Gr8
Sasha Frere-Jones New Yorker profile o brilliant schizo career of avant
musician Arto Lindsay (http://ow.ly/zSu63 ). Noise+Brazilian
Wish
@geneweingarten would refrain
from putting jokey poetry in his columns. Those usually signal the least funny
specimens of his oeuvre
Web
browsing, or my Skip-Ad Odyssey.
Having
seen/heard almost none of his work, the best way to appreciate Stephen Sondheim
is YouTube.
Biggest
timewaster on the Web is not Facebook. It's lists of 10-20 cool things that you
have to click through one screen at a time to read.
Whacked
thru a thicket of falsity today in search of The Truth. Found it. What is The
Truth, you ask? Were you out there whacking with me?
In
Virginia
scandal news, former gov Bob McDonnell reveals that his wife had the hots for
some rich guy & the gov lusted for his goodies.
There's
fine line between immersing yrself in world events & wallowing in the
world's miseries. 24x7 news coverage doesn't observe that line
"Executive
summary"? Do we have to write different summaries for each level in th
corporate hierarchy? Shop foremen? They get their own too?
Accomplished
more or less everything I set out to accomplish this week. Not everything that
conceivably could be done. Just what I intended
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Summertime Clothes
by Animal Collective JK--Group specializes in circular grooves that induce
virtual vertigo.
"More
than economics: The social impact of open data" (http://ow.ly/zQzK3 )
JK--Chock full of good info, video, and photos on topic
"Even
Data-Drvn Businesses Should Cultivate Intuition" (http://ow.ly/zQxa7 )
JK--That advice about as useful as "work smarter not harder"
Hey
#kexp @loserboy, my guess is your guilty
pleasure is Grand Funk Railroad, "We're an American Band"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Sister by
Raveonettes frm Pe'ahi JK--2014. Danish duo seem 2 B taking their surf-rock
vibe 2 Hawaii
wavelngth on l8st
People
talk of not having enough "bandwidth." I want to be a smartass &
ask whether they're using an inefficient signal-encoding scheme.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Tusk by Fleetwood
Mac JK--Fun fact: th Mac were singing about walrus tusks on this. People
mistakenly assume elephant
"Why
We Should All Love Graph Analytics & Stop Worrying" (http://ow.ly/zPJdE )
JK--Good slide preso. Cool slide-navigation UX too!
"Amazon
Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It" (http://ow.ly/zPIZP )
JK--They're called "distribution centers." Not a new concept.
Browsing
the IT press/blog-o-sphere. Deja-views. Every day, at least a dozen instances
of me saying to self: "oh, wait, I already read that"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Graceland
by Paul Simon from Graceland JK--1986. Love Simon's simile: "Mississippi delta like a
national guitar"
"Gartner
gets 'data lake' concept all wrong" (http://ow.ly/zPHdh )
JK--ACOliver defends concept, intros monastery metaphor into the mess
"Analysts
Warn o Data Lake
"Data-Drvn
Illusions" (http://ow.ly/zPG4B ) JK--"Illusion-o-truth
effect"? "Illusion-o-quality effect"? Just say "unwarranted
confidence"
Annoyd
by comment re Devo "Whip It" expressng "Jimmy Carter"
sentiment. "Whip Inflation Now" was Gerald Ford turkey (http://ow.ly/zPFzX )
#BigData & cliched
"3 Vs" explanations. Remind o SJGould exasperation re eohippus size
always compared to fox terrier http://ow.ly/zPBUJ
"Streaming
#analytics, is
about looking through the windshield," says @mgualtieri http://buff.ly/1n81n7W
#bigdata #Forrester
I'm
a bit annoyed at people who think all I do is tweet for a living. Same people
have never clicked the links I tweet. Many link to my work
This
wk #IBMDataMag
qhs: http://ow.ly/zPx5Z
http://ow.ly/zPx6K
http://ow.ly/zPx7h
http://ow.ly/zPx8H
http://ow.ly/zPx9i
Open
data? Monetizing your existence as crowdsourced data scientist p1: http://ow.ly/zPwE5
p2: http://ow.ly/zPwFf
Fri #IBMDataMag
qh
Endorsements
on LinkedIn are worth zero. If endorsements come from friends who still haven't
responded to your message, they're worth < zero
In
future, folks'll make their domain name their legal surname, with kids' given
names everything after-slash--eg., http://www.cleaver.com/theodore/aka/beaver …
I'm
going to suggest that computer scientists refer to themselves as
"algorithmatists." Makes it sound like they can really rock the casbah.
