6m6 minutes ago
New jk blogpost: "Kobielus thought leadership posts in
2018" (http://ow.ly/fPTz30n4wzi )
New jk LinkedIn Pulse blog: "Predictions for Edge
Computing in 2019" (http://ow.ly/D2PF30n4w7X )
Reading Simmons' Leonard Cohen bio. Mentions him by chance
meeting Nico and her "pretty-boy guitar player" in a Greenwich
Village bar in 1967. That was almost certainly a young Jackson Browne, whom I
met by chance in Midtown 50 years later.
New jk #SiliconANGLE
article: " turbulence is coming in the big-data analytics market in
2019" (https://siliconangle.com/2018/12/20/turbulence-coming-big-data-analytics-market-2019/ …)
"HEXstream Unveils Koios, a New Analytics Solution
Powered by Naveego's Complete Data Accuracy [blah blah blah]" (http://ow.ly/1QRA30n3FUn
) JK--PR comes from Traverse City MI. They have hi-tech (Naveego) in the
northern Lower Peninsula? Wow. Michigan's economy is evolving.
"Curiosity-Driven Data Science" (http://ow.ly/1XYX30n3EUa )
JK--What's with the "cat popping bubbles" photo? Did curiosity-driven
data science kill the cat? Schrodinger's Cat wasn't particularly curious, but
that's cold comfort in her/his perilous state.
"3 top cybersecurity predictions for 2019" (http://ow.ly/F0C230n3EzS )
JK--Really? Your predictions are 1) "attacks on industrial plants,"
2) "confirmed use of adversarial AI," & 3) "a new attack
vector"? Why not just summarize them all with one master prediction:
"we're screwed"?
"Managing risk in machine learning" (http://ow.ly/V8UE30n3Ek2 )
JK--Ben Lorica mentions Google "federated learning" for building
centralized model without sharing private data. I wrote an article about it in
April 2017 re AI in edge computing. Here that is:
"In Memoriam: The Tech That Died in 2018" (http://ow.ly/WbLt30n3DC0 )
JK--Of these, I once used Google+, StumbleUpon, Canon film cameras, & Yahoo
Messenger. I had a Klout account but found all that "influencer
score" crap laughable from the start. Too many nobodies with
"influence"
I scratch my head when some tech vendor sends a Merry Xmas
greeting to my work email, but addresses me by my wife's name. Apparently,
they're squandering the money they've paid for bulk email addresses, or data
cleansing solutions, or outbound targeting software, or all of that.
"Computer Science For Babies" (http://ow.ly/LTqn30n3Cud )
JK--Thanks, but I'm not going to imagine that my 1-year-old grandson gets into
the same stuff I do. I never made that assumption with his daddy or auntie. And
I was right. We already got his Xmas presents.
"6 Cool AI Toys For Kids" (http://ow.ly/iUe530n3Cmd )
JK--Perhaps there'll be a Cabbage Patch Kids or Teddy Ruxpin equivalent mania
for one of these come future Christmases. Nothing seems to jump out yet into
"gotta have it mommy/daddy" status this year.
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#kexp Princess Chelsea
"I Love My Boyfriend" from The Loneliest Girl JK--2018. Very nice
retro-pop. Sounds early 60s teenage-girl
puppy-love anthem.
"The 10 Coolest New Hyper-Converged Systems Of
2018" (http://ow.ly/GWqZ30n3BKk ) JK--Good
roundup of fiercely competitive segment of the enterprise hardware market.
Reduce complexity of data centers that underpin clouds of every type. The
clouds themselves are growing very complex
"Automation Anywhere and DataRobot Partner on AI
Solutions for Digital Transformation" (http://ow.ly/SOv730n3AVE )
JK--Net-net: partner provides a data-science DevOps pipeline tool to speed
deployment of AI models into robotic process automation (RPA) bots built with
AA's tooling
"Edge-chips could render some networks
unnecessary" (http://ow.ly/vUxa30n3AEE ) JK--But
only if "brain-replicating" neuristor chips overcome serious
engineering hurdles, such as much lower-power activation & less complex
fabrication. One must always read deeper than the headline.
"North Korea rejects denuclearization unless U.S.
‘nuclear threat’ is eliminated" (http://ow.ly/mluR30n3zQb )
JK--I assume that Trump will negotiate a deal on this in the same expert way he
convinced Congress that we need to build wall along the border with Mexico.
"How Much Can Technology Be Trusted?" (http://ow.ly/llnT30n3zzD )
JK--When writing blogs, I to start from
a premise that is a bit actionable than
just a projection of my anxieties onto a single-word abstraction of some vast,
amorphous subject matter. Just saying.
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#kexp This Mortal Coil
"Kangaroo" from It'll End in Tears JK--1984. UK-based collective
known for its gothic, dream pop sound. This one sounds a fever dream set to the "Twin
Peaks" theme.
