A
gray blustery day. Made me think of Winnie-the-Pooh and empathize a wee bit
with Eeyore.
Oddly
memorable biz trip o year. Mar 3. Cleveland. Spoke about DW @ Quicken Loans
Arena. Then saw Cavs game w/LeBron
I
give thanks that the year's drawing to a close. It's been a good one. But it's
starting to drag. Or perhaps the darkness makes it seem so
Tadpoles
don't develop into sperm whales, do they? Look like they should. http://ow.ly/UUvXL
Bryce
Harper NL MVP celebratory truck at lunchtime in Crystal City was cool. Confused
why Greenpeace activist chose that spot to chat me up
I
wrote that entire InfoWorld column today while waiting to go up & do my
presentation. The power of positive distraction. Speech went well
This
was 3rd year straight I've spoken at DM Forum late-Nov event in Crystal City.
Bill Inmon always opens. I always close. Call me Outmon.
Drafted
new InfoWorld blog: "Data Science Fertilizes The Thousand Flowers of
Cognitive Spring"
Speaker
keeps calling it "Silicone Valley." If I'm not mistaken, that's Las
Vegas.
Big
congrats to Nats slugger Bryce Harper on winning NL MVP. Now if team could only
leverage its considerable talents to take it all the way
"Human-Like
Neural Networks Make Computers Better Conversationalists" (http://ow.ly/URYgb )
JK--Please don't use HAL9000 as example.
Here's
how I rehearse for my presentations: I glance at my slides & say to myself
"oh yeah, that's what I'm supposed to talk about...uh, ok"
RIP
PF Sloan. Wrote & produced many memorable California-inflected 60s hits--eg
Turtles “You Baby” (http://youtu.be/fvV5vC9NP2E )
Catch
me speaking tomorrow at Big Data and Enterprise Architecture Conference 2015,
Arlington VA (Crystal City). http://ow.ly/URnyh
Drafted
next #Dataversity
column: "Data Science to Change The World or Scratch an Itch"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Open Your Eyes by
School of Seven Bells JK--2016. Slated for next year release. Recorded in 2012.
RIP Ben Curtis
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Little Mule by Holly
Golightly & The Brokeoffs from Coulda Woulda Shoulda JK--2015. Boss jam.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Beautiful Blue Sky
by Ought from Sun Coming Down JK--2015. Sounds like Lou Reed doing Edward G
Robinson impersonation
Eagles
of Death Metal "Complexity" (http://ow.ly/UOvHH )
JK--Good band. Tragic circumstances at Paris show gained them recent notoriety.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Kurious Oranj by The
Fall from I Am Kurious Oranj JK--1988. Song is primarily MarkESmith repeatedly
mewling its title
Data
Scientists and the Practice of Data Science http://ibm.co/1YgwqDs
Great wide-ranging blog by @bobehayes
around #IBMInsight
"You
Don’t Have to Choose Betwn ‘Big Data’ and ‘IoT’" (http://ow.ly/UNKu2 )
JK--Yes you do. We here at Big Data demand absolute loyalty
"How
to Present Data to People Who Are Scared of Numbers" (http://ow.ly/UNKa4 )
JK--Never show them "800." It looks too much like "BOO!"
"A
moment of IoT silence before we disrupt" (http://ow.ly/UNJ5Z )
JK--Did the late Daniel E. Noble pencil in that 'stache?
"AI
gone wrong: Cybersecurity director warns o 'malevolent AI'" (http://ow.ly/UNHuR )
JK--Sure, in context of malevolent use of any tech
"Artificial
Intelligence Gives Photos New Life Online" (http://ow.ly/UNGnl )
JK--Unlocking the rich pool of visual info otherwise hidden
Out
a day is like being out a week or a month. No matter how long, when I come back
my inbox seems to have stretched out beyond the horizon.
Meet
One Of IBM's Secret Weapons: A 29-Year-Old 'Intrapreneur' via @forbes @jaredkleinert http://onforb.es/1MysoyV
jameskobielus Retweeted
Caught
a Roma Downey-Mark Burnett production on disc yesterday. "Little
Man." Spoiler alert: involved child, family, priest, & redemption
Deleting
crap messages from my inboxes is like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Astral Plane by
Jonathan Richman & th Modern Lovers from The Beserkley Years: The Best of
JK--1976. Classic dork-rock
@jameskobielus I have a first
generation zune. Is it a collector's item?
jameskobielus Retweeted
"The
IoT and the return of 8-bit computing" (http://ow.ly/UMoNA )
JK--Embrace cramped quarters, make the most of hardware constraints.
