Rebranding
self as "Data Science Evangelist." It's more accurate. Especially if
you notice my dominant theme of the past few years.
"Hemo
the Magnificent" (http://ow.ly/lxrY300qHbn ) JK--Bell
Telephone Science Film. Love this. We watched it in elementary school in the
1960s
Ventured
into wilds o PG County 2?talk data science @ UMUC. Engaged w/ @KirkBorne, who earnd his influence th
right way: spot-on brilliant!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Roadrunner by
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers JK--1972. Does his love extend to other New England states?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Ful Stop by
Radiohead from A Moon Shaped Pool JK--2016. Another good one from their latest.
Feels like airplane aloft
"No
IoT without IPv6" (http://ow.ly/OpN6300p57h )
JK--Trillion-plus-node IoT ubiquity hinges on IPv6's much larger address space.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Morning Dew by The
National from Day of the Dead JK--2016. Great new one from Berninger, Dessner
bros, Devendorf bros
Dear
Auto Body Shop I Went to Exactly Once Many Years Ago: Stop the emails telling
me you "miss" me. It was a just a one-lube stand.
Downtown
McLean VA.
Conservative
activists grill Zuckerberg. You really think algos are the reason people choose
not to have conservatives in their Facebook?
Used
to be that your nose knew 1st that there’s a fast food restaurant nearby. Now
your phone sniffs out deep-fried free Wi-Fi even quicker
"OK
computer: When pop music meets ML" (http://ow.ly/MLEG300nGld )
JK-- @acoliver POV reminds of this
JK post:
What
percentage of TED speakers are actually named "Ted"? And does that
give them a home-court advantage on the motivational-speaking front?
"Pentagon
Turns to Silicon Valley for Edge in AI" (http://ow.ly/2kOL300nEyD )
JK--Reminds of this recent JK post:
"30
years ago: look back at tech happenings o 1986" (http://ow.ly/w9Sd300ns0M )
JK--My first full year in IT career. Why no telephony in this?
Why
a cloud first strategy can benefit customers with IBM BigInsights http://bit.ly/1OOUP2h
Top
BRaaS provider sees 92% faster restore times w/ IBM @SoftLayer & IBM Spectrum Protect http://bit.ly/1OOUE79
"Deep
learning meets genome biology" (http://ow.ly/jsE8300mGTs )
JK--Help connect genetics to disease manifestation/phenotypes.
"Big
Data’s Mathematical Mysteries" (http://ow.ly/nbmg300mGto )
JK--Reminds this JK #Dataversity
column from 2013: http://ow.ly/ZfLS300mGE4
"Old
Meets New in the Building of Smart Cities" (http://ow.ly/scfE300mFP4 )
JK--Pervasively IoT-sensor noded retrofitted urban infrastructure.
Mine
eyes glaze over reading 1 blog after another advising 1) obtain exec
sponsorship, 2) get user buy-in, 3) show results. Alright already!
Following
the Pope's Twitter account. But disappointed it's all in Latin. I fondly recall
when John XXIII started tweeting in the vernacular
Uncorked
another bottle of vino. I did a quick inventory of our stash. I can't believe
how many we have. Trader Joe's is our prime stop.
I'm
going to focus my July 13 Dataversity keynote, "Evolving from Big Data to
Smart Data," on metadata, models, semantics, & governance.
I
wish I had a keyboard shortcut for getting through my day. I'd toggle directly
from breakfast to happy hour.
I
have no idea where my head's at today. The whirling dervish of activities I'm
caught up in has scattered it beyond the big blue horizon
"[So-and-so's]
invitation is waiting for you." What the...? I'm supposed to feel pangs of
conscience for keeping bits at bay?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp No Regrets by Karl
Blau from Introducing Karl Blau JK--2016. Cool new country artist. Voice full
of heart, longing.
#MobileInsights #Outthink #IBMAmplify @JeffHasen @CKBurgess @AnhTNguyen @AlanSee http://bit.ly/1OxB9dR
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Cool Papa Bell by
Paul Simon from Stranger To Stranger JK--2016. New. Excellent. Love the funky Caribbean groove.
Why
doesn't Parsey McParseface parse faces?
"Fears
of Facebook Bias Seem to Be Overblown" (http://ow.ly/gRmw300hppt )
JK--Except 4 clear bias in favor of hoodies coding & workaholicism
"A
competitive beardsmith’s greatest hits" (http://ow.ly/jfDS300hokB )
JK--Gross. All I want to know is: has he had his shots?