"Finally, a Machine That Can Finish Your Sentence"
(http://ow.ly/yPrs30n37W6 )
JK--Reminds me of this "Portlandia" bit:
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#kexp The Decemberists
"Once in My Life" from I’ll Be Your Girl JK--2018. Another great one
from their latest. This one has arena-rock bombast behind it. Actually, that's
kind of refreshing for their sound.
"Tech legends honor Doug Engelbart, ‘mother of all
demos’ — but has his vision come true?" (http://ow.ly/ap2130n37be )
JK--Possibly, but I doubt that Engelbart's vision was to ultimately be referred
as the "mother" of something.
"Nvidia AI research points to an evolution of the chip
business" (http://ow.ly/I1O830n35eP )
JK--AI-accelerator chips optimized for generative/automated model-driven
video/image/graphics rendering without need for manual sketching etc to
kickstart the process.
"How Significant Is Blockchain in Internet of
Things?" (http://ow.ly/XKhE30n34Wo )
JK--Radically decentralized trust, identity, metadata, transaction, and audit
log shared amongst things.
"Microsoft Spotlights Partner IoT Efforts Around 'Smart
Cities'" (http://ow.ly/W9O030n34m4 )
JK--"Dynamic glass...senses when broken, invisibly sending notification
about the location of the broken window and the time of the incident."
RIP Penny Marshall. People tend to overlook the fact that
she was an excellent movie director. Remember "Awakenings," for
example. And that she was always the most amusing sitcom actor in frame.
Remember Oscar Madison's secretary?
"Microsoft Uses Neural Networks to Design Neural
Networks" (http://ow.ly/HFOZ30n2ca7 ) JK--AI
will recursively self-spawn. "Microsoft’s Neural Architecture
Optimization...maps a neural network architecture into a continuous vector
space and optimizes it via a gradient based method"
"AI software can dream up an entire digital world from
a simple sketch" (http://ow.ly/fM7h30n2bWY ) JK--In
other words, a declarative specification of the intended AI outcome can be
generatively auto-compiled into a deliverable that leverages library of
pre-trained modules.
"Kubernetes’ sprawling ecosystem offers lots of choice
– and risk" (http://ow.ly/Py3I30n276E )
JK--Interviews me and many others in the community.
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#kexp David Bowie
"Sound and Vision" from Low JK--1977. This reference dates me, but
this is one of many songs where David's singing sounds to me the late Anthony Newley. Anthony who? the late Mr. Bowie, he was an English actor,
singer and songwriter.
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#kexp Yo La Tengo
"Ohm" from Fade JK--2013. Music is exactly one chord. Lyric is a
double-entendre of "om" (the meditative exhalation) over
"ohm" (the electrical resistance metric), though neither word is
anywhere in the lyric. Just the title. One syllable. Wow
New jk #InformationWeek
column: "Predictions for Artificial Intelligence in 2019" (http://ow.ly/C9zK30n1TPf )
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#kexp Toadies
"Possum Kingdom" from Rubberneck JK--1994. Grunge golden oldie. I
have an odd musical nostalgia for the '90s. I was already in my 30s &
obviously too old to get into what teenagers of that day were getting off on.
But I enjoyed it on FM radio.
"Harvard researchers want to school Congress about
AI" (http://ow.ly/WSa130n1Rvc ) JK--It is
painful to listen to these legislators speak from sheer uninformed ignorance.
Years ago as a freelance tech journalist, I met Al Gore when he was still a
senator. He actually knew his stuff
"Tech predictions for 2019"? Which tech? Can you
scope that down? Suffice it to say that "this stuff will get even complex" applies year after year to it
all. So does "it will be hyped with the latest and greatest cliches."
Beyond that, it's hard to generalize.
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#kexp Jessica Pratt
"Poly Blue" from Quiet Signs JK--2019. Wow. This tickles me all over.
Light, bright, and winsome.
"Dependency injection"? I'm curious if the
computer scientists who coined this technical programming term intended it as a
pun suggesting mainlining of a controlled substance. It's all about
"inversion of control" (http://ow.ly/LR3330n0Vgp ).
Kicks keep getting harder to find.
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#kexp Whitney Mongé
"Day N Nite" from Carry On JK--2018. Seattle. It's not everybody's
box of rain.
"Dressbarn." Odd nomenclature for a woman's
clothing store. "Where'd you learn to dress? In a barn?"
Reading Sylvie Simmons' "I'm Your Man: The Life of
Leonard Cohen." Already, I've learned surprising things about him. His
poetic impulse from the start was libidinal than spiritual. He thought his
writing would help his chances with the ladies.
Watched "The Hours" from a DVD we checked out from
the public library. Meh. Couldn't stop noticing Nicole Kidman's fake nose and
thinking about all the great performers giving their all for this unconvincing
tearjerker.
FROCKS OF AGE Now that the fallen have reanimated the soil,
a curtain drops. We venture out in raincoats streaked filthy from last Spring's
solemnities. Sweating inside their removable linings and seams unraveling.
