Star
magazine. Tabloid displays worst possible photos of beautiful people. Should
spinoff "Celebrity Food Poisoning": them puking guts out.
Social
media is a hype-free zone. You're free to hype, the hype travels freely, and
most of it is free of charge.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Move on Up
by Curtis Mayfield from Curtis JK--1970. Great upbeat funk-soul-pop!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Teenage
Rampage by Sweet from The Best of Sweet JK--Semi-forgotten but kinda cool early
70s glam-rock group
"Ex-Russian
spy Anna Chapman proposes marriage to Edward Snowden" (http://ow.ly/mGVCl )
JK--Suggests honeymoon in airport smoker lounge
"There’s
More Than One Kind of Data Scientist" (http://ow.ly/mGUIc )
JK--This reshuffling/retitling of responsibilities feels out-o-whack
"Cloud
Computing Experts Detail #BigData
Security & Privacy Risks" (http://ow.ly/mGT2E )
JK--Excellent detailed discussion.
Quantum
mechanics. Physicists have determined that dark matter is the WD-40 in the
universal mechanism.
"How
algorithms rule the world" (http://ow.ly/mGR6g )
JK--Disagree. World not ruled by strict rule sequences. Rules improvised as we
go.
"Unanticip8d
Consequences o Frictionlss Mobile
Experience" (http://ow.ly/mGQsw ) JK--Easier customer
feedback from th pent-up disgruntled
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp See It My
Way by Mikal Cronin from MCII JK--2013. New rocker I'm starting to groove to.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Gotta Get a
Hold of Myself by The Zombies from Singles Collection: A's & B, 1964-69
JK--Gr8 one'd I'd never heard B4
During
long summer spells such as this, my dehumidifier is my very bestest buddy here
down in the cool dungeon I call my basement office.
Hoping
that astronomers will discover the Klingon & Romulan home exoplanets. But
must train their telescopes on the visibly evil spectrum
NBCNews
reports Gandolfini left most of his estate to his kids. Why exactly is that
news you put in a headline? As opposed to 100% expected?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Teardrop by
Massive Attack from Collected JK--How many of you, like me, hear the metronome
tick as drops dripping?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I Might Be
Wrong by Radiohead from Amnesiac JK--IMHO, "Amnesiac" is "Kid A
Pt 2." Masterpiece split across 2 LPs!
Workload-optimized
systems? Supercomputers may or may not be super for big-data workloads (http://lnkd.in/Nr9PQC )
Friday #IBM
quick-hit
Workload-optimized
systems? Supercomputers may or may not be super for big-data workloads: http://lnkd.in/Nr9PQC
Jose
Feliciano "Star-Spangled Banner" (http://ow.ly/mGCkN )
JK--1968. Live. Detroit .
Tiger Stadium. World Series G5. Awesome rendition!
Always
have my tablet on when reading paper news, mags, & books. Annoys me when
authors don't include maps.& photos of all places & people
WSJ
on explosion o spliced musical genres: hick-hop, folk metal, Celtic gospel,
etc. How incongruous must hybrid B 2 constitute new "genre"?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Rise by
Doves from Lost Souls JK--Goose-pimple atmospherics from this UK rock trio. I
bought their gr8st collection.
Giant
pandas? You call those giant? Where are the truly gigantic pandas, 100'-tall
saber-toothed breathing fire? What's China holding back?
Mowed
the lawn. A success. By that I mean I wasn't stung. I've had a few memorably
nasty incidents in my yard over the years.
Looking
forward to having Egidia's sister Euphrosina here. May fly here from Netherlands
tomorrow. Contemplating road trip to NYC. Friends.
A
pleasant 4th. Totally spacing out on my sofa. My bro Dan called to say he may
visit in a few weeks time. We had a good talk about Detroit .
We
need a national holiday called "Civil Rights Day." So we can salute
what truly makes America
great and worth defending.
