aVIW30lM1U2 )
JK--Lists three principles of GitOps. But in fact there's really only one:
"Better git while the gittin's good." Take it from me, pardner, if
you know what's good for ya.
"Alibaba continues to gain cloud momentum" (http://ow.ly/XwFt30lLZ46 )
JK--I've already told several people on this Indonesia trip that Alibaba is the
Asian cloud/AI powerhouse to watch.
"EmbodiedQA: A Facebook Challenge for Building
Goal-Oriented, Autonomous AI Agents" (http://ow.ly/eL7T30lLYQx )
JK--"Finding right balance between perception, communication & action
is key element to power goal-driven autonomous AI agents." Explaining
while exploring and exploiting
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp Ryan Adams
"New York, New York" from Gold JK--2001. I remember when he did this
on Saturday Night Live. I'm , who is that guy? he's great!
"Can ML and AI Tackle Fake News" (http://ow.ly/KAwZ30lLYde )
JK--Can they? You wouldn't know from reading this article. My piece a few
months ago goes to the heart of the matter and dissects the approaches for
doing so:
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Tom Petty and The
Heartbreakers "Into the Great Wide Open" JK--1991. I was indifferent
to Tom Petty till my nephew played his greatest hits while driving around
Jakarta in 1994. Somehow, I listened differently when America was at a literal
distance.
Maybe I'm an incorrigible analyst, but I'm not comfortable
talking technology socially unless we can break it down to something highly
specific that I actually have an informed opinion on. I don't enjoy indulging
in attitudinal techno-blather that's not anchored in reality.
Trump vows to write a "real book." I'd be
impressed if he could read a real book.
"It's time to establish big data standards" (http://ow.ly/3XFw30lLvQP )
JK--Oh, dear lord, please no. I was pulled into several of those industry
initiatives in my last gig and found them an exercise in futility. People
proliferate empty specifications that no one really needs.
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp Kate Bush
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" from Hounds of Love
JK--1985. The gorgeous, talented English singer-songwriter recently turned 60.
If anyone deserves to be called a "diva" (in the best sense), it's
Kate.
"AI camera shootout: Samsung Galaxy Note 9 vs Huawei
Mate 10 Pro and LG G7" (http://ow.ly/rg3z30lLuTX )
JK--Auto-adjusts/improves the framing, lighting, contrast, color saturation,
etc while you're pressing the shutter button.
"10 Hot AI-powered IoT startups" (http://ow.ly/jlSo30lLuKM )
JK--We've just seen the beginning in commercial and open-source edge-AI
platforms, frameworks, tools, libraries, etc. This stuff is getting fused into the physical world with every
passing day.
"Consultants Saying Things - Episode 08: The One About
Deep Learning" (http://ow.ly/DPw630lLupN ) JK--Me,
Chris Lockhart, Bill Bensing, and Phil Yanov a few weeks ago. Thanks for
engaging me. I enjoyed chatting on mic/camera with you guys.
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp Bob Moses
"Back Down" from Battle Lines JK--2018. Love this musical statement
of personal resolve.
"When Bots Teach Themselves to Cheat" (http://ow.ly/3Vml30lK4IL )
JK--The pretext for that statement is that the bots were already instilled with
a moral compass. To them, "cheating" is simply exploiting knowledge
of the best path to their objective.
"A Robot Walks Into a Bar. But Can It Do Comedy?"
(http://ow.ly/UYs630lK4H6 )
JK--Interesting. Here's a piece I published on my LinkedIn blog two years ago
on or less that same topic:
"RecoGym: A Reinforcement Learning Environment for the
problem of Product Recommendation in Online Advertising" (http://ow.ly/xU2y30lK0Yq )
JK--Cool. Implicitly recognizes that
ad-optimization scenarios are "cold start" in a long-tail
world of microsegmented products/customers
"Auto-Keras, or How You can Create a Deep Learning
Model in 4 Lines of Code" (http://ow.ly/4b8g30lK0Wq )
JK--Before long, automation will be taken for granted in data science pipeline
tools. You won't need to call it out.
"The next generation of AI assistants in
enterprise" (http://ow.ly/1dML30lK0tB ) JK--Please
assure us that this "autonomous organization of assistants" won't
conspire against us. Just to be on the safe side.
"What do computers see?" (http://ow.ly/OQeg30lK0eL )
JK--Organically visualizing how artificial neural networks see for us. Far out,
man!
"Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That
Improving Security Is Possible? A: Because Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life
Decisions and Are Poor Role Models" (http://ow.ly/zzEn30lK030 )
JK--Now THAT dude knows how to title a keynote!!!!
"Microsoft’s TextWorld is the OpenAI Gym of Language
Learning Agents" (http://ow.ly/whcR30lJYMV ) JK--Cool
game-theoretic testbed that uses trial-and-error reinforcement learning to help
NLP agents learn to chat fluidly using rich memory, contextual analysis and
long-term planning
"Alibaba’s Jack Ma, China’s Richest Man, to Retire From
Company He Co-Founded" (http://ow.ly/vsy730lJYzl )
JK--Totally cool. Once in a while, a plutocrat comes out as a human being with
a heart as deep as his balance sheet.
"Beyond the hype, AI will spark a marketing
renaissance" (http://ow.ly/x7sx30lJXRL ) JK--Beyond
the marketing, AI has already sparked a hype renaissance. Why is no one
discussing that? Let's hype it till people notice. Do I have to do this all by
myself?
"Disrupting The Car: How Shared Cars, Bikes, &
Scooters Are Reshaping Transportation And Cannibalizing Car Ownership" (http://ow.ly/Ayxa30lJXCW )
JK--They have every one of these options on the streets of Jakarta but the
privately owned driver-only passenger cars abound nonetheless
"Venture Capital Funnel Shows Odds Of Becoming A
Unicorn Are About 1%" (http://ow.ly/AoXE30lJXBJ ) JK--When
the odds rise to 2%, they are legally required to refer to themselves as
"duocorns."
"46 Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles" (http://ow.ly/1ltk30lJWvZ )
JK--I'd say this puts it well beyond fad territory, wouldn't you?
Caught "Please Stand By" inflight from Seoul to
Singapore. Excellent story of young woman on the autistic spectrum and her
struggle to see her "Star Trek" script entered in a contest. Dakota
Fanning & Toni Collette are outstanding and quite sensitive in their
portrayals.
Wonderful. iTunes finally fulfilled my preorder of Alison
Statton and Spike’s latest LP “Bimini Twist” while I’m waiting for my
connecting flight to Singapore/Jakarta. First impression: melodic, mystical,
happy, bouncy, arty. I’ll post full review to my AS&S Facebook fanpage.
Watched the 2018 British film “Edie” inflight over the
Pacific. Story of an embittered widowed elderly lady who decides to climb a
mountain in northern Scotland alone. Love her grit.
Rewatched “Lost in Translation” on this overnight leg from
LAX to Seoul. I never tire of it. One of the best movies of the 21st Century so
far. Exceptionally beautiful and emotionally rich. Bill Murray is jet lag
incarnate.
RIP Burt Reynolds. What I d about him was how he treated the
whole macho swagger thing as a kind of lighthearted joke.
Waiting for our overseas connection at LAX's Tom Bradley
International Terminal. My wife said "OMG! Why did they name a terminal
after that football player?" I replied "Tom BRADLEY, not Tom
BRADY....different guys....African-American mayor, not football-deflating
player."
"Dexon raises $20 million to develop superspeed
blockchain transaction network" (http://ow.ly/CdAg30lHVZ6 )
JK--Could potentially help blockchain break out of its niche status and support
some core enterprise apps.
"DeepLocker demonstrates how AI can create a new breed
of malware" (http://ow.ly/2YHj30lHVAo )
JK--"Avoids detection from malware scanners by hiding in normal
apps...uses a deep neural net AI model to ensure that malicious payload is only
unlocked once it reaches intended target"
"Khronos Releases NNEF 1.0 For Optimized Deployment of
Trained Neural Networks" (http://ow.ly/9a3M30lHVnD )
JK--Industry consortium developed "open standard for hardware
manufacturers to reliably deploy optimized, accelerated neural network
inferencing onto diverse edge devices"
"A small team of student AI coders beats Google’s
machine-learning code" (http://ow.ly/V6T530lHUHN )
JK--Article disappoints. They only automated some upfront image prep in order
to speed training of an existing image classification model.
"Alexa and exoskeletons show how AI isn’t going to remake
industries overnight" (http://ow.ly/teZQ30lHUCb )
JK--Actually, article undermines that thesis by hinting that AI-augmented
employees might remake industries rapidly.
AWS has serverless functions integrated into its Greengrass
architecture, so it's puzzling why #VMware didn't bring
Dispatch, its open source serverless framework into its "Project
Dimension" edge appliance story. Is Dispatch still alive? W... #vmworld2018
One of the questions I had after I published my #VWworld #Wikibon wrap: Why is
Dell not building a "Project Dimension" hyperconverged appliance?
Lenovo is the hardware provider on the current pre-alpha appliance. #vmworld2018
I agree with Stu that network virtualization is the
cloud-to-edge glue within the extended software-defined data center. It's #VMware's chief asset
going forward. But, as Burris, Floyer, and i agreed in our wrap, VMware needs
real-time, str... #vmworld2018
My "trip report" wrap-up of #VMworld, summarizing
my, Peter Burris', and David Floyer's Wikibon takeaways: https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/30/top-vmworld-2018-takeaways-wikibons-analysts/ …
#vmworld2018
My day-three recap of the chief takeaways from theCUBE
interviews at #VMworld:
https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/29/vmworld-vmware-dell-drive-conversation-evolving-virtualization-cloud-edge/ …
#vmworld2018
My day-two recap of #VMware: https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/29/vmworld-day-two-vmware-dell-bridge-virtualization-tangible-opportunities-edge-computing/ …
#vmworld2018
My day-one recap of #VMware: https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/28/vmworld-day-one-vmware-goes-deep-multicloud-virtualization/ …
#vmworld2018
The @AWS @VMware partnership is deepening. What
does it mean for the future of the data center? Will RDS on-prem challenge @Oracle DB dominance? Is VMware's edge
strategy a winner? Live chat today: 11:50am US eastern: https://www.crowdchat.net/vmworld2018
@furrier @stu @plburris
@dvellante
What's this stupid social "shaming" nonsense about
an actor who moonlights at Trader Joe? Does anybody realize acting is rarely a
steady, well-paying job? And is any retail employee consistently nicer/cooler
than a Trader Joe associate? This should be a point of pride.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Ultravox
"Dancing With Tears in My Eyes" from Lament JK--1984. Video shows
this expressing the early '80s nuclear-scare theme, UK style, that barely
registered in US pop of the period.