Great
putdown I just now overheard on a BBC series: “he’s about as much use as a fart
in a windsock.”
Thank
you spamster. If I ever truly need to know how a reverse mortgage works, you’ll
be the first I call.
New
#IBM jk #SparkBizApps
blog: "It takes a team: Collaboration and workflow in open data
science" (http://ow.ly/LkXO300fX2Q )
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Atomic Bongos by
Lydia Lunch from Queen of Siam JK--1980. Good. Not nihilistic/freaky like her
Teenage Jesus stuff
"Storytelling
with Data: Our Brains Crave Structure + Love Oddballs" (http://ow.ly/wr3m300eVVU )
JK--Setup & resolve the anomalous finding
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Third Uncle by Brian
Eno from Taking Tiger Mountain
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Baby's on Fire by
Brian Eno frm Here Come the Warm Jets JK--1973. His 1st solo. Featured all Roxy
members excpt Ferry
"The
next AI is no AI" (http://ow.ly/xdYp300eSBk )
JK--Ubiquitous, embedded, invisible, and uncannily intelligent, driving actions
& outcomes
"The
Business Benefits of Deep Learning" (http://ow.ly/o2Ng300eS3O )
JK--Good overview with plenty of pointers to useful research.
"Review:
6 machine learning clouds" (http://ow.ly/A4G9300eRCO )
JK--Good research. Includes #IBM
Watson and Predictive Analytics
Don't
tell me you're "living life one day at a time." Reliable sources tell
me you're checking your calendar every 5 minutes.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp All My Friends (John
Cale's Version) by LCD Soundsystem JK--2007. Great version from this great
ex-Velvets Welshman
When
someone sez a list was "handpicked," I demand video of an index
finger pointing & all five digits retrieving listed items from oblivion
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Wouldn't It Be Nice
by The Beach Boys from Pet Sounds JK--1966. Today is the 50th anniv of this
landmark LP's release
One
of those Monday mornings where all my glass could use a cleansing softwipe:
iPhone, laptop screen, spectacles. Mid-May omni-fog.
LinkedIn
Groups stink. Moderators powerless to nuke stories such as "MULTIPLE
0PPORTUNITIES FOR EVERYONE TO MAKE EXTRA CASH FROM INTERNET!"?
Hard,
even on weekends, not to overplan every last second. Responsibilities stack
even in leisure.
Saw
“Lady in the Van.” Dame Maggie is, of course, exceptionally watchable as a
dignified deranged but harmless old derelict on wheels.
Been
in the IT field forever. Seems like I can recall every stupid industry
controversy that eventually blew over. I won’t name them.
Several
sudden squalls blew thru Fairfax
County
Everything
they’re saying about Hillary echoes everything said about Bill. But when his
presidency was done, people admitted how gr8 he was
Donald
Trump impersonating his own PR rep is high comedy. But denying the ample
recorded evidence is hysterical. Even an ex-wife confirmed.
SiriusXM.
So-called because of their Seriously eXasperating Marketing blitz trying to win
us back. Buzz off!
‘Twas
a week in which I was called a blogger, a marketing pro, and a big data
evangelist in a disparaging fashion. All of which I’m proud of
Whew!
Weekend! Have begun the process of uncoiling my nervous system. This work week
has pummeled my head to the consistency of Silly Putty.
Sun
and warmth have returned to Northern Virginia .
But the weather forecast calls for another hammer of cold and rain. Oh the
agony!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Superstition by
Stevie Wonder JK--Stevie, like me, was born on 13th of a month, which
occasionally falls on a Friday
Ditch
the crystal ball—and see what’s really likely to happen http://bit.ly/224lvhL
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Rosebud by Lush from
Blind Spot JK--2016. A deep yearning vibe on this one.
Podcast:
"Becoming a cognitive business" https://shar.es/1eMfN9
Andrew Manby, director, market strategy for @IBMAnalytics. Interviewer: me
Join
this upcoming chat to discuss #cloud trends and preview
the #PerformanceCloud
event: http://bit.ly/220jbbQ
"Ford:
Self-driving cars are five years away from changing the world" (http://ow.ly/Vtnt3008mcm )
JK--Seems too optimistic. My bet is 25 years
"Watch
first-ever public demo o Elon Musk’s crazy transportation idea" (http://ow.ly/uWZ63008lrp )
JK--Huh? So what? Rocket sleds are old news
"What
are people working on in coffee shops?" (http://ow.ly/ADgL3008k8Q )
JK--They're probably wondering why you're not minding yr own beeswax
Hmm.