You
wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how
seldom they do. ―E Roosevelt
Bought
& downloaded Camera Obscura "Desire Lines" LP. My 4th straight
from them. It rolls beautifully song to song in their classic style
"Beware
o Beauty Overload: Adaptive Eye of Beholder" (http://ow.ly/mE9zS )
JK--Disagree. Yr beauty standard snaps back 2 population mean
RIP
Douglas Engelbart. One of the principal developers of computing stuff we now
take for granted: GUI, mouse, bitmapped displays, etc.
Honestly,
I've never met a single person named John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. What's
with all these pretenders?
I
love closed-caption garbles on live newscasts. "Gun culture" rendered
as "gun cull Cher ." Actually, I've
long imagined her a gun moll.
News
is that Egypt
military ousted Morrissey. Apparently, his moping & pouting got on
everybody's nerves. Johnny Marr rumored next in line.
Univision.
El Gordo y La Flaca. Fake sign: "Capacidad: 140 personas o Raul de
Molina." El Gordo, de veras
"Retired
PE Teachr Wears Same Outfit for 40 Years o Yearbook Portrait" (http://ow.ly/mDCOd )
JK--Fun fact: wore continuously for 40 years
"Berkeley
Data Analytics Stack" (http://ow.ly/mDw4c ) JK--Integr8s
interactive queries, batch, & stream processing. #Spark #Shark #Mesos
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Desire Lines
by Deerhunter from Halcyon Digest JK--One of the best relentless pounding
rock-n-roll builds of all time
"Why
#BigData
Will Make Semantics Feasible & Semantix Make BD Worthwhile" (http://ow.ly/mDpAj )
JK--Good discuss o RDF 4 rich BD metadata
"Phone
Call That Changed Face of #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/mDp9V )
JK--Best thing about article is graphic showing YARN vis-a-vis MapReduce
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Fifth In
Line to the Throne by Camera Obscura from Desire Lines JK--I got their last 3
LPs. This one too probably
Bear
Grylls. The one survival skill he still lacks is grilling a bear. He gets
squeamish, mistakingly associating it with cannibalism.
"Can
Tesla & Google Glass eventually bring heads-up display to car?" (http://ow.ly/mDmwe )
JK--Dangerous new form of distracted driving?
Hey
fellow pundits out in prognosticatorland: stop proclaiming that everything will
change everything. Nothing but God can change everything
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp California Stars by
Billy Bragg & Wilco JK--WGuthrie lyric. In 1930s, had LA
"hillbilly" radio show. Lived: Echo Park
RIP
James Martin. Ex-#IBM-er.
Author of an astounding 104 tech books. Longtime IT industry guru. Very
influential computer-science visionary
"ML
Recom Sys 2 Aid n Product ID 4 Obamacare Mktplaces" (http://bit.ly/12dQZRu )
JK--I made similar proposal n Apr (http://ow.ly/mDcg6 )
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'm Afraid
of Americans by David Bowie from Earthling JK--Must remember not to sneak up on
David and scream "BOO!"
"6
Tips for Media Storage in #BigData
World" (http://ow.ly/mDagy ) JK--Media needs
uninterrupted access 2 smaller numbers o massive files
"Mainstream
Enterprises Dive Into Silicon Valley #BigData
Timewarp" (http://ow.ly/mD9nf ) JK--All now
"doing what SV doing 5 years ago"
Some
say 90% of the world's data was created in the past 2 years. I say 90% of the
world's wisdom was created in past 2000 years. Mine it!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp North
American Scum by LCD Soundsystem from Sound of Silver JK--James Murphy vocal is
mock-ironic-snotty-punk great!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp When a Fire
Starts To Burn by Disclosure from Settle JK--Hiphop song's rhythmic repetition
of its title induces alarm
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Heroes by
David Bowie JK--I don't want to swim like dolphins can swim. Nor do I want to
perform at SeaWorld like them
Wednesdays
rarely feel like Fridays. I'll work Friday so I'm wondering what Friday'll feel
like. Probably like Friday. A double-Friday week
Drafted
my latest #IBMDataMag
article: "#BigData's
Potential in Helping To Secure the Internet of Things"
ID
management will play a role in the Internet of Things. But please don't reduce
it to the acronym "IDIoT." Please.