"Microsoft
turns off the lights on Zune services" (http://ow.ly/UMngk )
JK--But my second generation Zune still works beautifully.
I've
stopped looking at my Starbucks app since they stopped giving free new songs.
All they pitch now are free apps. I couldn't care less.
People
are often said to be "losing their mind." I think the issue is
exaggerated. How often do they turn up in lost & found boxes?
I
predict that English spelling will shift from capitalizing proper names to
hashtagging them. Everybody aspires to searchable brand status
Pilatespalooza.
Rock your muscle tone.
Only
serious reconnection I had with my highschool crowd was after one of us died in
WTC on 9-11. It was a bizarre circumstance. All online
11-13-15.
The rising numerological cadence is reminiscent of 1st 2 terms of 9-11-01. Diff
is 9-11 twisted into inverted intermediate number
Bidding
some friends farewell. They’re moving on the Auto-Train to Florida. We tend to
forget the terminal’s near us. Maybe someday we 2 too
"What
every CEO needs to know about Big Data Analytics" (http://ow.ly/UHcIp )
JK--Please don't start its history in ancient Mesopotomia
Oh,
wife bought new microbrew. Miller Lite. Says here it has micro number of
calories. As if I worry about weight when all I want's the buzz
Wow!
A new version of Java to download? Amazing! Been waiting for it forever. What's
a Sunday night without a little fresh software action?!
Can’t
think of any incredibly profound things to say right now. So I think I’ll come
up with some credible profundities instead.
RIP
Gene Amdahl. Pioneer in the mainframe industry. Ex-IBMer who then founded own
rival company. More here: http://ow.ly/UGbbw
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Tangled Memories by
Gems from Kill The One You Love JK--2015. Nice misty/moody atmospheric pop from
LA-based duo.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Sympathique by Pink
Martini from Sympathique JK--1997. Cool swinging lounge song.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp La Vie En Rose by
Edith Piaf from The Very Best Of Edith Piaf JK--1946. Gorgeous Gallic warble.
RIP
Allen Toussaint. Famed NOLA R&B producer/songwriter composed
"Java" & "Whipped Cream." Two-thirds of his unfinished
Frappucino Trilogy
Spent
the day after my return from my business trip processing the day before.
Horrible terrorist tragedy fell on my birthday. Memento mori.
Got
back home in time for my favorite sort of birthday celebration: quiet drinks
alone with my honey.
The
week I was born, Conway Twitty & Kingston Trio were contending for
Billboard #1 spot. I favor “Tom Dooley” over “Its Only Make Believe”
Wrote
4 detailed blogs in 48 hours. I really squeezed all the data from that palooza.
#RockYourData
New
jk #Datapalooza #RockYourData
blog: “The new soul of the insight economy: A Datapalooza dispatch” (http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/new-soul-insight-economy-datapalooza-dispatch …)
Another
birthday? Seems like this aging thing is getting way out of hand.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Blue Eyes by The
International Submarine Band from Safe at Home JK--1968. Great country tune.
Gram Parsons et al.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp The Devil Don't Want
Me by Ashley Monroe from The Blade JK--2015. Classic-feeling twangy soulful
country ballad.
Believe
or not, I had one more #Datapalooza
Dispatch blog inside me. "The New Soul of the Insight Economy" will
post tomorrow on BD&A Hub.
So
there!
New
#Datapalooza #RockYourData
blog: "Creatve Data Engineerng Can Drive Data Sci Insights: A Datapalooza
Dispatch" (http://ow.ly/UzUou )
New
#Datapalooza #RockYourData
blog: "A Community Event for Innovative Spark Apps: A Datapalooza
Dispatch" (http://ow.ly/UzUdX )
New
#Datapalooza #RockYourData
blog: "Rocking Data Science for Sustainable Innovation: A Datapalooza
Dispatch" (http://ow.ly/UzU4E )
As
#KEXP moves to their
brand spankin new studio, I wish to point out that their old studio is
righteously cool. I always felt at home there
Here’s
the secret to getting the most out of a business trip: never forget that you
are a tourist.
"Why
Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill" (http://ow.ly/UxNhr )
JK--Only 007's will be specifically licensed for that use case.