Somebody got a hold of an ancient mailing list including me 3 jobs ago. And
they've upgraded my credentials to "Dr. Kobielus." OK, fine
Hmm...classic
spam subject line: "Do You “Poop” 3x per day? If not… Eat THIS for
Breakfast (or you may be dying a slow death)." A keeper!
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Protectors of the
Heat (w/H Ernst) by Open Mike Eagle & Paul White JK--2016. How's this NOT
called "Pick Up Sticks"?
Listening
to Merle's '68 "Okie from Muskogee ,"
I mentally check off how many hippie traits now describe fellow
outlaw-countryman Willie.
Just
realized how long I've been working in high tech. When I started, modems,
pagers, and fax machines were ubiquitous. Now: almost extinct
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Living for the City
by Stevie Wonder from Innervisions JK--1973. "N-word" voiced by white
jailer in spoken interlude
New
#IBM jk #Dataversity
column: "Vetting the Actual Science Behind Data Science" (http://ow.ly/3Bm430070cy )
"Even
managers without technical background must be 'able to talk to the geeks'"
(http://ow.ly/EWnP3006Gzd ) JK--What
is this? Dr. Doolittle?
Podcast:
@AngelLuisDiaz & @JoeWeinman preview the upcoming #PerformanceCloud
event: http://bit.ly/24NLXkR
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Drone Bomb Me by
ANOHNI from Hopelessness JK--2016. Good one. Transgendered lead singer of Antony & the Johnsons
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Hold On, Hold On by
Neko Case from Fox Confessor Brings the Flood JK--2006. Great song to showcase
her stirring pipes
Kudos
to Louis Cherian for orchestrating our most awesome Crowdchat so far. #PredictiveEverywhere.
Today. Here:
New
#IBM jk #CloudantFree #SparkFree blog:
"Bridging NoSQL databases into open data science initiatives" (http://ow.ly/TBO13005du7 )
Tech
topics really don't need a ton of verbiage to net out. To communicate the
kernel, you need pith, not bandwidth.
CrowdChat:
Predictive analytics for data-driven customer engagement (http://ow.ly/rbwf3004FOe ).
Join us today 11am ET. #PredictiveEverywhere
New
#IBM jk #SparkBizApps
blog: "Spark and R: The deepening open analytics stack" (http://ow.ly/Pms93004wvt )
"The
Rise of Cloud Robotics" (http://ow.ly/HAMJ3004u4X ) JK--Peered
distributed reinforcement learning around tasks common to swarms of robots
DC
area's record rainy-days streak continues. Now I'm flat broke. Depleted the
fund of things I've been saving for these days.
Bought
& downloaded one of Merle Haggard's greatest hits compilations. I'm blown
away by how great this late country legend's music was.
Let
the leading minds in #datascience
answer your toughest questions: Join us http://ibm.co/je #SparkBizApps
John
Lennon & Paul McCartney being interviewed about why they went into business
as Apple Corps: http://ow.ly/LbbG30038Vh . 1968.
"Google
Feeding Romance Novels To Its AI Engine To Make Its Products More
Conversational" (http://ow.ly/nIt93002zCK ) JK--Or
steamier.
"Nimble-Fingerd
Robot Outperfrms Best Human Surgeons" (http://ow.ly/T0Po3002yVw )
JK--Adv 3-D imaging+force-sensing stitches w/submm precision
"Preparing
for th Future of AI" (http://ow.ly/SZgA3002yEe ) JK--White
House press release announcing new workshops & interagency working group
Data-driven
customer engagement: Retain valuable customers and grow your business with... http://bit.ly/21OcUji
Get
@TheNewStack's latest eBook:
Automation & orchestration w/ #Docker & #containers — http://bit.ly/21OcN7r
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Drive by Britta
Phillips from Luck Or Magic JK--2016. Nice Cars cover from Luna member's solo
project.
"HBase:
The database big data left behind" (http://ow.ly/LQW33002xgX )
JK--Goes to show "Hadoop" isn't some unitary all-or-nothing monolith
"Math
Stumps Your Doctor, Too" (http://ow.ly/Qv7h3002wHF )
JK--Inflammatory headline belied by article. Refers to statistical risk
assessment
"How
Music Affects Your Productivity" (http://ow.ly/w6ff3002uUt )
JK--"A way to 'optimize the boring' while looking at screens."
