"How to Start Learning About Quantum Computing" (http://ow.ly/qync30hls3w )
JK--When the higher powers tell us to start boning up on qubits, it's time to
build an ark.
"Why old-school PostgreSQL is so hip again" (http://ow.ly/NFbR30hlrLn )
JK--OMG, don't tell me it moved to Portland
and is drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon.
"Facebook AI will alert users when untagged photos of
them are uploaded" (http://ow.ly/o6Z730hlrqt ) JK--Story
positions this in a negative (risk mitigation) context, but I see it as a
positive: helping track down every photo of myself in order to compile a more
complete scrapbook
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp LCD Soundsystem
"I Used To" from Call The Police/American Dream JK--2017. Album was
strong return to form for James Murphy and buds.
#Wikibon
2018 Community Predictions (http://ow.ly/ZLGo30hlpGl ) JK--Video
recorded last Friday. Mine are 1) Autonomous Edge Drives Bespoke AI, 2)
Automation Impacts Development, Too, 3) Serverless, Developer
"MIT's automated machine learning works 100x faster
than human data scientists" (http://ow.ly/9TeV30hlpcb )
JK--Benchmark it against triple-espresso-caffeinated data scientists and report
back to us.
"Practical applications of reinforcement learning in
industry" (http://ow.ly/r5Gd30hk4vf ) JK--Lorica
provides comprehensive overview that goes well beyond robotics.
"Fully Automated Machine Learning" (http://ow.ly/eJuc30hk4da )
JK--Vorhies mentions DataRobot (http://www.DataRobot.com ),
MLJAR (http://www.mljar.com ), PurePredictive (http://www.PurePredictive.com ),
and Xpanse Analytics (http://www.xpanseanalytics.com ).
"Time to Rethink Computer Vision" (http://ow.ly/xpbP30hk2sy )
JK--Goodbye to steady sequences of pixel-packed frames. Hello
change-thresholded pixel-level spiking-pulse streams.
"When AI Supplies the Sound in Video Clips, Humans
Can’t Tell the Difference" (http://ow.ly/GZB130hk1tX )
JK--Generative audio. Any digital or physical item can, potentially be milled
to exacting verisimilitude through generative AI algorithms.
"Neural Networks Are Learning What to Remember and What
to Forget" (http://ow.ly/kMUG30hk1cg )
JK--Generalizable AI demands the ability to dynamically suppress learnings that
are irrelevant and acquire/activate skills that address the challenge at hand.
"A New Sensor Gives Driverless Cars a Human- View of
the World" (http://ow.ly/nNxX30hk0CB )
JK--Dynamically shifts the vehicle's sensors' attention to pick up details most
relevant to navigating the surroundings and adapting to the ever-changing
situational context.
Google's Jeff Dean presents their detailed research in
next-gen computing hardware architectures optimized for AI (http://ow.ly/JmU330hk0dK )
Less precision needed in the underlying calculations, but far more parallelism,
needed to accomplish amazing results.
"High-Resolution Image Synthesis and Semantic
Manipulation with Conditional GANs" (http://ow.ly/Uij230hjZol )
JK--Brilliant technique. Use metadata to generate a photorealistic image. Allow
humans to iteratively refine the image via interactive labeling.
"What goes around comes around"? Clockwise?
Counter? Does it reverse direction when going switches to coming? How does it
go or come around in the southern hemisphere? Have physicists ever tested this
principle?
"The 20 worst films of 2017" (http://ow.ly/fo0730hjXvX )
JK--I saw 4 of these. Redeeming aspects of each: "The Only Living Boy in New York " (Jeff
Bridges), "Kidnap" (cliched deranged redneck kidnappers), "The
Book of Henry" (I have a crush on Naomi Watts), "The Last Face"
(nothing)
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp The National
"Guilty Party" from Sleep Well Beast JK--2017. These guys are
classics of moody broody indie. Two sets of instrumentalist brothers & a
lead singer who is the American equivalent of Bryan Ferry.
"You Are Not the Market — A Lesson in Prediction
Posts" (http://ow.ly/GInv30hjVK9 ) JK--Tell
your audience what they might not have worked out for themselves. Give enough
specifics so that they can push back a year from now, showing you how wrong you
were.
"Trump judicial nominee who struggled to answer legal
questions drops out" (http://ow.ly/cMRH30hjUSp ) JK--Oh,
give him a break. He's halfway through "Federal Circuit Court Judging for
Dummies."
This week's top reads in tech. I have my pick of stories
with vague headlines that string together acronyms of varying lengths with
articles, conjunctions, prepositions, and the occasional adjective inflected in
the cliched superlative case.
"6 areas where artificial neural networks outperform
humans" (http://ow.ly/Wqe230hjU2D ) JK--That's
it. Our goose is cooked (sigh...).
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp DJDS &
Empress Of "Love" from Love JK--2017. Good Lana Del Rey cover. A warm
soft passionate vibe.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp CCFX
"Venetian Screens" from CCFX EP JK--2017. Nice trance number.
"Artificial intelligence cracks 'unbreakable' Enigma code
in just 13 minutes" (http://ow.ly/MHKj30hjSO8 )
JK--Article doesn't say, but it appears the AI trained a word-to-vector
algorithm on a German-language-text training-data corpus.
Dear Facebook: I appreciate those inline tell-the-world
self-revelation challenges. “What is the one word that describes you?” Easy. It’s
“me.” Hope I’m not revealing too much.
When I’ve written something long and technical, I’m often so
drained I don’t know how to close it. Thinking of adopting a boilerplate
sign-off, such as “arrivederci,” “excelsior,” or “as God is my witness.”
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Kikagaku Moyo 幾何学模様 "Old Snow, White
Sun" from House in the Tall Grass jK--2016. Cool psych-ambient stuff.
New jk #TechTarget column:
"AI development toolkits will shift toward solution orientation in
2018" (http://ow.ly/awym30hiUxd )
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp The Black Keys
"Lies" from Attack & Release JK--2008. DJ played the wrong song,
but at least she responded to my request and noted musical accomplishments of
the late Ralph Carney, who played contra bass clarinet on the listed track.
Thanks Morgan!
"Can Robots Learn to Improvise?" (http://ow.ly/Zrie30hih1M )
JK--WSJ does a reasonably good job explaining reinforcement learning, and its
limitations, as well as transfer learning (though it doesn't name that) and its
limitations.
RIP Ralph Carney. Instrumentalist extraordinaire. Played
with Tom Waits et al. I first became aware of him during his Tin Huey stint.
Also: uncle of Black Keys’ Patrick.
American liberalism survived the McCarthy era. We'll survive
this.
“Beetle Bailey” was funnier when Sarge would routinely beat
Beetle into a toothless mangled pulp. Actually, that’s the only thing in the
strip that has ever made me genuinely laugh.
Was a good year. My years. Always something novel. It was
the year Declan entered our family. Someone new. Recently turned the page to
chapter 60 in the novel of me.
Saw “Life Is Beautiful” (1997) on Amazon Prime. Pretentious,
emotionally manipulative, and strained. I kept wanting to slap Roberto Benigni
silly.
Got very little snow. But all these fitness club wimps used
it as an excuse not to show up. Even the instructor. You should all be required
to do an hour of bootcamp to atone.
"Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30
(NIPS 2017) pre-proceedings" (http://ow.ly/ZyYC30hfl7S )
JK--A staggering amount of fresh research in AI.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Thundercat feat.
Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins "Show You the Way" from Drunk
JK--2017. Good one. Should have included Rupert Holmes or Leo Sayer for a 70s
soft-rock trifecta.
"World’s First AI & Blockchain-Based Dating &
Relationship Project – Viola.AI, Sets to Disrupt the Love Industry" (http://ow.ly/emZ230hfglj )
JK--If you have to run your heart through this technological wringer to find
the right person, I feel for you.
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp Charlotte
Gainsbourg "Deadly Valentine" from Rest JK--2017. Nice new one from
the French musician, actress, and daughter of the legendary Serge.
"First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About
Biomedical ‘Big Brother’" (http://ow.ly/bdTy30hfePP )
JK--"Medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether, and
when, patients take their medicine." Internet of Things in a consumable
form.
"Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto'" (http://ow.ly/EM7O30hfeAD )
JK--Get used to it. Just as "cyberspace" isn't "cyber," in
the Greek-root sense of "steered" or "governed." It's just
the opposite, actually.
I have recently acquired an Amazon Fire tablet, but have
surprisingly have very little desire to ask Alexa anything. I have no interest
in chatting with bots.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Tom Petty
"Swingin'" from Echo JK--1999. Great one. Love the voice, guitar,
harmonica, drum, keyboard weave on this.
"Embodied Learning is Essential to Artificial
Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/bEso30hdSFF ) JK--Right.
Organic learning involves sensorimotor engagement with challenges in the
environment.
"DeepMind Has Simple Tests That Might Prevent Elon
Musk’s AI Apocalypse" (http://ow.ly/OaUG30hdSsx ) JK--Or
seriously crimp the potential of this technology to serve humanity. Your
choice.
Happy Hanukkah to all my Jewish friends.
Always make mental notes about which of my professional
peers I haven’t seen on socials or industry news/events or the blogosphere
recently. Wonder whether and when they might resurface.
Bought a new refrigerator today. Got the most basic model
imaginable from the lowest common denominator retailer. A Kenmore
from Sears. Why? Cold is cold.
#BigData
Main Developments in 2017 + Key Trends in 2018 https://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/12/big-data-main-developments-2017-key-trends-2018.html …
#DataScience #MachineLearning
by @mattmayo13 @schmarzo @tamaradull @Doug_Laney @jameskobielus @metabrown312 @craigbrownphd @marcusborba @Ronald_vanLoon @VanRijmenam @VasantDhar @YvesMulkers @kdnuggets
"With a tail as big as a kite"? Since when did
that become the yardstick of celestial grandeur? Are we now to measure
interstellar distances in kite-years?
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Lizzo "Truth
Hurts" from Truth Hurts JK--2017. Good hiphop. A catchy cadence on this
one.
New jk #TechTarget column:
“Robot-Driven Programming Is the Leading Edge of Development’s New Era” (http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/robot-driven-programming-leading-edge-developments-new-era/ …)
Caught “Kidnap” on DVD. Filmmakers should have severely
edited down this Halle Berry
thriller and cut to the chase: how will mother & son recover from the PTSD
of this sickeningly exaggerated Hollywood
hyper-violence?
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Shearwater
"Radio Silence" from Jet Plane and Oxbow JK--2016. One of those great
indie group who have, oddly, not become huge.
Drafted latest #TechTarget column:
"Robot-Driven Programming Is the Leading Edge of Development’s New
Era"
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp Frank Sinatra
"It Was a Very Good Year" JK--1966. Old Blue Eyes wasn't old when he
recorded this. 51. Don't hang it up prematurely, dude. He stuck it out for
another 32 croon-worthy years.
"Neuromation: A Company’s Deep Dive Into the Deep
Learning of AI Data" (http://ow.ly/gLeW30haQxM )
JK--Startup automating the creation of synthetic AI training data. I predict
this market segment will be huge.
"The Most Exciting Artificial Intelligence Applications
in Media" (http://ow.ly/oeye30haQ5l ) JK--The
one about "celebrity imitation" sounds like a lawsuit magnet just
waiting to happen.
"Microsoft releases quantum computing development kit
preview" (http://ow.ly/YzDF30haPCN )
JK--Including a quantum computing language: Q#
"AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators" (http://ow.ly/XvAl30haPjA )
JK--I'm not sure it's such an advance if we build algorithms to churn out
endless formulaic twists on cliched story arcs. Humans do that painfully well.
"Commercial drones are here: The future of unmanned
aerial systems" (http://ow.ly/suhK30haM3B ) JK--I
assume there'll be a remake of Hitchcock's "The Birds" with drones in
our future.
"Machine Learning – Can We Please Just Agree What This
Means" (http://ow.ly/Wk1Q30haLNz ) JK--But,
of course, the confusion means that I usually have the opportunity to show off
my fancypants definitions.
"Data is the fuel for AI, so let’s ensure we get the
ethics right" (http://ow.ly/CXKC30h98HN ) JK--Yes,
let's solve insoluble issues of morality like it's all some kind of freakin'
quadratic equation.
New jk #Wikibon
Premium research note: "Wikibon’s 2018 Developer Tooling, Services, and
Practices Predictions" (http://ow.ly/hjzl30h97dg )
"GoGo's In-Flight WiFi Goes in Fits and Starts" (http://ow.ly/A1pN30h92pO )
JK--That's my experience too. And the price occasionally zooms higher than the
plane I'm on.
"How in-memory computing drives digital transformation
with HTAP" (http://ow.ly/Vg6l30h922M ) JK--OK.
It's a dull topic. Sexing it up doesn't add anything. But nice try.
“O bring us some figgy pudding”? “Figgy”? Ersatz figs?
Didn’t the British have an ample supply of real figs? Wasn’t that the spoils of
empire?
Public TV fundraising pitch: “Isn’t it exciting to see the
Carpenters sing their famous songs in other countries?” Yes, indeed. My life
changed forever when Richard and Karen got their passports.
Season’s first snow in Northern
Virginia . My first activation of the electric blanket to toast my
tootsies while I sip tea and eat mooncakes.
Watched "Dead Poets Society" on Netflix. Never
seen it before. Enjoyed it. But it plays more like 1889 than 1989. Don't recall
American society being quite this uptight that year.
"5 Predictions About the Future of Machine
Learning" (http://ow.ly/f6T130h69BG ) JK--#3:
"Collaborative learning is about utilizing different computational
entities so that they collaborate in order to produce better learning results
than they would have achieved on their own."
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Kurt Vile
"Wakin on a Pretty Day" from Wakin on a Pretty Daze JK--2013. His vocals
always sound slightly stoned. Especially on this long meditative psych-rocker.
"Distributed TensorFlow: A Gentle Introduction" (http://ow.ly/syWJ30h68yF )
JK--The distributed decoupling of AI proceeds apace. See my recent article on
this topic:
"Population based training of neural networks" (http://bit.ly/2A817o0 )
JK--Frontier topic in distrib-AI app performance: collective exploration,
exchange, & exploitation of optimal hyperparameters to help all AI modules
hit dynamic trade-off spot of learning speed v. accuracy
"A Year in Computer Vision" (http://ow.ly/lWU730h67Fn )
JK--Comprehensive compendium of fundamental research in this field that was
published in 2017.
"The impossibility of intelligence explosion" (http://ow.ly/7mIa30h66WE )
JK--Provocative premise: "Intelligence is fundamentally linked to specific
sensorimotor modalities." See my related thoughts here:
"Why Cyber Security...." (http://ow.ly/TVI930h65Uq )
JK--Article starts on wrong foot with "Most top managers are older people.
Being older, many operated during a large part of business career in
non-computer world." Gimme a break. I'm almost 60 & have used
computers from Day One
"How artificial intelligence will self-manage the data
center" (http://ow.ly/EPdK30h65nv )
JK--Machine learning on system event data drives continuous anomaly detection,
root cause diagnostics, predictive analysis, inline recommendation engine, and
automated remediation.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp The Black Angels
"Young Men Dead" from Passover JK--2006. Great burn, great lyric:
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Olden Yolk
"Takes One to Know One" from Takes One to Know One JK--2017. Great.
Has a powerful neo-psychedelica burn to it.
"Google has released an AI tool that makes sense of
your genome" (http://ow.ly/zrY130h63kD ) JK--Great.
Now the AI should hire itself out as a family counselor to help you make sense
of your relatives.
"Enterprise
AI: Learning from the evolution of Robotic Process Automaton" (http://ow.ly/beeJ30h5ZAh )
JK--Good one on an emerging technology that blurs the line between programming,
business process orchestration, and screenscraping.
Wife’s watching one of those dumb Indian films where
impossibly gorgeous people canoodle chastely on the beach and speak their lines
like they’re being fed to them in real time through an earpiece.
Factory-popped flavored bagged popcorn satisfies the palate.
But I miss the romance of the stovetop Jiffy Pop silvery bubble. Forget those
dumb microwave packs. They were as hip as 8-track tapes.
