Tom
T Hall "I Love" (http://ow.ly/J5Rny ) JK--Dylan's dumb rant
against it made me want to hear this great song again. Here's Tom & Tammy
Inflection
points here, inflection points there. Is that when something goes viral? If so,
why not an "infection point"? Itching to know
"Rise
of Predictive Modeling Factories" (http://ow.ly/J3Yov ) JK--I
like the phrase "modeling monster ensembles." The most complex algos
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Thirteen by Big Star
from #1 Record JK--1972. They weren't lucky, commercially. Beautiful song,
though.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Get Lucky by Daft
Punk JK--Hey dude, if you stay up all night to get lucky, you won't be up when
you do. Just sayin'
How
to build customer loyalty using e-commerce http://bit.ly/1vJtTYN
I
was born on a 13th. My1stborn was wed on this, the current 13th. It's the eve
of my V-Day 2ndborn's 25th. Prime #, prime day. TGIFthe13!
Just
saw the phrase "post-romantic stress disorder" & snorted with
delight. Is that a synonym for "married with children"?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I Knew the Bride
(When She Used to Rock and Roll) by Dave Edmunds from From Small Things: The
Best of Dave Edmunds
Microphone
manufacturers should calibrate the audio with the spoken phrase “this thing
on?”
New
#IBM jk LinkedIn Pulse
blog: " #BigData
Drives the 21st Century Automotive Experience" (http://ow.ly/J0MGB )
Congratul8ng
our son & new daughter-in-law on making it legal today: Friday the 13th.
His mom&I did on another auspicious day: Ides of March
This
wk #IBMDataMag
qhs: http://ow.ly/J0GFE
http://ow.ly/J0GFF
http://ow.ly/J0GFG
http://ow.ly/J0GFH
http://ow.ly/J0GFI
Advanced
visualization? Fundamental visualization principles of data-scientific
storytelling (http://ow.ly/J0FBM ) Friday #IBMDataMag qh
CTO
Forum here in Palo Alto .
Day 1 was great. All speakers were thought provoking & side-chatter around
me was great. Everybody super-sharp
My
latest #IBM blog was a
calculated departure from my usual subject matter. It's about me & my
self-consciousness: http://ow.ly/IYTgT
New
#IBM jk blog "The
dev@ was in the details, and in my delivery" (http://shar.es/1oRXu3 )
"Scrubbing
CO2." Can be backbreaking labor to get stubborn grime out of the chemical
bonds holding together all those carbon & oxygen atoms.
We’re
over the moon with #PureAppLove
this Valentine’s Day. http://ibm.co/hybridcloudapps http://ibm.co/1ATQrHC
Love
is in the hybrid clouds with #PureApp on @SoftLayer. http://bit.ly/1ir4Oo3
#PureAppLove http://ibm.co/16Pv1hy
Ambient
analytics? Finding and acting on dark environmental patterns (http://linkd.in/1CZfObG )
Thursday #IBMDataMag
quick-hit
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'm A Fool To Want
You by Bob Dylan from Shadows In th Night JK--2015. He readily admits 2 being
longtime Sinatra fan
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Venus in Furs by The
Velvet Underground JK--1967. Failed to spawn subgenre of sadomasochistic poetry
raga-rock.
Geez,
don’t eulogize Jon Stewart. He’s just going to do something else. I’ll bet it’s
cool. Wait & see.
This
@AberdeenGroup report explores #midsize companies
harnessing the power of #Analytics
http://bit.ly/16VSWfj
Tell
us how #WatsonAnalytics
can help you solve your biggest data challenges http://bit.ly/16VSQV1
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Blue Moon by Beck
from Morning Phase JK--2014. My fave track from the Grammy-winning LP.
Toastmaster.
Been one since I was knee high. Put bread in slot, push lever down, wait,
"pop," perfect toast every time! That's not so hard.
Catch
me next at CTO Forum "Rethink Technology." Palo Alto . Four Seasons Hotel. Panel is
Friday 11:15am. Informatica's Ivan Chong moderates
I've
warmed up slightly to Sam Smith's record o the year. "Stay With Me"
came on the rental car radio while cruising down Hwy 101. It's fine
Drafted
next #IBM jk #Dataversity
column: "Networks Are Becoming Self-Aware & Self-Defending"
Drafted
next #IBM jk
InformationWeek column: "The SSD Tipping Point Grows Blurrier By The
Day"
Drafted
next #IBMDataMag
column: "Distinguishing Data’s Latency From Its Actionability"
"Meet
the Expert: James Kobielus" (http://ow.ly/IUwNW ) JK--I
wrote As to Qs from organizers o PASS BA Conf 2015 (http://ow.ly/IUwNX )
In
the airport of my dreams, I'm never reaching the end of the moving walkway. I'm
enjoying the scenery all the way to my scheduled destin8n
That
“roses are red”doggerel. I’m still disturbed by the fact that violets aren’t
violet.