Reading back issues of the New York Times Book Review.
Making a mental log of how many authors blame globalization for all the world’s
problems. Alienation, westernization, secularization, and digitization are off
the hook for now.
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#KEXP Shangri-Las
“Remember (Walking in the sand)” JK--1964. Queens NY double sister-pair group.
Fun fact: young session musician Billy Joel played in the original 7-minute
demo.
Slept surprisingly well last night, both of us, in spite of
the heat/humidity. Wouldn’t say we’re acclimated. It’s of a matter of bone-deep exhaustion. A
lassitudinous Labor Day leisure.
Donald Trump is just an abusive boss, writ national. Each of
us needs to exercise whatever emotional skills we’ve developed to deal with
such situations.
RIP Village Voice. I subscribed for a few years in my early
20s. Mostly for music reviews, but also for general NYC leftwing bohemian buzz.
Clued me first to lots of obscure/cool bands. I would have gladly written for
them.
Was a good and fairly intense week of work on the road. My
last seven SiliconANGLE authored pieces have all been on the same topic,
virtualization, of which data is just a thread, not the focus. I sense a
turning point.
I’m going to propose a basic cable channel showing endless
doctor dramas interrupted by nonstop pharmaceutical commercials. Call it “Sickness
Central.”
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Cocteau Twins
"Carolyn’s Fingers" from Blue Bell Knoll JK--1988. Probably one of
the least-intelligible but most-memorable Elizabeth Fraser vocals. Entire album
blew my mind upon first listen (on cassette!) & still does. My favorite from
the Cocteaus.
Sweltering humidity is summer's bane in many parts of the
US. But, when you go for a few days to an ultra-low-humidity desert clime Las Vegas, you dearly miss your humidity. My
parched sinuses were desperately seeking a mirage of luxuriant evaporation.
Glad I'm home.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp The Beatles
"A Day in the Life" from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
JK--1967. "Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords."
How could that be? Is the upper chamber of UK's Parliament a secret society of
masked pseudonym'd aristocrats?
It will be interesting to see if Trump grows into the job of
president. Such as maybe some day originating a policy proposal that isn’t a
crass attempt to silence his political foes. That would be a sign of
maturation.
New jk #SiliconANGLE
blog: “Here are the top VMworld 2018 takeaways from Wikibon’s analysts” (https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/30/top-vmworld-2018-takeaways-wikibons-analysts/ …)
When TV news programs another human interest story, this
human’s interest starts to wane. I don’t
being programmed.
New jk #Infoworld column:
"Why gaming AI won’t help make AI work in the real world—but could" (http://ow.ly/PjcA30lCifq )
New jk #SiliconANGLE
blog: "At #VMworld
, VMware and Dell drive conversation on evolving virtualization from cloud to
edge" (http://ow.ly/rw9c30lBVZ0 )
New jk #SiliconANGLE
blog: “On #VMworld
day two, VMware and Dell turn virtualization into tangible opportunities in
edge computing” (https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/29/vmworld-day-two-vmware-dell-bridge-virtualization-tangible-opportunities-edge-computing/ …)
This era will end. The person fit to lead us in the next is
whoever can help our society through the inevitable Post-Trump Stress Disorder.
My favorite awkward professional icebreaker question when
I'm on business travel is "are you local?" Both parties to that
question have to remind themselves where they currently are and are from.
Everybody's local to somewhere, except world citizens, but even they carry
passports
New jk #SiliconANGLE
blog: "On #VMworld
day one, VMware goes deep on multicloud virtualization" (http://ow.ly/h0GN30lAqZm )
"Day One Wrap #VMworld 2018" (http://ow.ly/lZyu30lzZNF )
JK--This afternoon. Dave, Stu, John, and me. #theCUBE
In none of my many previous trips to Vegas, even in the
torrid heart of summer, do I recall it being 100°F and 5% humidity long after
the sun has set. Holy shit!
Gelsinger: Announcing VSphere Platinum has built-in
AppDefense. Announcing Adaptive Micro-Segmentation: integrating NSX and
AppDefense, using AI/ML to learn normal app behavior, align policy to app,
automate microsegmentation, lock down compute & network. #VMworld2018 #VMworld
O'Farrell: introducing Project Concord: a decentralized
trust infrastructure for enterprise blockchains. Focuses on performance and
scalabity to accelerate consensus algorithms. #VMworld #VMworld2018
#VMware
Announces Intent to Acquire CloudHealth Technologies, a Global Platform for
Multi-Cloud Operations http://bit.ly/2BRdg6g #VMworld #VMworld2018
#AWS
and #VMware Announce
Amazon Relational Database Service on VMware http://bit.ly/2LvLtYH #VMworld2018 #VMworld
O'Farrell: #VMWare and #Nvidia collaborating on
using GPUs to accelerate virtual desktop infrastructure workloads. #VMworld #VMworld2018
Gelsinger: #VMware committed to
supporting all industry Kubernetes distributions. #VMworld2018 #VMworld
Gelsinger: #VMware is the dial tone
for Kubernetes. VMware PKS: rapidly deliver and operationalize next-gen apps. #VMworld2018 #VMworld
Gelsinger; best practice for running containers is in VMs.
Kubernetes in VMs. Bridge those two worlds. #VMworld #VMworld2018
Gelsiinger/O'Farrell: Project Magna: leverages 100s of
control points, using AI/ML to transform, optimize, & automate the
"self-driving data center" to the edge. #VMworld #VMworld2018
Gelsinger/O'Farrell: Project Magna: leverages 100s of
control points, using AI/ML to transform, optimize, & automate the
"self-driving data center" to the edge.
Gelsinger: Announcing initial availability of VMware Cloud
Automation Services. Enable developers with right set of services and governed
access to any cloud. Cloud Assembly, Service Broker, Code Stream. #VMworld #VMworld2018
Gelsinger: Announcing acquisition of CloudHealth
Technologies. Supports AWS, Azure, Google. Will make fundamental branded
platform from VMware, enabling for enterprise, MSP, and VCPP partners. Manage,
operate, and secure workloads in the cloud. #VMworld2018 #VMworld
Gelsinger: announcing Pulse 2.0, consumable as a service,
scalable to support 500M device. Pulse + Workspace ONE on Project Dimension on
VMware NSX SD-WAN. #VMworld2018
#VMworld
Gelsinger: Announcing Project Dimension: delivers VMware
cloud simplicity to data center and edge. VMware clouid Foudantion in a
hyperconverged appliance, hybrid cloud ontrol plan, VMware-opearted en-to-end. #VMworld #VMworld2018
Gelsinger: extended #VMware Hybrid Cloud
further beyond private and public clouds to the edge. and delivers as a service
on VMware Cloud Foundation. #VMworld #VMworld2018
Gelsinger: VMware Cloud Providers program has expanded to
4,200 cloud partners around the world. #VMworld #VMworld2018
Jassy: announcing Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
on VMware. Provision, scale, create replicas and online backups, etc. Will be
available in a few months on Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, etc. #VMworld #VMworld 2018
Gelsinger/Jassy: coming soon: Enterprise apps and containers
(full NSX and Direct Connect, Enterprise App and License Migration, VMware
PKS). #VMworld #VMworld2018
Jassy: Top use-case of VMware Cloud on AWS is customers
migrating VMs from on-premises to the cloud. Gelsinger discusses data protection
use cases, especially disaster recovery. #VMworld2018 #VMworld
Gelsinger bringing AWS CEO Andy Jassy on stage at #VMworld2018 #VMworld. Big partners.
Jassy discussing what customers are doing with VMware Cloud on AWS.
Gelsinger: Hyper-converged infrastructure. Dell releasing
PowerEdge MX servers. Validated hardware, integrated appliances, cloud
providers. #vmworld2018
#vmworld
Gelsinger: #VMware Cloud
Foundation, brings together public and private cloud in fully integrated
software-defiend data center with consistent infrastructure and operations with
integrated lifecycle management. #vmworld2018 #vmworld
" #VMware
new cloud services aim to automate operations across hybrid clouds" (http://ow.ly/USBg30lzwK9 )
JK--Quotes me. #vmworld2018
#vmworld
Gelsinger: NSX bridging across Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, and
other hardware-based networks. #VMworld2018 #VMworld
Gelsinger: "bridging across silos of innovation."
VMware ESX bridged across IBM, Dell, HP, and other servers. " a holy
moment" in customers' lives & careers. #VMworld2018 #VMworld
Pat Gelsinger, #VMware CEO kicks off #VMworld2018 #VMworld. Company
founded 1998. 20th birthday party here now. Rolls the video.