--James Kobielus
Wife says following instructions in exercise class is better
way to work my mind than doing the elliptical. I'll multitask pondering that
advice while composing and posting yet another poem while working my cardio on
that machine.
Washington DC area is top move-to destination in the USA,
Alexandria is tops in the DC area, and that's even before legions Amazonians
come to town. Holy cow!
Think I'll put up the tree and trimmings this weekend. I've
given our household the requisite two-week post-Thanksgiving basting in Yule
juice. Stick a fork in it.
"I Used Gmail Auto-Complete, and Now I Know I’m
Worthless" (http://ow.ly/N3GY30mZt63 ) JK--That's
a dumb attitude. I and frequently rely
on that feature to auto-gen the right stock phrase to stick rapidly into a
message. I'm not authoring original works of literature there.
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#kexp Simon & Garfunkel
"The Only Living Boy in New York" from Bridge Over Troubled Water
JK--1970. Simon wrote this while Garfunkel was filming Catch-22 in Mexico.
Addresses Garfunkel by the pseudonym "Tom" from their 1950s
teeny-bopper act "Tom & Jerry"
New jk #SiliconANGLE
article: "At KubeCon, the Kubernetes community discusses its growing
pains" (https://siliconangle.com/2018/12/13/kubecon-kubernetes-community-discusses-growing-pains/ …)
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#kexp Roberta Flack
"The Closer I Get To You" JK--1977. Flack hails from northern
Virginia. Arlington, specifically. Shirlington, even specifically. Cut her musical chops at Lomax
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, just off I-395 & Glebe Rd.
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#kexp Ralph Carney
& Patrick Carney "BoJack's Theme" from BoJack's Theme JK--2014.
RIP Ralph. @loserboy did a great job
of summarizing Carney's career as a go-to musical collaborator across a huge
spectrum of artists. Also, by all accounts, he was a great guy.
"Hey Google, What’s The Point Of Silicon Valley’s Tech
Hearings?" (http://ow.ly/jF6230mYkyE )
JK--Boneheaded legislators forcing tech execs to cough up deterministic
"yes or no" answers to questions about behavior of statistical
algorithms that are driven by 100s of variables.
Wife & I agree that we don't care for Jackson 5's
version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." I've never been all that
fond of Bruce Springsteen's either. The Crystals' is the only one I actually
enjoy: http://ow.ly/FxQN30mYjD9 . It set the
standard.
National Enquirer run by cynical scumbags who pander to
brain-dead reactionaries? Didn’t see that one coming.
New jk #SiliconANGLE
article: "At KubeCon, serverless, mesh and DevOps announcements
dominate" (http://ow.ly/b1Zn30mXPGh )
"Google hearing previews House Dems' plans to rein in
Big Tech" (http://ow.ly/CWnU30mXOos )
JK--Privacy legislation, not "entirely fictitious allegations
of...anti-conservative bias of internet companies [that] waste time/money &
elevate well-worn right-wing conspiracy theories"
invitations to be
prebriefed on data announcements under embargo. If there's a "data is
oil" pitch anywhere in it, I'd to
request a permanent oil embargo. Leave OPEC out of it.
ESPN. Some NFL head coach states they’re going to “actively
seek victory.” Thanks for the clarification. I thought they pay you to
passively invite defeat
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#kexp Cat Power
"Free" from You Are Free JK--2003. I love this song. It's
Chan-as-hippie while the band snaps that tight beat around her. The
"free" chorus at the end sounds it could be Henry Rollins hanging out in the
studio.
New jk #SiliconANGLE
article: "Kubernetes open-source project matures as commercialization
accelerates" (http://ow.ly/tcku30mWU42 )
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#kexp Sly & The
Family Stone "Stand!" from Stand! JK--1969. Righteously great chorus
on this. The band sounds they're doing a
fast-march up the victory podium.
"Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word
Processor" (http://ow.ly/dWOk30mWSSw ) JK--An
innovator in the computer industry whose contributions had been unfairly
overlooked. Perhaps because she was a woman. You decide.
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#kexp Phosphorescent
"Christmas Down Under" from C’est La Vie JK--2018. Wow, that's a
great new Christmas song, in the melancholy tradition.
I'm leery of these ratings of "tech giant with the best
company culture," based on employee reports. None controls for key
variable: the degree to which the firm is currently making money hand over
fist. Show us those whose "employee kumbaya" factors endure thru red
ink & layoffs
"Google moves up Google+ consumer shutdown to April
2019" (http://ow.ly/d5pM30mWz3V ) JK--Why
not sooner? The only consumer I recall using Google+ was the Obama White House
early in his first term. And they only used it once for some long-forgotten
event. It's a rank failure.