New
#IBM jk blog:
"Empowering athletes with real-time, data-driven decision support" (http://ow.ly/zNR9B )
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Inner City Blues by
Marvin Gaye JK--Luv how he sings "inflation" as "'flation."
Makes consumer price index sound hip
"Tales
of Old Santa Fe" (http://ow.ly/zNDOA ) JK--Jack Handey
authored this wonderfully dry/wry New Yorker "Shouts & Murmurs"
humor piece
Have
always found phrase "disabuse you o the notion" mildly alarming.
Sounds like you're about 2 whack some fool thought outa someone's head
Peta-governance?
Challenges of probabilistic data-matching in IoT p1: http://ow.ly/zNccM
p2: http://ow.ly/zNceZ
Thurs #IBMDataMag
qh
"How
The Rise Of Th "R" Computer Language Is Bringing Open Source To
Science" (http://ow.ly/zN4dT ) JK--"Bringing
hacker culture with it"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Earthquake by
Deerhunter JK--2010. Odd opening reminds of Pere Ubu "Voice of the
Sand" from 1979 "New Picnic Time"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Girlfriend Is Better
by Talking Heads frm Stop Making Sense JK--Pls explain, DB. Better cuz she'd
stoppd makin sense?
"Robots
... might become killer app" (http://ow.ly/zN18N )
JK--Don't use "robot" & "killer" in same sentence.
We've all seen "Terminator"
When
I see new tech-industry term synonymous w/ a long-familiar, my brain screams
"AKA!" & appends another also-known-as to my mental index
"IoT
devices contain high number of vulnerabilities, study finds" (http://ow.ly/zMZwm )
JK--I'll bet. Who suspects their thermostat?
"
#IBM acquires CrossIdeas
to Expand Security Offerings with Identity Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/zMZiH )
JK--Deepens our I&AM portfolio
Been
8+ years since my career turned the corner to focus on all things data. Didn't
see it coming. When it came, I thought: "it's come!"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp People Who Died by
The Jim Carroll Band JK--1980. Best punk-rock ballad ever. Actually, only one I
can think of.
End
of July. I thought it would be slow, industry-wise. But it's been the most
active month of the year, so far. Never a dull moment.
"Flintstones"
full of anachronisms. Dinosaurs? Extinct millions of years before humans
evolved. Who was Hanna-Barbera's scientific adviser?
Facebooking
is actually scrapbooking. That's how I approach it. The "social" part
of the experience is peripheral to my experience.
Tonight
while cutting vegetables together, I regaled my daughter with a detailed
big-data
Facebook
needs a regular leveling prompt: "Does this 'friend' act friendly in
person? If not, care to reciprocate? Click here to de-friend."