#VMware
New Cloud Operations Services Lead Digital Businesses to Multi-Cloud Success http://bit.ly/2oeNlf4
#VMworld2018 #VMworld
#VMware
Delivers Broadest Platform for Modern Management in the Digital Workspace http://bit.ly/2odpVGT
#VMworld2018 #VMworld
#VMware
Expands its Hybrid Cloud Portfolio with New Security and Developer-Friendly
Infrastructure and Operations Management http://bit.ly/2MSdcrf #VMworld2018 #VMworld
#VMware
NSX Helps Customers Build a Virtual Cloud Network to Connect and Protect Apps,
Data, and Users Across Cloud Environments http://bit.ly/2oboGbc #VMworld2018 #VMworld
#VMware
Cloud on AWS Expands to Asia-Pacific, Delivers New Enterprise Capabilities http://bit.ly/2MNwCh5
#VMworld #VMworld2018
Waiting for day 1 keynote at #VMworld2018.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger & CTO Ray O'Farrell. Company 20th anniversary
celebration. will discuss how VMware is shaping future of cloud, mobile,
networking, & security, + going deep in IoT, AI, machine learning, edge,
and containers.
#VMworld2018
day one morning pre-breakfast at the shuttle bus loading/unloading area on the
southeast side of Mandalay Bay Convention Center on the Strip.
New jk #Wikibon
Premium research note: "Building AI Optimization Into Your Cloud Computing
Infrastructure" (http://ow.ly/DZwe30lzgda ) #VMworld2018
Kicking off VMworld, VMware expands enterprise cloud
services on AWS https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/26/kicking-off-vmworld-vmware-expands-enterprise-cloud-services-aws/ …
via @SiliconANGLE #VMworld2018
VMware Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Near Term Momentum but
Icebergs Ahead https://wikibon.com/vmware-hybrid-cloud-strategy/ …
via @Wikibon #VMWorld2018
The future of the data center: The walls come tumbling down https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/25/future-data-center-walls-come-tumbling/ …
via @SiliconANGLE #VMWorld2018
RIP Neil Simon. Exceptionally great dramatist, and one of
the best with the comedic gifts in that department. Just at random, here's the
"now it's garbage!" Oscar-fed-up-with-Felix scene from the 1968 film
version of "The Odd Couple."
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Rufus & Carla
Thomas "Cause I Love You" from Complete Stax/Volt Singles JK--1960.
Wonderfully saucy roadhouse R&B. You can just feel the dance floor shaking
on this.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Otis Rush
"All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" from The Essential Otis Rush: The
Classic Cobra Recordings 1956-1958 JK--1958. This song became a blues-rock
foundation. You'll hear Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac in this.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Smokey Smothers
"Smokey's Love Sick Blues" from Smokey Smothers Sings The Backporch
Blues JK--1961. Ain't Smokey doin' the most smokin' electrified urban R&B!
Heading to Las Vegas later today for VMworld. August: always
my favorite time of year to char-broil my flesh in the desert sun. On an
unrelated note, there’s been a decline in fat-Elvis kitsch there in recent
years. Need thin-Celine kitsch.
Caught “The Leisure Seeker” on DVD. Excellent performances
by Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland as an elderly couple making a last RV
trip to Florida as his dementia worsens.
RIP John McCain. That guy lived one complex American story.
Many stories, actually. Serious backbone, serious pain.
“The Big Bang Theory” coming to an end after 12 seasons. I
would tune in occasionally over those years, watch for a little while, and fail
to laugh. Confirming my theory that it sucked.
Dear Facebook: I’d to
suggest that your default Friendiversary image be us and our friend with
daisies in our hair, wearing frilly costumes, and frolicking around the
maypole.
Suddenly I remembered Spaghetti-Os, made by a company called
Franco-American, which was puzzling. It would have made sense if they’d sold Baguette-ios.
How to spot a social troll? Don’t bother me with that. I’m
still on the lookout for the Three Billy Goats Gruff and the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse.
"In ‘Small Fry,’ Steve Jobs Comes Across as a Jerk. His
Daughter Forgives Him. Should We?" (http://ow.ly/GtOW30lxM4h )
JK--Forgive or not forgive someone I never met? Not an issue. But Steve Jobs
came across as a jerk pretty much from the start in his public persona. No
surprise.
New jk #InformationWeek
column: "Eliminating Performance Bottlenecks on Web-Based AI" (http://ow.ly/FOMC30lxE0g )
VMworld 2018 Preview (http://ow.ly/mnZ630lxDra ).
@furrier and @plburris upcoming #VMworld 2018 topics
from #theCUBE Studio
in Palo Alto, CA. #Wikibon
#SiliconANGLE
Usual morning routine of coping with a fresh avalanche of
emails. Somehow, I have to read/understand their contents in a holy haste. I
scrape interesting links into a doc that I revisit later, speed-gleaning as if
on a treadmill whose speed I--not my email tormenters--control
Yet another article on how the desktop PC either is or isn't
dead. Isn't this a dead issue? Does it really matter whether you've decoupled
system, display, and input into separate devices (i.e., "desktop PC")
or tightly integrate them (e.g laptop)? I use my laptop on a desktop.
RT @KEXPNowPlaying#kexp
Still Corners "Black Lagoon" from Slow Air JK--2018. Nice sensuous
electronic pulse on this. The ladies harmonizing on the "ahhh" chorus
totally transport me.
Took briefing today from Jeff Jonas of Senzing. I hadn't
realized that IBM had spun off the G2 entity resolution tech. Jeff's a great
guy, quite an industry figure, and it was good to reconnect. He and I go way
back (to earlier this decade at Big Blue).
New Research Shows VMware, Dell, Nutanix and HPE Lead
On-Premises Cloud Market
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp David Bowie
"Ashes to Ashes" from Scary Monsters… and Super Creeps JK--1980. I
hope that your mother also said that to get things done you'd better not mess
with Major Jim. Don't cross me!
Dear IT Vendor: I don't care if you're hot, cool, and in
anybody's leader board. I don't care if you're proactive, not reactive. All I
want to know is if you're radioactive. And, if so, please keep your distance.
Hmmm...another PR person with some vendor I've never heard
of asking me out of the blue to write something positive about their client.
Note to self: I'll need to ramp up my personal spamming campaign asking total
strangers to vouch for what a nice man I truly am.
Putting all my ducks in a row for #VMworld in Las Vegas
next week. Also, I'm training my ducks for an endurance march under harsh
conditions. Closest remotely duck-inhabitable pond is Lake Mead. That's 32
miles. They're going to need to keep the quacking to an absolute minimum.
What's with the avalanche of "future-proofing" in
IT vendor press releases? Why not up the stakes to "uniquely
future-proofed"? Then take it to the ultimate of "seamlessly and
uniquely future-proofed in this and all parallel universes, actual and
potential"? Users need guarantees
Delivered stuff to a friend up on Cathedral Drive in
northwest DC. Pleasant weather and we both love the neighborhood. Almost took
our minds off the evil person installed downtown on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
"This is not your father's Microsoft" (http://ow.ly/eYIK30luGuB )
JK--I don't recall my late father being a first-round investor in a bunch of
Seattle geeks. Or if this is pitched at my grown children, I recall myself
having an equity stake in this vendor. But I could be wrong.
What I blogged about virtualization on November 10, 2005 (http://ow.ly/cJQ030luB5j ).
Plenty of dated references but my core definition
("virtualization...abstracts external invocation interfaces from internal
platform implementations") is still the heart of how I approach this.
As we look ahead to #VMworld, here are my
three #SiliconANGLE
columns on the future of virtualization: into the public cloud (http://ow.ly/IaWB30luABC ),
up the stack into the app ecosystem (http://ow.ly/mLGi30luACE ),
and all the way to the edge (http://ow.ly/OOXM30luADE ).
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Sera Cahoone
"Ladybug" from From Where I Started JK--2017. Beautiful, painful,
sad. Cahoone wrote this about a specific person she loved who took their own
life.
New jk #SiliconANGLE #VMworld column:
“Looking ahead to VMworld: Virtualization drives clouds to the edge” (https://siliconangle.com/2018/08/20/looking-ahead-vmworld-virtualization-drives-clouds-edge/ …)
Did video podcast today with some consultants who follow my
AI work. This photo is apparently one of their computer monitors/bookpiles
during the event. Google result page open shows non-AI books I authored ~20
years ago.
Our occasional bootcamp instructor moonlights from his day
job as a PE teacher. He’s a tall lanky guy. We shared observations on our own
childhood PE experiences. He could run swift but not climb ropes. I’m the
opposite. Him gazelle, me gibbon.
"A leader must distinguish between digitalization and
digitization to accelerate change" (http://ow.ly/ogTv30ltuPt )
JK--OMG! While they're at it, they must also distinguish between both of those,
digitalis, didgeridoos, and prestidigitation.
Saw “On Chesil Beach” on DVD. Another sterling performance
by Saoirse Ronan. “Brooklyn,” a
throwback period piece where she shines as a young woman coming into her own,
conflictedly.
"To Fix That Pain In Your Back, You Might Have To Change
The Way You Sit" (http://ow.ly/Zr5k30lsWaP ) JK--Untuck
your pelvis. Sad to say, this article reminded me of this photo of Jimmy and
Rosalynn Carter from another article this morning: http://ow.ly/XzVc30lsWci
"Progressive rock." What exactly were they
progressing toward? The ecstatic pinnacle of pretension?
It seems every
Hollywood props department stocks a magic pistol that can shoot several dozen
bullets without reloading. Every bad guy has one.
Oh, you use cookies. Thanks for letting me opt out, dear
website. May I also opt out of your use of HTTP, HTML, JSON, JavaScript, and
DNS? If not, why not?
If Trump’s so rich, why doesn’t he pay for his stupid
military parade himself?
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Rodriguez
"Only Good for Conversation" from Cold Fact JK--2008. Very cool.
Sounds he's channeling Cream and Deep
Purple on this screaming and fuzzed guitar number.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Caspar Babypants
"Pop Goes The Weasel" from LIVE on KEXP JK--2018 live, 2016
in-studio. I love his rewrite of the lyrics. Much better song now.