"
#BigData as
statistical masturbation" (http://ow.ly/ISDDn ) JK--Again with the
"teenage sex" metaphor? Keep that stat tool in yr pants
"
#BigData Deployment:
Finding The Best Model" (http://ow.ly/ISBgE ) JK--Decision flowchart
is simple, valid, useful, & funny.
IBM
#PureData & #Cognos opened up a
whole new world of #analytics
possibilities for #SafetyInsurance
http://buff.ly/1DDKluN
: @IBMDataWH
What
is changing in the world of #DataWarehousing?
http://buff.ly/1z6Enx8
@IBMDataWH Blogpost #Inmemory #Hadoop
IBM’s
Point of View on #DataWarehouse
#Modernization
http://buff.ly/1980KMz
: @IBMDataWH Blogpost #Inmemory #Hadoop #Bigdata
All
about the next generation #inmemory #database : #Faster #Simpler #Agile #Competitive http://buff.ly/1zV0A3y
: @IBMDataWH Blog #IBMBLU
Leveraging
#InMemory #Computing For
Fast Insights http://buff.ly/1zV0A3y : @IBMDataWH Blogpost #IBMBLU
All
in memory? Distinguishing data latency from “actionability” p1: http://ow.ly/ISoFH
p2: http://ow.ly/ISoFI
Wed #IBMDataMag
qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Heart Is a Drum by
Beck from Morning Phase JK--2014. Last year's Best Album. Best Rock Album too,
tho very orchestral
Catch
my keynote at TDWI Solution Summit Savannah, March 16: "Machine Learning:
Making Sense of Big Data in a Big
Way "
"
#IBM Adds New Svcs to
Watson Dev Cloud" (http://ow.ly/IOPpn ) JK--Beta: Speech2Text
Text2Speech VisRecog, ConceptInsights, TrademkAnlyt
"10
In-Memory Database Options Power Speedy Performance" (http://ow.ly/IOhrw )
JK--Market overvu includes #IBM
#DB2 w/ #BLU Acceleration
"Is
Flash All That?" (http://ow.ly/IOe9t ) JK--Interesting IDC
quantitative projections of growth in the flash storage market.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Famous Blue Raincoat
by Leonard Cohen JK--Jane coming by w/ lock of hair creeps me out. What's next,
Jane? His scalp?
Cognitive
computing? Gaming th Turing test p1 http://ow.ly/IO3cv p2 http://ow.ly/IO3cw
p3 http://ow.ly/IO3cx
Tues #IBMDataMag
qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Philomena by The
Decemberists frm WATW WABW JK--2015 "All I wanted in the world was to live
to see a naked girl" LOL!
Have
the Grammies considered banning Kanye West from attending the event in person?
He's disrupted it twice. He's seriously asking for it.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Pedestrian At Rest
by Courtney Barnett JK--2015. "Give me all your money & I'll make some
origami, honey"
Movie
industry award shows need new category: "Best Popcorn Flick." Let's
face it. That's most sci-fi, comic-book, blow-em-up, & CGI pix.
Spam
headline of day: "Paranoid about your hairline?" Yes I am. Whoever or
whatever is causing my male pattern baldness is not to be trusted
"Dark
underbelly." Why the sinister connotations? Isn't that where bacon comes
from? It's so yummy! Can't be bad for you.
"TDWI
Las Vegas" (http://ow.ly/INMET ) JK--Feb 24–27 Las Vegas . #IBM speaker Brian Vile,
prog dir, product mktg, InfoSphere #IBMDataMag
"
#IBM InterConnect
2015" (http://ow.ly/INMcM ) JK--Feb 22–26. Las Vegas . Premier cloud
and mobile innovation event #IBMDataMag
"Strata
+ #Hadoop World"
(http://ow.ly/INLNu )
JK--Feb 17–20. San Jose .