"ScaleBase
Distrib DB Sw now Avail on #IBM
Cloud Mktplace" (http://ow.ly/zKPnT ) JK--Enables apps
instantly scale out multi MySQL instncs
"Abuse
of Larry Ellison continues unabated" (http://ow.ly/zKILU )
JK--Um, OK. His board's "abusing" him to the tune of continued
zillions
What
is a data scientist? 14 definitions of a data scientist! http://bit.ly/1rP7wgO
pic.twitter.com/vUMreMlB0J
Do
you have a blueprint for your integrated #bigdata and #datawarehouse
landscape? http://ctt.ec/fMe01+ #IBMdatawarehouse
@IBMDataWH
RT
@IBMDataWH Value of #analytics can be
undermined if confidence in veracity of information is lost http://ctt.ec/098bC+
@rahulag80
RT
@IBMDataWH #Insight2014
session on Industry Models: Read @rahulag80
blog to know more http://ctt.ec/Thrat+ #IBMdatawarehouse
RT
@IBMDataWH eHarmony apply #datascience to
love with #IBM #PureData System for #Analytics http://ctt.ec/Yl0uX+
Lowering
data processing time from hours to minutes with #IBM #PureData System for #Analytics http://buff.ly/1pDXQjj
@IBMDataWH
"
#IBM 2 make free
supercomptg powr avail 2 sustainblty scientsts" (http://ow.ly/zKfzV )
JK--Max 100K yrs cmptg time per approved project
"Breakthru
Elastic Cloud2Cloud Ntwkg Unveild by AT&T, #IBM Research and ACS"
(http://ow.ly/zKfim )
JK--Intlignt cloud data-ctr orchstr8rs
#BigData's optimal
deployment model? Core principles of scalability p1: http://ow.ly/zKdCx
p2: http://ow.ly/zKdDY
Wed #IBMDataMag
qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Head Underwater by
Jenny Lewis from The Voyager JK--2014. Very nice. Jenny's back with a good one.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Working Man by Rush
JK--1974. No truth to the rumor Geddy Lee keeps a tank of helium on-stage to
keep voice in tune
Alan
Partridge "Just Sack Pat" (http://ow.ly/zIHcQ )
JK--2014. Steve Coogan. Funny scene o DJ stabbing colleague in back to save own
job.
Catch
me speaking at Internet of Things Expo Silicon Valley, Nov 4-6, Santa Clara CA
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Radio Free Europe by
REM JK--Cold War echo. Back in day Detroit 's
downtown Ethnic Festivals featurd "Captive Nations"
"IBM+Apple
Agreement More About Development than Supply Chain" (http://ow.ly/zHVim )
JK--Interesting analysis by Daniel Rasmus
Data-scientist
skillsets? Polymathic grasp p1 http://ow.ly/zHEIL p2 http://ow.ly/zHEM1
p3 http://ow.ly/zHEPJ
Tues #IBMDataMag
qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'm on Fire by Low
from Dead Man's Town JK--2014. Great Springsteen cover.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'm on Fire by Low
JK--Great Springsteen cover.
"Why
Data Scientists Get Paid So Much" (http://ow.ly/zHynT )
JK--"Turns out, what they do is really hard."
"Metric
Optimization Engine" (http://ow.ly/zHxc5 ) JK--Yelp's new open
source, machine learning svc 4 optimal A/B test/experiment design
"In
1858, People Said Telegraph 'Too Fast 4 the Truth'" (http://ow.ly/zHvYK )
JK--Well, yeah. It's info. Truth emerges thru info analysis
IT
press articles that discuss "10 things you should do." I've never
seen even 1 item on any of them that might land on anyone's Bucket List
"
#IBM Insight 2014
Registration Super Saver" (http://ow.ly/zHtw1 ) JK--Save $600 when you
register by July 31 #IBMDataMag
"Turn
Challenges into Opportunity " (http://ow.ly/zHsam )
JK--IBM ebook: Gain insights for the chief data officer role #IBMDataMag
"Optimizing
Healthcare Outcomes" (http://ow.ly/zHrXL ) JK-- #IBM IBV study: download
the report.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Sympathy For Th
Devil by Rolling Stones frm Beggars Banquet JK--1968. Surprised Manson didnt
cite this as inspiration
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Cello Song by Nick
Drake from Five Leaves Left JK--1969. Vint Cerf sorry he gave up cello to
invent the Internet.
"New
Bluemix Solutions Catalog Offering" (http://ow.ly/zHqOA )
JK--Geospatial analytics in #IBM
#Bluemix Analytics
Warehouse #IBMDataMag
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Do You by Spoon from
They Want My Soul JK--2014. Great new song by the veteran Austin indie-rockers
"Jumping
onto Analytics Bandwagon" (http://ow.ly/zHpNb ) JK--IBM biz analytx sw
helped zoo boost online sales 771% over 2 yrs #IBMDataMag
"Uniting
Knowledge Workers in Flexible Trusted Cloud" (http://ow.ly/zHpyi )
JK--IBM Navigator on Cloud enhances team prdctvty #IBMDataMag
"#IBM Recognized for
Addressing Key Data Governance Domains" (http://ow.ly/zHplF )
JK--IBM named a leader in #Forrester Wave #IBMDataMag
"Untangling
the Definition of Unstructured Data" (http://ow.ly/zHp1o )
JK--W.H. Inmon gives his POV on the topic #IBMDataMag
"Measuring
Confidence in Data" (http://ow.ly/zHoJi ) JK--Paula Wiles Sigmon
on IBM-commissioned survey into info govnnce impl #IBMDataMag
Blind
Willie Johnson "Nobody's Fault But Mine" (http://ow.ly/zGBN2 )
JK--Stubbornly cussedly taking responsibility. Buzzsaw voice. Wow!
