23 minutes ago
Listening
to Maron's podcast with Obama. Reminds me of how fortunate we've been the past
6 years to have a level head in the Oval Office.
I
must say I appreciate Donald Trump’s quadrennial efforts to put the bozo
content of th Republican presidential campaign right over the top
Next
week I resume my usual cadence of quick-hits, blogs, & stuff. Accent on the
"stuff."
Tip
4 biz doing biz-to-consumer survey-followup-nag email: "Your feedback
matters to us" (i.e. you) doesn't mean it matters to us (i.e., us)
"US
Army Person-Event Data Environment" (
http://ow.ly/OQEp9 ) JK--To
investigate psychological factor impacts on health outcomes
"BBC
shows folly of ‘right to be forgotten’" (
http://ow.ly/OQDOX ) JK--Agreed.
It's crazy to imagine you can efface historical record
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Rainbow
Connection by Kermit the Frog from The Muppet Movie JK--Amphibians are softies
at heart. Case in point.
New York’s Lake George:
A Living Lab for Solving the World’s Water Challenges
http://dy.si/idsb
Galvanize:
hosts of the recent Spark Community Event and Hackathon in San Francisco....
http://dy.si/jTDLB
"Fantasy
Sports Betting: The Next 'Big Thing' Thanks to Big Data" (
http://ow.ly/OPKXJ )
JK--Um, no thanks. Next big money pit, perhaps.
I'm
dismayd that Justice Scalia changed his position on jiggery-pokery. In my
profssional opinion, it is firmly rooted in British common law
jameskobielus
retweeted theCUBE
jameskobielus
added,
theCUBE @theCUBE
@jameskobielus
on @theCUBE discussing #IBM's big announcements about #spark
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=fWHw043B1Tk&feature=youtu.be …
#SparkSummit
RT
@ejacqui: Haha. I love tweeting and
then forgetting about it completely for hours until I find myself puzzled at
the replies.
Good
night out. Indonesian restaurant food. Nearby. We’ve never been there. No point
when we get better food at Indonesian parties
“Real
housewives”? Concept is self-contradictory. All of these women have paying jobs
outside the home: being “real housewives.”
Happy
for the backlash against displays of the confederate flag. As a Virginian, I
say “southern heritage--my rear end.” Slavery was sin.
"Biomimicry:
Nature's Clues to Big Data Success" (
http://ow.ly/OO6GL )
JK--Urges IT-archtctr focus on emulate what evolution hath wrought
Wrote
all of next week's quick-hits. You must forgive me in advance. Plenty of overflow
analyses around Spark. Must discharge them in batch
I'm
still not clear on what the old black was, much less the new. Still in the dark
on that matter.
"In
1956, here’s how GM imagined self-driving car would work" (
http://ow.ly/OMubc )
JK--Require ctrl tower permssion 2 switch 2 that mode
Only
appearance of Larry David in "Seinfeld." Unspeaking cameo as George
Costanza's father's cape-wearing lawyer (
http://ow.ly/OMtrI )
"Trough
of Disillusionment." You know a technology is truly doomed when Gartner
demotes from there to the "Valley of the Shadow of Death."
"Algorithms
of the Mind" (
http://ow.ly/OKXG7 ) JK--Good piece about
algos that "regenerate images corresponding to [a specific] concept"
He's
being marketed for speaking engagements as "Coach Joe Gibbs."
Apparently, it's an honorific that stays for life. Like "Pope
Emeritus"
Borat.
Every time I see someone citing that character, all I can think is they didn't
see Baron Cohen's follow-up: "Bruno." Killed the buzz
North Korea
survives on no rights, no food, no water, no electricity, no economy, & no
hope. Should shorten country name to "No Korea."
"Unbeknownst."
An ancient-sounding English word. Voicing it, I feel like I should be
addressing King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table
"Mass
market." In physics, "mass" implies undifferentiatd matter
exhibiting inertial resistance to influence. No market meets that criterion
"Chaotic
Moon, IBM Watson Infer Audience Traits in Real Time" (
http://ow.ly/OKdeu )
JK--Watson's Personality Insights capab. Way cool!
