The cooler, terser term for "social graph" is
"sociogram."
Drafted my next #IBMdatamagazine article: "Graph Analysis Powers
the Social and Semantic Spheres of #BigData".
Have a good weekend
"Want to Cheat In Japan ? There's a Phone for
That" (http://on.wsj.com/XkLTAN ) JK--Haiku.
Origami. Bonsai. Japanese do everything with style
Killer app 4 Facebook Graph Search: search for ghost of
a shred of a clue that Manti Te'o really luvd that fictionally real ghost of a
girl
"Q&A: the technology behind ‘#bigdata’
analytics" (http://on.ft.com/XkHNZt ) JK--#IBM Rod Smith: retail and finance most
advanced in adoption
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie from Hot Space
JK--Stunningly perfect collaboration: Freddie & David
http://lnkd.in/TA9NxE Yes, the historical context determines
relevance to current and future circumstances and decisions. The relevance...
Topological data analysis (http://bit.ly/10ErbU4 ):
algos 4 blind analysis show patterns in data, rather than correl8ns btwn
pre-selectd vars
"Will #BigData DNA analyss herald new era in
medicine?" (http://bbc.in/10EqBFP ) JK--Caveat:100%
DNA readout doesnt perfectly predict illness
"Facebook Open Compute Project Shapes #BigData Hardware" (http://bit.ly/10EpYfA )
JK--Design themes "commonality" and "disaggregation"
"Analytic Imagination and Business Bets" (http://bit.ly/10EpshH )
JK--Good SMiller piece focuses on hypothesis testing of spurious patterns
"#BigData Will Play Key Role In Security's
Future, Study Says" (http://bit.ly/10EpfLk ) JK--Very good
whitepaper from RSA.
"I don't do drugs. I am drugs." ~ Salvador Dalí
"Under the Hood: Building Graph Search Beta" (http://on.fb.me/XbJnNl )
JK--Facebook engineering director provides greater depth into approach
WSJ "Incubator For Velvet Underground" (http://on.wsj.com/WdoeTV )
JK--John Cale writes about NYC tenement where he Lou & others forged sound
"Google Denies Killing Donkey on Street View
Expedition" (http://bit.ly/WdnXAv ) JK--Kind of "tech" story
they run on a slow news day.
This wk #IBM Koby qh's: http://linkd.in/WdlcPx http://linkd.in/Wdlg1G http://linkd.in/WdlhTk http://linkd.in/WdllT1 http://linkd.in/Wdloyb
Big data in the cloud? Governing a sprawling business
resource:http://lnkd.in/ny8Cb7
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp To Love Somebody by Nina Simone from
Bittersweet: The Very Best of Nina JK--Excellent Bee Gees cover
"Vint Cerf Envisions Interoperable Clouds Driving
Collaborative Computing, Analytics" (http://bit.ly/Wdkba4 )
JK--Good summary of his talk
Lance Armstrong. Gotta hand it to him. At least the man
had the ball to admit he doped.
Yes, I own a trenchcoat. If we ever need to refight
World War I, I'm as ready as any pathetic aging Yankee can be for frontline
action.
Mind is the membrane mediating the messy mambo of meat
and milieu.
If I ever write my memoirs, I think I'll call it
"Lumbar Support, or How I Learned to Love Sitting on my Ass All the
Livelong Day."
Some of the quick-hits I wrote this week are
foundational to other stuff I'm going to need to develop soon. Gotta get the
foundation tight.
Finished all 5 of next week's #IBM quick-hits. Now, I'm going to cool
down by staring stupidly out the window for a little while.
I'd like a public directory sign that displays a
real-time video of you and captions it "you are here, dumbass."
Just overhead a wonderful new saying that I'm going to
attribute to Yogi Berra: "I'm getting old from aging." At least
thatswotIthinkIheard
You can tell in a split-second if someone has an
analytical mind by how succinctly they outline a topic & get to the
freakin' point.
"Eight questions to ask before using cloud
storage" (http://bit.ly/UwvoDj ) JK--Good
guidance.
"Ask This & Kiss Yr Data Strategy Goodbye"
(http://bit.ly/UwuIO6 )
JK--Good one @FORR_Mgoetz but
dont put "kiss" & "ask" together. Tempts me
"Top 3 Analytics Trends for 2013" (http://bit.ly/Uwuruz )
JK--Good one from@hsmalltree , someone I've rambled with in several
occasions
"Is Your Brand More Human? Reveal With Social Media
Analytics" (http://bit.ly/Uwuab2 ) JK--Humor
important. BTW, I wisecrack 4 a reason
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Ohm by Yo La Tengo from Fade JK--New.