"Meet the Bottomless Pinocchio, a new rating for a
false claim repeated over and over again" (http://ow.ly/f14n30mWwHH )
JK--Only Trump has received it so far. Repeatedly. I suggest Washington Post
create a Bottomless Geppetto & give it to Fox News. They built &
maintain this dummy
"Who Will Be Trump’s Next Chief Of Staff? It Doesn’t
Really Matter" (http://ow.ly/pRDc30mWwzm ) JK--Plenty
of people can do the job, so just pick a name out of a hat. It's just a matter
of reminding the president that he hasn't lied and slandered enough to fulfill
his daily quota.
Thank you "digital transformation partner" who
wants to have coffee while he's "in the neighborhood." You've
indicated that the neighborhood is "Germany." I accept your offer if
you'll fly me all expenses paid to a posh chalet in the Bavarian Alps with my good
friend Rick Steves.
Thoroughly enjoyed Pentatonix’ Christmas special. Damn good
acapella.
I’ve started reading the comments in YouTube for kicks. On
popsongs, there’s usually lots of dumb “love this” comments followed by a
snarky one, followed by somebody saying something to the effect of “what asshat
wouldn’t this song?” That one always
cracks me up.
New jk #SiliconANGLE article:
“The intensifying battle between AWS and Oracle for enterprise database
supremacy” (https://siliconangle.com/2018/12/10/intensifying-battle-aws-oracle-enterprise-database-supremacy/ …)
New jk #Datanami column:
"The Smart Object Ecosystem Is The New AI Workbench" (http://ow.ly/Sx7V30mVO05 )
"Robot Economy: Ready or Not, Here It Comes" (http://ow.ly/4zfs30mVGqg )
JK--Key principle (of 3) they lay out: "Robots should not have property
rights and will have to operate only on the basis of contractual
responsibility, so that people control the economy."
"IBM Guns for 8-bit AI Breakthroughs" (http://ow.ly/QZKM30mVG5p )
JK--One of many vendors making strategic bets on AI hardware accelerator techs
that are lower-power edge-facing alternatives to GPUs.
"Is IBM's Watson Still an AI Success Story?" (http://ow.ly/us6130mVFyK )
JK--Was it ever? For IBM, it was a strategic bet that hasn't ever been the big
blow-out revenue-producing success they'd hoped for. Just look at their
quarterlies going back to near the start of this decade.
"Japan Sniffing Out Its AI Niches" (http://ow.ly/eO9o30mVF9T )
JK--Something as seemingly humble as "printable sensors" can be
hugely disruptive in feeding AI-powered nano-endpoints with streaming data of
incredible granularity and very low cost.
"What machine learning means for software
development" (http://ow.ly/Tc9430mVEgN )
JK--ML-driven auto-programming: "“the developer has to become a teacher, a
curator of training data, and an analyst of results.” See my #Wikibon "augmented
programming" study:
"Kubernetes security vulnerability reveals fractured
market" (http://ow.ly/fJyR30mVDjU ) JK--Dozens
of commercial distros and hosted implementations of this pervasive
containerization/orchestration platform = hugely exposed attack surface.
Dear "The #1 Thing You Need To Know Before Implementing
Any Of Your Six-Figure Business Ideas": The woman behind this campaign is
someone I knew in my previous gig. She was/is a data scientist. What is she
now? A general-purpose dispenser of "coaching recommendations"? WTF?!
Dear Usual Scam Come-On Emailer: Re "We have read your
articles posted on various websites & are impressed by your insights in the
industry." Which articles? Which websites? Which industry? I'd be
impressed if you revealed even the slightest bit of actual familiarity with my
work
"What You Think Is Existential Angst Might Actually Be
a Lack of Sleep.” (http://ow.ly/62jQ30mVAF8 )
JK--Definitely. It might also be that interacting with the consequences of your
poor diet, inability to set priorities, and tone-deaf manner of interacting
with people. Just saying.
"After Getting FOSTA Turned Into Law, Facebook Tells
Users To Stop Using Naughty Words" (http://ow.ly/vKiR30mVzM4 )
JK--That includes "expressing a sexual preference." OK. I'll
cease&desist from implying that I'm married to a woman & that I in any
way find her physically attractive
Mueller needs to give up his witch hunt. He's found lots of
criminals in Trump's circle, but no witches. Trump should appoint a special
prosecutor specifically to look for nasty cackling ladies on flying broomsticks
who've got it in for Dorothy and her little dog too.
"How to Build a Car for Someone Who Can’t Drive" (http://ow.ly/gwI430mVxWZ )
JK--Autonomous vehicles will be the new road-ready wheelchair.
"Blockchain: What’s it good for? Absolutely nothing,
report finds" (http://ow.ly/s9m130mVxj5 ) JK--It's a
bit premature to declare that on tech that's very early in the adoption cycle.
So far it hasn't shattered many a young man's dreams, made him disabled, bitter
and mean.
Russian nationals interacted with at least 14 Trump associates
during the 2016 campaign. Rumor is that Putin was lobbying to open a branch of
the Russian embassy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Read this morning that President William Howard Taft had a
personal trainer while in the White House. Worked out first thing every
morning, followed immediately and throughout the day by devouring boatloads of
fattening food.
