RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Psycho Killer by
Coneheads from LP1 aka.... JK--Punk THeads cover. Ridiculously long LP title: http://ow.ly/QnuWT
Today’s
yoga teacher said some jazz about not drinking water less than an hour before
class. I had half a mind to dump mine over her head.
Shelley’s
“Ozymandias.” That always struck me as a big dumb pretentious poem about Irony
with a capital I. Not terribly subtle. Hollywoodish
If
liver is organ & mitochondrion an organelle, why isn’t the constituent DNA
an organellesimal? Where do you draw the line on the spectrum?
Was
there ever a time in the development of the English language when people
exclaimed “whoopie doo “ in a non-sarcastic context?
Creating
buyer personas with advanced predictive analytics http://bit.ly/1MBT2Lu
"Exclusive
– IBM Big Data Evangelist James Kobielus Talks Analytics & Staying
Flexible" (http://ow.ly/QkheI ) JK--The work me &
the ME me
New
#IBM jk LinkedIn Pulse
post: "Stigmatizing, Euphemizing, and Other Patterns of Technological
Life" (http://ow.ly/QjWmJ )
One
advantage of letting a draft rest for a week is being able to return to it as
an almost-neutral editor. "What was that guy thinking?"
"Obama
orders creation of exascale supercomputer" (http://ow.ly/Qjeh6 )
JK--Makes POTUS sound like God on Genesis day 7. And it was good!
Love
IT headlines such as "NoSQL a real 'game-changer," declares database
expert." The "declare some schmoe an expert" game hasn't changed
Former
US Interior Sec'y wrote book with great spine: "Who Owns America ? Walter
J. Hickel." Our national landlord (http://ow.ly/Qj7Ql )
Love
the URL of my recent post (http://ow.ly/Qj7un ):
"defending-connected-cars-vehicular-grid-against-james-kobielus". Yes
I'm the enemy
The
Donald, running, is a perfect Duck, sitting, for comedians to pick off, helping
the GOP lose big in 2016. Quack quack!
IBM
launches Recipes community to spur IoT app development http://bit.ly/1SOEoPA
New
#IBM jk LinkedIn Pulse
post: "Humanitarian Giving and the Role of the Professional Data
Scientist" (http://ow.ly/QgPdZ )
17th
GOP pres candidate: Jim Gilmore, sour-faced pol who did nothing & impressed
no one, not even his own party, while Virginia
governor
Reinventing
Retail: Customer Intimacy in the Data Era http://bit.ly/1VMPn0p
New
#IBM jk LinkedIn Pulse
blog: "Defending Connected Cars & the Vehicular Grid Against
Cyberthreats" (http://ow.ly/QdRsf )
Interesting
intervu w/NYTimes' tech reporter John Markoff (http://ow.ly/QdMjx ). Calls
Silicon Valley one-dimensional engineering
culture
"AI
Conspiracy: The ‘Canadian Mafia’ Behind Tech’s Latest Craze" (http://ow.ly/QdLnL )
JK--Says sorry before putting horsehead in yr bed
"Why
It'll Take New Horizons 16 Months to Send Us This Week's Data" (http://ow.ly/QdL4S )
JK--Sneakernet?
"Data
has a shape" (http://ow.ly/QdKYm ) JK--Or pattern, which
topological data analysis helps unsupervised machine learng algos discover
"Chief
Analytics Officer vs. Chief Data Officer" (http://ow.ly/QdKeq ) JK--I
think this is an arbitrary distinction. 2 sides of same job.
"Infonomics
key to measuring data quality" (http://ow.ly/QdJRA )
JK--Wikibon speaks with IBM's Cortnie Abercrombie & Gartner's Doug Laney
WSJ
article points out 1980 comedic gem "Airplane!" essentially remake of
1957 "Zero Hour!" Scene-by-scene compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BjU-e01zQ4 …
Paul
Simon "Rewrite" (http://ow.ly/QcZEH ) JK--2011. From his
great "So Beautiful or So What" LP. His loving songcraft remains
sterling.
jameskobielus
retweeted
Bought
& downloading Active Child's latest LP "Mercy." Golden mellow
intensity. A mood music par excellence. I'd already streamed it twice
Listening
to #KEXP Wo' Pop
world-music weekly show to hear host Darek Mazzone's meticulously high-fidelity
pronunciations of foreign words.