Keynote on #IBM #Twitter alliance by
Adam Kocoloski #IBMDataMag
"InfoSphere
Guardium Tech Talk: Data Encryption for DB2 and IMS Databases" (http://ow.ly/INKYv )
JK--Thurs Feb 12 11:30am EST #IBMDataMag
"Webcast:
Moving Toward a Well-Governed Data Reservoir" (http://ow.ly/INKFw )
JK-- Wed Feb 11 2pm EST #IBMDataMag
"Recognizing
Sales Performance Management" (http://ow.ly/INKdY ) JK-- #IBM earns leadership
placement in Gartner MQ #IBMDataMag
"All
About the Internet of Things" (http://ow.ly/INJRJ )
JK--Grab these #IBM use
cases to take a deep dive into IoT solutions #IBMDataMag
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp World Away by Tweedy
from Sukierae JK--2014. Good LedZep-ish rocker from Wilcoman & Wilcomanson.
"Resources
for #IBM Predictive
Analytics Solutions" (http://ow.ly/INJkf ) JK--Insight on
predictive customer intelligence #IBMDataMag
"The
Beauty of a Federated Repository" (http://ow.ly/INIW2 )
JK--Case study: InfoSphere Master Data Mgmt & Watson Explorer #IBMDataMag
"Storage
Considerations for Healthcare Text Data" (http://ow.ly/INIG7 ) JK--W.
H. Inmon provides consultant’s take on topic #IBMDataMag
"Burgeoning
Cognitive Systems" (http://ow.ly/INIgb ) JK--Sushil Pramanick
on cognitive computing toward mainstream execution #IBMDataMag
"Data
Visualization Playbook: Telling Data Story" (http://ow.ly/INHU1 )
JK--Jennifer Shin on strategies for data scientists #IBMDataMag
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp David Watts by The
Kinks from Something Else by The Kinks JK--1967. Real person. Gay guy who hit
on Ray's bro Dave
WSJ.
Forrester’s George Colony on “business technology” vs IT. Meaningless
distinction. It assumes a piece of IT does not serve th business.
Very
excited by the new Inova Center for Personalized Health here in Fairfax County
Hey
Alabama , here
you go again, invoking bogus “state’s rights” to deny people their civil
rights. Your pinhead judges should be impeached
"How
I Found Optimal Where’s Waldo Strategy w/ Mach Lrng" (http://ow.ly/IKVDw )
JK--I beg to differ. Special Forces found him w/Bin Laden
"Bristol
IoT project turns whole city into rsrch lab" (http://ow.ly/IKU60 )
JK--UK
city will use IoT-sensor data for quality-of-life apps
Good
list of massive open online courses (MOOCs) for aspiring data scientists: http://ow.ly/IKQg5
"IoT
Data Model Fills a Gap" (http://ow.ly/IKPxW ) JK--IPSO Alliance
freely available data model for interoperable smart objects for IoT
"
#BigData Crushes
Anti-Vaccination Movement" (http://ow.ly/IKOc0 )
JK--Visualization of ”vaccine preventable outbreaks” 2006-present
Rand
Paul justifies anti-vaxx on "correlation," not "causation."
Sez nothing about causation re unvaccinated individuals spreading contagion
"Wearables
will fuel a massive surge in mobile data by 2019" (http://ow.ly/IKMiT )
JK--Interesting quantitative projections in this one.
"Can
#BigData Give Us
Bionic Brains?" (http://ow.ly/IKL7v ) JK--Now equipped with
"U"-powerd bionic brain, Kirk achieves Bourne Supremacy
"Big
Data Humor: Top 10 Conversations That You Don’t Want to Have on Data Innovation
Day" (http://ow.ly/IKHjs ) JK--Good ones from...
"OSU
Rsrchrs Develop Method 4 Gener8ng Machine Learning Algorithm from Data on
Connectd Devices" (http://ow.ly/IKEgt ) JK--Crowd-ML model
"Stanford
to host 100-year-long AI study" (http://ow.ly/IKBaL )
JK--Curious whether it's wrapping up 1915 study of tabulating machinery
Motley
Fool -- Why Three Common Criticisms of IBM are wrong: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/02/07/myth-busting-ibms-growth-problem.aspx#.VNjOxIC9EHk.twitter …
via @themotleyfool
"Evol
o AI" (http://ow.ly/IKucx ) JK--"Big data is
goldmine for biz, but companies practically drowning in it." Bulwer-Lytton
candidate?
Annoyed
by pop-up online-mag subscribe-opt-out dialogs that more or less compel U to
click: "no thanks, I'm a loser, just show the article"
"Gates
Joins Musk/Hawking in Worry Over Machine Superintelgnc" (http://ow.ly/IKp90 )
JK--While rest o us hope 2 make our billions from it
"Visual
Processing Robots Learn to Cook from YouTube Videos" (http://ow.ly/IKngS )
JK--And they can whip up a mean soufflé.