"Four
Immutable Laws of Data" (http://ow.ly/UxNaz ) JK--"Man-made
data-climate change is real"? Huh? What's "data climate"?
To
dad, who helped make this country a safer place. Thanks for your service. To
mom, who helped him make me. Thanks for your cervix.
jameskobielus Retweeted
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Sunburned Shirts by
Car Seat Headrest from Teens of Style JK--2015. Love multi-layered guitar
feedback fuzz on this
I
have essentially 3 handshakes: a tentative fingers-on-fingers, a more engaging
2-hand clasp of 1-hand, and a hand/hand clasp + arm touch
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Firecracker by
Frazey Ford from Live on KEXP JK--Her voice is sort of like Feist run through a
Joanna Newsom filter
Big
data mythmaking seems to be waning. Need I be concerned? Should I rebunk some
myths? Don't want my debunking skills to atrophy.
Whew!
Wrote one of my Datapalooza recap blogs. Day 1 (yesterday). I'll let U all know
as soon as I post it. Not sure where yet
Apparently
homeless woman profanely berating an apparently homeless man right in front of
me. Might be time to find somewhere else to write
Putting
earplugs in to block out the Christmas music being piped into Starbucks. It's
not even my birthday yet, or Thanksgiving. Hold off!
Ach...enough
with the Bear Grylls, already. If he’s such a survivalist, why doesn’t he grill
a bear? Conflict of interest?
"Facebook:
Our AI will give everyone 'superpowers'" (http://ow.ly/Uv4rv )
JK--What's kryptonite in this analogy? Forced 2 live off-grid?
"Mapping
the Internet of Things" (http://ow.ly/Uv40r ) JK--How are "vehicles,"
not "homes," conceptually next thing out from "people"?
"America's
Big Data Obesity Problem" (http://ow.ly/Uv2yL )
JK--Unconvincing stretch of obesity analogy & fingering of USA as chief
fatty
Can
the air be more refreshing and can San Francisco be more urbane? I think not
Always
make sure I get my cardio workout in the city by the bay
"The
“Rules” of Data Visualization Get an Update" (http://ow.ly/Uuwqp )
JK--Very cool visual preso of practical guidance.
"Can
An Astrophysicist Change The Way We Watch Sports?" (http://ow.ly/Uuw73 )
JK--"Flash precognition": pinpoint ballistic predictions
Data
scientists range all over presentation-friendliness spectrum. Some build
engaging visual narratives. Some are text-heavy plodders
"Data
Analytics, Data Pros Big Winners in 2016 Budget Increases" (http://ow.ly/UuuJD )
JK--Highlighting data-scientist shortage
Often
in high tech, the most radical thing you can do is remember the past. So many
current debates obliviously repeat history.
"Time
for Identity as Service?" (http://ow.ly/Uuo0G ) JK--I
recall MSFT getting flack 15 years ago re Hailstorm http://ow.ly/Uuo8R
"If
one of Pluto’s moons spins any faster its surface might fly off" (http://ow.ly/UunFy )
JK--Why's this story in Network World?
Heading
over to Galvanize, 44 Tehama. Day 1 o 1st #Datapalooza. Hope
to see U there. I assume coffee's been brewed. Let's see. #RockYourData
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Lips Like Sugar by
Echo & The Bunnymen JK--1987. "My Siamese twin"? How possible he
has different ethnicity from you?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Prairie Rose by Roxy
Music from Country Life JK--1974. Amazing that the jawdropping LP cover photo
was ever approved.
IBM
unveils matchmaking tech for finding & leveraging best APIs http://on.wsj.com/1KZxGl7 ...
http://bit.ly/1iNIOe9
Heading
to San Francisco for #Datapalooza.
Come #RockYourData
tomorrow through Thursday. Get ticket here: http://ow.ly/UpMTi
No
need to grow jaded with age. You only think you've "seen it all."
What you've seen is what you've seen. Don't confuse that with "all"
Seems
like the "History Channel" is just pseudo-science documentaries now.
How does speculation on extraterrestrials qualify as "history"?
"Could
Detroit become next Silicon Valley?" (http://ow.ly/UoAil )
JK--Locating some tech jobs there doesnt make it "next Silicon
Valley"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp My Wandering Days
Are Over by Belle and Sebastian from Tigermilk JK--1996. Group is sort of an
arty Herman's Hermits
First
World problem: trying to identify which of the exoplanets is the long-rumored
Second World.