Trying to avoid the exquisite uselessness of making
predictions such as "In 2018, we’ll see users become data-driven as they
integrate analytics into their decision-making processes." That's not a
prediction. That's something you scratched on a chalkboard in lieu of a
prediction.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp tUnE-yArDs
"Look at Your Hands" from I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life
JK--2018. Breathtaking new one from this NYC/Connecticut native.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Thao & The
Get Down Stay Down "Meticulous Bird" from A Man Alive JK--2016. Great
one from this artist who hails from Fairfax
County VA.
"The Developer's Bright Hybrid Cloud-Native, Polyglot,
Poly-architecture Future"? No thanks. I won't attend your tech seminar
unless that bright future is roly-poly and rubs upon my belly like guava jelly.
"Will humans even write code in 2040 and what would
that mean for extreme heterogeneity in computing?" (http://ow.ly/7sdC30h4LxO )
JK--Great paper on auto-programming from Oak Ridge National Laboratories.
"The convergence of AI and Blockchain: what’s the
deal?" (http://ow.ly/ZpmG30h4LnH ) JK--Great
overview of the market and vendors at the intersection of these two
technologies.
"MIT Creates a Living Ink Made of Bacteria" (http://ow.ly/tEEb30h4KK6 )
JK--Injecting a fresh coat of creepy into the already disgusting world of
tattoos.
"Sell! Sell! Sell! This AI tries to predict when the
bitcoin bubble will pop" (http://ow.ly/fJgv30h4K3W ) JK--Would
it commit hara-kiri if it could predict when the AI bubble will pop?
"Tree of Life Explorer" (http://ow.ly/ORBw30h4Ica )
JK--Totally cool, addictive, interactive, and educational resource about
evolution and our connections to all other life forms, past and present.
"Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human
Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/Yhpa30h4GRt )
JK--Interesting discussion of how generative models can discern revelatory
representational patterns that we wouldn't otherwise see in our data.
I don’t see robotic process automation as akin to business
process mgt. By driving app orchestration from the UI artifacts, RPA is an
automated code-gen technology.
In the next few days, look for my #Wikibon Premium
research note on 2018 predictions. Covers functional programming,
auto-programming, open AI dev frameworks, data science DevOps, & AI
edge-app training. Will speak to this on Dec 14 webcast:
Yes, deskbound pretty lady who comes in between each song I
play on YouTube while writing about machine learning, I have indeed thought
about exploring machine learning. Thanks for algorithmically discovering the
obvious.
Relentless robotics under its own adaptive AI Eveready Bunny
smarts. I'll call this auton&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&on&onomous
computing.
Join me and my colleagues on #Wikibon's 2018
Community Predictions. Thurs Dec 14 at 1pm EST. Open/free for anyone. Register
here:
Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI:
Shannon, McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester
(http://ow.ly/IZne30h2W1d ) JK--June
17 to Aug 16, 1955. Seminal paper. Also during these months, Sun Records
released 10 seminal tracks that Elvis recorded in their Memphis studio.
The worst dreams are where someone offhandedly mentions some
tech such as Python or PostgreSQL. Seriously, don't cheapen my sleep with
programming code or open-source database platforms. Just don't.
Glad I attended AWS #reInvent last week.
Glad I wrote a comprehensive trip report analyzing the myriad of announcements.
Solution providers as comprehensive as them demand a week of immersive
in-my-face attention. Collecting so I can later recollect.
"Don't stop thinking about tomorrow. It's soon be
here." Sounds like a perfect recipe for insomnia. Sleep, fer cryin' out
loud!
RIP Johnny Hallyday. “The French Elvis.” I always thought
the actual Elvis looked French.
Another morning, another bunch of tech whitepapers pitched
at me via email. I can’t recall the last time I’ve downloaded, much less read,
any of those. The mistake of doing so long ago doomed me to receiving these
emails.
"Big Data: Main Developments in 2017 and Key Trends in
2018" (http://ow.ly/FHOU30h2acO )
JK--Predictions by me and others #kdnuggets #wikibon
My workspace is now a 4-screen connected environment:
laptop, tablet, smartphone, and MP3 player.
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp Tubeway Army
"Are 'Friends' Electric?" from Replicas JK--1979. Gary Numan and crew
brilliantly slather on the big whompin' synthesizer grooves.
Hey, tech sites that auto-play, in the browser, somebody
talking: Shut up, I'm trying to listen to music while I read your damn article.
"Training AI models is getting faster and taking less
data, thanks to NVIDIA researchers" (http://ow.ly/oP8030h1uEr )
JK--Use GANs to generalize seasonal and other transformations of specific
images, eliminating need to capture those related images.
"Deeper deep learning shifts AI from sci-fi to
software" (http://ow.ly/LKDD30h1rxv ) JK--My
recent conversation with @dvellante
on #theCUBE #SiliconANGLE #Wikibon
They finally demolished the Silverdome. Growing up in the Detroit area, it was the only reason to visit Pontiac . I saw The Who
there in high school.
"An Old Technique Could Put Artificial Intelligence In
Your Hearing Aid" (http://ow.ly/3IiF30h0x6Y ) JK--Analog
chips. Use less power, having fewer circuits than digital processors.
"Stanford-led artificial intelligence index tracks
emerging field" (http://ow.ly/ztmk30h0rJC )
JK--Interesting effort to standardize measurement of AI's societal impact,
innovation pace, & maturity.
"Deep Learning and Google Street View Can Predict
Neighborhood Politics from Parked Cars" (http://ow.ly/6Ndf30h0qBO )
JK--OK, but you can accelerate that by focusing only on bumper stickers.
"Google’s Artificial Intelligence Built an AI That
Outperforms Any Made by Humans" (http://ow.ly/j7ps30h0qs3 )
JK--Uses reinforcement learning to .turn that trick.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Curtis Harding
"Till The End" from Face Your Fear JK--2017. Great one from this
Atlanta-based soul artist.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Moby Grape
"Come in the Morning" from Crosstalk: The Best of Moby Grape
JK--1967. Originally on the "middle finger" LP (one of my desert
island discs).
Things that make me feel old: watching the Carol Burnett
50th anniversary show. Things that make me feel young: the reruns still make me
laugh.
In my career, I’ve seen several celebrities keynote
intelligently on tech. Most insightful were Schwarzenegger, Spacey, &
Franken. All subsequently got themselves into sex scandals. Hmmm...
“Caution! The moving walkway is ending.” That doesn’t bother
me. But what would is the possibility that the moving walkway may be endless.
That would be a sure sign of the end of times.
Locking up Michael Flynn will be sweet justice. Can’t say he
hasn’t been asking for it.
New jk #SiliconANGLE
article: "Amazon sets the public cloud pace at AWS #reInvent 2017: a #Wikibon deep
dive" (http://ow.ly/AJLB30gXmM6 )
"The Looming War of Good AI vs. Bad AI" (http://ow.ly/O8SM30gXf9R )
JK--Highlights threat from "morphic malware" that uses AI to hone its
attack strategies dynamically.
Please stop mixing the metaphors of "data is the new
oil" and "data lake." Makes me think there's been a spill and
that the water is polluted. O, those poor goo-soaked birdies! Where's the EPA
when we need it?
New jk #Wikibon
#reInvent blog:
"Wikibon Trip Report: At re:Invent 2017, AWS Sets the Pace in the Public
Cloud" (http://ow.ly/FGGC30gXbuc )
Michael Flynn is just the latest example of how Trump
systematically destroys everyone who once declared loyalty to him. Dominant
pattern of Trump’s career. #predictable
AWS #reInvent
was chock full of important announcements. My #SiliconANGLE #Wikibon trip report
recap will be published within the coming hour. I covered it all.
RIP Jim Nabors. He modulated in character between beautiful
baritone singing voice and uber-hayseed downhome Marine without compromsing his
dignity. You can't help thinking the adept duality stemmed from self-closeting
skills he mastered early on in life.
Watch live from AWS re:Invent 2017. Check #reInvent live today
and tomorrow on #SiliconANGLE
#theCUBE:
AWS' Matt Wood presented their pioneering open AI framework
strategy tonight at #reinvent.
Here's my new #Wikibon
Premium note, published yesterday, that presents the layering of that strategy
and puts it broader industry context:
The great Mexican rock band Kinky led off for Peter DeSantis
tonight at #reInvent.
Here's the number, "Más," that they closed their set with.
AWS has had its priorities straight from the get-go. Its
first region was Northern Virginia, then Dublin .