"A
Look Back at Spark Summit 2015" (
http://ow.ly/OJCnW )
JK--Good retrospective on Databricks blog.
"100
open source Big Data arch papers for data pros" (
http://ow.ly/OJBi6 )
JK--One should skim list to identify knowledge gaps, then read
"Spark
DataFrames: Simple and Fast Analytics on Structured Data at Spark Summit 2015" (
http://ow.ly/OJv1M )
JK--Good technical overview
"How
artificial intelligence explains analytics" (
http://ow.ly/OJrY6 )
JK--Highlights Watson Paths visualizns to display Watson reasoning
"IBM
& Box Forge Global Prtnrshp" (
http://ow.ly/OJoaQ )
JK--Includes integr8 insights from IBM Watson Analytics to content stored in
Box
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp California Stars by Billy Bragg & Wilco
from Mermaid Ave JK--1998. I craved that repose after recent Calif work trip
"Inceptionism:
Going Deeper into Neural Networks" (
http://ow.ly/OJhWD ) JK--Algorithmic
computer-vision implement of believing = seeing
First
beep of the morning reminds to mute laptop. Don't need work tool that taunts me
like th Roadrunner or suggests bleeped-out profanities
Tasked
myself with writing blog today. By "tasked," I jotted down a headline
& scrounged up an article to react to. Let's see what develops
Fast
dramatic slanting rainstorm pushed its way through here yesterday evening.
Dropped the temperatures, if not the humidity. Fun to watch
My
strategy is to stay proactively on top of everything everywhere all the time
& retain the agility to abandon that strategy at any moment
Wasn't
a bad day. Caught up on stuff. I'd already pretty much caught up on sleep. Not
that I've been keeping a slumber ledger or anything.
"Would
you live in a Nazi relic?" (
http://ow.ly/OHGWD )
JK--Why not simply tear them down? They're historically offensive eyesores.
Fred
Astaire dances in Alfred E Neuman mask in '59 TV special (
http://ow.ly/OHuKY ).
What...he worry about being klutz on 2 feet? Never!
Does
anybody truly rest on their laurels? An evergreen shrub sounds like prickly
upholstery, at best. Better wallow in mud, if comes to that
Drafted
latest
#Dataversity
column: "CAPTCHA as CAPTCHA Can"
Beach
Boys essential white suburban squareness always been fundamental to their
appeal. Early recording of "Surfin'":
http://ow.ly/OGZAW
Expected
to be the hottest day of the year so far in the DC area. Not a concern during
my work day, in my cool basement, but at night it is
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Orpheo Looks Back by
Andrew Bird from Break It Yourself JK--2012. Very nice violin-driven
square-dance vibe to this.
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"
#IBM Delivers Docker
Based Container Services for Enterprise Cloud Application Developers" (
http://ow.ly/ODXJg )
JK--Key cloud infra.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Life on Mars? by
David Bowie from Hunky Dory JK--Suddenly noticed resemblance to Boomtown Rats
"I Dont Like Mondays"
"Obama
uses racial slur in intervu" (
http://ow.ly/OD3ut ) JK--No
he didnt. "Slur" is speech act: insulting. He cited a frequent slur
word
I'd
like to see a "For Dumbasses" series. Translate the "For
Dummies" titles into snarky condescension. End every sentence with
"duh!"
"Deep
Learning Machine Beats Humans in IQ Test" (
http://ow.ly/OCLUy ) JK--If
so, whither the Turing test?
"Recent
Evolution of Zero Data Loss Guarantee in Spark Streaming With Kafka" (
http://ow.ly/OCIpL )
JK--Good "hardening Spark" discussion
"Reality
check." Redundant phrase. When check arrives, money's real, no longer
"in the mail." Or when it arrives, it's a real restaurant tab
"Spark
update adds R support and machine learning chops" (
http://ow.ly/OCGVj )
JK--Good overview of enhancements in Spark 1.4
"LinkedIn
fills another SQL-on-Hadoop niche" (
http://ow.ly/OCGyr )
JK--Pinot: Apache-licensed real-time analytics engine and datastore
"How
Machine Learning Is Eating the Software World" (
http://ow.ly/OCFHH )
JK--That's a defining trend of the cognitive systems era.
