RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Detroit City by
Arthur Alexander JK--1965. Didn't want to go home to Hamtramck or Highland
Park. Detroit city proper.
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@kexpplaylist #kexp Leave My Kitten
Alone by Little Willie John from Fever: The Best of LWJ JK--1959. Very cool.
Sounds like early Motown
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@kexpplaylist #kexp Hospital Handshakes
by Rocky Votolato from Live @ KEXP JK--2015. Good new one from Seattle
indie-rock veteran
Began
today’s yoga class by pointedly disobeying instructor’s request to clear floor
of our water bottles. Hydration integral to my practice
Nice
lazy Saturday. Almost began to doze during savasana in yoga class. The dream
that almost came in fact came during subsequent nap @ home
I'm
getting a bit annoyed with auto salespeople who fixate on hue & immediacy.
"What color car you want? Why you no want to buy today?"
Bought
& downloaded Bill Callahan's stellar "Dream River" LP from 2013.
The man has a thoroughly shamanistic command of word, image, melody
Today
a member of my team referred to me as an "Everready Bunny." I take
that as high compliment. Beats being called a stubborn sonofabitch.
A
pleasant anniversary meal with the wife in Ballston. Recalling the fact we
moved to DC area 30 years ago come Labor Day. Much has changed.
"Using
Deep Learning 2 Make Vid Surveillance Smarter" (http://ow.ly/Rv9K8 )
JK--Neural net app gives smartphone/tablt camera intelligence
"5
Signs That You Are NOT a Data Scientist" (http://ow.ly/Rv8Wq )
JK--Or, rather, that a wannabe NOT CUT OUT TO BE a data scientist
"Super-intellignt
machines spawned by AI? Execs arent worried" (http://ow.ly/Rv8p2 )
JK--Wont worry till brainiac bots seek corner office
"Taboo
Data" (http://ow.ly/Rv7zj ) JK--Data sources you
dare not touch. Data analyses U dare not undertake. Data uses U dare not
attempt
"Insights-as-a-Service
Grows with Focus on Real Time" (http://ow.ly/Rv6Ut )
JK--Good discussion by #IBM
Jamie Thomas
"Data
Quality Trumps Visualization" (http://ow.ly/Rv5NZ )
JK--Unfortunate picture suggests Donald Trump bragging about his endowment
"8
worst predictive modeling techniques" (http://ow.ly/Rv58M )
JK--Omits worst of all: CGI anim8n o Homer Simpson throwing darts @ target
"How
to detect a pattern? Problem and solution" (http://ow.ly/Rv4Ua )
JK--Houston, we have a pattern!
"Building
Human Curiosity into AI" (http://ow.ly/Rv3RC ) JK--Neuro-dynamic
progr: anlytx lern/anticp8 how actions contrib 2 cumltv reward
"New
data uncovers surprising predictability of Android lock patterns" (http://ow.ly/RuTF1 )
Jk--Impatient fingers seek familiar patterns
"Analytics:
Like a Mosquito in Nudist Colony" (http://ow.ly/RuS4h ) JK--Please
choose better simile--ie, one that doesn't equate w/pest
"Big
Data Research Questions real origin of the US Peace Corps" (http://ow.ly/RuQm9 )
JK--Reveals Marilyn cooed idea to JFK during tryst
Damn
that Napoleon. Gave short intense dark-haired ambitious guys a bad name. At
least Danny DeVito is funny.
For
splitsecond, I thought I had light work schedule today in my online calendar.
Then I realized I was looking at Sunday. Jolted from dream
"MIT
Puts Pedestrians at the Center of Urban Design" (http://ow.ly/RuJ4h )
JK--Sensor net to track scale/speed of pedestrians over time
Don't
DMVs also ban taboo-word homophones on persnlzd plates? Saw one substituting
"kh" 4 initial consonant of crude ref to female genitalia
"6-Month
Update on How We’ve Been Using Data & How it Benefits All Americans" (http://ow.ly/RuC26 )
JK--DJ Patil. US Chief Data Scientist
"Open
Data Can Help Fulfill Govt’s...Promise of Equality" (http://ow.ly/RuBBe )
JK--Equality not "govt promise." It's core national value
These
"top 10 startups to watch" list grow tiresome if it's the same bunch
in every list, month after month. Watched pots may not be boiling
"Hadoop
Releases: Here's the Timeline Graph" (http://ow.ly/Rux9v )
JK--For those uber-geeks who geek out on the elephant's history.
"Some
Important Streaming Algorithms You Should Know About" (http://ow.ly/RuwGl )
JK--Detailed tech discussion & visualizations of algos
"Data
science without stats possible even desirable" (http://ow.ly/RuvWd )
JK--Contradicts own thesis: cites new stat apprchs in data sci
Fun
fact: Hoboken was founded by a hobo named Ken. Trust me on this.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Jumping Someone
Else's Train by The Cure from Boys Don't Cry JK--1979. Isn't that the very
definition of "hobo"?
Data
storytelling (http://ow.ly/RuvkB ). Good infographic.
"How
to Become a Data Scientist for Free" (http://ow.ly/Ruv73 )
JK--Assuming your time spent acquiring skills has no opportunity cost.