Note to self: another gr8 one. Get this upcoming LP?
"Can #BigData Change Who You Are?" (http://youtu.be/8CrwICToUqw )
JK--"Quantified self" discussion. It changed me (my career, that is).
"How Often Should U Update Predictive Models?"
(http://bit.ly/Uwt9j8 )
JK--Good guidance. Model decay is #bigdata vulnerability. This mitig8s
"Thumbtack Releases YCSB Benchmark Analysis of
Ultra-High Performance NoSQL DBs" (http://bit.ly/UwsA9d )
JK--Looks like interesting study
"What's Next In Tech? Computers That 'Sense'
Experiences" (http://huff.to/Uws0Ix ) JK--Sensor-rich
world can augment the 5 that God gave us
"How #BigData Keeps Cable TV Watchers Hooked" (http://linkd.in/SPtTTu )
JK--Predictive analytics for QoS/online bandwidth alloc & ad opt'zn
Likeness. Ya wanna, like, search who you like is likely
to like stuff like you like that stuff or stuff sorta like that stuff. Like,
cool!
"Finding structure for unstructured data" (http://bit.ly/SPmzav )
JK--BAH uses "Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture." Very
interesting
I'd like to see improv called "Technically
Fiction" where all performers play characters with their actual 1st name.
Dirty secrets spill out
I think the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing should
change name to Bureau of Printing Dollars & Other Stuff.
Magruder's. Founded in 1875, tiny DC-area supermarket
chain seems to be nearing end of the line. Honestly, I have always found them
shabby
Hedy Lamarr. For gender equity, we need to single out
some devastatingly handsome male inventors who also engaged in the performing
arts.
RIP Conrad Bain. "Diff Strokes" & conservative
neighbor foil on "Maude." "Nixon's the One, Maudie!"
"Yes Arthur, and you're the other one"
"First Impressions of FB New Graph Search. It's
Your Personal "#BigData""
(http://onforb.es/URdLML )
JK--Yr personal social-embedded graph db
Promoted tweets? Promote them to what? From minor to
major nuisance?
Obama's second inauguration coming up. Birthers
retrenching? I'll bet they're going to claim wasn't inaugurated the 1st time.
RT @karashemin: Thanks to @jameskobielus I've got ice cream sundaes on the
brain. It's Wed so I'll treat myself to a little something...
Video+blog: Boosting email #marketing effectiveness ttp://ibm.co/13D09LC How @ConstantContact improved performance 25%
"#IBM Software Targts 'Omni-Channel' Cust
Exper" (http://bit.ly/X91UZO ) JK--Prtnr
w/Toshiba: TCxGravity is POS app linkd 2 IBM order mgt tek
Sundaes. Why do they call them that? Were they
sacramental confection in some now-defunct sect? If so, what felled them? Ice
cream headache?
Speaker discussing NSF/NIH #bigdata initiative. Management, integ, &
analysis of large biomedical datasets.
Cerf notes an advantage of self-driving cars: "they
don't have road rage."
Cerf anecdote of GGL hosting chair of Joint Chiefs o
Staff in self-driving car at general's request, w/ human in driver seat
"just in case"
Vint Cerf is quite out front with his hearing
impairment. He jumped off stage to stand close to the questioner.
Cerf: "Tech that's tickled me...memristor at
MIT...process & store data in fixed way...avoid boot-up problem...integr8
proc & mem together"
Cerf: "[In semiconductor design" can't push
data into and out of multicore chips fast enough to keep all the processors
busy."
Cerf: "Pearl 's
diagrams remind me of Feynman diagrams. Force you to [visually] go thru all
cases in doing your Bayesian analysis."
Cerf: "We are about to experience Bayesian analysis
more deeply...fundamental to what we [Google] do." Recommends Judah Pearl
books.
Cerf: "Software is an endless frontier. You can go
anywhere you want as long as you can figure out how to program it."
Cerf: "It's not enough to just move data from one
cloud to another...how 2 move metadata & have it interpreted correctly on
other side?"
Cerf: "Intercloud communications is in the same
state of infancy that Internet computing was in 1970s."