Visited
the new Wegmans hypermegasuperdupermarket near Ft. Belvoir
Torrential
summer thunderstorm swept the air of humidity the way a saturated sponge-mop
sweeps the floor.
"Leading
AI rschrs, scientists call for a ban on autonomous weapons" (http://ow.ly/QaPLh )
JK--Fat chance. Humans are nasty animals.
New
#IBM jk blog:
"Driving in-memory data warehousing into the big data cloud" (http://ow.ly/QaNZc )
New
#IBM jk LInkedIn Pulse
blog: "Social Sentiment and the Barometer of Backlash" (http://ow.ly/QaNhK )
Join
the Live Chat August 4th: Gain deeper insights using more data with IBM Fluid
Query 1.5 | IBM Data Warehousing https://ibmdatawarehousing.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/russell_fq15chat/ …
"AI
triumphs @ Pictionary-like sketch recog task" (http://ow.ly/Q7Oos )
JK--Yeah but that's the easy part. Drunken sketching is hard
I'd
like to see Seinfeld & Babu in a car getting coffee (http://ow.ly/Q7KVd ).
"You're a very bad man" "Could my mother have been wrong?"
"Astro
is an open-source project from Huawei that adds support for HBase to Spark
(1.4.0) SQL" (http://ow.ly/Q7Kng ) JK--Sounds promising
"Audience
Analytics With Spark and HyperLogLog" (http://ow.ly/Q7Jcu )
JK--May I suggest algo's next version be called "HyperHyperLogLog"?
"In
data science, R language swallowing Python" (http://ow.ly/Q7IQo )
JK--Because the R serpent can unhinge its jaws wider than Python's
I'm
definitely wearing an editor's cap of the mind this morning. Getting pissy and
picky over examples of bad writing. So much of it.
"5
Ways Big Data Disrupts Your Existing Data Warehouse (In A Good Way )" (http://ow.ly/Q7HR0 )
JK--OMG. Just say "improve."
"Stop
Hiring Data Scientists Until You’re Ready for Data Science" (http://ow.ly/Q7Hty )
JK--I disagree. You need them to get ready for it
Would
semi-blow my mind if email systems used simple machine learning on my
mail-using behavior 2 learn what I tend 2 delete vs file & where
Hey
post-customer-engagement surveyers everywhere: my default response is "it was
adequate, don't worry, now bug off." Got that? Thanks.
"BDA
in a Snap" (http://ow.ly/Q7DSN ) JK--What the...?:
"Turing-like images of massive cloud storage centers humming away in a
dessert"?
"Marketers:
Using Big Data to Target In-Market Consumers [Infographic]" (http://ow.ly/Q7Dhk )
JK--Bad infografc. Dump pix & do as blog
"9
Python Libraries Which Can Help You In Image Processing" (http://ow.ly/Q7CL5 )
JK--It's, um, "that," not "which." Restrictive clause
Term
"infographic" understood too vaguely. It's the visual presentation of
a data/statistics-based narrative. Not a word-cluttered graphic.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'm Alive by Kasey Chambers
from Bittersweet JK--2015. Nice new one from Aussie country-western
singer-songwriter
"Google
helping build IoT campus" (http://ow.ly/Q7ynx ) JK--"Provide
reactionary features"? Like what? Advocate return to gold standard?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Peaches by
Presidents of United States o America JK--1995. "In a factory
downtown"? What modern city has those there?
"What
Is a ‘Computer’ Anymore?" (http://ow.ly/Q7vLD ) JK--"Thinking
machine"? While we're on the topic, what's a "machine" anymore?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Sisters of Mercy by
Leonard Cohen from Songs of LC JK--Song perfectly framed mood o Altman 1971
"McCabe & Mrs Miller"
“Women’s
Health” mag cover story: “Your Best Butt.” Apparently, these are wardrobe items
now. Like Imelda Marcos’ shoes.
Colony
collapse reorder. WashPost reports stat that there are more commercial colonies
operating in US now than before problem 1st detected
Everybody
thinks "digital strategist" is sexy job title. But "analog
strategist" has it beat. What's sexier than continuous curvy waveforms?
To
sustain productivity as a writer, you sort of have to remember who you're doing
it to please. And that's yourself. Whatever turns you on
Making
note of the LInkedIn Pulse posts of mine that very few readers
"liked." As it turns out, I like those the most.
Watched
"While We're Young" on DVD. Noah Baumbach's latest w/Ben Stiller
& Naomi Watts. Pushing-50-ish actors own up to own aging. Loved it