"Data
science is still white hot, but nothing lasts forever" (
http://ow.ly/OCFaX )
JK--Yeah & we're all gonna die some day. Happy Monday!
"Big
Data Talent: 6 Ways To Snag The Best" (
http://ow.ly/OCEbd )
JK--"Snag"? Like velcro on bramblebush? Why not just wangle more
moolah?
Very
little disappoints me. That's because I keep my appointments few & select.
Must first appoint something before it can disappoint.
"Apache
Spark: Powering apps on-premise and in the cloud" (
http://ow.ly/OCC2E )
JK--Good post. Glad I met Ben Lorica
@bigdata
last week
"Spark
Monitoring: Handle 10B Requests a Day" (
http://ow.ly/OCAey )
JK--Interesting discuss of Spark over Cassandra driving recomm engine
"Flying
faster with Twitter Heron" (
http://ow.ly/OCzPI ) JK--Twitter-developed
real-time analytics plat fully API-compatible with Storm
"Architectural
Patterns for Near Real-Time Data Processing w/ Hadoop" (
http://ow.ly/OCybz )
JK--Identifies use case for Spark Streaming
Getting
behind on my reading makes me nervous. I never try to be more than a week
behind. I catch up in batches.
"Fraud
detection in retail with graph analysis" (
http://ow.ly/OCxpl )
JK--Good discussion of traditional killer app for graph analytics
"Overfitting
or generalized? Comparison of ML classifiers - a series of articles" (
http://ow.ly/OCx7g )
JK--A textbook-grade resource!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Janitor by Suburban
Lawns JK-1981. Sounds like Yoko Ono singing "oh my genitals." I
assume that's "janitor," right?
"The
Internet of Things Transforms Transactions with Apache Spark" (
http://ow.ly/OCuI6 )
JK--Good outlining of Spark advantages in IoT
"‘Brain
fingerprints': Will semantic memory ID replace fingerprints/passwords?" (
http://ow.ly/OCu0S )
JK--More James Bond than practical
"Ray
Kurzweil: Human brains could be connected to the cloud by 2030" (
http://ow.ly/OCtDg )
JK--Or does he have his head in th clouds now?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Ready, Able by
Grizzly Bear from Veckatimest JK--2009. A song that sort of slinks into your
lap & purrs contentedly
"7
Amazing Big Data Myths" (
http://ow.ly/OCrSX ) JK--Unh unh. Sounds
more like 7 amazing strawmen constructed by the author.
I'm
often wary of the phrase "internationally recognized." Could easily
be used to characterize a Seattlite with a buddy in Vancouver.
"How
Sensor-Generated Data Enhances Your Data Warehouse's Value" (
http://ow.ly/OCqZ6 )
JK--Discusses quality, security, & storage issues
"Introducing
ShArc: Shot Arc Analysis" (
http://ow.ly/OCq8l ) Jk--Video motion
analytics applied to basketball trajectories.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Alberto Balsalm by
Aphex Twin from ...I Care Because You Do JK--1995. Percussion sounds like
tapping on metal railing
"The
Internet of Things Will Give Rise To The Algorithm Economy" (
http://ow.ly/OCmmx )
JK--Article includes ghastly coinage: "meshternet"
"SQL
Will Inevitably Come To NoSQL Databases" (
http://ow.ly/OClPQ ) JK--An
issue that the industry has beaten to death. Alright, already.
"Spark
& Storm face new competition 4 r-t Hdp processing" (
http://ow.ly/OCkMA )
JK--Project Apex: OSS
version of DataTorrent RTS's engine
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I Scare Myself by
Thomas Dolby from The Flat Earth JK--1984. Nice piece of jazzy pop.
Shocking
Blue "Love Buzz" (
http://ow.ly/OB1TT ) JK--1969. Flipside o
"Venus." Didnt realize Nirvana's recording 20 years l8r was a cover
Hot
one today. Longest day of the year, just to compound the misery. This scorching
solstice already has me humming "Cruel Summer."