Van
Morrison "Almost Independence Day" (http://ow.ly/mCW3o )
JK--Great Brit-folkie one very "Astral Weeks"-y from "St.
Dominic's Preview"
New
#Dataversity
#IBM jk article:
"Internet of Things May Disrupt Predictive Analytics in #BigData
Clouds" (http://ow.ly/mCRDk )
Meaty
metadata? Bridging quantitative and qualitative analyses (http://lnkd.in/ZddD-D )
Wednesday #IBM
q-h. No q-h tomorrow (4th of July)
Meaty
metadata? Bridging quantitative and qualitative analyses: http://lnkd.in/ZddD-D
Ella
F. & Louis A. "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (http://ow.ly/mBtJY )
JK--Fun fact: in real life they pronounced "potato" th same way
RT
@ibmcloud: IBM's @mac_devine on SoftLayer, big data,
and open standards in 4.5 minutes [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/18tZ4Kk
"Why
is it so wet in Washington DC
Whoever's
programming the overhead music at Panera Tyson's Corner today is good. By
"good," I mean consistent with MY tastes (songs I tweet)
Wrote
all 5 quick-hits for next week. Brain needs to decompress. Waiting for girls to
come back from shopping. Lord & Taylor, or something.
New
#IBM jk blog:
"Data Scientist: Master the Basics, Avoid The Most Common Mistakes" (http://ow.ly/mBee2 )
"Yoga
in public schools is exercise not religion" (http://ow.ly/mAMqE )
JK--Nope. Down dog = prayer to 3-headed dog guarding gate 2 Hades
At
1st glance, I thought email contained word "heteroscedasticity." Was
wrong. But made me look up meaning, in case (http://ow.ly/mAuLa )
"Eclipse
Launches v.4.3 w/ #BigData,
#BI, Usability
Support" (http://ow.ly/mAiUq ) JK--"Kepler"
supports BIRT #Hadoop
#MongoDB #Cassandra
"Winklevoss
twins will secure bitcoins like gold -- in vaults" (http://ow.ly/mAa95 )
JK--Should change 1st names to Winkledee & Winkledum
A
quiet early July morning. Many people on vacation. Or chilling in advance of
4th of July. Me: I'm using the time 2 catch up on lotsa stuff
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp (Keep
Feeling) Fascination (extended version) by The Human League JK--Luv the
deliberately cheesy light synth on this
I
never follow a tweeter who appears to have an emoticon in their handle or
profile. Either purely bogus or insufferably precious.
Stream
computing? In-motion analytics are core of the Internet of Things revolution (http://lnkd.in/g-r7yW )
Tuesday #IBM
quick-hit
Stream
computing? In-motion analytics are core of the Internet of Things revolution: http://lnkd.in/g-r7yW
D'ya
lie?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp All I Want
by Joni Mitchell from Blue JK--1971. One of the most influential
singer-songwriters of all time.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Firecracker
by Frazey Ford from Obadiah JK--2010. Sounds like a nervous Feist channeling
Buffy Sainte-Marie.
"#BigData
Security Analytics: It Takes a Village" (http://ow.ly/myFQe )
JK--Good discuss o need 4 canned algos, deep intel, & automation
Happy
Canada Day to our friends north of the border. Or, as we think of it in the
States, Fourth of July Eve Eve Eve.
"This
is not yr father’s database industry" (http://ow.ly/myiHb ) JK--U
dont say. My Dad's career w/ Sperry predated th database industry
Makes
me giggle when Seattle
issues "heat alert" cuz temp's approaching 90 fahrenheit. Folks, come
bake in th original Washington
in summer!
@electriceskimo Actually, my
advice to skip halfway thru is example of "guided analytics" (I
bookmark) not "data governance" (I don't edit)
"#BigData Makes
4 Smarter Risk Mgt" (http://ow.ly/mxMH9 ) JK--"Beauty o Big
Data analytics is..reveal opportunity cost o not taking risk"
"How
Machine Learning Helps People Make Babies" (http://ow.ly/mxLuf )
JK--No, this is not Huxley's "Brave New World." It's data analytics
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Roscoe by
Midlake from Trials of Van Occupanther JK--Good song, but how can being named
"Roscoe" impact productivity?