In retrospect, it was significant that I first met Vint
Cerf, by happenstance, on the occasion I saw my first Web browser. 1995.
ComNet. DC
Vint Cerf speaking without slides. I love his motto:
"Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."
Keynote @ NIST #cloud #bigdata workshop is none other than Vint Cerf,
Internet pioneer, TCP/IP co-devel & Google VP. Cerf's a gr8 visionary
I'm @ NIST in Gaithersburg
MD #cloud #bigdata standards/practices conference. It'll
be packed
The pattern is nauseatingly predictable. When hi-profile
athlete emphatically denies doping, they usually turn out emphatically guilty.
That Coldplay video where Chris is nose2nose with
Rihanna. Gwyneth cool with all that?
Nose rings seem to be a sort of metallic booger. They
always look nasty on faces, even marring the looks of otherwise attractive
people
Univision. El Gordo y La Flaca. Hoy hay dos flacas
calientes. Me gustan. Mas flacas, por favor.
Today was so busy that I'm crazy & dizzy.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Charmer by Aimee Mann from Charmer
JK--Luv Laura Linney on this music video. Well, I just luv her generally.
Unsolicited postal mailings from Scientology present an
ecological problem. I don't have a recycling bin for hazardous waste.
Have written two-fifths of next week's #IBM quick-hits. Will multitask my brain
cells over next few days for the rest, while at NIST event
"#BigData:
Stop Focusing On Size" (http://bit.ly/106ZUbV ) JK--#IBM Rich Rodt: big data-driven engagement
can "endear" consumers to brands
"#IBM,
Universities Team Up To Build Data Scientists" (http://bit.ly/VgzLTZ )
JK--No, not like Frankenstein. Partnerships w/many schools.
Ever hear odd sound in yr environment & you're not
sure if it's the music or your system(s)? I just did. I turned down volume. Was
the music
Yeah, it's overcast, cool, and damp. But, as January
days go, I'll take it.
"Reboot #Hadoop?"
(http://onforb.es/RYePBi )
JK--Article doesn't actually really critique Hadoop. It just calls for
all-scale analytics focus
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp He's Frank (Slight Return) (feat. Iggy
Pop) by Brighton Port Authority JK--Luv Iggy's voice. Gravelly manly tenor
Sitting here whacking my #bigdata quick-hit themes over the head to see
if friction produces fresh sparks & electro-bolts, as in cartoons
A bit cold out there. LA weather, for sure. Wait, whoa,
I'm still in northern Virginia, right?
Doonesbury the other day had a gr8 line, voiced by
writer Rick Redfern. When a professional writer has nothing to say "he
says it anyway"
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Where Are We Now? by David Bowie from
The Next Day JK--New. Nice. Romantic. Sounds a bit Lambchop
"#IBM Svy: Shoppers Poised 2 Dramatcly
Expand Purch Power Beyond Store" (http://ibm.co/106Hec3 )
JK--Showrooming drives >50% of online sales
"#IBM Helps Retailers Deliver Consistent
Brand Exper Across Expanding Consumer Buying Channels" (http://ibm.co/106GRyn )
JK--#SmarterCommerce
"Images & videos: really #bigdata"
(http://bit.ly/106FwHC )
JK--Image/video analytics. Key to Big Media (http://bit.ly/RMvCT5 )
Spent a wonderful half-hour on the phone with Jane
Ashley, aka "Jane Aire" of JA & the Belvederes.Legitimate biz
reason, which was supercool
How many performers managed that tricky transition from
precocious child actor to precious & childish adult actor?
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Rise by Public Image Ltd. from The
Greatest Hits, So Far JK--So Mr. Lydon are you working thru your anger mgt
issues?
Big data in the cloud? Establishing agile development
practices:http://lnkd.in/K_2rpg
Big data in the cloud? Integrating disparate service
layers:http://lnkd.in/6HcXa2
Big data in the cloud? Aligning approaches: http://lnkd.in/AXEDv3
"5 places your data goes to hide" (http://bit.ly/VfnNtQ )
JK--Big dark dispersed undiscovered data can be a big security vulnerability.
I've stopped following me on Twitter. I can't keep up.