"FCC Knew in January DDoS Attack Claim Was Possibly
Bogus" (http://ow.ly/pYLS30lrTjc ) JK--The
delay in notifying the public was due to the fact that the commission's IT
staff was snowed under investigating a possible DDoS attack on Ajit Pai's
stupid supersize Reese's mug.
"Report: Apple Could Launch a Car Between 2023 and
2025" (http://ow.ly/WSO230lrT2g )
JK--Report: I do not give a crap now, but check back with me in 5-7 years to
see if my feelings on the matter have changed. Doubtful.
"Elon Musk's dumb 420 joke might B coming back to bite
him in ass" (http://ow.ly/X9AV30lrSyD )
JK--Market-impacting mid-day tweet not cleared w/Tesla board or SEC re going
private at $420/share (Musk: “seemed
better karma at $420 than $419. But I was not on weed, to be
clear")
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Milo Greene
"Move" from Move JK--2018. Very nice song. Seems tailor-made for
couples in a romantic mood, itching to take it the next step.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Karl Blau
"That's How I Got To Memphis" from Introducing Karl Blau JK--2016.
Singer-songwriter hails from Anacortes, Washington. Beautiful coastal
community. Catch the ferry there to Friday Harbor. Personally, I'd catch the
train back from Memphis.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Aretha Franklin
"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" JK---1967. Great blues.
Sounds she's in a small club singing her
heart out at half past midnite.
"Hottest exoplanet ever discovered has metallic skies,
rain lava" (http://ow.ly/wffX30lrB2R )
JK--This is important. I detect at least three cool possible band names in that
headline.
RIP Aretha Franklin. Her clarion voice was unmistakeably
gospel, but her instincts were exquisitely popular, without ever once stooping
into tawdry territory. Definitely a singer who commanded R-E-S-P-E-C-T without
demanding it.
"How to Win Your Next Political Argument" (http://ow.ly/AITb30lqDS8 )
JK--Article is a four-year-oldie but a goodie. My favorite advice is #3:
"Don’t be such a dick."
Oh geez, I missed "Shark Week." I hope they
reassign the camera crew to do "Scorpion Week." Constant fear of
stinging, paralysis, and possible death in the desert are a much cooler way to
boost ratings on basic cable.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp SadGirl
"Jack the Ripper" from Breakfast for 2 JK--2018. Nice variation on
the Link Wray classic that keeps it raw but makes it a bit psychedelic.
PR people who mistake me for a reporter are always trying to
hook me up with a client to serve as a "commentator" on some emerging
tech. Have they actually read my stuff? Have they ever seen me quote somebody
else? I'm my own commentator. I don't share the mic on those duties.
New jk #SiliconANGLE
column: "As VMworld nears, virtualization disrupts the cloud application
ecosystem (http://ow.ly/GZa730lp4I2 ) #VMWorld2018
Dear Digital News Services: After a story is no longer
"breaking news," please wheel it into "broken news." Then,
once it's been covered to death, please lower its sorry carcass into
"rigor mortis news." Don't even think about resurrecting it. That
would break our spirit.
"Standing desks vs sitting: why sitting ISN’T slowly
killing you" (http://ow.ly/uUTC30lo9ae ) JK--Oh
yeah? Well, everybody who ever sat down at any time before the modern era has
died, and the trend seems to be continuing. Standing desks may be our last
chance at immortality.
Why exactly was Omarosa in the Situation Room? Essentially,
the situation in the Trump administration is always "you're fired."
So it made sense that they did the job there. Thx Adrian Bowles.
"Image Inspired Poetry Generation in XiaoIce" (http://ow.ly/nxDB30lnEpJ )
JK--Microsoft's China-based chatbot. All well and good, but how about
auto-generating inspiring poetry? Humans produce than enough of the cliched haiku-
civilization vs. nature variety.
"Fluid AI: Check out Microsoft's undersea
datacenter" (http://ow.ly/5XVD30lnE5U )
JK--Installed two video cameras on the outside of the pressure vessel to
observe environmental conditions near datacenter. Check the live underwater
video feeds!
"Accurate indoor mapping using an autonomous unmanned
aerial vehicle" (http://ow.ly/yexA30lnDPw )
JK--Autonomous indoor UAV with reliable simultaneous localization and mapping,
accurate flight control, and robust path planning for 2D navigation with
accuracy of 2 cm.
"Adversarial Vision Challenge" (http://ow.ly/HeDy30lnDws )
JK--"Submitted models and attacks are continuously pitted against each
other on an image classification task." http://ow.ly/y3Yz30lnDHz
"Courteous Autonomous Cars" (http://ow.ly/ta0T30lnDjI )
JK--"Formalize courtesy as a term in the objective that measures the
increase in another driver's cost induced by the autonomous car's
behavior." http://ow.ly/MdX330lnDmW
Honestly, I'm enjoying the fallout from the revelation that
Omarosa taped her firing in the Situation Room at the White House. Pretty
amazing that nobody there searches staff before they enter the room. Reminds me
of the scene with the "Russian ambassador" in "Dr.
Strangelove."
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp The Undertones
"Teenage Kicks" JK--1978. Leader Feargal Sharkey was already 20 when
this came out, and the rest were 19 at youngest. So I guess it this was
nostalgia at that point for the Derry, Northern Ireland group. Sharkey turns 60
today.
Even though Facebook isn't really an enterprise-IT solutions
vendor, I follow them as if they were one. They develop a fair amount of
open-source tech that's incorporated into enterprise tech solutions by others.
Caffe, the AI toolkit, for one.
"Machine Learning Can Identify the Authors of Anonymous
Code" (http://ow.ly/4k2b30lnzqq ) JK--Prove
it. Identify Satoshi Nakamoto. Out this purported Blockchain author (http://ow.ly/3uUb30lnzuC )
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Pond "Burnt
Out Star" from Burnt Out Star JK--2018. Good one from this Perth,
Australia band. Keep the beat, keep it strong.
"Diet Hit A Snag? Your Gut Bacteria May Be Partly To
Blame" (http://ow.ly/ja4F30lnxnk ) JK--They
produce byproducts in our digestive track that may boost the calorie count of
the food we ingest.
Caught “Disobedience” on DVD. Good serious film of forbidden
love in the London Orthodox Jewish community. Must admit that I got into the
Rachel-on-Rachel action. I’m partial to Weisz. No, McAdams. Ah, why choose?
A/C on the fritz at our place. Got the floor fan on full
blast in my sweaty face. Have donned my housewear minimals. Don’t wish to faint
in uncomfortable outerwear in my inner sanctum.
Hey Pharma Commercial Where Some Guy Who Survived A Heart
Attack Demonstrates The Proud Warrior 2 Yoga Asana: I assume that shavasana
didn’t test well with your target audience.
Reviewing the predictable sameness of YouTube music
comments. Every song is the soundtrack to someone’s childhood, courtship,
and/or memory of some departed loved one. Or it’s f***ing b***sh**.
I’d to propose that
the US establish a Pence Force to protect us from all enemies foreign,
domestic, and extraterrestrial. First mission: quarantine the alien invader at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Toxic rightwinger running against Sen. Tim Kaine here in
Virginia retracts tweet that called a Muslim Michigan politician an “ISIS
commie.” Doesn’t clarify how someone can believe in Allah and atheism at the
same time.
"The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don’t Give a
Damn" (http://ow.ly/w4M230lm7N5 ) JK--The
weaker ones simply don't give a shit.
"What Was It
When The Higgs Gave Mass To The Universe?" (http://ow.ly/xA4Y30lm7EK )
JK--The whole cosmos spontaneously convulsed with a mighty higgup!
Dear Vendor Who I Frequently Order Stuff From Online: Don't
"reward loyalty" with a "sneak peek" at "next week's
deals." Reward my loyalty with lotsa free stuff, for life, if possible.
Thank you, my liege, for considering this humble request from your loyal
vassal, James the weak
"The Internet Trolls Have Won. Sorry, There’s Not Much
You Can Do" (http://ow.ly/BncE30llUCf ) JK--Sorry,
there's plenty we can do. not always
taking the bait when they flame some toxic nonsense at us. And thinking
critically for ourselves. And responding online in that manner
"Report: Enterprises are looking to replace VMs with
containers" (http://ow.ly/FqUm30llTLj ) JK--Don't
forget that they're also looking to replace containers with serverless. As
virtualization inexorably swallows its older paradigms in newer development
abstractions. Gulp gulp!
"DARPA Wants to Map Everything Underground" (http://ow.ly/fcrG30llTC7 )
JK--Surprising to realize that no one's undertaken this before: "Goal of
SubT Challenge is to find innovative new solutions to be able to rapidly map,
navigate, and search complex, remote underground systems."
"Adapting Blockchain for GDPR Compliance" (http://ow.ly/WIFR30llT9k )
JK--"All GDPR-sensitive information & data could B stored offchain in
distributed or cloud-based servers with only corresponding hashes stored in
blockchain layer"? Jerry-rigging blockchain for blockchain's sake?
"30 Shared Principles for Discussing Software
Architectures" (http://ow.ly/OXzs30llScO ) JK--Needs
to simplify the list. Ironically, rule 1 ("keep it simple, stupid")
and rule 10 (" do as few features as possible; when in doubt, leave it
out") are essentially the same.
Here are the most generic possible tech recommendations
(from a blog I just saw): "1)Fully understand the problem. 2) Define a
point of view. 3) Focus on possible solutions. 4) Try out multiple solutions.
5) Find the best solution that fits the need." That pretty much covers it.
"Machine-Generated Knowledge Bases" (http://ow.ly/ctQs30llQWZ )
JK--Cool project to use AI to auto-discover scientists via the Internet,
auto-generate Wikipedia biographical entries for them, and auto-update the bios
that are up on Wikipedia.
It always strikes me as odd to say that something, a new product, was "first
announced" on such-and-such date. It can only be announced once. Unless
you treat each subsequent mention as an "announcement" in its own
right.