"Data
Governance and #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/mxK3Z )
JK--Skip to halfway thru for the meat of the discussion.
Amazing
(or disturbing). Everybody that Twitter suggests is "like" some
person I'm following is in fact someone I'm already following.
Weird
moment when you're informed that somebody whom U know passed away
"shares" a pic on SchoolFeed, & you didn't even go to school
w/them
Tweeting
is like deep breathing exercise 4 thought leadership. Warms the blood &
muscles. Preps 4 th strenuous asanas & vinyasas of analysis
Data-scientist
skillsets? Robust replication across independent data & scientists: (http://lnkd.in/y3zqjz )
Monday #IBM
quick-hit
Data-scientist
skillsets? Robust replication across independent data & scientists: http://lnkd.in/y3zqjz
When
I hear that something's "jaw-dropping," I wonder whether there'll be
an uptick in visits to oral surgeons.
Julian
Assange. He looks like a babyfaced but gray and humorless cousin of Bill Maher.
"Citizen
scientist." Why is word "citizen" even necessary? It's not a
civic responsibility. It engages with a global community & posterity
RT
@MeghanMBiro: Is Engagement On
Twitter Dead? (http://goo.gl/gt2oh ) JK--Not yet, but
marriage on Twitter still not legal in most states
WashPost
article sez the older you get the more TV sucks away your time. For me, it's
been the opposite trend. I look at listings & yawn.
A
huge ugly bloody splotch sprawls across the southwestern US & northwestern Mexico in
WashPost weather map. Code Red indeed!
RT
@NatGeo: Image of two galaxies
resembles a penguin guarding its egg (http://on.natgeo.com/11X07dh )
JK--Apparently, the universe is our...
My
response to robocalls is a robo-flipoff followed by a robo-hangup.
@peteswabey What's driving the move 2
more data-driven analytics in ad placement optimization? The power to finetune
messages for max impact
RT
@laughbook: Screw love... I'd
rather fall in chocolate.
I've
resolved to learn every last feature of every last app on every one of my
computers & gadgets. Otherwise, I'm a total loser in life.
Wife
and I are finding that the chilled hard cider, made from Virginia apples, is a perfect summer evening
drink. It has that kick!
Steve
Miller Band "Take the Money & Run." Billy Mack "makes his
living off other people's taxes." What? Texas cops don't pay taxes?
Civil
War re-enactments. Notice that those pretendng 2 B Confederates arent
reenacting th abominable institution they were fighting 2 defend
Note
2 self: take real-world social net graph, opaque identities &
relationships, concoct fictional overlay, write up as novel. Or epic myth
Week
free trial at a gym other than our usual. They keep music on Sirius XM classic
rock channel. Such a good mix I ease into my routine.
RT
@StevenLevy Yahoo shutting down
Alta Vista Like getting invitation 2 funeral o some1 U thought died 10 years
ago http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/54125001066/keeping-our-focus-on-whats-next …
Life
is a string of mornings. Each one's a reboot of previous day. Often, there's a
process that terminated abruptly, left threads hanging
Grass-fed
burgers? Don't give me that nonsense. Burgers don't eat grass. They're strictly
cannibalistic. They only eat other burgers.
"Remarkable
Properties o Mythological Social Nets" (http://bit.ly/12wjjOY )
JK--Stat modl shows Iliad&Beowulf probably bsd on real societies
I
assign myself each week's quick-hit topics with just a dim idea of what I'll
say. I develop each point of view rapidly. So it'll smoke.
But
looking back through Dylan's massive discography, of the many songs I've heard,
it's hard to find a true stinker. He's amazing.
Rolling
Stone asks "what's Dylan's worst song?" & gets flamed by zealots.
I'm total Dylan fan but've never dug "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall"