#reInvent Wahoowah!
Slainte!
Heavy hangs the head of the industry analyst under deep NDA.
Abstract technological concepts make the most sense when
they’re hammered into your skull by electronic dance music.
"Makeblock Kickstarts Smart Robot Codey Rocky for
Beginner Coding and AI Learning" (http://ow.ly/MjXl30gRVg7 )
JK--Clunky headline masks what's cool about this: it's essentially the next-gen
Erector Set: empowers 1st graders on up to build and program robots.
"Big Challenge in Deep Learning: Training Data" (http://ow.ly/cUih30gRUzY )
JK--Yep. Check out my recent #Wikibon Premium report
on this topic:
"Snoopers beware: Google's AI can now spot
shoulder-surfers peeking at your screen" (http://ow.ly/j96q30gRTZF )
JK--Cool. Would be good if it could auto-trigger masking of sensitive info
being displayed on your screen during the unwanted gaze.
Tech analyst summits. A social continuity thread in my crazy
career. Socialize yet again with people in my line of work. We’re watching each
other age.
"Why Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Will
Reinvent The Industry As We Know It" (http://ow.ly/sBE930gR72w )
JK--Incisive discussion of the shift to device-centric edge AI.
"Data Science Trends in 2018" (http://ow.ly/34Es30gR6PY )
JK--Good rollup and look-ahead, coming at it from several angles.
"For Large Scale Image Classification and Object
Detection: AutoML" (http://ow.ly/rsEw30gR6Ch ) JK--Cool
discussion of pushing this tech to automate DL modeling/training against
larger, more complex datasets
"AWS Announces Family of Five AWS Media Services for
Complete Video Workflows" (http://ow.ly/kL7i30gR2td )
JK--WS Elemental Media Services enable video providers to process live and
on-demand video content in the cloud
"AWS Announces Amazon Sumerian" (http://ow.ly/ZpcT30gR2pt )
JK--New service (in preview) enables any developer to quickly and easily build
virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D applications for popular hardware
platforms.
"Training on the device" (http://ow.ly/EkZ830gQVvZ )
JK--Interesting list of ML-driven apps that already do training on iOS devices
"AWS ramps up in AI with new consultancy services and Rekognition
features" (http://ow.ly/R80B30gQVaY ) JK--Lab to
help customers build AI-powered cloud services.
Automotive News: "Former GM product development czar:
Autonomous cars mean the death of auto companies, dealerships, and so on"
(http://ow.ly/DXxd30gQUfM ) JK--Don't
tell us that new-car smell also kaput. What will we do without it?
"Amazon joins Microsoft and Facebook in trying to blunt
TensorFlow's ecosystem lead" (http://ow.ly/BZp730gQTuP )
JK--Joins Microsoft and Facebook on Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format.
See my post today:
"AI Talent: Siri Misses the Boat as Alexa Sails" (http://ow.ly/bVM130gQTlN )
JK--And Amazon is the top employer of AI talent.
When somebody asks me to specify my "geography," I
want to say "broad alluvial plain with scattered igneous
outcroppings." Or something to that effect.
New jk #Wikibon
Premium research note: "Assessing Deep-Learning Development
Frameworks" (http://ow.ly/EJCl30gQwaq )
New jk #Wikibon
Premium Research note: "Clarifying Enterprise Deep Learning Development
Priorities" (http://ow.ly/SdUy30gQw6f )
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Robert Plant
"The May Queen" from Carry Fire JK--2017. Very good. What if Donovan
had fronted Led Zeppelin?
Cyber Monday. Does that mean the day exists only as a
software construct? If there's an infinite loop in the code, does it become
Cyber Groundhog Day?
Heading to #reInvent. As is my
wont, re-reading my readfile on the vendor sponsor en route. Holy moley! Amazon
Web Services has certainly been busy in 2017. Yes, I compile files on all
vendors major and minor. As is my wont.
Connecting through Detroit .
Surrounded by University
of Michigan
Heading to Vegas for #reInvent. Delta
bag-drop agent asked what's the deal with all these people heading to Vegas. I
can't speak for them, but I'm going to work. Full schedule at Amazon Web
Services' big event. Analyst summit Mon-Tues.
Wife & I rewatched "The Founder" on Netflix.
One of the best movies I've ever seen about American business. Michael Keaton
infuses a bit of "Beetlejuice" impertinence into Ray Kroc's sales
pitches.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Blondie
"Heart of Glass" from Parallel Lines JK--1978. They played CBGBs, but
weren't a punk group. But it was kind of punk of them to say "pain in the
ass" in a disco song.
As the new year approaches, we should all resolve to have
actual lives, so we'll have something interesting to brag about on social
media.
Fun fact: the University
of Michigan
Ad placement on YouTube. My only wish is that they place the
“skip ad” button so that it fully blocks the ad in question.
I find myself less inclined to read tweets that stray beyond
the prior 140-character limit. Brevity wins attention.
Catch me this week in Las
Vegas at AWS re:Invent. #theCUBE will have 2
livestreaming studios at the event.
Sitting here as always, pondering what actually matters.
What actually matters.
Stupid commercial about the joy of sharing Thanksgiving
dinner with members of your family with whom you share DNA.Then why not stuff
the turkey with your blessed genome?
Flo Rida. Oh, that’s what he looks like. I thought he was
that guy from Flo & Eddie.
Some random marching band from some random place in America
plays some random popsong from the past 50 years. That’s entertainment!
Rap interludes are often the self-indulgent weak link in
otherwise OK popsongs. They play the same role that the extended drum solo did
in “Inna Gadda Da Vida.”
Curious how Hollywood
will address the sexual harassment scandals in the upcoming Oscar ceremony. I
suggest an “in memoriam” reel paying respects to still-living actresses whose
careers these jerks killed.
“These vagabond shoes are longing to stray.” Why does that
line suggest a smelly hobo galumphing around in Bozo-grade clodhoppers? Not
even remotely Sinatra.
Thanksgiving 2017. Hard to feel thankful for any of the crap
our country has had to endure this past year. I’ll be thankful when he and his
people are gone.
The Christmas Charlie Brown is the only one of the seasonals
worth rewatching. All the others were made in the month of Meh.
Robot apocalypse. Zombie apocalypse. Our best hope now is to
trick the robots and zombies into a game of no-harm-to-humans mutually assured
destruction. Who's working on that?
"Software 2.0: No human involved in writing a
code" (http://ow.ly/psAU30gL551 ) JK--Code
generation by machine learning models.
"GANs for Simulation, Representation and
Inference" (http://ow.ly/W6hA30gL4hE ) JK--Very
comprehensive discussion, & linkapalooza, to one of the most innovative AI
focus areas. Generative adversarial networks are souped-up creative tools of
the new era.
"Artificial intelligence aids materials
fabrication" (http://ow.ly/agDE30gKP9D ) JK--Not
inconceivable that AI could help us discover the hidden molecular grammars of
biochemistry, metallurgy, etc.
"If an AI Guard Dog Misidentifies and Attacks the
Postman, Who is Responsible?" (http://ow.ly/DXbv30gKNR1 )
JK--In general, cartoonists are responsible if they don't seize this as a fresh
21st century take on a tired old slapstick trope.
"Estimating an Optimal Learning Rate For a Deep Neural
Network" (http://ow.ly/ussF30gKNAN ) JK--Too
slow: the algorithm's insights may miss the window of utility. Too fast: the
algorithm may miss the mark of accuracy.
"How Cargo Cult Bayesians encourage Deep Learning
Alchemy" (http://ow.ly/3CkN30gKMpp ) JK--Don't
laugh. "Wilson "
evolved into a world-class data scientist.
"Uber AI Labs Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic
Programming Language" (http://ow.ly/2p9830gKLbv ) JK--I
expect to see more such languages emerge from everywhere for programming AI.
"The Next Space Race Is Artificial Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/Cdcc30gKKu1 )
JK--Article makes mistaken assumption that this is a nationalist field of
battle. It's a thoroughly interconnected international scientific research
focus.
"Kotlin frameworks: A survey of JVM development
tools" (http://ow.ly/sRM230gKJDI )
JK--Marketplace momentum behind one of the hottest new programming languages.
