Saturday, April 18, 2015

Aweekstweets April 12-18 2015: the week that went by just like that

Getting ready for the Silicon Valley trip starting tomorrow. Speak in Santa Clara on Tuesday. Cognitive computing. BAC PASS.

Tired from a day of working out & chores outside the house. The mid-80s is a bit of a shock to the system. That + the pollen. I'll acclimate

Enjoying the warmer weather. Nice to not shiver when I go out to grab the morning papers.

"Open Data Platform Hits Milestone" (http://ow.ly/LKOVy ) JK-- #IBM, #Hortonworks, & #Pivotal products are now aligned on ODP core.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp My Sister by The Juliana Hatfield Three JK--1993. I love the emotional honesty of this.

"Structured Data Ain't Dead" (http://ow.ly/LKN32 ) JK--"Ain't" makes me chuckle in any context. Especially dropped into tech headlines

"TED Talk: Your brain + the cloud = super humans" (http://ow.ly/LKMhh ) JK--I always chuckle at the phrase "implanted in our brains."

"Map of Complexity Sciences" (http://ow.ly/LKKIl ) JK--Need new science just to study this map, then add that science to map. Recursion

"How mch should humans intervene w/wisdom o algrthms" (http://ow.ly/LKHr1 ) JK--Unfortunate headline. Implies all-knowing robot overlords

"Cloud machine learning wars heat up" (http://ow.ly/LKFit ) JK--Brust oddly overlooks market pioneer/leader: #IBM #Watson.

"The Hype Around Graph Databases & Why It Matters" (http://ow.ly/LKE10 ) JK--Why the hype matters? It's only singular antecedent of "it"

"Apple tech applies mach learnng to 3D mapping 4 accurat in-air gesture recog" (http://ow.ly/LKClq ) JK--Would make cool new-age theremin

"NIST Wants 2 Standardiz ‘Big Data’" (http://ow.ly/LKBuE ) JK--Not clear whether NIST has plan 2 harmonize w/ODP (http://ow.ly/LKBKh )

"Giving Out Private Data for Discount in Insurance" (http://ow.ly/LKAjI ) JK--Free Fitbit auto-uploads activity levels to John Hancock

There needs to be a "Bulls***-Literal Nonfiction Contest" for worst tech writing. Counterpart to the Bulwer-Lytton (http://ow.ly/LKzhC )

"Redefining power distribution using #bigdata " (http://ow.ly/LKy0r ) JK--Plus sensors & algorithms to simplify power infra in data ctrs

"Who should really 'own' data science initiatvs?" (http://ow.ly/LKvPq ) JK--Me, that's who. I'd charge data scntsts a nickel per variable

"Auto Nausea: The Downside Of Self-Driving Cars" (http://ow.ly/LKuXp ) JK--The "spam-in-a-can" feeling you might get on a rollercoaster

"Spark data streaming opens faster path to online ad analytics" (http://ow.ly/LKujh ) JK--Cool case studies.

A Look Back at Spark Summit East (http://ow.ly/LKtKC ) JK--Catch #IBM at Spark Summit West June 15-17 San Fran (http://ow.ly/LKtSK )

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp (Keep Feeling) Fascination by The Human League from Fascination JK--1983. Great cheesy synth-bass/synth-keyboard vibe

"Businesses Make Greater Investment in Threat Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/LKrWt ) JK--See this recent #IBM news (http://ow.ly/LKs2Z )

#IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on the @CharlieRoseShow: 'Health Care Will Be Our Moon Shot' http://ow.ly/LKii9 

Your Apple Watch health data assist clinical care in the future http://bit.ly/1CW6Cit 

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Librarian by My Morning Jacket from Evil Urges JK--2008. "Another lovely victim of the mirror."

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure http://bit.ly/1DPKQSQ 

" #IBM Acquires Explorys 2 Accel Cognitive Insights 4 Health+Wellness" (http://ow.ly/LKcEF ) JK--One o world's largest clinical data sets

" #IBM Opens Threat Intellignce 2 Combat Cyber Attacks" (http://ow.ly/LKaxB ) JK--IBM X-Force Exchange, new intel shrng plat on IBM Cloud

Drafted latest #IBM jk #InformationWeek column: "Does Spark Risk Code Bloat?"

Drafted latest #IBM jk #Dataversity column: "Debunking the Myths Around Cognitive Computing"


Cognitive computing? Automation of mining of low-hanging meaning..taggings p1: http://ow.ly/LJJ7K  p2: http://ow.ly/LJJ8Y  Fri #IBM qh

"What If Lincoln Had Lived?" (http://ow.ly/LIVi6 ) JK--For starters, he'd be 206 years old. Definitely a freak of nature. Possibly zombie

Joel Horwitz on Hadoop standardization. http://bit.ly/1CUvffz 

Great new perspective from Michael Schrage. http://bit.ly/1DNURQk 

Hey world, when you think to ask "do you know so-and-so at IBM?", I'll spare you the wasted breath. I don't. It's a big company.