You always have to read between the lines in tech press
releases when some vendor claims a new product promises "unprecedented
cost savings, security, availability, and productivity." Is there no
precedent for those benefits in their prior versions?
Every time someone new follows me on a social medium that I
no longer follow, I never let them know. I'm not in the habit of breaking
hearts.
AI for "autonomous" IT ops management--aka
"AIOps"--is a hugely important trend. Check out my recent #SiliconANGLE
article on the same: https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/07/27/aiops-optimizing-cloud-computing-stack/ …
. AI-optimized storage/compute platforms a la NetApp OnTap AI are key to the AI...
#netappai
Precision agriculture depends on demonstrating to
agribusinesses and smaller farmers the value of analytics-intensive practices
that rely on AI, embedded environmental sensors, geospatial land-management
applications, and . Also, urban a... #netappai
What are the future systems requirements to support #AI and Machine Intelligence
workloads? Wikibon is hosting a crowdchat sponsored by @NetApp on this topic. Join me @NeilRaden @dfloyer et al at 12noon ET today http://crowdchat.net/NetAppAI #NetAppAI
New jk #SiliconANGLE
column: "Ahead of #VMworld
, virtualization confronts the cloud" (http://ow.ly/ahzs30lkVFK )
Paraphrasing the typical LinkedIn inquiry that I receive
daily: "Dear Mr. Kobielus, based on our shared connection, I thought you'd
be interested in providing me with free consulting that will help me but not do
diddley-squat for your personal bottom line." Just a paraphrase.
Thank you PR person for soliciting my thoughts re your
client's "pitch ....about manufacturing/supply chain effects in the wake
of the plastic straw movement?" I've been meaning to include that in my
coverage of inorganic AI development artifacts that end up as oceanic
pollutants
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Desert Mountain
Tribe "Way Back to You" from Om Parvat Mystery JK--2018. Way-cool
soaring anthem rock.
"Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me" (http://ow.ly/w8q730lkSqo )
JK--Let's see re me: WTF is the big deal with ultimate frisbee? I don't see why
multinational beverage corps are even an issue here. I love The Mountain Goats.
And consider DFW's "Infinite Jest" unreadable shit.
"Strong governance programs separate data lakes from
swamps" (http://ow.ly/EVSb30lkR6s ) JK--I
prefer to think of them as data wetlands populated by analytic beavers chewing
their way thru old-growth business challenges and using machine-learning logs
to build intelligent dams
"Where is birthplace of Silicon Valley? Event aims to
put question to rest" (http://ow.ly/hpG930lkQEA ) JK--Takes
too literally the "silicon" in nickname. Where silicon-based
transistors 1st developed in 1956. Why not focus on geologic birth of the
"valley" in late Pliocene era?
"Mass Extinctions" (http://bit.ly/2OrckHj )
JK--Spoiler alert: everybody dies!
"Most Popular Film" Oscar? That's obviously a
quantitative reckoning. Can't they just compare the box office? I wonder if
receiving it will boost a film's box office even further. How about an award
for best studio marketing push? And for best celebrity-filled promotional
junket?
Gonna need my own hype cycle. So I can identify the
inflection point where a technology shifts from mature to manure.
Been checking out hypergrowth in the markets for hyperconverged,
hypervisor, hypermedia, and hyperloop technologies. Now I'm all hyper.
Feel I'm going to need a sedative to
come down from it all.
Catch me at #VMworld Aug 26-30 in
Las Vegas. Tune into our interviews at the event with Michael Dell, Pat
Gelsinger, and other executives on #theCUBE
I propose a new paradigm of "clueless computing."
Submit a query to the cloud and get back some random response. Accept it as
gospel truth because, hey why not, the cloud wouldn't steer you wrong, now
would it?
"Hortonworks’ stock jumps as it easily beats earnings
targets" (http://ow.ly/uIuC30ljECN ) JK--Dusts
off a June quote of mine that still applies. I build shelf life into my
commentary.
Just for kicks, I'd
to see somebody integrate every high-tech product with every other
high-tech product. Then stand back and watch the Singularity suck the whole
tangled mess down into its demonic maw. Just for kicks.
"HPE InfoSight automates customer support on 3PAR"
(http://ow.ly/2WFs30ljCVu )
JK--Deepened integration of the HPE InfoSight predictive analytics on 3PAR
arrays, adding automated support resolution of issues affecting servers and
storage.
"Accelerate Your Journey to AI." Discuss deep
learning architecture that spans from edge to core to cloud. CrowdChat Thurs,
Aug 9 12noon-1pm EDT. Join us: http://ow.ly/TU4q30ljCEP . #netappai
"Dell EMC Accelerates Artificial Intelligence Adoption
for Digital Transformation" (http://ow.ly/NIPd30ljCof )
JK--AI-ready hardware/software pre-validated stack. Covered in my upcoming #Wikibon research note.
"NetApp AI storage packages OnTap all-flash FAS A800,
Nvidia" (http://ow.ly/yC1230ljCcq ) JK--AI-ready
storage platform. Covered in my upcoming #Wikibon research note
this month.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Orchestral
Manoeuvres in the Dark "Enola Gay" JK--1980. I remember when this was
a hot DJ spin in the clubs. My first thought was: great song, but are they
really calling their band THAT?
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Minks
"Margot" from Tides End JK--2013. Nice. Sounds a bit the Go-Betweens.
Sad to see another catastrophic earthquake strike Lombok so
soon. Annoying to see US press call Lombok a “tourist island.” That’s calling Florida a “tourist state.” This is an
Indonesian province.
#DellEMC
Accelerates Artificial Intelligence Adoption for Digital Transformation: http://bit.ly/2Ms2hBd
#GetReady4AI
Yes. here's my discussion of the quality conundrum
surrounding this data in an AI/ML development context, from a few years ago in
another life. Data quality for social media analytics: sentiment or sediment? http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/sentiment-or-sediment …
#getready4ai
Curcuru discussing the pressure that AI places on enterprise
storage. Need flash storage that supports nanosecond AI performance: create a
seamless instantaneous decision/response re customers and other stakeholders. #getready4ai
Nick Curcuru, VP analytics at Mastercard, discussing core vs
edge deployment of AI-ready infrastructure. #getready4ai
Garima Kochhar of #DellEMC discusses
their sophisticated engineering and tuning of AI-ready solutions. Deep learning
hardware/software stacks ready for Hadoop, for Nvidia, etc. She's in Dell EMC
HPC & AI Innovation Lab in Austin. Exoscale... #getready4ai
For #Wikibon
perspective on benchmarking AI hardware/software performance all the way to the
edge, check out my recent #SiliconANGLE
column: "Pushing AI performance benchmarks to the edge" (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/05/21/pushing-ai-performance-benchmarks-edge/ …)
#getready4ai
For #Wikibon
perspective on benchmarking the performance of the entire AI hardware/software
stack, check out this recent article I posted to Dataversity:
"Benchmarking the Full AI Hardware/Software Stack" (http://www.dataversity.net/benchmarking-full-ai-hardware-software-stack/ …
) #getready4ai
For #Wikibon
perspective on the trend toward AI-ready/optimized hardware/software solutions,
including #DellEMC,
check out my recent #SiliconANGLE
article "How ‘AIOps’ is optimizing cloud computing up and down the
stack" (... #getready4ai
Tom Burns of #DellEMC discussing
their forthcoming Ready Solution for AI. Real-time AI for business made simple:
compute, storage, memory, interconnect. Pretested/precertified. Fast
infrastructure setup through service provisioning portal. #getready4ai
Caught "Lean on Pete" on DVD. Beautiful, sad,
lonely, tragic odyssey of a Portland teenager to a Wyoming aunt he barely knew
but whose love always glowed somewhere, albeit dimly, in his battered heart.
Charlie Plummer is sensational here. Steve Buscemi delivers, as always.
"Machine Learning in Node.js With TensorFlow.js" (http://ow.ly/ymYA30liFxB )
JK--AI coming to the front-end browsers and back-end event loops of the Web
application ecosystem. See my recent #Wikibon research note
on app dev for the augmented browser:
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Marvin Gaye
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" from What's Going On
JK--1971. Love how Marvin truncates it to " 'flation ". Makes a
reference to continual price increases across the macroeconomy sound street slang, as if it were a hot car.
"DARPA to explore the “third wave” of artificial
intelligence" (http://ow.ly/Leo030liEKf ) JK--1st:
rules. 2nd: stats. 3rd: "contextual adaptation...systems themselves will over
time build underlying explanatory models that allow them to characterize
real-world phenomena"
"'Datacenter Is Dead,' Says Gartner Analyst" (http://ow.ly/fcA430liEwN )
JK--I suspect that, as with mainframes, they'll long exceed their prophesied
useful lifespan, though "interconnect services, cloud providers, IoT, edge
services and SaaS offerings continue to proliferate"
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Chance the Rapper
"Work Out" from Work Out JK--2018. Good one. Doesn't want his next
album "sounding Usher-y."
"Pentagon Signs $885 Million Artificial Intelligence
Contract with Booz Allen" (http://ow.ly/64xM30liEc4 )
JK--Now Google et al will need to decide whether they'll supply dev tools &
cloud services to the suppliers of AI expertise to the military.
I respect the chutzpah of a company that hasn't shipped a
commercial product yet, and is in an emerging tech segment that barely exists,
describing itself as a "leader" in its market. Lots of people were
leaders in space travel in the 19th century.
"NIPS Conference Considers Changing Its Name" (https://nips.cc )
JK--"The first reason is the unfortunate connotation of the current name,
which can invite insinuating comments and make some participants feel
uncomfortable." Headline makes me chuckle, uncomfortably.
"Google reportedly talking with partners to bring its
cloud to China" (http://ow.ly/vUx830liBkx )
JK--Includes my commentary.