"Predictions 2018: Automation will alter the global
workforce" (http://ow.ly/Bmgm30gKImj )
JK--"Robotic process automation" has nothing to do with
"robots." It's software-based UI-driven scraped/scripted
administrative-task automation.
"Machine Learning and Machine Justification" (http://ow.ly/kjzU30gKHbq )
JK--Restates Picasso's stupid quote about computers supposedly only being able
to give you answers. That's like saying paintings only give you illustrations.
Computers are awesome exploratory tools.
"Do AI Applications Need a Persona?" (http://ow.ly/1kgG30gKC3P ) JK--Depends. Is it AI chatbot?
Sure. Is it back-end impersonal AI-boosted capability? Maybe not.
"Announcing TensorFlow Lite" (http://ow.ly/RBCa30gKyHd )
JK--Of course, it had been pre-announced a while back. DL for embedded, mobile,
and IoT endpoints.
"Feature Visualization: How neural networks build up
their understanding of images" (http://ow.ly/ElVl30gKyqR )
JK--Really great tutorial on the topic.
"Deep Learning is Eating Software" (http://ow.ly/OMIU30gKwGt )
JK--Sure. But I said it first: here (http://ow.ly/HlJx30gKwXF )
and here (http://ow.ly/4hNp30gKx70 )
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Seamus Fogarty
"Carlow Town Dublin .
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Baio
"Sensitive Guy" from Man of the World JK--2017. Cool one. Sounds like
a lost '80s rock hit.
"When your kid tries to say ‘Alexa’ before ‘Mama’"
(http://ow.ly/9hCY30gKgLC ) JK--Big
deal. I remember my elder child saying "french fries" before
"mommy" or "daddy."
RIP David Cassidy. He had the looks and the girls’ hearts.
And he could sing. But, honestly, Bonaduce was funnier.
"The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of
AI" (http://ow.ly/VpGa30gHNzI ) JK--IMHO,
you lose credibility if your AI prophecy focuses on some dumb utopic/dystopic
"Singularity."
"The titans of AI are getting their work double-checked
by students" (http://ow.ly/cKbq30gHMUd ) JK--I
wouldn't be shocked if the students' double-checking wasn't itself being
double-checked by AI.
"The Race for AI Company Acquisitions: Why It's
Happening, and Its Lessons for You" (http://ow.ly/7zNv30gHMKO )
JK--Good list of juicy AI acquisition candidates.
"Why AI Is Still Waiting for Its Ethics
Transplant" (http://ow.ly/oUjO30gHMC0 ) JK--Yeah,
and it'll get that when the human race decides to converge peacefully on the
fabled One True Religion.
"The rev-up: Imagining a 2x self-driving world" (http://ow.ly/Nmsp30gHMbt )
JK--How will passengerless autonomous vehicles be designed to prevent the 21st
century equivalent of hobo joyriders riding the rails?
"Counterfeiters are using AI and machine learning to
make better fakes" (http://ow.ly/pQKb30gHLYF ) JK--And
good luck regulating generative adversarial networks. Cat's out of the bag.
"What is the TensorFlow machine intelligence
platform?" (http://ow.ly/EZdc30gHLF4 ) JK--Best
discussion I've seen of TF in the context of its toolchain.
"Why Automation Won't Displace Human Intelligence in
Analytics" (http://ow.ly/Aafh30gHLos ) JK--And,
while we're on the topic, John Henry was a steel-drivin' man.
"Could the Blockchain Disrupt YouTube?" (http://ow.ly/NKcD30gHKGu )
JK--Or, more generally, could a distributed immutable content platform dissolve
a content delivery point's chokepoint over access to mass audiences?
"GPU-accelerated analytics databases" (http://ow.ly/YmxH30gHKjl )
JK--Core data platforms in the convergence of AI and BI.
"Nvidia Containerizes GPU-Accelerated Deep
Learning" (http://ow.ly/9PNV30gHK7H ) JK--I
predict their GPU cloud will be their core DL offering before long.
"Juggernaut: Neural Networks in a web browser" (http://ow.ly/fsRz30gHJJy )
JK--Browser-based build/train/execute will be key to the democratization of
this technology.
"A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics
Start-Up" (http://ow.ly/nGFo30gHJfs ) JK--Not
an "Elon Musk Lab." OpenAI is open research institute he co-founded
with YCombinator founder Sam Altman.
"IBM Watson needs a makeover, and other predictions in
cloud, AI and IoT for 2018" (http://ow.ly/YowJ30gH9jo )
JK--Me & other #Wikibon
#SiliconANGLE
analysts
Not detecting all that much fake news. What I'm seeing is
the usual onslaught of fake relevance--aka spin--designed to twist real news to
someone's hidden agenda.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Curtis Harding
"Go As You Are" from Face Your Fear JK--2017. Cool moody R&B from
Atlanta . A tad
Marvin "What's Going On?" ish.
"If Data is as Valuable as Gold, It’s Time to Polish
Your Data Architecture" (http://ow.ly/lSEk30gGZWU ) JK--Love
the weasel-word "if" in there. Even if you priced data by weight,
it's not currently worth $1,297.10/ounce on the spot market.
In discussions with friends over music & entertainment,
I mistakenly called Jack White Jack Black. As a duo, wouldn't that be a charged
musical polarity?
First work morning after returning from vacation. First task
is always trying to decide where to start. Restart
Another sense of Ireland
is that absolutely everybody has some personal connection to America . Many have visited
recently.
My sense of Ireland ,having
been there, is that it’s Europe ’s land’s end.
Irish music is European culture singing into the Atlantic abyss.
Every single person we interacted with in Ireland was friendly and pleasant.
Every single stranger we've interacted with in NYC so far has been rude. Geez.
Thank you Microsoft for detecting unusual sign-in activity
on my account all over Ireland .
My personal leprechaun advisers love the attention.
At the pub the Irish musicians asked where we all came from.
“America ?
Australia ?
Germany ?”
I said “All of that. I carry many passports”
B&Bs galore everywhere in Ireland . Near every bed &
breakfast is a pub where you can indulge in booze & barfing.
Sitting in Ireland ,
watching smug British celeb chef Guy Ramsay in Harpers Ferry WV
Rewatched “Philomena” on DVD. I doubt that the Irish tourism
board promotes this. But, hey, we’re tourists, we’re here!
Dining in Feakle tonight. I assume it’ll all be locally
grown Feakle matter.
Want to thank Mark the Dublin
cabbie for his great comeback yesterday. Me: “It’s my 1st time in a Dublin cab.” Him: “Really?
It’s mine too!”
Tomorrow we’ll visit Blarney Castle
Watching PM May speaking live at House of Commons. She
actually knows what she’s talking about, unlike our head of government.
Very hard to do Ireland and not slip into a faux
Irish accent. The music in it.
Good birthday dinner. Three Asian ladies fussed over what to
feed me. The net result had to be good. It was.
Irish backcountry is rich w/beautiful valleys. Drumandoora
in County Clare
The girls are torn between 2 Irish supermarkets: Aldi and
Lidl. Curious what those Gaelic words mean.
We could not help noticing the churches in the Irish
villages we passed thru this morning. Sunday. And the prominent Virgin Mary
shrines.
Feel I’m getting used to Irish backcountry motoring: few
shoulders, no straightaways, rugged rock walls that allow little margin of
error.
Told the dude who waited on us at McNamara's (Scariff, County Clare
Couldn't sleep on the translatlantic flight. Tried to watch
Aer Lingus' showing of "Goldfinger." Poorly directed. Snoozed.
A very pleasant discussion of ownerships and easements in Queens amid whiskeys and wines. Who’s right? Will worry
about that another day
Casually discussing with friends how we want Obama to be
president for life.
Hanging with friends in Sunnyside, Queens .
Keeping on the sunny side of New York .
Or, at least, away from shadier elements of the naked city
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Joan Shelley
"The Push and Pull" JK--2017. Wow. So pretty.
“AI’s role in future of DevOps provokes IT industry agita” (http://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/news/450429776/AIs-role-in-future-of-DevOps-provokes-IT-industry-agita …)
JK--Cites me. What’s “agita”?
I definitely need a vacation. I was almost about to
block/zap a "Ted Nugent" tweet when I blinked and realized it's
simply "Tech Nugget."
"Your post was shared successfully on LinkedIn."