Publishers
Clearinghouse. They generate "you may have won a million" emails by the
boatload. Unsubscribe with extreme prejudice!
"Field
of Dreams." That catchphrase remains transparently manipulative a
quarter-century later. No, they won't come. Don't build it!
Bummed
that the most violent part of the thunderstorm moved thru here around 8.
Hyperventilating weatherman on TV preempted my “Jeopardy!”
My
daughter knew that her dear old dad loves Sno-Cap nonpareils. Great Father’s
Day gift! Favorite movie theater munchie when I was a kid.
WSJ
profile of Detroit describes it as "Michigan's
once-glittering city." When exactly was that? Before it became polluted
industrial zone?
People
hung up on getting into or their kids into Ivy League universities. What's th
big deal? I've met those grads. Smart, but not all that
Past
2 weeks in San Francisco/San Jose were an example of breaking through the 4th
wall of social media marketing. Doing it live in-person
IBM
Apache Spark Community Event - Lightning Talks (
http://ow.ly/OyPmf ) Last
Monday evening. San Francisco
Had
a wonderful 10 hours o deep sleep last night. I only experience that after
exhausting road trips. I didnt work today. That felt good too
Reading
WSJ profile of making of Dixie Cups “Chapel of Love.” Orig written for Crystals
or Ronettes. Their inferior versions never released.
Limbaugh
says Pope’s latest encyclical is call to vote Democratic. Necessary corrective
after decades of being preached to vote Republican.
End
of the week. Exactly where I want to be: on my sofa reading the newspapers my
wife let pile up in my absence. And drinking lemonade.
Airplane
diverted from Reagan National to Washington Dulles. Then a tornado hit Dulles.
And I was already freaking exhausted to begin with.
I
get exhausted just thinking about all the synonyms for “exhaustion” that I
currently embody.
The
core of San Francisco’s
downtown feels very East Coast. But once you climb those hills, it’s anything
but.
Stonebraker
delivered a terrific reality check on Spark, in the context of Hadoop’s recent
fast-track maturation. I am so glad he nailed it!
Now
that a fair number of people I work with have seen me at some length in person,
they realize I walk as fast as I talk & write.
My
favorite meal in San Francisco?
Something simple. A Tuesday special on tacos at some hole in the wall in North Beach.
Spontaneous nosh.
The
“gravy” moment in San Francisco
was the very end. I’d always wanted to hear DB guru Michael Stonebraker. He
didn’t disappoint. Brilliant
Highlight
of my San Francisco
sojourn? Popping out of the office late Tuesday afternoon, climbing stairs up
to Coit Tower. Sun, air, view
Looking
forward to walking my own neighborhood again after 2 weeks away. Contemplating
the familiar again.
Wife
mentioned North Carolina.
That’s cool. I like our coast too. But Kitty Hawk
fills up fast.
A
good 30 degrees warmer at home where I’m headed than San Francisco where I left. Good to leave
autumn behind. Summer is a-comin’ in!
Where
I always complete my San Francisco
trip: Perry’s at SFO, domestic terminal 1, near the Delta gates. Denver omelette.
Breakfast.
Machine
learning? The mirage of completely machine-milled data science (
http://ow.ly/Ot41w )
Thurs
#IBM qh in adv.
Travel day.
The
Pacific Coast
doesn’t get much more beautiful than right here at the Golden Gate National
Recreation Area in San Francisco.
Meeting
Michael Stonebraker at the Spark
Technology Center.
425 Market St.
Database industry legend. Winner of Turing Prize.
"IoT
Transforms Transactions with Apache Spark" (
http://ow.ly/OsDle )
JK--Good balanced discussion of pros & cons of Spark for IoT
"Machine
learning breakthrough could revolutionize medicine" (
http://ow.ly/OsCXH )
JK--More fine-grained personalized metabolic profiing.
"To
handle big data, shrink it" (
http://ow.ly/OsCmH )
JK--Matrix condensation algo reduces data size, preserving mathematical
properties.
They
answered that question about whether they shoot horses, didn't they?