"Comparing the Four Major AI Strategies" (http://ow.ly/cT5U30li59z )
JK--Or, as Elon Musk s to think of them, the Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Parquet Courts
"Almost Had to Start a Fight / In and Out of Patience" from Wide
Awake! JK--2018. Great. Sounds a bit classic
Who.
"First Class GPUs support in Apache Hadoop 3.1, YARN
& HDP 3.0" (http://ow.ly/ywpt30lhNGG ) JK--Adds
support for operators and admins to be able to configure YARN clusters to
schedule and use GPU resources
"When it comes to databases, why ‘I can’t quit you,
baby’" (http://ow.ly/kapm30lhHcI )
JK--Related to this, I've noticed that very few database platform vendors go
belly-up. Those platforms have sticky customer bases. Retain their value
stubbornly.
"Google to let you pop its AI chips into your own
computer as of October" (http://ow.ly/3GPb30lhGTj )
JK--Google's Edge Google's TPUs will be available in a hardware module that can
be plugged into a computer using a PCI Express expansion slot -- common in
servers -- or a USB port
"The Shallowness of Google Translate" (http://ow.ly/Jler30lhGm5 )
JK--Douglas Hoftstadter of "Godel Escher Bach" says "To my mind,
translation is an incredibly subtle art that draws constantly on one’s many years
of experience in life, and on one’s creative imagination."
"Program Synthesis in 2017-18 " (http://ow.ly/h64s30lhFxQ )
JK--Good update on status of R&D into AI-driven automated programming.
"The ethics of computer science: this researcher has a
controversial proposal" (http://ow.ly/G3mF30lhFfV )
JK--"Researchers disclose any possible negative societal consequences of
their work in papers"? OK, sure, if they had some magic crystal ball they
wouldn't need predictive AI
"'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI
alarmingly wrong" (http://ow.ly/nWJ030lhEXg ) JK--Much
of it is grounded in alarmist ignorance of the tech's capabilities &
limitations. Many commentators modulate the term into a scream-
"AIEEEEEEE!!!!!".
"How to retain your data scientist during a merger: 5
tips" (http://ow.ly/IVZZ30lhEFN ) JK--Tips
aren't enough. Bonuses, perks, and stock options are it. Hefty boosts to their base compensation
package would go a long way too.
I just realized it's been months, perhaps years, since I've
seen any mention of "big data myths." I suppose we can safely study
these as ancient myths now, the Greek,
Norse, and Tolkienian varieties.
"Google's Edge TPU breaks model inferencing out of the
cloud" (http://ow.ly/JhFi30lhDHn ) JK--Quotes
me.
"Apple wants to bring Hyperloop into its Silicon Valley
headquarters to help commuters" (http://ow.ly/O2lI30lhD4x )
JK--I thought they'd promised their employees jetpacks.
Reading Pete Townshend's autobiography. His childhood
neighbors included blind pianist George Shearing and the cartoonist who created
the strip "Fred Basset." Pete created a rock opera about a blind
musician and himself resembles a basset hound. Hmmm. Go to the mirror boy!
"Tesla says it's making an AI chip for Autopilot,
coming next year, backward compatible with current-gen Tesla vehicles" (http://ow.ly/SBFR30lhBSa )
JK--Musk is personally certifying that his AI can never morph into an evil car
a la Stephen King's "Christine"
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Desert Mountain
Tribe featuring Najma Akhtar - "Himalaya" from Om Parvat Mystery
JK--2018. London-based trio. Great panoramic epic sound, as the name implies.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp James Brown
"Funky Drummer, Parts 1 & 2" JK--1970. Jazzy funk drummer, that
is. Excellent extended vamp around the rhythm guitar and horn.
All those Venezuelan soldiers moving in unison to the right
immediately following a broadcast spur-of-the-moment order triggered by a
supposed surprise drone attack? Something doesn’t add up. Who are they leaving
vulnerable in their suspicious diversion?
I’d to see the “Beetle
Bailey” characters in a remake of “Patton,” with Sarge in the title role,
Beetle as the shellshocked soldier, and General Halftrack as Omar Bradley.
These grunts need to explore their dramatic range.
“Upstate New York”? How many other states have an “upstate”?
Is Long Island considered “Sidestate New York”? Is Staten Island “Downstate New
York”? Is Central Park “Midstate New York”? I need answers!
Another Friday slides to a close. My strategy for
accelerating that process is racing headlong through the work week. Weak from
work.
"Despite Pledging Openness, Companies Rush To Patent AI
Tech" (http://ow.ly/2eTX30leHDF )
JK--"Patent filings mentioning neural networks, a machine-learning
technique, climbed to 485 in 2016, from 94 in 2010."
"http://Test.ai nabs $11M Series A led by
Google to put bots to work testing apps" (http://ow.ly/IQuP30leHjy )
JK--I dont normally tweet out a funding headline, but I always appreciate use
of the quick/decisive/concrete verb "nab" in any context, especially
$. Well played!
"Data's day of reckoning" (http://ow.ly/ebLC30leGtK )
JK--Excellent checklist of concerns (bias, privacy, consent, security, etc.)
for developers working on data-driven applications. Co-authored by Hilary Mason
& DJ Patil.
"Learning Dexterity" (http://ow.ly/7X9S30leGf4 )
JK--Cool blog on what http://OpenAI.org is doing in training
human- robot hand to manipulate physical objects. The videos are great.
"Google's Edge TPU breaks model inferencing out of the
cloud" (http://ow.ly/lF4m30leG4i )
JK--Interviews me.
"What machine learning practitioners can learn from
data warehousing" (http://ow.ly/xw1M30leFRq ) JK--Shared
platform, governance, and operational controls over ML models pushed into
production apps.
"How to control state for so-called stateless
microservices" (http://ow.ly/8bnb30leFA3 )
JK--Clearly, there's a limit to the application semantics that functional
programming/serverless environments can address. Transactional microservices rely
on front-end or back-end state mgt
"How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can"
(http://ow.ly/Wvv330leENG ) JK--Our
hands are almost as articulate as our tongues. Amazing the degrees of meaning
that hand robotic appendages can communicate when driven by AI.
"Google Glass Is Back–Now With Artificial
Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/rRdR30leDUV ) JK--With
an embedded chatbot, this time.
"Here’s how GDPR and the blockchain can coexist" (http://ow.ly/qrfU30leDuA )
JK--Good discussion. Here's my dissection of the same topic from a few months
ago:
"DevOps for Data Scientists: Taming the Unicorn" (http://ow.ly/7IxE30leD9J )
JK--Good discussion. Here's what I said earlier this year on the topic:
Nice day. I set aside several hours of doing nothing but
focusing on research. That’s when I’m most deeply in my zone.
Few things are as nauseating at the fitness club as some
hotdog showing off at the weights for his girlfriend. Hey Tarzan, go swing with
Jane in some other jungle!
"Collusion not a crime? Not exactly the point." (http://ow.ly/dhfZ30lcqP3 )
JK--"Collusion" is shorthand for such crimes as conspiracy to commit
and/or cover up election fraud, wire fraud, computer hacks, records
falsification, & failure to register as foreign government agents
"Scoop: 20 ways Democrats could crack down on Big
Tech" (http://ow.ly/EIvF30lcmXp ) JK--Read
Sen. Mark Warner's policy paper here: http://ow.ly/8qtN30lcmZD
"10 ways AI is a force for good" (http://ow.ly/2d6H30lcmrr )
JK--Discusses AI safety initiatives, plus AI-driven initiatives for social
empowerment, engagement, diversity, development, and democratization.
"AI has learned to probe the minds of other
computers" (http://ow.ly/yu9T30lcm7N )
JK--ToMnet's 3 neural nets; 1) learn tendencies of another AI from past
actions; 2) understand their current “beliefs”; 3) factors other 2 nets'
outputs to predict the other AI’s next moves.
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#kexp Gillian Welch
"Red Clay Halo" from Time (The Revelator) JK--2001. Love the
Appalachian downhome twang on this. The first time that Michiganian me headed
south (to the Smokies) as a kid, what I noticed was the red clay soil. That's
not Great Lakes topsoil
These “(so-and-so) just tweeted for the first time in a long
while” notifications only flag how little enthusiasm most people have for using
their Twitter accounts. Please only tell us when they choose to tweet something
that not perfunctory bullshit.
"Wait-and-See Could Be a Costly AI Strategy" (http://ow.ly/UarM30lbG6B )
JK--Thank you MIT Sloan: Premature indiscriminate overinvestment in new tech is
always a sound strategy.
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#kexp Elvis Costello
& The Imposters "Unwanted Number" from Look Now JK--2018. Wow!
Great new one from Mr. MacManus & crew.
"How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies" (http://ow.ly/Pbrt30lbdVN )
JK--Duh. It's a deep honeypot par excellence: lots of nouveau-riche
full-of-self male geeks working advanced techs and prone to bragging about it
constantly, especially to the opposite sex over drinks drugs etc.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Elbow
"Little Fictions" from Little Fictions JK--2017. This band always
feels it's speaking directly to you. Guy
Garvey has a very Peter Gabriel voice.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp The National
"Fake Empire" from Boxer JK--2007. Song that got me hooked on The
National. This band does stately brooding with romantic elegance.
"How to Benefit From the Blockchain Job Boom" (http://ow.ly/bQgl30lbbfW )
JK--"'This is a world where you can create money out of thin air if you
know how to do it"? Really? Are they also using advanced genetic
engineering to birth fools every minute? I'd invest in that.
"DARPA's $1.5 billion scheme aims to reinvent computer
chip" (http://ow.ly/4t8I30lbaEv ) JK--Open
source "no human in loop" layout generator to reduce system-on-chip
(SoC) design times; software-designed hardware; 3-D monolithic SoC; reduce SoC
memory bottlenecks & latencies.