Skip
James "Hard Times Killin' Floor Blues" (http://ow.ly/zGBe6 )
JK--Voice of utter desolation, fighting against all odds to hang on
Robert
Johnson "32-20 Blues" (http://ow.ly/zGzZ5 )
JK--Masterful picking: melody, chords, counterpoint, rhythm. Veritable
voice-axe duet
September
weather this July eve in northrn VA. No, it's like the shore o Lake Superior in July. Wife sez "cold." I say
"no way." Perfection!
"Yahoo
CEO's nap inspires jokes on Twitter" (http://ow.ly/zFPNK )
JK--Give the woman a break. CEO job must be utterly exhausting.
"Face
Recog Algo That Outperforms Humans" (http://ow.ly/zFP8p )
JK--Should B in wearable prosthetic smartglasses for the memory-impaired
"Oink
: Making Pig Self-Service" (http://ow.ly/zFMCl )
JK--Great. Now we need project called "SOOEY!" to round up them li'l
critters.
"Apache
#Hadoop YARN: Present
and Future" (http://ow.ly/zFM9L ) JK--Good discussion.
Treats YARN as Hadoop 2.0 operating system
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp It's Summrtime by
Flaming Lips frm Yoshimi Battles... JK--2002. Wayne Coyne: best wistful nerd in
rock since JRichman
Interesting
blog about Apache Sentry project (http://ow.ly/zFKTN ).
"[A]ims to offer fine-graind access control 2 data stored in #Hadoop"
Wish
I could hit CTRL+ several times & magnify typeface on hardcopy reading
material. Oh mine aging eyes!
"Scientists
Question Big Price Tags o #BigData"
(http://ow.ly/zFHXR )
JK--Not exactly. Choking on resourc reqs o computationl megascience
"16
analytic disciplines compared to data science" (http://ow.ly/zFHiT )
JK--Pretty good scoping from Vincent Granville
"According
2 US
#BigData, We Won
Vietnam" (http://ow.ly/zFGxs ) JK--Unh uh. U're
confusing historcal analytic w/McNamara predictive model
"With
#BigData, Moneyball
Will Be on Steroids" (http://ow.ly/zFG10 ) JK--That's OK, but
will disqualify money & ball from Cooperstown .
Had
analytical discussion w/ my college-educ8d daughter this a.m. I discussd
quantified self & suggested she GGL her father's analyses on QS
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Shrine / An
Argument by Fleet Foxes from Helplessness Blues JK--2011. Song+video possess
shamanistic potency.
"Scale-free
nets" (http://ow.ly/zFBiD ) JK--Some nodes act as
highly connected hubs. Describes power grids, stock mkt, comunicbl diseases
"California
sees IT shift 2 #IBM-built
cloud" (http://ow.ly/zFA7s ) JK--"[T]his
sbsrcptn-bsd svc...'significntly cheapr' than alternatvs"
A
#bigdataapplication
of #onlinebehavior
detection is well suited for #antifraud protection
http://ibmdatamag.com/?p=15918
by James Kobielus
How
the true power of behavioral fingerprinting is #fraudbusting
technology par excellence http://ibmdatamag.com/?p=15918
by James Kobielus
Why
#behavioralpatterns
are the core of our personalities and how others sense who we are as people http://ibmdatamag.com/?p=15918
by James Kobielus
Drafted
next #IBMDataMag
column: "Exploring New Frontiers in Business Analytics"
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#IBMDataMag jk
column: "The Power of Behavioral Fingerprinting" (http://ow.ly/zEQ5Z )
IoT?