"Return
of Artificial Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/IKj8k )
JK--Good discussion of machine/deep-learning & cogntive comptg startup
activity
I've
seen enough profiles of attributes of best data scientists. Most omit the key
qualifications: song on your lips, melody in your heart.
This
just in: Brian Williams says he misremembered also being the musical guest the
time he hosted "Saturday Night Live."
What
the?!!. Kanye West said what about Beck at th Grammies last night? Is he even
remotely familiar w/ Beck's music? http://ow.ly/IKeef
I
consider it tiny victory against entropy when my Monday morning mind remembers
what my Friday afternoon mind said it should. They're flaky
"This
is why your data scientist sucks redux" (http://ow.ly/IK6PV )
JK--Must U be so graphic? Leave something to the imagination, please
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Birthday by The
Sugarcubes from Life's Too Good JK--1988. Cigars R gross. Party spoilers. Just
pin them on the donkey
"
#IBM Teams With > 300
Colleges+Universities to Educate New Gen o Innov8rs" (http://ow.ly/IK1X0 )
JK--Power Systems Academic Initiative
"10
Phrases That Kill #BigData
Projects" (http://ow.ly/IJZwk ) JK--I'm surprised that
"we've eliminated your budget" is not on this list.
"Cloud
analytcs expected to keep growing&growing" (http://ow.ly/IJRIP )
JK--But not as ravenously as Audrey II in "Little Shop o Horrors"
"Daniel
Kottke talks doing LSD with Steve Jobs" (http://ow.ly/IJP8a )
JK--Fun fact: Kundalini serpent ran up original Macintosh backplane
Catch
me in Palo Alto
this week. Rethink Technology CTO Forum. Four Seasons Hotel. Panel on Friday
11:15am (PST). http://www.ctoforum.org/index.php?option=com_events&view=events&layout=event_current&Itemid=227 …
Healthcare
analytics? Analytics to pinpoint medicine with precision p1: http://ow.ly/IJxQY
p2: http://ow.ly/IJxQZ
Mon #IBMDataMag
qh
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Morning by Beck from
Morning Phase JK--2014. Congratulation on well-deserved Grammies for Album of
the Year etc
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Underground by
Curtis Mayfield from Roots JK--1971. Very much in same vibe as Marvin Gaye
during that same period.
Excellent.
The 3 new articles on #IBMDataMag
this week are new contributors I've recruited. All good stuff.
Supply
chains infused with analytics -- redefining commerce http://bit.ly/1D5eVN7
@deepakadvani
"“Cyberspace”
must die" (http://ow.ly/IJoGT ) JK--I agree. Throw it
on the figure-of-speech scrapheap with "information superhighway"
Grammy
record/song of year. We listen to pop radio, but I don't recall Sam Smith's
hit. If I'd heard it, it didn't/doesn't "Stay With Me"
Just
saw adjective "cloudable," referring to IT "functions &
processes." Not sure I understand what that means or if the coinage
necessary
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp About A Girl by
Nirvana frm MTV Unplggd JK--1994. I've never seen their 1st LP, "Most
People Don't Own It," in stores
Selfie
sticks. Not my bag. Arms-length constraint forces tight-framing creativity in
self-portraiture: lighting, background, expression, etc
3-D
scanners. 3-D printers. Before long, they'll be used to sculpt portraits of
people with perfect verisimilitude. Life masks. Death masks.
My
strategy to avoid repeating myself in my blogs is to cover every interesting
topic in my domain from every angle. And boring topics too
Warm
days in February are so rare that they seem magical. We hit 70 today. Walked
around jacketless. Had half a mind to put on short pants.
Every
winter I look forward to watching Alpine skiing on TV. Purely vicarious
thrills. I personally cannot ski worth a damn.
Guilty
confession: I viewed the video of the immolation of the Jordanian pilot.
Probably one o the most horrifying things I have ever seen.
Aristotle
contemplating the bust of Homer? More likely he was contemplating Cleopatra’s.
Move
like Jagger? You mean to the south of France for tax-avoidance reasons?
Not at my age! Or in my bracket.
Do
binary life forms have to do a number 2--or a number 10?
History
Channel. Henry Rollins comments on hemp in colonial America . If punk historians had
their way, we’d fly stars&stripes on black flag
LinkedIn
invites us to congratulate so-and-so, who already told us about their great
good fortune, on th occasion o their great good fortune
The
pocket transistor radio. Any historical account of 1960s music radio must
consider that many kids listened on handheld devices. I did.
Awards
season. I’m surprised there’s not an awards show to honor the best awards show.