Twitter sucks. It send me a list of suggestions similar
to @brittaphillips& there wasnt a beautiful
indie-rock woman guitarist in the bunch
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Twenty Miles by Deer Tick from The
Black Dirt Sessions JK--Luv the lonesome yearning road warrior feel of this
Toughest anti-flu/cold tip to implement effectively:
"keep your face hands-free." Involves unnatural level of
self-awareness/restraint
"Forbes: #IBM's
20th Year Of Record US Patents Leads w/ Cognitive Computing" (http://onforb.es/XaRvOb )
JK--IBM invests $6B/yr on research
"Slashdot: Rise and Fall of Black Box
Analytics" (http://bit.ly/XaQW6V ) JK--Quotes #IBM Advani re need for "analytics
factory" & IP reuse
"Motley Fool: Is #IBM a Buy on #BigData?"
(http://bit.ly/XaQxRL )
JK--Dumb def'n: "analyzing impossibly large data sets." Far from
impossible
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Games Without Frontiers by Peter
Gabriel from So JK--"Adolf builds a bonfire & Rico plays w/it."
WW2/Axis reference?
Romanticizing about the 1995-era World Wide Web is a bit
like a longtime driver getting teary-eyed about how cool it was to work a
stick.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp See a Little Light by Bob Mould from
Poison Years JK--1994. I love Bob Mould's voice. Metallic timbre suits his
sound
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp I'm Free by The Rolling Stones from
Out of Our Heads JK--Love this early Stones rocknroll. Feels like raw demo
tape.
WSJ article on Missy Franklin enjoying her normal
adolescence with a vengeance, winning every single Colorado highschool girls swim meet
WSJ article on finding perfect sleep position. IMHO,
there is no "perfect." However you lie, U unbalance some muscles
& compress some nerves
CBS puts screws on its CNET division plans to honor ad-zapping
device that broadcasters fear. Sad story for tech news integrity.
Read article that noted that stock market doesn't
necessarily move in tandem with GDP. Former buoys the rich. Latter the poor.
Whatcha wanna bet Cuba becomes the go-to vacation
spot for Americans when these idiotic restrictions are lifted & it develops
normally?
I've got it! I've got it! One of those short-term rental
places, but 4 floor coverings. Daily rates! I've got just the name.
"Carpet Diem"!
Smart cars should come equipped with nag-cancellation
technology in case of backseat drivers.
Social media have made the planet a village. And we all
get to play the village idiot.
"The Internet Of Pointless, Perilous Things" (http://bit.ly/ZQjMuT )
JK--Internet of unnecessary gadgets?
"2013: The Year Of Engagement" (http://bit.ly/ZQjwMl )
JK--Dumb "year" theme. Implies in past all humans have been living
separate lives.
"How To Scare Off Your Best IT People" (http://bit.ly/ZQj8NX )
JK--4th paragraph reports one of cruelest lines I've ever heard from recruiter
"#IBM:
Big Blue's Century Of Growth" (http://bit.ly/UXVizy )
JK--Good SWOT analysis by Derek Barrett
"On The Importance of Design at #IBM:
Love and Margins" (http://bit.ly/ZQd8Vs ) JK--Very good
analysis by @monkchips aka
James Governor
"How Steampunk Inspired #IBM Trend Tracking 4 Brands" (http://bit.ly/ZQ8E11 )
JK--1800s: birth era o telecom photography rail incandescence
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J
JK--Tell Mama 2 put on the gloves & step into the ring herself if she's so
smart
I'm attending @strataconf in
Santa Clara on Feb 27-28 & #IBM#BigData Developer Day in Foster City Mar 1. Hope to see you at it all.
"DARPA wants to dot ocean floor w/ntwk of robotic
pods that can spy, explore" (http://bit.ly/ZQ6U83 ) JK--Sounds like
deep-sea depth charges
Drafting a blog that curates/extends my own responses on
a #bigdata#cloud tweetchat from Dec 13...just before I
took my year-end break.
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Space by The Beta Band from Heroes to
Zeros JK--Luv this line: "do you seem to control your rage? more or
less"
"Four Business Insights from the Universe" (http://linkd.in/RSz17L )
JK--Great post from one of my fave outside-the-box thinkers: @RitaJKing
OMG. I love #KEXP @djcherylwaters . All my prayers go to her. Great
lady. I met/chatted with her on the street in Seattle a few years ago.
A morning of frustrating glitchy administrivia. It's
straightening itself out, but it's trying my patience.
"NoSQL, huh, what is it good for?…" (http://bit.ly/Y5uJNy )
JK--Excellent market overview with detailed tech & use-case/patterns
discussion
My rule of thumb is, the more clickthrus to get to the
content, the worse the content itself usually is.