Geek
in me is excited to ride elevator at 425 Market up with young data scientists
on their way to work at new Spark Tech Ctr
#SparkInsight
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Svefn-g-englar by
Sigur Rós from Ágætis byrjun JK--1999. Elegy or epiphany? You decide.
Regardless, it's a mystery
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Red Clay Halo by
Gillian Welch from Time (The Revelator) JK--2001. A perfect gem of Appalachian
bluegrass/country
"IBM:
Nurturing the Spark of Innovation" (
http://ow.ly/OsnOS )
JK--Good analysis from
@pund_it
Charles King. Great to have U this week!
Skipping
the quick-hits for next week. It's obvious what I've been doing 24x7 this week.
Need a mental cooldown.
I
could barely eat in peace at th Spark Summit a moment ago. Guy next to me saw
my nametag asked "You the guy who organized that CrowdChat?"
How
cold would San Francisco
feel in the summer without the supposed “heat island effect”?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Susan by Aimee Mann
from Bachelor No. 2 or the Last Remains of the Dodo JK--1999. She sings with
plainspoken intimacy
The
preferred noun form of "concise" is "concision." Truth be
told, "conciseness" isn't as concise.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Dreams by Beck from
the single JK-2015. New. Another great one from this guy.
Sleep
is for wimps.
Big
data = ability to achieve greater value through superior insights from
analytics on data of greater volume velocity variety & veracity.
A
few days ago I met a young data scientist whose given name is
"Feynman." Talk about putting academic pressure on a kid from the
start!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Come To Your House
by Bouquet from In A Dream JK--2015. Nice one. Trippy electronica. A bit like
Broadcast.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp All Eyez on Me
(feat. Big Syke) by 2Pac JK--1996. Good one from the long-departed rapper.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Crystals by Of Monsters and Men from Beneath
The Skin JK--2015. Good new one. Catchy as hell.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Dancing at the Blue
Lagoon by Cayucas JK--2015. Love the romantic samba shuffle of this. Dance
floor seduction vibe.
San
Franciscans really love their baseball. Good for them. I dig the newly built-up
neighborhood around AT&T
Park. Families having
fun.
Ben
Horowitz at Spark Summit describes IBM as the “rabbi” that anointed Spark. Here
I sit, the Roman Catholic embodiment of that rabbi.
Wearing
my suit jacket for yet another day of a business-casual San Francisco tech conference. Not putting on
airs. Simply staying warm.
New
#IBM jk LinkedIn Pulse
post: "Advertising Fatigue and The Analytics of Stealth Targeting" (
http://ow.ly/Oo1TM )
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Hard Sun by Eddie
Vedder from Into the Wild JK--2007. Like the late Jim Morrison, he has vocal
swagger in his DNA.
Gearing
up for Day 2 of
#SparkSummit
in SF. By "gearing up," I mean "decompressing my nervous system
from yesterday's maximum compaction."
Oddest
"influence" I've been recognized as having on socials: interior
design (?!??). The only interior I care about is between my ears.
One
of life’s greatest pleasures is emptying one’s pockets. Followed closely by
filling them.
BTW,
tomorrow's quick-hit is about "Project Tungsten." U think I'm not
doing fresh analysis while in the midst of this
#SparkInsight?
Today
is the single busiest work day of my entire career. By "today," I mean
"the past 2 months."
On
my way to # IBM partner Galvanize’s facility at 44 Tehama to kick off
#SparkInsight
community event. theCUBE streaming interviews
In
San Francisco,
jaywalking is more than justified by the need to avoid a ranting crazy person
on the sidewalk in front of you
Teeny
tiny typeface doesn't scale to legibility in front of a large room when it's
still embedded in massive monochromatic glop o dense text
Yeah,
we built the
#SparkInsight
buzz. When one's multifaceted announcement has ample substance & advances
the market, it's not that hard.
"IBM
makes cluster compute engine Apache Spark core to its cloud" (
http://ow.ly/Oleb8 )
JK--Spark as a Service on Bluemix. Coming soon.