"Autonomic Computing Will Happen Much Sooner Than You
Expect" (http://ow.ly/2Wpx30lba0K ) JK--Puts
this paradigm at convergence of cloud computing, containerization,
orchestration, and AIOps. See my #SiliconANGLE
piece on AIOps from this past week:
DC people are insane with the superlong commutes. Over the
weekend, I met a guy who commutes EVERY DAY from Centreville VA to Harrisburg
PA. That's 120 miles, each way. Is any job worth that?
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#kexp Santigold
"Wha' You Feel " from I Don't Want: The Gold Fire Sessions JK--2018.
New one. Her stuff's always great. Insanely catchy.
I hope Giuliani advises Trump to register as an agent of a
foreign government. Time to come clean. #theyouknow
New jk #SiliconANGLE
column: "How ‘AIOps’ is optimizing cloud computing up and down the
stack" (http://ow.ly/BXN330l9Bii )
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#kexp Serge Gainsbourg
& Brigitte Bardot "Bonnie & Clyde" JK--1968. Film should've
had them as leads: "Alors voilà/Clyde a une petite amie/Elle est belle
et/son prénom/C'est Bonnie/À eux deux ils forment/Le gang Barrow/Leurs
noms/Bonnie Parker et Clyde Barrow"
"Evolutionary algorithm outperforms DL machines at
video games" (http://ow.ly/JzzP30l94BM ) JK--Starts
with lots of versions of code generated randomly, tests them to see whether
they achieve required goal, reproduces and randomly mutates those that succeed,
tests those, & so on
"British Army testing autonomous vehicles to supply
frontline troops" (http://ow.ly/oMmF30l94uG ) JK--Leaves
open the question of whether AI researchers who've vowed not to work on
autonomous weapons would have reservations about working on autonomous military
supply systems.
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#kexp The Cure
"The Figurehead" from Pornography JK--1982. Good example of one of
their relentlessly grungy dirges. You can imagine Robert Smith's stringy hair
standing on end while he's grinding his whiny way through it.
"Amazon’s facial recognition software mistook members
of Congress for criminals" (http://ow.ly/SQLE30l8XRC )
JK--What are you talking about? That's well-trained AI. Sic 'em fido!
The other day, I heard a marketing person unironically state
that their solution is "non-disruptively disruptive." I lost a little
faith in humanity then.
A midsummer night’s dream. I dream of sleep. And less humidity.
My Facebook newsfeed tells me that all of reality is melting
down. My better sense tells me that’s nonsense. Go outside and breathe.
Took excellent briefing/demo from BlockSafe Technologies,
Edison NJ-based vendor of blockchain ecosystem security solutions: http://blocksafetech.com/ .
Secure crypto wallet and exchange solutions are GA. Secure blockchain solution
under development.
"Security Token Offerings — STOs are the new ICOs"
(http://ow.ly/SvX830l8m1s )
JK--Security tokens are actual financial securities, so your tokens are backed
by something tangible the assets,
profits, or revenue of the company.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Peter Bjorn and
John "Amsterdam" from Writer’s Block JK--2006. I'm totally cool with
spending 4-5 days there going slow by the big canals. Amsterdam is still stuck
in my head. Been 24 years since me and my babies went there.
Interviewed by TechTarget's Nicole Laskowski @TT_Nicole for my thoughts on Google's
Edge TPU announcement at #GoogleNext18 this
week. Here's that press release:
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#kexp Kate Bush
"Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)" from Hounds of Love
JK--1988. English songstress celebrates her 60th birthday this coming Monday.
Wishing her a good one. Another 1958 baby, yours truly, is just a few months
behind. Gasp!
#GoogleNext18
AI announcements (http://ow.ly/5e5m30l81dh ): Cloud
AutoML Vision, Natural Language, and Translation, new enhancements to
Dialogflow Enterprise Edition, new Contact Center AI; cloud TPUs in alpha
#GoogleNext18
cloud services platform announces (http://ow.ly/pSHO30l814T ):
Istio 1.0, Managed Istio, Apigee API Management for Istio; GKE On-Prem; GKE
Policy Management; Stackdriver Service Monitoring; GKE Serverless add-on;
Knative, Cloud Build
#GoogleNext18
data analytics day-2 announces (http://ow.ly/lcny30l80O6 ):
BigQuery ML, Clustering, GIS, and Sheets data connector; Data Studio Explorer;
Cloud Composer; Dataflow Streaming Engine and Shuffle; Dataproc Autoscaling and
Customer Managed Encryption Keys
#GoogleNext18
security announces (http://ow.ly/SL3V30l80CF ):
context-aware access; Titan Security Key; shielded VMs; Container Registry
Vulnerability Scanning; Cloud Armor geo-based access control; Cloud HSM; Access
Transparency; G Suite sec ctr investig tool; G Suite data regions
#GoogleNext18
containerized cloud AI announcements (http://ow.ly/9ZwV30l80sY ):
BigQuery ML; support for training and online prediction through scikit-learn
and XGBoost in Cloud ML Engine; Kubeflow v0.2; Cloud TPU v3 and Cloud TPU Pod;
new partnership with Iron Mountain
#GoogleNext18
edge/IoT announcements (http://ow.ly/EGSx30l80i9 ): Edge TPU,
ASIC to run TensorFlow Lite ML models at edge, and Cloud IoT Edge, software and
SDK to extend Google Cloud AI to gateways and connected devices, using JSON Web
Token to authenticate edge devices locally.
#GoogleNext18
Intel/SAP partner announce (http://ow.ly/quPC30l809K ): offer GCP
virtual machines supporting Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for SAP HANA
workloads; powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Cascade Lake)
#GoogleNext18
contact-ctrl convo UI/flow announcements: (http://ow.ly/uOOb30l800J ):
create actions smarter and faster with knowledge connectors; understand user
texts better with automatic spelling correction; assign a phone number to
action with phone gateway
#GoogleNext18
serverless (http://ow.ly/gnT230l7ZPa ): new App
Engine runtimes, GA of Cloud Functions; add'l language/perf/netwk/security;
serverless containers on Cloud Functions; GKE serverless add-on, Knative;
Kube-based svrlss wkld building blocks; GCP integ of Cloud Firestore
“Michael Cohen was in the habit of using his phone to record
conversations instead of taking notes. He never intended to make use of the
recordings.” America thanks Donald Trump for his ability to choose advisers as
lazy and stupid as he is.
Putin invitation on hold till Mueller investigation
completed. Apparently, Trump can’t manage
than one self-inflicted national tragedy at a time.
I’m a member of a Facebook group devoted to “memories” of
the hometown I moved away from decades ago. Every other post is “do you
remember (this or that)?” Excuse me, but is this nostalgia or a dementia test?
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#kexp Downtown Boys
"Fotos Y Recuerdos" de Fotos y Recuerdos JK--2018. Cubre del Selena
cubre de "Regreso a la Banda de Cadena" por Los Pretendientes,
Prefiero el original por Chrissie y su banda. Prefiero Chrissie.
Thank you phishes for alerting me to the fact that I have
yet another account being deactivated unless I click your link right now. By my
count, I now have -8,243 active accounts and counting.
"HPE brings Infosight’s predictive analytics to its
3PAR all-flash storage arrays" (http://ow.ly/sSOd30l6TLW )
JK--My commentary contained herein.
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#kexp The Shins
"Caring Is Creepy" from Oh, Inverted World JK--2001. Back when James
Mercer seemed to be running his voice through a vocoder or something. Gave it
an odd tinny quality that's kind of cool on this great song.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Totally Enormous
Extinct Dinosaurs "Don’t You Forget About Me" from Don’t You Forget
About Me JK--2018. Nice. Editor in me wants to redline unnecessary
"totally" & "extinct" from bandname & query why
they appropriated a famous Simple Minds songtitle. LOL!
"RDBMS is dead; AI will rely on Graph Databases..."
(http://ow.ly/TN0v30l6SLv ) JK--Oh,
brother! Graph devotees have been hyping their pet data architecture forever,
and dissing relational. RDBMSs are very much alive & thriving. Graph
databases are a minor presence in AI, at best
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Hüsker Dü
"Flip Your Wig" from Flip Your Wig JK--1990. These guys had an
amazingly muscular rock sound. Not a speck of fat or frill.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Ty Segall &
White Fence "Body Behavior" from Joy JK--2018. Segall is a force of
nature. One of the best pure rockers going today. And amazingly prolific.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp King Tuff
"Black Moon Spell" from Black Moon Spell JK--2014. Excellent.
Sounds T.Rex reincarnated.
"‘A cloud for everyone’: Google debuts new management,
AI-powered services" (http://ow.ly/yG0B30l6Op3 )
JK--Includes snippets of Kobielus quotage.
New jk #GoogleNext18 #SiliconANGLE #Wikibon column: “Analysis:
Google puts Kubernetes at the center of its cloud application push” (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/07/24/analysis-google-puts-kubernetes-center-cloud-application-push/ …)
New jk #Next18
#SiliconANGLE #Wikibon column:
“Analysis: Google puts Kubernetes at the center of its cloud application push”
(https://siliconangle.com/blog/2018/07/24/analysis-google-puts-kubernetes-center-cloud-application-push/ …)
Stay tuned for my #Next18 keynote dissection
piece coming up imminently on
It's not just that Trump lies. It's that he densely packs
his lies into airtight crystallization structures. He must have an amazing
prevarication compaction algorithm chugging away behind the scenes. Lies dense
as diamonds!
"Machine Learning and Mobile: Deploying Models on The
Edge" (http://ow.ly/kzMO30l5Pzx ) JK--Mobile
and edge devices are overtaking desktop in popularity
"As Technologists, It's Time That We Upgrade The Ethics
Of Our Work" (http://ow.ly/OoqY30l5PhC )
JK--Spoken a true techie. Before you
upgrade, though, you need to apply your empathy patches, download your values
drivers, and migrate your moral code from the previous version
"Three reasons Google lags in the cloud – and four ways
it can step on the gas" (http://ow.ly/OHwk30l5Pbz ) JK--I'm
quoted.