It takes me about one second (not exaggerating) to
glance at an article & determine whether anything of substance therein. If
not, adios.
Many LinkedIn posts, when you follow the clickthrus to
the content, turn out to be disappointing uninformative motherhood/applepie
write-ups
Lots of LinkedIn discussion group posts are simply links
to stuff, some of it interesting, but many requiring clickthru mktg junk to
view
"Interview with Rayid Ghani, Chief Scientist Obama
2012 Campaign" (http://bit.ly/Y5tJZN ) JK--Interesting
detailed tech discussion.
Al Qaeda Disbands; says job of destroying US Economy now
in capable hands of US
Congress http://nyr.kr/YMsqKr
"#IBM SocialSentIndx Predicts Nu Retail
Trend in Making" (http://ibm.co/Y5okC6 ) JK--"'Steampunk."
This Prtlndia:http://youtu.be/mPKe9OfWs-M
Let's see. Golden Globes. Big story: Jodie Foster pretty
much "comes out." Old news. Anybody who saw her on TV as child
actress knew already
Big data in the cloud? Identifying priority
applications: http://lnkd.in/EJ-2-n
RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Stupid Things by Yo La Tengo from Fade
JK--Indie group's classic low-key, lo-fi, lo-volume shoegazer guitar sound
Growing up near Detroit ,
my impression of US
auto industry was clouded watching them resist sensible pollution controls.
Growing up near Detroit ,
my support for pollution controls was reinforced by dramatic improvements in
Motown air quality after Clean Air Act
Saw "Beasts of the Southern Wild" on DVD. An
OK fabulist tale of the Louisiana
swamps with a global warming overtone to it.
Listening to Lady Gaga "Paparazzi." Only one
of her mega-hits that I'm not thoroughly tired of.
Megan Fox Goes Silent on Twitter, Asks ‘What is the
Point?’http://ow.ly/2uf3OO
Megan Fox. I was hoping to follow her on Twitter simply
to see her pretty face every now and then. Same role movie producers use her
for.
Tackiest celeb profile I ever read quoted Rita Hayworth
saying she'd "never forget" something then writer noted Alzheimer's
robbd her memory
That Ugly American myth is so untrue. We stopped
traveling the world in plaid and horn-rimmed attire ages ago.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell blasts GOP's
"dark vein of intolerance" http://cbsn.ws/13s1zs9
Laughter and yoga serve that exact same purpose for me,
oddly. The part about relieving nervous tension. At least I don't abuse
substances.
The older I get, the more I realize that I have make
myself laugh constantly. Simply to relieve nervous tension. And unnerve others.
Redbox has that Oscar-nominated flick with the
Oscar-nominated little girl with the strange Q name. We rented it. Will watch
it later.
Fun fact: Moody Blues started as an evil cult: the
Knights of White Satan.
People don't wear dungarees while reclining on the davenport
and listening to the hi-fi anymore. Our lives are immeasurably poorer for it.
Trick 2 effectively tweeting complex thoughts is
compositional focus on syntax cadence wordchoice sense impact. All other rules
secondary.
Jimmy Fallon was the Harvey Korman of SNL. Gifted sketch
comedian who often cracked up at what fellow performers were doing.
Stress origin8s from (in descending order) 1) your body,
2) yr social environmt, & 3) world at large. U control all that in same
rough order
Felow club membr took initiative to change TV channel in
men's locker room, saying "no one should hav2listen2 Fox." Sez I
"thankUeversomuch"
Thick fog. Driving 2 club. Turn on car radio. Catch end
of Moody Blues "Nights in White Satin." "Breathe deep the
gathering gloom." Perfect!
Facebook gives you access to largest audience of all
social media & ability to craft richest continuing story of words,
pictures, & media
Would be kind of humorous if Putin takes issue with one
or more of Depardieu's movies and claps him in a gulag. Just saying.
People are so keen on Talk like A Pirate Day. But nobody
ever advocates for Talk Like A Horny Sailor On Shore Leave Day.
"5 Best Day Trips from Jakarta "
(http://bit.ly/10qBH1e )
JK--Glad they put Bogor
(proximity, agreeabl temps, botanic gardn) 1st. I been there
Now for a quick-hit...of Riesling.
Watched all o season 2 of "Portlandia" &
totally blown away. Even better than the first. Special shout-out 2 regular
Kyle McLachlan as mayor