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@kexpplaylist #kexp Rock & Roll by Led
Zeppelin from Led Zep IV JK--1971. Not long time since they rocknrolled. 3 secs
since "Black Dog"
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@kexpplaylist #kexp Skins in My Closet
by Skin Yard JK--1987. Sounds like punked-up Van Halen. Not bad.
At
what point, in a work environment where everybody's super-busy, can you get
away with using "I'm busy" as an excuse to deflect more work?
Facebook's
"see who liked yr page" notifications. If I cared to check, I'd feel
like Sally Field: "you like me, you really like me." Um, no.
Concerned
about terrorist exploitation o self-driving cars. At some point, they'll figure
how to rig them into improvised exploding vehicles
"Sony
quadcopter takes smartphone tech 2 skies" (http://ow.ly/RofMT ) JK--Oh
no! Drones acquiring bad table manners? Put that thing down!
"Vint
Cerf: 'Sometimes I'm terrified' by IoT" (http://ow.ly/RoexK )
JK--Beyond risk of Google IoT-equipped massage chairs squashing him
High-tech
moves at a glacial pace. By which I mean it continues to slide forward, develop
fissures, than suddenly slide right over the edge.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Square Pegs by The
Waitresses from Just Desserts JK--1982. Band's most inconspicuous member was
leader Chris Butler
Some
loudmouth at club hot tub last night trying to argue that world'll end if stock
market dips further. Didn't happen in 1929. We're safe.
Email
from tech conf lists "committed speakers" only by title&company
eg "Data Scientist, Facebook." Really? No name? How committed is
that?
People
in their 40s have a fonder memory of music in the 1980s than I, nearing 60, do.
All I remember is boring radio & stupid music videos
"IBM
Report Explores the Economy of Things" (http://ow.ly/RoaHL ) JK--Covers
asset marketplaces, risk management, efficiency.
"MIT
builds 3D printer that can use 10 materials at once" (http://ow.ly/RoahN )
JK--I'm more impressed with fact it uses COTS components.
"Gridlock."
Term originated 2 describe Manhattan traffic, but th last few times I've been
there traffic seemed 2 flow well. Not like Jakarta
"Ashleymadison."
A direct English translation of the German word "schadenfreude."
Discovered
from my social media friends lists that I know a lot of people I don’t know.
Many don’t know they don’t know me.
Some
things are within mission scope. Some are within one's bandwidth. "Change
the world" is the former. "Get through the day," the latter
Gone
a few weeks without having written a blog. Wrote 4 blogs in one sitting this
morning. Spacing publications out over the next 2 months.
Weaponized
drones and public safety concerns. Will a new generation of privatized
anti-aircraft artillery emerge to defend public airspaces?
RT
@bigdata_bieber: #JustinBieber
Veteran @JamesKobielus Explains
Future http://ow.ly/QeNF9 JK--Actually, I’m a
Bieber rookie.
I
want my email system to do more than tell me which messages are unread. Please
tell me which are uninteresting. Which can I safely ignore?
I
don't think our nervous systems evolved to click on abstract on-screen
thingamajiggies. Be that as it may, we're evolving that way now.
Read
first 15 pages of Orwell's pamphlet "Why I Write." Starts
interesting. Quickly degenerates into ripping Neville Chamberlain a new one
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@kexpplaylist #kexp One Piece at a Time
by Johnny Cash from the album The Legend JK--1976. Too much trouble. Real car
thieves are smarter
"Quantum
cmptg renews concerns o cybersecurity apocalypse" (http://ow.ly/Rhii6 )
JK--Possible 2 measure positions/momentum of 4 Horsemen?
"11
things you should know as a Data Scientist" (http://ow.ly/Rhhxe )
JK--Not clear why real data scientists need all this 2 B enumerated
Those
articles with "[Number] of Things You Need to Know about [Subject]"
titles. Never clear why the number relevant to why I should care.
Listening
to one of those pharma-commercial speed-disclaimer spiels last night. At any
speed, "increased risk of suicide" clangs alarmingly
We
should launch all past Next Big Things into deep space, forming a new asteroid
belt to deflect future Next Big Things away from Earth.
The
Trump campaign, and by extension the GOP's entire push for the 2016
presidential cycle, is a slow-moving whistlestop trainwreck.
Same
algorithms trained to spot sarcasm should also be used to identify phishing
lures. Same phenom. Nasty intent lurks behind clever facade
Another
work week begins. Another week of caffeinating myself into a lather of frenetic
activity. Another week of fun.
Not
sure which wins the Insincere Listening Sweepstakes: “I’ll take what you say
under advisement” or “I hear ya”?
My
retired ex-schoolteacher wife still feels weird pang of duty every time
beginning of new school year rolls around. But not a severe pang
Jimmy
Carter. My favorite of all US presidents. The one who best illustrated the
positive power of a post-presidential bully pulpit.
Ashley
Madison & the debate about whether humans are hardwired for monogamy. I
think we’re only hardwired to seek thrill. Wherever/whatever
WashPost
full of myriad GOP presidential candidates. To point where you couldn’t really
say this rag is left-leaning. It’s right-saturated.