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Hurdy Gurdy Man by
Donovan JK--1968. Didn't he outsource all this lovesinging to his little suited
monkey on a chain?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Hold Up by Beyonce
from Lemonade JK--2016. Great one.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Mother by John
Lennon from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band JK--1970. Raw, aching, confessional.
Got it off his chest.
Finally
got enough respite from the rain to mow my lawn for the first time this Spring.
Reminds me of this Woody:
I’ve
always considered the Clintons
to be centrist/pragmatists. Sensible, not ideological. Vilifying them is sheer
idiocy.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Have a Good Time by
Paul Simon from Still Crazy After All These Years JK--1975. Great bit of jaded
lounge-jazz pop
Scooter
Magruder playing '50s hits on DC radio. Just spun Marquees "Hey Little
Schoolgirl" w/young local Marvin Gaye
Kentucky Derby. Exactly like the
Super Bowl. Except for the fact that you can miss the whole thing if you take a
long bio break.
Auto
dealer customer waiting lounge. Complimentary coffee. Machine offers many
options. I’ll go crazy. Triple dark espresso. Strap me down.
Dev
Patel in biopic about Indian math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Arcane number
theory gets primes their prime time in Hollywood
spotlight
LOL!
Trump tweets about eating tacos, exclaiming “I love Hispanics!” Didn’t he
realize that comical pander digs him an even deeper hole?
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp 1999 by Prince from
1999 JK--1982. The Artist's prescient lookahead to the Y2K crisis & how
he'd batten his hatches
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp I'm Set Free by
Brian Eno from The Ship JK--2016. Nice chill Velvet Underground cover from th
legendary postmodernist
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Akhar Zaman by
Bombino from Azel JK--2016. Great new one from the Malian rocker. He shreds
that guitar!
"Top
10 Hot Data Science Techs" (http://ow.ly/4nuBtM )
JK--Not sure which I find LESS useful 4 IT planning: hot-not lists or hype
curves
Found
it hard to sleep last night. Every time I woke up, I realized my sleeping brain
was still stuck puzzling math behind quantum computing
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Desire Lines by
Deerhunter from Halcyon Digest JK--2010. One of the greatest extended crescendo
rock outros ever.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Natural One by Folk
Implosion JK--1995. Love how this stalking vibe makes "natural"
bristle with imminent menace.
"Outwitting
poachers w/artificial intelligence" (http://ow.ly/4nuzJ2 )
JK--More predictively effective deployment of patrols to interdict
"Surprise!
People will actually read long news stories on their smartphones" (http://ow.ly/4nuu3g )
JK--No surprise to me. I often binge.
Clinton
& Trump both endorsed by athletes. But Trump’s are a league of numbskulls
& thugs: Hulk Hogan, Mike Tyson, Latrell Sprewell...
That’s
cool. Even when I’m stressed as hell it doesn’t register itself in my blood
pressure readings.
"IBM's
Quantum Cloud: Leap Into Future?" (http://ow.ly/4nsLl5 )
JK--Refs cool number-theoretic blog on quntm algo http://ow.ly/4nsLtF
Yes
I enjoy bureaucratic red tape. Jumping thru an infinite succession of hoops and
dodging obstacles at every turn. Never-ending bootcamp
New
#IBM jk #InfoWorld column:
"How to monetize the fuzzy narratives of social listening" (http://ow.ly/4ns2sn )
When
some e-commerce vendor emails an "it'll only take 1 minute" survey,
it takes you a minute to figure if it's worth your while. Never is
Ran
across an old friend tonight. She commented several times on how fit I look
now. I’ve been riding that ego high for hours.
New
tools can be a portal to productivity or an obstacle to achieving your
objectives. You can’t really know until you try to use them.
More
spam invites us to "date single women." As opposed to what, dating
them in packs of 3 or 4 at a time?
"Queue
up for IBM's quantum computer" (http://ow.ly/4nqhOs )
JK--Roger Kay perspective on today's announcement.
Machine
learning algo for sketch simplification (http://ow.ly/4nptmZ )
JK--Compress, process compressed, expand to cleaner representation
"In
future Big Data'll make actual voting obsolete" (http://ow.ly/4npsML )
JK--Really? Whose algorithm will have constitutional blessing?