Thx. Please also notify me when every other low-level feature of your service
doesnt fail.
"New Collab Platf to Spur Open Srce AI Dev" (http://ow.ly/Xn7k30grjCe )
JK--Acumos Proj: "framework for wrapping AI models into
microservices"
"Data Lake
Manifesto
"Juggernaut: Neural Networks in a web browser" (http://ow.ly/GD7J30grixb )
JK--In-browser training only? No back-end? What's the catch?
"You’ll Never Be Alone Again With This One Weird
Chatbot Trick" (http://ow.ly/NYjA30grh6i ) JK--A
digital-twin AI chatbot avatar that U train
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp PINS "Serve
the Rich" JK--2017. Love this new political-message single from this Manchester band.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Alex Chilton
"Jumpin' Jack Flash" from Free Again: The “1970” Sessions JK--1970.
Seriously great Stones cover!
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp St.
Vincent "Hang on Me" from Masseduction JK--2017. Nice
new one from Annie Clark. Kind of a foreboding tone.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Jagwar Ma
"Batter Up" from Every Now & Then JK--2016. Good one from the
Australian indie group.
"Famous Futurist Explains Why We Shouldn't Fear
AI" (http://ow.ly/FwVV30gr9BB ) JK--Huh?
Kurzweil's "difficult episodes" sounds ominous enough
Northam wins Virginia
gubernatorial race. First time I’m aware of somebody from our rural nib of the Delmarva Peninsula having done so.
My wife and I both voted for the Democratic candidates on
the statewide ballot today in Virginia .
Thank you cold-call marketer for informing me right off the
bat that this call is being recorded. Please include my hangup on your next LP.
"Oracle's digital twin simplifies design process for
complex IoT sys" (http://ow.ly/4vQJ30gpOIw ) JK--Digital
twin is edge-node training data
"Edge Computing: New Frontier of the Web" (http://ow.ly/AmvF30gpNYN )
JK--3-tier framework consistent with #Wikibon
"IIoT Analytics Framework Best Practices" (http://ow.ly/DcaW30gpNzB )
JK--Great ref doc from Industrial Internet Forum http://ow.ly/gckx30gpNE4
"Google Brain chief: Deep learning takes at least
100,000 examples" (http://ow.ly/1iTB30gpM8q ) JK--Didn't
specify that as a strict threshold
"Why AI Should Be
Canadian" (http://ow.ly/XCou30gpJXo ) JK--Cuz
ethical AI chatbots continually insert contextually appropriate
"sorry"
"H2O.ai automates machine learning" (http://ow.ly/aE9230gpHaG )
JK--Good list of commercial & open-source tools that do/attempt this.
"Building A.I. That Can Build A.I." (http://ow.ly/r9Ar30go47X )
JK--New York Times on automated machine learning.
"Uber AI Labs Open Sources Pyro, a Deep Probabilistic
Programming Language" (http://ow.ly/Rw1H30go2dd )
JK--Unifies DL w/Bayesian modeling.
"AutoML for large scale image classific & object
detection" (http://ow.ly/y9rU30go1Nk ) JK--Google
has open-sourced this in TensorFlow repos
"State of Data Science & ML" (http://ow.ly/Z1Qw30go15V )
JK--Data-scis use logistic regress, decis trees, random forests more than
neural nets
Reviewing the latest crops of incremental product updates
& new products. I call the former versional and the latter virginal.
"Why CIOs need a Chief Artificial Intelligence
Officer" (http://ow.ly/6rIO30gnMvR ) JK--OMG.
Need a Chief Chief Chief to manage all the chiefs
"Why universities losing their best AI scientists"
(http://ow.ly/8aJ430gnM8d ) JK--May
resort to granting tenure during freshman orientation
"Architectures Battle for Deep Learning" (http://ow.ly/8nj230gnLEI )
JK--Excellent overview by Linley Gwennap of the DL chipset wars.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Feist "Hey,
That's No Way To Say Goodbye" JK--2017. Hey, that's a great a Leonard
Cohen cover! Brand new.
"Cisco & Google partner on open hybrid cloud
sol'n" (http://ow.ly/Zo8H30gnJn6 )
JK--Leverages Istio microservice mesh:
"Improbable Origins of PowerPoint" (http://ow.ly/x7o530gnHy8 )
JK--Not improbable. One of Forethought's products took off. MSFT came a-callin'
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Angel Olsen
"Special" from Phases JK--2017. Good new guitar fuzzy one from her.
Due out this Friday.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Juana Molina
"Cosoco" from Halo JK--2017. Wow. That is so great. The Monday
morning pick-me-up that I need.
Wife & I are not crazy about any of the yoga teachers at
our fitness club. Regardless, I'm beyond having to follow an instructor. I know
me
"When robots dream: AI sys may learn better/fastr if
can ‘sleep’" (http://ow.ly/5szL30gmWBz ) JK--Unstr
autonomous offline reinforcmt learning
Smart money has the Academy airbrushing Spacey out of the
2014 Oscar selfie.
“Fantasy football.” The real fantasy is believing that the
weekly clash of brawn is not literally bashing in their own brains.
Trump has the persistently lowest ratings in presidential
polling history. Wonder if he’d care to comment on what a pathetic loser he is.
Watched some formulaic Hollywood
thriller with erotic subtext. Not even any good formulaic sex scenes. All
improbable uncomfortable awkward
I’m voting for Ralph Northam for Virginia governor on Tuesday. Keep sanity in
the statehouse in Richmond .
Thank you ex-Twitter employee. But why didn’t you have
“realDonaldTrump” confess to something truly impeachable before deep-sixing
him?
Wikibon Action Item: Adding AI to AppDev
Reading the free-WiFi agreement fine print. Making sure
there’s no stipulation on color of digital M&M images I’m allowed to
download.
Wrote really great detailed #Wikibon research note
in one sustained sit. 10 hours. Been doing the research for months. Deep
learning tools
Burning the candle at both ends today. Makes me more
enlightened. Even as it puts me at greater risk of issuing caustic commentary.
Russians are also behind all those instances on Facebook of
people posting mundane text in unnecessarily huge fonts on graphic backgrounds
Thank you TV ads for making me aware of every disease that
could afflict people my age & all th pharmaceuticals I should ask my doctor
about
Interesting that Las
Vegas has casinos called Venetian, Palazzo, and
Bellagio. I think there should be a Sicilian. To honor local heritage.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Pixx "I Bow
Down" from The Age of Anxiety JK--2017. This is good. Has a rocking
urgency that grips you
"How AI will impact your routine as a designer" (http://ow.ly/dodT30giYl6 )
JK--Touches on the coming generative revolution.
"I just coded my first AI algorithm, and oh boy, it
felt good" (http://ow.ly/uUMU30giXX3 ) JK--Was it
better than sex? Or for cybersex?
"What Will Our Lives Be
as Cyborgs?" (http://ow.ly/nuxD30giXwR ) JK--We'll
all mistakenly trace our ancestry to Bjorn Borg.
"Google’s AI Wizard Unveils A New Twist On Neural
Networks" (http://ow.ly/fw4f30giWRY ) JK--Crude
virtual neurons w/inbuilt sense of geometry
Another tech manifesto. Geez. Please don't issue manifestos
unless you wax your mustache tips, smoke unfiltered Gauloises, & drink
absinthe.
"AI professor explains: concerns about granting
citizenship to robot Sophia" (http://ow.ly/inW930giVw3 )
JK--Is it murder if you disable her?
"The New Religions Obsessed with A.I." (http://ow.ly/a59u30giVdn )
JK--Really? Which school? Do their AI deities need to be trained with data?
"Neural Nets Give Low-End Phone Pics DSLR Look" (http://ow.ly/tZA830giUpU )
JK--GANs auto-improve your grainy, poorly lit photos. GIMME DAT!
"Bringing Continuous Delivery to the Database" (http://ow.ly/XEq930giTPw )
JK--Article contains most elegant DevOps schematic I've ever seen.
"Meetings : Culture o Excess Hurts Our
Productivity/Morale" (http://ow.ly/Jhq630giST0 )
JK--Meetings often called cuz no one responds 2 email
"Big data privacy is a bigger issue than you
think" (http://ow.ly/MvrS30gh4xe ) JK--You
know what I'm thinking? Bigger privacy issue, indeed!