Squatting
here in the press room waiting for the opening keynotes at Spark Summit. Press
room? Me? Sure, yeah:
http://ow.ly/OlduP
My
Forrester blog from Dec 2011:
#Hadoop + in-memory +
graph DBs (
http://ow.ly/Oknzw ). Was fairly clear
something like Spark would come
Here's
my first quick-hit to focus on Apache Spark in its own right, a year and 3
months ago:
http://ow.ly/Okjls
Here's
my first quick-hit that mentions Spark, in passing, slightly < 2 years ago,
in a stream computing context:
http://ow.ly/Okj5C
If
you're @
#SparkSummit
this morning in SF, come hear
@BethTSmith
, IBM General Manager Analytics Platform, discuss our commitment to Spark
"IBM
Wants to Push Spark..." (
http://ow.ly/Okgra ) JK--Spark as a
service, cross-portfolio integ, open-source ML, etc
"IBM
Invests to Help Open-Source Big Data Software — and Itself" (
http://ow.ly/Okfyz )
JK--Interview with
#IBM
Analytics SVP Bob Picciano
"IBM
Announces Major Commit 2 Advance Apache Spark, Calling it Potentially Most
Signif Open Src Proj o Next Decade" (
http://ow.ly/Oju9t )
Fun
fact: I managed to write all of this week's quick-hits over the weekend while
otherwise insanely work-busy in San
Francisco.
Lyle
Lovett "If I Had a Boat" (
http://ow.ly/Oj5MI )
JK--1987. Love how they worked this into "Still Alice" with Julianne
Moore.
Apache
Spark 1.4 was released this past week (
http://ow.ly/Oj3Uu ).
Includes alpha-level support for accessing Spark from R
jameskobielus
retweeted Monica Fox
I'm
along the far wall, in the middle, with bald spot. You can't miss me.
jameskobielus
added,
Ah
yes, good ol' American plain yellow mustard on my poppy seed bagel. A culinary
delight I picked up in the cafeteria at Holmes Jr High.
Glad
the Embarcadero Starbucks has ample security-guard coverage close at hand.
Nasty homeless person promptd quick response. God, he's back
I'm
sorry, but after 40+ years "Dean Martin's Celebrity Roasts" now
resemble the Las Vegas
morgue. Every time those commercials play, I age.
"Do
I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain
multitudes." --Walt Whitman (polishing his weasel-logic)
It's
semi-mindblowing the resource that an
#IBM can assemble in short
order. "An.."? The!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Specialist by
The Heavenly States from HisS JK--2015. I like it. Actually, it thought it was
LCD Soundsystem.
A
hackathon is an intensely quiet affair. Rows upon rows o people staring
intensely into screens, deep into their private coding conundrums.
Using
music in my typical fashion: distract my mind while it ponders right POV on a
complex technical topic. Writing next wk quick-hits
"Project
Tungsten: Bringing Spark Closer to Bare Metal" (
http://ow.ly/Oh78v )
Jk--Hope to meet the authors this week at Spark Summit. SF
I
think "humongous" should be spelled "hhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmoooooonnnnnngggggggggoooooooooooooooooouuuuuusssssss."
Just to drive it home
Hey
image-centric CAPTCHAs, don't ask us to identify the tigers. Ask to identify
the endangered species. Cultivate respect for life on Earth
It
doesn't scale! It doesn't scale! Who says it doesnt scale? That's what they
said about dinosaurs, 4 crying out loud! Oh, you have a point
Listen
close: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam
vel justo in lectus dictum feugiat interdum a dolor." Got it?
I
myself am not a Spark developer, but I'm enjoying overhearing the discussions
among coders at the Spark hackathon in SF right now. Osmosis
I
don’t care what anyone says but I consider bacon to be quite delicious
San Francisco. Where one
keeps a sweater close at hand, even when the sun is out on an almost-summer
day. Reaching for mine yet again.
Yesterday
I met Steve Hamm, IBM's Chief Storyteller (
http://ow.ly/OgDeW ). As
IBM's Big Data Evangelist, I now officially covet his title
USA
Today revu of new bio has headline "Billy Martin: baseball's brawling bad
boy." With all due respect, I remember him as a tiresome jerk.