Have
mentally mapped out all the blogs I plan to write this week. That doesn’t mean
I know what I will say. Just that I’ll write whatever.
Spent
a cool low-key rainy day inside hanging with my girl. Don't get to see her that
much now that she's grown and got her own place.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Silent Rain by Keep
Shelly In Athens from Now I'm Ready JK--2015. Cool squealy electronica.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Dancing In The Dark
by Hot Chip JK--2015. Great Springsteen cover. Turns it a dance song. As befits
the title.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Xanadu by The Ghost
of a Saber-Tooth Tiger from Midnight Sun JK--2014. Sean Lennon & band.
RT
@TheEconomist: A new book looks
at history through the murky lens of London's fog http://econ.st/1WEsqdo
Not
sure how many years I've spent reading advice on adding years 2 my life.
Hopefully it all nets out on th positive side of th life-ledger
"Quantum
Materials & a New Paradigm for Computing" (http://ow.ly/UmUxZ )
JK--Emulate brain ability to do vast computation at low energy
B-52s
"Quiche Lorraine" (http://ow.ly/UmTZm ) JK--I originally
misheard it as "Quiche LaPuto." Masochistic French-Italian bondage
freak?
Airline
ads for 1st class seats. When I recall my trips, I almost never remember the
seat I occupied for several hours to get there.
I’m
never quite sure what to make of it when people tell me their parents were
“hippies.” Which specific alternative parenting lifestyle?
We
have now passed the peak of fall season of IT industry events &
announcements. A collective breath-catching. Not necessarily an idle time
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp A Pin-Light Bent by
Joanna Newsom from Divers JK--2015. An affecting moonchild melody on the harp.
Nice
thing about a staycation is I can give myself permission to reshuffle my
domestic routine into a different arrangement. Just because
At
last the GOP candidates are debating the issues that matter. Next up: Ben
Carson's theory on how the Loch Ness Monster built Stonehenge.
"Rolling
Stone Mag 10th Anniv Special" (http://ow.ly/UlW7v )
JK--11-25-77. Exceptionally excremental. Except Steve Martin at 29:30 mark
There
are far more options for "watching TV" than ever before and I'm far
less interested in exploring them. I'm not averse to potatohood.
WSJ
intervu w/Ronald Isley says he & bros derived "Shout" from
call-response live outro cover o Jackie Wilson "Lonely Teardrops." I
hear it.
"Your
Microsoft Word Skills Suck" (http://ow.ly/UiT4X ) JK--So
true. And my WordPerfect skills are totally rusty. I've let myself go.
In
the analytics biz, we speak of "actionable insights." Are there any
"non-actionable" insights? Where's all the useless knowledge?
These
presidential debates aren't working out. I suggest new format: candidates
simply mock each other in high-pitched fake foreign accents
"Bob
Dylan & IBM Watson on Language" (http://ow.ly/UiMwO )
JK--Fun fact: he originally went cognitive on disc 2 of "Blonde on
Blonde"
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Weather With You by
Crowded House from Woodface JK--1991. "57 Mt Pleasant St" is
fictional: http://ow.ly/UiM3L
"Do
Data Big, Or Die in 2016, Warns Big Data Veteran" (http://ow.ly/UiLwJ )
JK--Isn't that the New Hampshire state motto?
Alexandria
mayor Bill Euille loses write-in re-election bid. Voters probably gave up
trying to remember correct spelling of his last name.
Did
mid-day Pilates down at the club here on my day off. New teacher (to us). She
put us through some challenging moves. I'm feeling it.
Shopping
at Wegman’s. Wish my GPS worked inside the store so I could find my way around.
Not sure, but I think I’m still in Virginia.
Facebook
has gr8 face-recog tech but cant manage 2 recog+block bogus friend requests
ostensibly from vain young women vamping provocatively
Warm
one today. Hard to tell whether it’s Indian Summer. I’ve never been to India.
Catching
up on a massive stack of unread New Yorker magazines. I always start with their
“Night Life” profiles of musicians playing th clubs
Election
Day. I assume that people are still writing in cartoon characters, like
Huckleberry Hound, Mickey Mouse, Donald Trump...
Hillary
should make somebody named Ben Ghazi her running mate. Many Republicans want to
see that connection. She needs to win them over.