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Betty Davis
"It's My Life" from Th Columbia Years JK--1968. Radio-friendly. In
'70s, she, like Pryor, got real raw!
Chat w/me @datagenius
@MaribelLopez @andrewbrust @jennjshin @YvesMulkers @Dana_Gardner 2pm ET #BigDataAutomation
http://bit.ly/2hKbpTw
"Microsoft is working on AI chips across its different
devices" (http://ow.ly/TIpS30ggWlT ) JK--It's
joining an increasingly competitive space
"The State of Data Science & Machine Learning"
(http://ow.ly/SAYy30ggVPT )
JK--Average data scientist is my elder child's age.
"Automated Machine Learning Drives Intelligent
Biz" (http://ow.ly/CqMW30ggVxE ) JK--Nice
IoT edge ML layering discussion by @idigdata
aka Jen
#KEXP
DJ Morgan Chosnyk did an excellent interview with Beck recently. A very
thoughtful man. Read/listen here:
Not clear what value "subject matter" provides as
qualifier of "expert." If U state the subject matter (e.g., IoT),
delete "subject matter"
Another morning, another feed of "research" sponsored
& published by vendors with stakes in us believing the findings. It may be
so. Sure.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Lydia Lunch
"Spooky" from Queen of Siam JK--1980. DJ Abbie says this was
"one of her hits." What hits?
"Rylo is 360-degree video camera that magically follows
the action" (http://ow.ly/3ypH30ggU5l )
JK--Shake-free pan post-hoc between any points
It’s true. George Papadopoulos’ primary job for Trump was to
fetch coffee from the Kremlin Starbucks.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp The Murder City
Devils "Boom Swagger Boom" JK--1997. Pawned souls to Satan to secure
great band name & song title
"Nvidia's AI Creates Artificial Human Faces from
Celebrity Photos" (http://ow.ly/2Mrl30gfVeC ) JK--A
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon-bot?
New jk #Wikibon
Premium Research note: "Bringing Model Training Fully into Machine
Learning DevOps" (http://ow.ly/VKA230gfSGi )
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Dead Man's Bones
"My Body's a Zombie for You" JK--2009. Ryan Gosling & Silverlake
Conservatory Children's Choir
New jk #Wikibon
Premium Research Note: "Evaluating Serverless Frameworks for the True
Private Cloud" (http://ow.ly/WpEQ30gfAU3 )
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Eric Weissberg
"Dueling Banjos" JK--1972. Fun fact: Lin Manuel Miranda restaging
Hamilton-Burr duel with banjos
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Bauhaus
"Bela Lugosi’s Dead" JK--1982. Fun fact: same applies to many actors
who've played Frankenstein's Monster.
Open-source pre-trained deep learning models with demos and
code. Go to http://ow.ly/qfG630gfr9w
"AI Model Fundamentally Cracks CAPTCHAs, Scientists
Say" (http://ow.ly/Xeus30gfqCI ) JK--Every
new CAPTCHA is mincemeat for new AI approaches
"China ’s
AI Awakening 中国 人工智能
的崛起" (http://ow.ly/ZhZd30gfpLg )
JK--"Copy it"? Not so fast. Let's see if any AI they produce is worth
copying.
Translate from Chinese
"TensorFlow or Keras? Which one should I learn?" (http://ow.ly/LCRx30gfp6G )
JK--It's not either/or. Keras API (easy programming) runs on TF.
Today's 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's putative
posting of his 95 Theses on Wittenberg
church door. Microscopic font. Semi-illegible.
"The Evolution of Sensors: Canaries to Drones" (http://ow.ly/C7X530gfoaX )
JK--Excellent taxonomy of sensor technologies.
"Disrupting Tech Monopolies & AI Tycoons " (http://ow.ly/jx0V30gfnSP )
JK--Touts blockchain disruptive potential. Competing blockchains?
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Courtney Barnett
& Kurt Vile "On Script" from Lotta Sea Lice JK--2017. Best
Courtney/Kurt duo since Love/Cobain.
HIPAA's getting long in the tooth. I propose extension,
HIPAA-POTAMUS (Protection Of The Absolutely Most Useful Stuff), to keep it
relevant.
"10 Top Recomms for AI in 2017" (http://ow.ly/5fHw30gfmPf )
JK--AI Now annual rpt: http://ow.ly/Smau30gfmTi . Remove
public-sectr blackbox algos
"Coach" (http://ow.ly/uGoo30gfmwq )
JK--Intel Nervana's DL devel framework for robotics, self-driving cars, games,
etc. Reinforcement learning
"How much Google spending on cutting edge AI
research" (http://ow.ly/vP3C30gfm9K ) JK--Alphabet's
"other bets" burning cash at staggering pace
"Data, AI blur the enterprise-consumer tech line"
(http://ow.ly/1vrO30gflPT )
JK--Perhaps BYOB is now "bring your own bot"
"Timely release of Pentaho 8.0 positions Hitachi for the edge"
(http://ow.ly/N76S30gflj6 ) JK--My #theCUBE day-2 wrap
comments from #PWorld17
"Saudi
Arabia , which denies women equal rights,
makes a robot a citizen" (http://ow.ly/Nbjw30gfkMD ) JK--Saudis
inspired by "Stepford Wives"
Actual banner ad "Bill Gate says 'Smart Pill' is KEY to
his success." Photo is Bill Gates. Someone tell Gate that Gates is hogging
his glory
"At unusual startup acceler8r, being gay a
prerequisite" (http://ow.ly/pa7j30gfjDK ) JK--Um,
OK. But is there anti-gay funding discrim in SV?
"Embracing the Diffusion of AI Research in Yerevan , Armenia
Halloween. If I knew which kid would be last at our door,
I'd dump entire remaining candy stash in their bag. I don't trust myself with
it.
Glanced at Trump’s Twitter feed for the first time today.
Not terribly presidential. But he’d be a highly qualified Secretary of
Defensive
New jk #Wikibon
Premium Note: "Building Applications for Hybrid Clouds" (http://ow.ly/5PUQ30geiva )
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Sharon Jones and
the Dap‐Kings
"These Tears" from Soul of a Woman JK--2017. Omigod. So nice!
"Will Our Robots Harm Us?" (http://ow.ly/CJ7430ge1sZ )
JK--Not if we get to the Emerald
City
"The Art of Storytelling in Data Science" (http://ow.ly/jmp630ge11Y )
JK--Goodnight Moon. Goodnight regression model jumping over the Moon.
Power cloud. Join Crowdchat: Automating Data Analytics to
the Max, Nov 1, 2pm ET, http://bit.ly/2hKbpTw #BigDataAutomation
This morning's incoming product pitches. Sorting them into
folders for "groundbreaking," "game-changing,"
"disruptive," and "revolutionary"
"Waymo to test self-driving cars in Michigan winter conditions" (http://ow.ly/Y4lO30gdEkx )
JK--Go test autonomous tobogganing on Hines
Drive !
"Will Hitachi
grow its ecosystem to include AI developer tools and robotics?" (http://ow.ly/I2i330gdyHp )
JK--My #theCUBE #PWorld17 discussion
Saw "The Last Face" on DVD. Sean Penn-directed
preachy humanitarianism. Redeemed by Charlize Theron & Javier Bardem's fine
performances.
Reading Pepys’ diary. Apparently, English upper class of
1660 gorged themselves daily on fatty meat & strong liquor. Took wicked
laxatives
We’re always being warned against complacency. But I long
for the day when I can be complacent as all hell about every last damn thing.
Reading selections from the diary of Samuel Pepys. Founder
of Pep Boys, inventor of Pepsi, and original voice of Pepé Le Pew.
Did mainstage panel, a solo preso, & livestream
co-hosting this past week. Panel was my fave & lots of people complimented.
Week’s highlight
Fun fact: Chubby Checker derived his stage name from Fats
Domino. Blimpy Backgammon didn’t test well with the focus groups
Thank you WSJ for informing us that George Clooney takes
cash on motorcycle trips. Does he also take the Oscar he won for “Syriana”?
They’ve renamed Jeb Stuart HS th cheeseball “Justice HS.”