Nice Saturday of doing stuff. Exercise, yard work, chicken
avocado sandwich, haircut, deep tissue massage, grocery shopping, redeeming a
Groupon at a local bistro, lazily reading the paper under my electric blanket.
Also ate 2 fists full of M&Ms. Indulgence.
My coverage areas as a tech industry analyst, author,
columnist, and blogger have evolved so much over the past 33 years that I’m
unrecognizable now. Except in how I put words together. I punch hard. That’s
been there from day one.
“IBM selling Lotus Notes/Domino business to HCL for $1.8B” (https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/07/ibm-selling-lotus-notes-domino-business-to-hcl-for-1-8b/?utm_campaign=digest&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nuzzel …)
JK--I’m surprised there’s that much of a business left to sell. I didn’t even
enjoy using those tools when I was with IBM. BTW, that was my initial coverage
focus 20 years ago with Burton Group.
Relistening to Ray Conniff Singers’ “Jingle Bells.” So
happy, jaunty, & secular, until the part about the horse who “got into a
drifted bank” & for whom “misfortune was his lot.” Who was this equine
loser & how could the songwriters allow him to intrude on our yuletide
merriment?
Rewatched “The Graduate” on TCM. I never tire of it. What I
noticed this time are the constant shifts in tone. Also, the “what the hell do
we do next?” look on Elaine’s face as she and Benjamin make their token getaway
on a Santa Barbara municipal bus.
New jk #SiliconANGLE
article: “Robots will rule the edge: At re:Invent, AWS drives a new AI
paradigm” (https://siliconangle.com/2018/12/07/robots-will-rule-edge-reinvent-aws-drives-new-ai-paradigm/ …)
Another in a steady stream of great blood pressure readings.
The older I get, the better I’m able to shake off stress. It’s ambient, a stinging rain.
Saw “Searching” on DVD. Very well told mystery that pioneers
a new narrative style in cinema. The entire story is told through the
interfaces of digital devices and online media. John Cho and Debra Messing
shine.
New jk #SiliconANGLE
blog:”What’s missing from Outposts, AWS’ latest hybrid cloud announcement” (https://siliconangle.com/2018/12/06/whats-missing-outposts-aws-latest-hybrid-cloud-announcement/ …)
"Highlights from five years of Facebook AI
Research" (http://ow.ly/LX5n30mT6EL )
JK--They've been doing innovative work in memory networks, self-supervised
learning, generative models, scalable text classification & translation,
& computer vision. Developed PyTorch, ONNX, & Caffe2.
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#kexp Warren Zevon
"Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)" from My Ride's Here JK--2002.
"What else can a farmboy from Canada do?"
"Sunny Day Real Estate's drummer says their greatest
album is "buried in Dave Grohl's sock drawer"" (http://ow.ly/He7b30mT4yN )
JK--Pee-you! That means it probably stinks to high heaven!
"Tom Cruise wants you to change how you watch movies at
home" (http://ow.ly/yO4V30mT4I8 ) JK--He
wants us all to have "Dianetics" scrolling permanently in our
picture-in-picture window.
The cliche is that at the moment of your death your life
plays back before your eyes. That's actually what happens as you age. Much of
it is kind of annoying. I'm hoping my final moments are simply a classic Bugs
Bunny cartoon. You need a few laughs on your way out.
"The future is now"? How can that be, unless you
discovered some sort of wormhole in the fabric of space-time? Was the future now
way back in the day, when now and all that will ever be was then? If so, when
was then?
The usual onslaught of year-end predictions and trends in
tech. I expect to see trends in predictive analysis and predictions for trend
analysis. Safe prediction is that I'd do them myself, if I were the trendy
type.
My routine morning wrestling match with my email inboxes.
They have me pinned, but I always manage to wriggle out and turn the tables. No
damn electronic message crush puts the chokehold on Jimmy boy. You're goin'
down, dawg, down to zero!
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#kexp Sharon Van Etten
"Jupiter 4" from Remind Me Tomorrow JK--2019. This is a cool new one
from her. KInd of a misty spooky one.
"In vino veritas"? Is there truth in reds or whites? Will Château Mouton
Rothschild Pauillac's authoritative testimony stand up in a court of law under
cross-examination?
"Soon you can immortalize yourself as an A.I. chatbot.
But should you?" (http://ow.ly/g0HX30mT2bO ) JK--Yeah
sure. Your loved ones will interact with it about as much as they visit your
tombstone. You don't want to encode in a chatbot everything about you that got
on their nerves.
I suppress a silent scream every time I read into a supposed
in-depth biz-tech article and it culminates in a call-to-action to make your
enterprise "agile,"
"data-driven," and "results-oriented." Those sound lunchtime
pep-talk bromides than useful pieces of advice
"How Amazon Web Services Reinvented the Internet and
Became a Cash Cow" (http://ow.ly/CiGO30mSfBs ) JK--Ignore
the dumb headline. This is Andy Jassy's oral history of when/how he, Jeff
Bezos, and other Amazon principals created the cloud-computing service in the
early 2000s.
"Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling" (http://ow.ly/SgJm30mSf0I )
JK--DeepMind research into AI agents that discover the reinforcement-learning
reward functions that users INTEND, not necessary how they specify. Learning a
reward function from interaction with the user.
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#kexp Junior Boys
"In the Morning" from In The Morning / The Equalizer JK--2006. This
song has the most wickedly perfect beat for fast walking.
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#kexp Blondie "Rip
Her to Shreds" from Blondie JK--1976. Harry co-wrote this with Chris
Stein. If a man voiced a sentiment that,
it would be easily mistaken for misogyny. Just saying. Though a CBGBs band,
this was about the closest they ever got to punk.
"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" (http://ow.ly/9HS530mSaW5 )
JK-"When studies & effect sizes smaller; greater number of tested
relationships, flexibility in research designs, & financial interest; and teams involved in chase of statistical
significance.”
Took great briefing from NodeSource on their NodeSolid
runtime for Node.js on AWS Lambda. Weren’t sitting very far apart at Vogels’
keynote at #reInvent
last week. It’s now an open dev ecosystem for serverless in AWS cloud.
Going forward, AWS needs to pull back a bit to let its ISV
partner ecosystem start to shine at re:Invent. This was an overwhelming blitz
of very significant announcements, but it felt a bit AWS trying to eclipse everybody, including
par... #actionitem
(continued) and deep serverless developer focus: providing
new open-source tools for serverless app dev, publishing an API and runtimes
for sharing, discovering, and deploying libraries and serverless lambda
functions, enabling application l... #actionitem
(continued) enhancing the manageability of apps in
serverless, hybrid, and edge clouds, driving innovative AI into every cloud
application, building and optimizing diverse data workloads in the cloud,
managing rich cloud-native applications ... #actionitem
AWS had a blitz of announcements at re:Invent. Covered a
wide range: boosting cloud storage efficiencies, simplifying cloud data
movement, enforcing enterprise controls on cloud data workloads, accelerating
the pipeline for high-performance ... #actionitem
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#kexp Animals "Sky
Pilot" JK--Jan 1968. In May 1968 campus unrest, James Kunen confronted
student radio station at Columbia Univ, asking why they didnt play this anti-war
song. He wrote it up in his nonfiction "Strawberry Statement," which
I read in highschool
Debrief from @awscloud
#reinvent2018
today at noon ET / 9am PT http://bit.ly/2PpIhoq Join me @plburris @dvellante @dfloyer @stu @sarbjeetjohal #ai #cloud #AWS #serverless #Outposts #reInvent
I don't think I'm titling my blogs for full social-media
impact. I need to frame each one as "10 things about [such-and-such] that
everyone should read." I should be underlining the utter existential
importance of all humanity hanging on my every last word.
"Google's Night Sight AI sees the light" (http://ow.ly/4FY830mRiLn )
JK--IMHO, AI-assisted cameras should embed into the image a trusted watermark
of metadata that states the manipulations (eg lightening, contrast, etc.)
performed at capture. Need photo verisimilitude veracity flag
"Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That
Happen?" (http://ow.ly/X60j30mRi9E ) JK--1st,
Gates/Ballmer stepped away. 2nd, Nadella bet big on cloud/AI. 3rd, MSFT shifted
Office to subscription revenues. 4th, Apple's device-centric go-to-market
strategy has begun to plateau.
"Inside the world of AI that forges beautiful art and
terrifying deepfakes" (http://ow.ly/7jRj30mRhQM ) JK--IMHO,
verifying authenticity of digital photographs requires they be watermarked with
unique trusted timestamps & digital signatures at the point/device of
capture.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Courtney Barnett
"Small Talk" from Small Talk JK--2018. Good one. Does anybody else
think this sounds a wee bit Steely Dan
"Hey Nineteen"?
"Keeping AI Beneficial & Safe for Humanity" (http://ow.ly/9amW30mRgQE )
JK--UC-Berkeley Ctr for Human-Compatible AI proj on "AI alignment":
ensure AI do what we mean, not what we say. Intentions. Mitigate impacts o
"misspecified objective functions." See me
"Google’s AdaNet Uses Neural Networks to Build Better
Neural Networks" (http://ow.ly/kj1D30mRgtf )
JK--TensorFlow-based library that uses AutoML for building/training ensemble
learning as candidate subnetworks trade off performance improvement against
number of parameters.
"AI a Focus as U.S. Preps Export Controls" (http://ow.ly/6oXT30mRg5G )
JK--See recent Datanami article (http://ow.ly/pupR30mRg8p )
for my perspective on why this is a stupid initiative.
"There Is An AI Robot On The International Space
Station And It Just Threw A Tantrum In Its First Online Video" (http://ow.ly/1Uny30mRdSB )
JK--Was this before or after it terminated life support for the astronauts in
suspended animation?