"http://H2O.ai & Google Cloud Announce
Collab to Drive Enterprise AI Adoption" (http://ow.ly/1xfI30l5ONk )
JK--H2O-3 & Driverless AI available on GCP Marketplace & integ with
KubeFlow; integ H2O Sparkling Water w/Ggl Data Proc; Driverless AI ingest via
Ggl BigQuery
"Google wants to make programming quantum computers easier"
(http://ow.ly/2UfK30l5OpO )
JK--Released Cirq (open-source SDK for creating algos running on quantum
simulators and, in future, quantum computers) & OpenFermion-Cirq (SDK for
creating algos simulating molecules/materials)
"AI boosts data-center availability, efficiency" (http://ow.ly/4kPx30l552g )
JK--AI is becoming the core of all IT operations management: real-time adaptive
and automated monitoring, optimization, predictive maintenance, root cause
analysis, etc. In hardware, software, cloud, etc
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Squeeze
"Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" JK--1980. The truth is that
William Tell split the mussels with his crossbow on his first try.
FROM NOW ON, I'M DOING ALL MY TWEETS IN ALL UPPERCASE SO
THAT PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION AND KNOW I'M SERIOUS. BE WARNED!!!!!!!
"IBM came up with a watermark for neural networks"
(http://ow.ly/WPWs30l4GZK )
JK--"… the embedded watermarks in DNN models are robust and resilient to
different counter-watermark mechanisms, such as fine-tuning, parameter pruning,
and model inversion attacks."
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Jesse Sykes &
The Sweet Hereafter "Dewayne" from Dewayne JK--2018. Nice new one
from the Seattle singer-songwriter. I love her grainy voice and gift for
slow-burn yearning with beautiful electric-guitar textures.
"Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for
ambitious new data project" (http://ow.ly/YlFw30l4Gqj )
JK--Data Transfer Project: "an open source platform promoting universal
data portability." See Google blog here:
"AI wizard Mike Cook wants OpenAI's Dota bots to teach
him, not beat him" (http://ow.ly/TxkT30l4FHI ) JK--I
assume there's some community of researchers still working on using AI to
achieve mastery over Dungeons & Dragons.
"Solving the AI Race" (http://ow.ly/9FLS30l4Foo )
JK--Of course the AI community is modeling various AI safety competitive &
societal impact scenarios. Stands to reason they'd whack the tools back at
their own ricebowls.
"Pentagon Rolls Out Major Cyber, AI Strategies This
Summer" (http://ow.ly/wSJs30l4F9n )
JK--Considering how many AI researchers have pledged to not help them build
autonomous weapon systems, I'm curious if they'll have to resort to
conscripting brainiacs to get their work done.
"Towards Automated Deep Learning: Efficient Joint
Neural Architecture and Hyperparameter Search" (http://ow.ly/SZ7d30l4EOA )
JK--Automate design and optimization of neural network model architectures to
the max extent possible. Critical to breaking the AI DevOps pipeline bottleneck
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp The Smiths
"How Soon Is Now?" JK--1985. Morrissey wrote this retrospective about
the dark ages before Britain removed shyness from the list of prosecutable
offenses that was criminally vulgar.
"Learning Deployable Navigation Policies at Kilometer
Scale from a Single Traversal" (http://ow.ly/cGm430l4E9v )
JK--Mobile robot efficiently one-shot RL's goal-directed navigation policies.
No need for large amounts of interaction data, which can be prohibitively
costly to obtain.
"Robot Learning in Homes: Improving Generalization and
Reducing Dataset Bias" (http://ow.ly/hWhL30l4Dzi ) JK--CMU researchers
gathered "grasp" training data from robot deploys in 6 AirBNB
properties. Used low-cost 'YOLO' model to generate bounding boxes around
objects near robots.
"Xilinx Buys China AI Startup" (http://ow.ly/zfb030l4Diw )
JK--Anyone who views AI in nationalistic terms must confront the many
cross-border vendor hookups, partnerships, and other engagements. See my recent
Datanami column on AI nationalism:
"Why Artificial Intelligence Is Not a Silver Bullet for
Cybersecurity" (http://ow.ly/9fUO30l4CDS ) JK--No one
said it was. BTW, don't use the phrase "silver bullet" in a sentence
unless you also include the words "Kemosabe" and "Tonto."
"Leading AI researchers vow to not develop autonomous
weapons" (http://ow.ly/3WuV30l4C86 ) JK--Here
is the text and list of signatories:
"Get ready for the next big disruption in the cloud:
serverless computing" (http://ow.ly/tTSm30l4Azz )
JK--Quoteth moi.
"Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister
Religious Prophecies?" (http://ow.ly/P2t930l4zAg ) JK--My
theory is that they're training their algorithms on the English translation of
Nostradamus.
Caught “A Quiet Place” on DVD. A sensationally original and
gripping horror-thriller.
Caught “Chappaquiddick” on DVD. Excellent telling of the
facts, focusing on the disgusting spin-job that Kennedy did to save his
political career and how the Establishment aided and abetted.
Quite a downpour day! Broken umbrella and squishy shoes.
Squish squish squish squish squish!
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp Tunde Olaniran
“I’m Here” from I’m Here JK--2018. Nice R&B number. Detroit-based,
Flint-reared artist.
"AGI Roadmap Beginning with the Subjective Self" (http://ow.ly/8uHe30l2RDf )
JK--One axis says "antonomous." Is that the subjective experience of
an AI-driven colony of interchangeable drones who walk single file to
breadcrumbs & carry them back to an intricate underground lair?
"Google Marxism" (http://ow.ly/p9XO30l2QGT )
JK--George Gilder reads he's a soured VC
whose investments all went south. Also reads
he's a frontman for Trump. Invoking Marx, William F Buckley & barfy
phrases "immanentized
eschaton" doesn't help his dyspeptic case. Sad
"MIT/IEEE Partner to Advance Extended
Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/FrUm30l2NOZ )
JK--Human-machine symbiosis in AI/IoT/robotics. Data-driven intelligence,
digital wellbeing, participatory citizenship, dynamic cooperation,
environmental contextualization, transparent governance.
"Can AI Write Its Own Applications? It's Trickier Than
You Think" (http://ow.ly/oo1730l2NvT )
JK--Discusses Microsoft's DeepCoder project. See my piece on this
auto-programming initiative a year ago:
"Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude"
(http://ow.ly/qMkd30l2Mua ) JK--Google
AI research paper on a deep learning technique that improves the accuracy of
automated interpretation of organical neural interconnection data by whopping
margin. I made up the "whopping" part
"What Does It Mean to Certify an AI Product as
Safe?" (http://ow.ly/XlKl30l2LWA ) JK--Great
stuff. Where does this guy get all his ideas from?
"New CxO Gang: Data, AI, & Robotics" (http://ow.ly/Z2zN30l2Lmv )
JK--"Chief AI Officer"? "Chief Robotics Officer"? Gimme a
break. Combine them into "Chief AI & Robotics Officer" because
"CAIRO" is a cool acronym. Their priority would be to robotically build
data-driven pyramids
"Robotic Vacuums May Hoover Your Data" (http://ow.ly/W8qU30l2KnU )
JK--But I won't be worried till bots can bissell, electrolux, and dyson every
last scrap of it.
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#kexp Syd Barrett
"Gigolo Aunt" from Barrett JK--1970. Cool bit of Syd sounding spaced
out and relaxed. A spacious stroll down some beach.
"Why some accents don’t work on Alexa or Google
Home" (http://ow.ly/13ZD30l2GoH ) JK--We
don't use those, but I routinely have to wield my Midwestern American accent to
help my foreign-born wife unlock some voice-recognition authentication or
navigation IVR challenge on the phone
"Internet infrastructure will be inundated as sea
levels rise" (http://ow.ly/J5dc30l2FvD )
JK--"By 2033, > 4,000 miles of underground fiber will be beneath sea
water, & 100s of data centers will be affected because conduits &
internet cables are not designed for that environment"
"3 Areas AI Can Go Wrong" (http://ow.ly/dfqg30l2E8S )
JK--Cortnie Abercrombie actually discusses 4: personalization gone creepy;
overfitting predictive models to lo-qual historical data; using available but
not-so-valid data; using collection-method-biasd data to drive new outcomes
"Powering AI: The explosion of new AI hardware
accelerators" (http://ow.ly/xfEE30l2DPE ) JK--I
could not have said it better myself.
"How Clouds Will Crystallize Around Blockchain" (http://ow.ly/d7Ao30l2DMD )
JK--This guy knows what he's talking about.
"A $150 Billion Net Worth Makes Jeff Bezos the Richest
Person on Earth and 24 Other Crazy Things We've Learned About the Amazon
Founder" (http://ow.ly/osZW30l2DyX ) JK--The
essence of clickbait is when sightseeing at the Grand Canyon somehow gets
tagged as a "crazy thing."
"A Physicist Weighs In On Whether Scrooge McDuck Could
Actually Swim in a Pool of Gold Coins" (http://ow.ly/rJZ030l2DqF )
JK--I was wondering. That never seemed realistic. Everything else about that comic
seemed true to life.
"Jeff Bezos is even richer than Scrooge McDuck, Tony
Stark, Bruce Wayne" (http://ow.ly/X7wn30l2DjE ) JK--And
he's closing in on Croesus.
"On “solving” Montezuma’s Revenge" (http://ow.ly/RDVU30l2Cw4 )
JK--I thought that was already solved: don't drink the water (or breathe the
air).
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#kexp Radiohead
"There There (The Boney King of Nowhere.)" from Hail To The Thief
(Special Collectors Edition) JK--2003. Love the big drum sound that pounds this
one out from the start and then propels it into a headlong frenzy at the end.