Why not pull out th stops & call it “Truth Justice & Th
American Way
High School
New JK #Wikibon
#SiliconANGLE
article: “At #PWorld17,
Hitachi Vantara refocuses data portfolio on edge analytics” (https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/10/27/pentaho-world-2017-hitachi-vantara-refocuses-data-portfolio-edge-analytics/ …)
Preparing to leave Orlando .
Listening to Tony Orlando & Dawn. Great songs. Would have been better if
they'd knocked 3 times on the cowbell.
"JFK Assassination Records - 2017 Additional Documents
Release" (http://ow.ly/WUa130gbgbg )
JK--National Archives official site.
Accelerate management. Join Crowdchat: Automating Data
Analytics to the Max, Nov 1, 2pm ET, http://bit.ly/2hKbpTw #BigDataAutomation
#PWorld17
Day 1 #theCUBE intro
(http://ow.ly/Gref30ga7aj ) and wrap (http://ow.ly/T4pD30ga7b6 )
with me, Dave, and Rebecca.
New jk #InfoWorld column:
"Even data scientists are facing AI takeover" (http://ow.ly/USyn30g9nsF )
Donna Prlich of Hitachi Vantara takes the stage in #PWorld17 keynote.
Presents Pentaho roadmap.
Here's an excellent recent blog by Hitachi Vantara's Donna
Prlich on "Power of 3" http://bit.ly/2yMViPr #PWorld17
Catch Donna Prlich, Mark Hall, Allaa HIlal, and me this
morning, 10:15-10:40am EDT at #PWorld17 "Power
of 3": http://bit.ly/2yNx8Vb
Follow #PWorld17 keynote
livestream on http://bit.ly/2yNx8Vb
Catch #Pworld17
live on http://bit.ly/2yNquyd
At #PWorld17,
waiting for Day 1 mainstage general session to begin. I'll be on "Panel of
3" starting 10:15am EDT.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Delta 5 "Try
" from Try / Colour JK--1980. Rough Trade artist's second 7" single
release. Nice barebones melody
Looking forward to #PentahoWorld 2017
here at Rosen's Shingle Creek Hotel in Orlando .
There's an actual creek, I found. No shingles, though
Improve efficiency. Join Crowdchat: Automating Data
Analytics to the Max, Nov 1, 2pm ET, http://bit.ly/2hKbpTw #BigDataAutomation
New jk #Wikibon
#SiliconANGLE
article: "As deep learning frameworks converge, automation possibilities
unfold" (http://ow.ly/eVxV30g80gl )
RIP Antoine “Fats” Domino. Classic NOLA barrelhouse boogie
R&B man. Of rock’s early piano stars, only Jerry Lee & Little Richard remain.
Freaky low humidity in Orlando :
31% and 71°F. Am I in Las Vegas
right now? What’s with all the lakes and green grass?
"A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous
Activity" (http://ow.ly/PhPK30g7igk ) JK--1943
research paper. DL theoretical foundation
I’m kind of a wine connoisseur. I only drink whatever
vintage is currently uncorked.
Packing for business trip. Calculate number o dress shirts
by considering likelihood o self-staining drink spillage and/or sauce spattering
"Design for Augmented Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/LJcC30g6owj )
JK--HInt: sneak a peek at what the brainiac one desk over is scribbling.
"Want to know how Deep Learning works? Quick guide for
everyone" (http://ow.ly/T1bq30g6oof ) JK--It's
very deep, profound, & life-affirming!
"Predicting the Popularity of TED Talks" (http://ow.ly/bMwh30g6obb )
JK--Positive, motivating, human relationships. Gasp! Just feature Oprah.
Some friends I haven't heard from in years. But I do
appreciate when hackbots send me "1 Th0ught You m|ght L!ke th!s"
links on their behalf.
Entering credit card information into a browser. For some
reason, I always glance down at my name. Just to make sure I'm still me, I
guess.
"A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI" (http://bit.ly/2gAdNMo )
JK--Very good overview of AI research ongoing at UC-Berkeley.
"How Adversarial Attacks Work" (http://ow.ly/ktxM30g5LIM )
JK--Shows how easy DL is to hack.
"New Optimizations Improve Deep Learning Frmwks For
CPUs" (http://ow.ly/dJxq30g5Ley ) JK--Good
list of Intel-engineered optzns by DL framework
"Pornhub using machine learning to automatically tag
its 5 million vids" (http://ow.ly/78EL30g5L1P ) JK--I
chuckled at "starting with facial"
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Dr. John
"Little Liza Jane" from Dr. Johns Gumbo JK--1972. Glanced at the
calendar to make sure it's not Mardi Gras
"Future of programming? Answer lies in functional
languages" (http://ow.ly/Ljli30g5JYz ) JK--Not so
fast! Still need to track state somewhere
"Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I.
Talent" (http://ow.ly/oXak30g5J3a )
JK--$300K-500K salaries, plus shares/options.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp The Innocence Mission
"That Was Another Country" from Glow JK--1995. Love the desolate
melancholy of this.
"After the end of the startup era" (http://ow.ly/ZiM430g5IxO )
JK--Nah. This stuff goes in cycles. Same was said after the Dotcom Bubble crash
Need a slideshow blocker in our browsers. Should warn that
the "20 interesting things about Jeff Bezos" link is 20 stupid slides
in sequence
New jk #TechTarget column:
"The tension between data science professionalism and automation" (http://ow.ly/vKJq30g5HzF )
Reading Susan Cheever’s bio “My Name is Bill” about the
founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Substance abuse can be a stubborn
self-destroyer.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Widowspeak
"Dog" from Expect the Best JK--2017. Very nice moody stuff. A bit
Mazzy Star, a smidge Catherine Wheel.
If you're in Orlando
later this week at #PentahoWorld,
catch me on #theCUBE,
on mainstage "Power of 3" panel, and on breakout preso on AI
New jk #SiliconANGLE #Wikibon VoC:
"Modern infrastructure mgt: accelerating productivity through machine
learning" (http://ow.ly/CkxF30g4cEh )
Accelerate workloads. Join Crowdchat: Automating Data
Analytics to the Max, Nov 1, 2 pm ET, http://bit.ly/2hKbpTw #BigDataAutomation
"Ranking Popular Deep Learning Libraries for Data
Science" (http://ow.ly/lkCC30g49xM )
JK--Quantitative data on DL framework popularity
"Blockchains for Artificial Intelligence" (http://ow.ly/aTyP30g494y )
JK--From decentralized model exchanges to model audit trails.
"Announcing PlaidML: Open Source Deep Learning for
Every Platform" (http://ow.ly/Nras30g48oM ) JK--Yet
another milestone in open DL frameworks
"How “Big Data” Went Bust" (http://ow.ly/eQH930g47Gw )
JK--The phenomenon became commonplace. Term was massively overused. Buzzword
fatigue
"This Garment Pattern Could Power Biosensor Nets"
(http://ow.ly/KRwA30g47mU ) JK--Only a
short step from ubiquitously AI-infused smart fabrics
"Reinforcement Learning for th Enterprise " (http://ow.ly/yCjZ30g46Mk )
JK--Discusses immature state of commercial RL frameworks for developers
"Alphabet training law enforcemt on how to handle
self-driving car crashes" (http://ow.ly/3Psg30g4699 )
JK--Communicate passenger condition?
"How Analytics Has Changed in Last 10 Yrs" (http://ow.ly/TUSu30g44ND )
JK--Coincides w/when I began to cover: slf-svc, big, unstruct, AI, IoT
"AI solves moral decision making using human
input" (http://ow.ly/yHWD30g435i ) JK--Nothing
"solves" moral decision making. Simply trades-off
"DARPA’s new infrared smart sensor operates w/near-zero
power consump" (http://ow.ly/JNgA30g42M9 )
JK--Activated by IR profile of event sensed
"AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch" (http://ow.ly/e8BV30g41Z7 )
JK--AI mastered Go only by playing against itself. No human-master training
"Zenith Trans-Oceanic: Best Radio Ever?" (http://ow.ly/tnkP30g3ZcE )
JK--Shortwave was Internet of the pre-Internet. Tune into distant signals
Nicolas Cage. Always looks like he’s just reading lines.
When he’s on screen, he looks like a film crew member wandering into the frame
Bought/downloaded The War on Drugs' latest LP, "A
Deeper Understanding." Sweeping epic rock that never feels ponderous or
pretentious.