"Attention, Dialogue, and Learning Reusable
Patterns" (http://ow.ly/Neyj30mRdpi ) JK--This
article offers guidance for building chatbots that deal with
"uncooperative" users and attempt to steer the chat back when it
"strays from the happy path." Wasn't that a Philip K Dick story?
This morning in IT news: Robot overlords are coming to
getcha! They're generating big data
myths, invading privacy, causing cancer, shortening attention spans, treating
everybody a number! ! They're folding,
spindling, & mutilating! They're a tech-anxiety perfect storm!
"Data volumes set to hit 175ZB with a tectonic shift to
the cloud" (http://ow.ly/Cg1F30mQxoH ) JK--Whew!
I guess that's less disruptive than a tsnunamic shift. Or atomic, for that
matter.
"A Comprehensive Summary and Categorization on
Reinforcement Learning Papers at ICML 2018" (http://ow.ly/2q9130mQwKt )
JK--Index of how hot this topic is.
"GPipe: Efficient Training of Giant Neural Networks
using Pipeline Parallelism" (http://ow.ly/LUWW30mQw4F )
JK--Training humungo-ginormous AI models across distributed hardware meshes
with exceptionally high accuracy.
"AI Silicon Startups Report Traction" (http://ow.ly/A4OO30mQv3g
) JK--" than 50 silicon startups are building accelerators for deep
learning." And let's not forget that established firm--such as AWS--are
jumping in as well:
"GAN, the Rise of Imagination in Machines" (http://ow.ly/o2GP30mQuIO )
JK--Generative adversarial networks are the new power tool for astonishingly
realistic algorithmic creations. I even met a firm at AWS re:Invent using them
to fabricate bite-perfect dental crowns, implants, etc
"4 Reasons to Distribute TensorFlow Processing Among
Everyday Objects" (http://ow.ly/IXeV30mQsza ) JK--Things
have processing, memory, and storage
capacity than we realize. Yoke them into powerful distributed AI edge-meshes.
"How DevOps will change in 2019 and beyond: 3
predictions" (http://ow.ly/7tFz30mQsl8 )
JK--"Coding automation will become the norm."
"Dell aims to stake a sizable claim in AI
territory" (http://ow.ly/PLIW30mQqhE ) JK--Be
that as it may, I doubt that Chicago, as host to their analyst summit, had
"an icy wind blew into the city off Lake Michigan." I know Chicago.
Prevailing winds there now are from the northwest.
"5 trends to expect for artificial intelligence in
2019" (http://ow.ly/s1X830mQpSR )
JK--Scratching my head at notion that "a fledgling supply-side market will
surface for explainable AI." Sounds "technology push," when the item
indicates that users will demand it.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Bon Iver
"Skinny Love" from For Emma, Forever Ago JK--2008. Hard to believe
it's been 10 years since this was released. I definitely remember hearing it
for the first time. One of those songs that just screams classic.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Phosphorescent
"My Beautiful Boy" from C’est La Vie JK--2018. Nice one. Kind of a
lazy country-western roll to this. Different from their usual.
Radio stations banning "Baby It's Cold Outside."
Might as well ban "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" and
"Winter Wonderland" while we're at it. It's all about horny guys
using inclement weather as a lame excuse to cozy up with defenseless women.
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp The Decemberists
"Traveling On" from Traveling On EP JK--2018. Brand new. I loved this
one from the first note, or perhaps the moment Colin Meloy opened his mouth to
sing.
Watched DVD of 1973 TV version of “The Glass Menagerie.”
Good, but would have been better if Sam Waterston had played Tom as closeted
and Joanna Miles had played Laura as autism spectrum. Michael Moriarty terrific
as gentleman caller. Kate Hepburn in classic herself mode.
PBS showing Engelbert Humperdinck during fundraiser. Still
sounds a porn name. Perhaps they’re
diversifying their programming.
Best party of the week was the private dinner at Bellagio
with AWS and other analysts covering AI. The vendor’s blitz of significant AI
announcements made for great fodder for my upcoming research. Food & drink
were good too.
Wrote a ton of stuff this week in Las Vegas. Didn’t miss a
single meal or party. Sleep suffered, but I didn’t.
Nice rainy day. Read a week’s backlog of Washington Posts my
wife had saved for me during my business trip. Bezos has kept it great. God
forbid that a right-wing fool might have taken it over and destroyed it.
Saw limo driver holding up “Kennedy Center honors” sign last
night at DCA baggage claim. Looked around, saw no one famous. I doubt Cher
flies commercial. It’s either Reba, Wayne Shorter, Phillip Glass, or the
“Hamilton” gang. I want to meet Glass.
Trump promises swift, ample federal disaster aid to largely
white Republican Alaska, but has steadfastly heaped insult on injury to
hispanic Democratic Puerto Rico.
New jk #SiliconANGLE #reinvent article:
"As re:Invent conference wraps, AWS keeps getting stronger in the
cloud" (http://ow.ly/gvza30mOfSh )
AWS' Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec discussing S3's evolution.