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp There's More Where That Came From by Lee Ann Womack JK--1995. Lovely little lady warble. Pure Appalachian twang.

How The Internet of Things Is a Transformational Opportunity (for #IBM) http://bit.ly/1yvV6ze  via @themotleyfool

Dear People I Was Only Dimly Acquainted With in the Distant Past: Quit using social media to ask for "one big favor" in your careers.

Data-scientist skillsets? Everything on the cheap for the aspiring autodidact data scientist (http://ow.ly/LGIoY ) Thursday #IBM quickhit

The End of Moore’s Law and the Search for the Next Switch http://bit.ly/1DLejxi 

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Everybody's Been Burned by The Byrds from Younger Than Yesterday JK--1967. David Crosby. Very CS&N. Very "Guinnevere"

5 days left to register for #IIUG 2015 conference. Great sessions on #IoT, #Informix #database security..Register- http://ibm.co/IIUG2015Reg 

Intel & IBM bring intelligence to #IoT! Attend event @ San Diego on April 30! Register here https://ibm.biz/BdXdMg   http://ow.ly/i/ai0a9 

Tech-talk on April 20 - Learn about Pattern matching & its use in #IoT sensor data #analytics. Register- https://ibm.biz/BdXHf6  #Informix

What's new: #PureData for Operational Analytics with #DB2 + #Power Systems is refreshed! http://ibm.co/1FxGhvz 

Save the date: April 30 Webcast on latest features of DB2 for improved availability, scalability and usability https://ibm.biz/BdXXeX  #DB2
Exciteddddd! #Hadoop4good winner reveal in T-minus 20!! #bigdata #hadoop http://bit.ly/1DHYCqw 
 jameskobielus retweeted

#Hadoop today sits at the center of an #analytics revolution similar to that of the #internet : http://buff.ly/1FSDH3A  #ODP #Bigdata


#ODP gives customers a rich #technology palette to work with” @AnjulBhambhri #Hadoopsummit #OpenData http://buff.ly/1GJhKqL  #Hadoop

"Standardizing on #ODP customers won’t have to worry about whose #Hadoop they will use" http://buff.ly/1GJhKqL  #ODP #Hadoop #Bigdata #IBM




New #IBM jk LinkedIn Pulse blog: "Questioning The Authority Of Intuition And The Intuition Of Authorities" (http://ow.ly/LDrsv )

Hadoop uber-alles? Spark’s expanding footprint of .... libraries p1: http://ow.ly/LDmyl  p2: http://ow.ly/LDmzu  Wednesday #IBM qh

IBM teams with Apple, J&J, Medtronic to transform healthcare via @Forbes http://onforb.es/1FOrRaI  #IBMWatsonHealth

IBM Creates Watson Health to Analyze Medical Data via @nytimesbits http://onforb.es/1FOrRaI  #IBMWatsonHealth

IBM's Watson HealthCloud is on a mission to reduce healthcare costs via @mashable http://on.mash.to/1DBQDLG  #IBMWatsonHealth

"That’s Data Science: Airbus Puts 10,000 Sensors in Every Single Wing!" (http://ow.ly/LB9ho ) JK--It's a multi-thing'd thing with wings.

"Open Data Platform is Real Deal" (http://ow.ly/LB7K9 ) JK-- #Hadoop vendors who deny that risk marginalizing selves & hurting customers

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp Girl Called Alex by Kurt Vile from Wakin on a Pretty Daze JK--2013. Nice psychedelic guitar/keyboard groove on this.

Quantum analytics? Quantum approaches in high-dimensional machine learning p1 http://ow.ly/LABLB  p2 http://ow.ly/LABNA  Tues #IBM qh

How to get started with data governance http://bit.ly/1DDJryv 

RT @kexpplaylist #kexp A Day in the Life by The Beatles from Sgt Pepper'€™s Lonely Hearts Club Band JK--1967. Only speak-sung Beatles song.

"Concentration is focusing on one thing. Meditation is focusing on every thing." BKS Iyengar

Hey, analytcs vndr, who told U it'd B good idea if your ads go interstitial on YouTube, altern8ng w/"embarrassed o pooping in public" spots?

Improve employee efficiency with #WatsonAnalytics http://bit.ly/1FNSI6R 


"Cut the cord." The phrase misses the mark. You still need an electrical cord to recharge your computer. What you mean is "cut the cable."

New #IBM jk #InfoWorld column: "No, the data warehouse is not dead" (http://ow.ly/LwW0p )

TV & movies always use sound of ancient computer keyboards to represent typing. I doubt your laptop keys go "clackety clackety clack."


Brooks Brothers. In all honesty, their suits are not much better than those at Men’s Wearhouse.