"Making
a Case for Machine Learning to Legal Departments" (http://ow.ly/4npsqv )
JK--Or helping them make a case for it in court.
Fun
fact: presumptive GOP pres nominee's birthname was Donald T. Rump.
"IBM
Makes Quantum Computing Available on #IBM Cloud to Accel Innov (http://ow.ly/4npqT4 )
JK--Run algos & experiments, work with qubits
Fun
fact: Cinco de Mayo falls on the 5th this year.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National from
High Violet JK--2010. Probably don't remember him cuz Ohio was too bloodbuzzed
Predictive
forecasting for the cognitive era http://bit.ly/24nfjGx
"Eureka! How to make
discoveries at speed o light" (http://ow.ly/4nnqnk )
JK--Huge Danish music festival uses #IBM to tune fan experience
"Quantum
Computing: Past the Buzzwords" (http://ow.ly/4nmLyu )
JK--Describes underlying math as q-bit patterns over modular arithmetic
"CrowdChat:
#PredictiveAnalytics
for data-driven customer engagent" (http://ow.ly/4nmE9B ).
Tues May 10. 11am ET #PredictiveEverywhere
Apache
Spark Maker Community Event. June 6. SF. #SparkBizApps.
Attend in person: http://ow.ly/4nmDSA Livestream:
Dear
DJs: Don't call it a "supergroup" if it's composed of artists your
listeners have never heard of from bands equally obscure.
Was
one of those days that made me glad I keep my notes tidy and thoughts
organized. Find the simple thing that most needs doing. Then do it
Bernie
looking for superdelegates. You’ll know ‘em when you see ‘em, Sanders. They’re
the ones in tights and capes.
Whatever
happened to people actually stating their name when they phone U out o the
blue? Dont assume your voice is distinctive/recognizable
"These
old black&white photos were colorized by artificial intelligence" (http://ow.ly/4njODD )
JK--I want to colorize old family photos
"Good
Robot! Elon Musk’s AI Nonprofit Shows Where AI Going" (http://ow.ly/4njO75 )
JK--Releasd tool to dev/compare reinforcemt lrng algos
"Drones
May Soon B Able 2 Detect Improvised Explosiv Devices" (http://ow.ly/4njNMV )
JK--Used last wk to sniff nutjob at Balto TV station
"Twitter’s
AI Knows What’s Happening in Live Video Clips" (http://ow.ly/4njL4M )
JK--Real-time autotagging of dozens of Periscope feeds
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Packt Like Sardines
in a Crushd Tin Box by Radiohead from Amnesiac JK--2001. "Get off my case,
get off my case."
"Top
scientst..solution..havoc driverless cars wreak" (http://ow.ly/4njIAT )
JK--Online educ entrprneur wants 2 re-educ laid-off truckers
"Deep
Learning Demystified" (http://ow.ly/4njHo8 ) JK--Stacked
neural-net layers with progressively compact feature reps. ID a cat face.
"What
if Elon Musk ran Apple?" (http://ow.ly/4njGNV ) JK--He'd probably
get bored. He's an entrepreneur. Not corporate turnaround artist
Dear
PR people: Quit assuming that everybody in high-tech is situated in San Francisco Bay Chesapeake Bay area.
RT
@kexpplaylist #kexp Eye of a Hurricane
by Kyle Craft from Dolls of Highland JK--2016. Great. Reminds me a bit of Mott
the Hoople.
Catch
me at Spark Summit West in SF next month. And we're doing a little something
beforehand. More details very soon!
Rainstorm
aftermath. Walking through a large parking lot. Splashing puddles I didn’t see.
Unfrozen equivalent of black ice. Black water?
Trader
Joe’s on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I’ll have the pepperoni pizza sample with
four wine samples as chaser. Legal limit?
RIP Daniel Berrigan. Music trivia:
the "radical priests" Paul Simon ref'd in "Me & Julio"
were him & brother Philip:
"Lead,
Follow or Get the Fuck Out of the Way" (http://ow.ly/4nhMY1 )
JK--But what if the fuck's not standing in your way?
"10-Minute
Routine Will Increase Your Clarity & Creativity" (http://ow.ly/4nhMRQ )
JK--Just say "clarity & creativity" over & over & over
"Why
Successful People Spend 10 Hours A Week Just Thinking" (http://ow.ly/4nhMPa )
JK--What percentage of that on the commode?