Lord
Huron "Louisa" (
http://ow.ly/OgAsR ) JK-Starbucks on
Embarcadero now playing this. Thank you! Iconic view of Ferry Bldg & Bay
Bridge
God
made San Francisco
cool & windy so we won’t get overheated trying to climb its hills. Trust me
on this. I have it on higher authority.
Let's
see. I wrote 5 blogs in the past 24 hours. And I got 5 hours of sleep. That's
work-life balance for you.
Hey
how about an elephant shooting sparks out of his trunk? Wait. Didn't Katy Perry
do some pectoral variation of that in some music video?
I
think they've saturated the "For Dummies" target audience. From what
I hear, though, the "For Ventriloquists" demographic is underserved
I
know the number of emails in my inbox is a finite integer. But why does
likelihood I'll differentiate and integrate them feel imaginary?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'm Kin by Colleen
from Captain of None JK--2015. What is that? Some sort of electronic lute?
Interesting sound.
New
#IBM jk LinkedIn Pulse
blog: "Things Within Things Within Things Within And In And In And In
And…." (
http://ow.ly/Oa38z )
The
Jetsons era won’t arrive until we all change our last names to concocted words
that suggest aerospace engineering.
Thinking
of writing blog called "7 Big Data Myths to Die For" & another
called "9 Big Data Myths That Go Surprisingly Well with White Wine"
"Business
driver." Won't work. IBM would never approve me getting my own private
work chauffeur. No approved vendors, for starters.
Ice
cream history would’ve been very different if Häagen & Dazs had never met.
But do they stand a chance against th Dippin Dots juggernaut?
New
#IBM jk blog:
"Building a strong foundation for Hadoop with the Open Data Platform
initiative" (
http://ow.ly/O9uhW )
New
#IBM jk blog:
"Hadoop Summit 2015, Day 1: Innovation thrives as Hadoop nears
maturity" (
http://ow.ly/O9udw )
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp 1969 by The Stooges
JK--Curious what Iggy found so boring about the end of the 60s. The one small
step for man?
S&G
"Mrs Robinson" (
http://ow.ly/O9klD ) JK--Upon their
separation, who got custody o th dossier they were keeping on her: Paul or Artie?
Interesting
to drive Silicon Valley and see where specific
vendors are HQ'd. All I can think is: "so that's what they see out their
window."
Has
anybody noticed I've been blogging on pretty much the same five-letter topic
for the better part of a month now? Nobody? Whew!
Day
2 at
#HadoopSummit.
Already looking forward to the after-party tonight in San Pedro Square. But first: 9 hours of
tech discussions.
The
Osmonds "One Bad Apple" (
http://ow.ly/O8lvq )
JK--1970. Perfect example of Pat Boone-grade uber-white ripoff of
African-American vibe
I
appreciate the personal touch of a form email misfire that addresses me as
"Hi XXX." My given name is indeed hardcore, adult, & explicit.
Cognitive
computing? Apache Spark in neuroscientific modeling applications (
http://ow.ly/O7XkF )
Wednesday
#IBM quick-hit
Lou
Reed "Metal Machine Music" (
http://ow.ly/O6QSx )
JK--1975. What "Finnegans Wake" was to unreadable, this shrieker was
to unlistenable
A
full breakfast plus a full lunch equals a full tank of energy for the 24-hour
period in which they are consumed. Hence dinner needn't be
This
"jobs 4 U" spam has gotten smart enough to tell me the hotel I'm
currently staying in has a job for me. What is it? Making my own bed?
Decision
scientists? Machine learning and the emergence of the algorithmic legal
profession (
http://ow.ly/O4uhp ) Tues
#IBM quick-hit
On
the one hand, the coffee at the Delta Shuttle gate at DCA is free. On the other
hand, it's undrinkable. Can't have everything, I guess.
I
think "Weird Al" Yankovic should be awarded the Mark Twain Prize.
"Dusty
in Memphis"
has almost become my default "comfort food" in LPs to listen to from
my collection. Feels real good in any moment.