Now
I'm actually taking a few vacation days off. Staycation. It's been a year and
half since I've been able to manage even that.
Today
was one of those weirdly epiphanal days for me. A lot of workplans I'd been
stewing for months serendipitously converged as planned.
Hey
new version of every app, utility, and/or driver on all of my computers, I do
indeed love downloading & installing you every other day.
New
#IBM #RockYourData jk
blog: "Datapalooza: Produce Your Data Application Development
Concert" (http://ow.ly/Ud57p )
Here's
how my name renders in wingdings.
New
#IBM #RockYourData jk
blog: "Datapalooza: Compose Your Data-Science Music" (http://ow.ly/UcNKt )
Leading
GOP pres candidate is a neurosurgeon. I feel like the campaign so far has been
too heavily focused on mass-media brain salad surgery
This
could not be mistaken for any previous decade in PR: I routinely receive legit
emails about startups in the "cannabis" space.
Let's
see. How shall I use my vast social influence today? Such responsibility. Such
awesome responsibility. Woe is me.
If
you haven't already, be sure to check out our latest ads on YouTube... http://bit.ly/1iAme8N
"Learn
Everything U Need 2 Know...Big Data" (http://ow.ly/UbIJn )
JK--"SMACK" (Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka)? "Akka"?
What dat?
"Data
Scientists Should be Good Storytellers" (http://ow.ly/UbHtl )
JK--The persuasive kinds: correlations as argument fodder for cause
"What's
your Sensor data and what does it mean?" (http://ow.ly/UbGzG )
JK--Good IoT taxonomy. See also my blog: http://ow.ly/UbGLD
When
somebody says about something "I'm just speechless," the smart alec
in me wants to say "no you're not...you just spoke."
"I
think it’s very difficult for your 1st role in politics 2 B President of th
United States.” Whitman on Fiorina (http://ow.ly/UbDgg )
"Lawrence
Lessig drops out of presidential race" (http://ow.ly/UbCQl )
JK--You might say he was never really in it. This the 1st I heard
Daily
challenge: distinguish what's truly new in online conversation from boring old
stuff being said at higher volumes velocities varieties
New
#IBM jk #RockYourData
blog: "Datapalooza: Harmonize your data engineering" (http://ow.ly/U8USt )
"Pedro
Domingos’ on “Five Machine Learning Tribes”" (http://ow.ly/U8i7j )
JK--Is there a Lost Tribe & a Holy Land in this analogy?
"3
Effortless Tactics 2 B Data Science Success in Business" (http://ow.ly/U8gT7 )
JK--These are OK. I thought it was "tactless efforts"
"The
Rise of AI in Medicine" (http://ow.ly/U8dyN ) JK--Study shows greater
tolerance for human error than algorithmic screw-ups.
"Artificial
intelligence can go wrong – but how will we know?" (http://ow.ly/U8blg )
JK--Can't realistically audit every micro-decision
"How
Your Device Knows Your Life through Images" (http://ow.ly/U8ad8 )
JK--Deep-learning auto-narrative. New-word alert: "egography."
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp If it's Monday
Morning by Lee Hazelwood from Requiem For an Almost Lady JK--1971. Love the
spoken intro on this.
"Thoughts
on th Grace Hopper Keynote" (http://ow.ly/U88f2 ) JK--Ah
yes GraceHopper, true joy is th quest 4 autonomous intelligent robots
"Musical
Taste Correlates with SAT Scores?" (http://ow.ly/U86Ni )
JK--Artist list is a bit out o date. Low-SAT scorer must have compiled
"5
Warning Signs that Turn Off Data Science Hiring Managers" (http://ow.ly/U86By )
JK--Forgot to mention "You don't know nothin'."
Merriam-Webster
defines "boggle" as "make (the mind) unable 2 think
clearly." If "mind-boggling" indistinguishable from dementia, no
thanks
"Big
Data: 20 Mind-Boggling Facts Everyone Must Read" (http://ow.ly/U85b1 )
JK--Very little of this is must-read or mind-boggling.
"A
text-mining approach to Internet Governance Monitoring" (http://ow.ly/U84nK )
JK--Not at all clear if any of this helps policymakers.
Bought
& downloaded Siouxsie & The Banshees 1st LP "The Scream" (http://ow.ly/U6WAb ).
Weird vibe was totally a piece of late 1970s.