The walls have ears, eyes, noses, & every other sense organ p1: http://ow.ly/zEL4u
p2: http://ow.ly/zEL62
Mon #IBMDataMag
qh
"Today
marks 100 years since beginning o 1st World War" (http://ow.ly/zEKiM )
JK--Cataclysm originally called "Great War." War aint great
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Famous Blue Raincoat
by LCohen from Songs o Love & Hate JK--"Jane came with a lock of your
hair"? Yuk! De-loused?
Just
saw press release ref to "Governor Sarah Palin." Doesn't make me
respect her, not even a smidge. "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger"? Nah
NYTimes
Magazine had a list of things that are "so 90s." My fave was
"debating Alanis' definition of 'ironic.'"
Rich
irony department: Emails with links to stories bemoaning what a workplace
distraction and productivity-killer email is.
Capitalism
becomes more equitable, efficient, innovative, & dynamic when the political
system protects competition, not competitors.
Workweek
begins with me having fixed a "printer problem" from late Friday. It
appears I'd re-installed a depleted black-ink cartridge. D'oh!
The
Beatles didn't last long enough to record the Shakespeare-themed album they'd
long discussed: "A Hard Midsummer Day's Night's Dream."
I'm
always amused by historians who note that presidents tend 2 age visibly in
office. Have they noticed that presidents R middle-aged & up?
If
we use Twitter, we are tweeters. But if we use HootSuite, we are not hooters.
Repeat, we are not!
RT
@msgbi: Scaling Machine Learning (http://zite.to/1tOrC8S )
JK--Interesting discussion.
"Great
spirits hav always encountrd violent opposition frm mediocre minds." -
Einstein JK--Paraphrase: really said: "I'm a genius, dumbass!"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Last Good Day of
the Year by Cousteau from Cousteau JK--2000. Extravagantly luxuriant romantic
pop.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'll Sing It by
Tweedy from Sukierae JK--2014. Great. New father-son duo: Jeff & Spencer
Tweedy. Jeff's Wilco's head
Nice
thing about the weekend is my Internet-usage isn't rushed like it is during the
work week. I can space out Sat-Sun. M-F: I produce.
Typical
NYTimes profile of a poet. Four dense pictureless pages of discussion. Only a
few truncated examples of her work.
RT
@ibmiot: Superb presentation from @jameskobielus outlining the world
of #IoT and addressing
the issues of security http://ibm.biz/BdFXHD
WashPost
article about tunnels in warfare. In terms of defensive countermeasures, sounds
like a perfect assignment for drones.
Waiting
for the Sunday newspaper to arrive with a kerplunk on my driveway. That's sort
of like cock-a-doodle-doo for a suburbanite.
Had
quiet dinner w/Egidia & Sonya at a little Italian place up on Mount Vernon Avenue .
Strolling thru sleepy Delray neighborhood. Alexandria
"
@geneweingarten takes
‘corporations = peopl’ idea 2 logcl end" (http://ow.ly/zBTBv )
JK--Briliant! Gem rivals Swift's "Modest Proposal"
Parade
Mag continues its sorry slide into idiocy. This week in "Walter Scott's
Personality Parade": multiple choice on Mark Twain real name
Enjoying
managing #IBMDataMag.
Great team. We've been systematically executing my priorities 4 enhancing
content, experience, & engagement
Hmm,
Facebook. I'm figuring th top block o 9 "friends" portraits chek out
my stuff th most & bottom block o 9 R my most recent "new"
friends
People
who harp on grammatical faux pas as signalling decline+fall of Western
civiliz8n. Letters2editor columns would be empty without them
Many
real-world acquaintances appear on Facebook for short, revealing periods, then
drop off. It's like drive-by reconnection with your past
Most
dinosaurs may have had feathers. If so, were feathers adaptive to survive mass extinction?
Or did they evolve on some scaled survivors?
"AI
identifies the musical progression of the Beatles" (http://buff.ly/1xexvMJ )
JK--Curious if can also ID Beatle influence on other artists
RT
@elainebeare: The Emotional
Boundaries You Need at Work http://wp.me/p3JwKW-8t