Originally 8 separate microservices. Now than 235 distributed microservices make S3
tick. #reinvent2018
Vogels is presenting a detailed technical discussion of why
Aurora is superior to traditional enterprise RDBMSs (cough cough....Oracle) for
hyperscale cloud workloads. #reinvent2018
Getting ready to hear Werner Vogels' keynote at AWS
re:Invent 2018. #reinvent2018
Deeper into cloud data: AWS launches a blitz of innovative
AI offerings at re:Invent: https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/29/deeper-cloud-data-aws-launches-blitz-innovative-ai-offerings-reinvent/ …
#reinvent2018
New jk #SiliconANGLE #reinvent article:
"Deeper into cloud data: AWS launches a blitz of innovative AI offerings
at re:Invent" (http://ow.ly/s3ye30mNAje )
Every tech vendor announces a “plethora” of features. I
think many products require an urgent plethorectomy.
Jassy: Announced AWS Inferentia. Machine learning inference
chip. High throughput, low latency, hundreds of TOPS, multiple data types
(INT8, FP16, mixed precision). Multiple ML frameworks (TF, MXNet, Pytorch,
CAffee2, ONNX). Use with Elast... #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announced Amazon Elastic Inference: Amazon Elastic
Inference. Reduce inference costs up to 75%; lower inference costs; match
capacity to demand; availability between 1-32 TFLOPS per accelerator; integrate
with Amazon EC2 and Amazon ... #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announced Amazon Managed Blockchain: fully managed
blockchain service supporting both the Hyperledger Fabric or Ethereum. Scales
to support thousands of applications running millions of transactions. Create
blockchain networks with ... #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announced Amazon Quantum Ledger Database. Fully
managed ledger database with a central trust authority. Not blockchain.
Immutable: append-only, immutable journal tracks history of all changes.
Cryptographically verifiable: all chang... #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announced Amazon Timestream, fast scalable fully
managed time-series database. Multiple orders of magnitude improvement in query
performance. Timestream in 1,000x faster and 1/10th the cost of relational
database. Trillions of daily... #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announced DynamoDB Read/Write Capacity On Demand. No capacity planning, pay only for what you use.
No need to specify how much read/write throughput you expect to use. Ideal for
unpredictable workloads: ramp from zero to tens o... #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announced AWS Lake Formation, a service that allows
you to build a secure data lake in days. #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announced AWS Security Hub, centrally manage security
and compliance across an AWS environment. #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announced AWS Control Tower: the easiest way to setup
and govern a secure, compliant multi-account environment or landing zone with
guardrails (prepackaged rules for security, control, and compliance). #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announcing Amazon FSx for Lustre, fully managed file
system for compute-intensive workloads high throughput, low latency, 100s of
GB/s and millions of IOPS, seamless integration with Amazon S3, secure and
compliant including PCI-DSS... #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announcing Amazon FSx for Windows File Server: fully
managed Windows file system built on native Windows file servers; Windows
native for fully compatable Windows File System experience (compatibility with
AD, Windows access control... #reinvent2018
Jassy: Announcing, available in 2019, Glacier Deep Archive:
lowest cost storage available in the cloud, evren lower than on-premises tap;
no tap ]e to manage, designed for 99.999999999% durability, recover data in
hours vs days/weeks, $0.0... #reinvent2018
Jassy: databases, DevOps, analytics, app services, mobile
services, IoT, blockchain, management tools, security, enterprise apps,
marketplace, technical and business support, etc. #reinvent2018
Jassy: What do builders want? (cue the “AWS house band”): I
want it all and I want it now. Right tool for the right job. Build anything you
can imagine. Broadest and deepest platform for today’s builders, 140 services
now. #reinvent2018
Jassy: AWS has $27B revenue run rate, 46% y/y growth, 51.80%
worldwide market segment share globally in public cloud. #reinvent2018
Jassy: AWS business update: millions of active customers.
Every vertical industry segment. Showing many logos of banner customers. Also
in public sector: ~4,000 government agencies, ~9,000 educational institutions,
& ~27,000 nonprofits wor... #reinvent2018
Here's my recap of everything that AWS announced yesterday
at #reinvent: https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/27/around-cloud-heres-everything-aws-announced-far-reinvent/ …
#reinvent2018
Waiting for the Andy Jassy keynote to begin at #reinvent. Enjoying the
on-stage DJ. She knows how to pick them. #reinvent2018
New jk #InfoWorld column:
"Reinforcement learning comes into AI’s mainstream" (http://ow.ly/8oGs30mMEkO )
Some parties are good for talking. Some are good for being
left alone to drink your beer in peace. The current is the latter.
Good day of briefings and discussions at #reInvent. Amazon Web
Services is delivering on every level. Exciting times for them. Innovation,
energy, and dynamism.
All around the cloud: Here's everything AWS has announced so
far at re:Invent: https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/27/around-cloud-heres-everything-aws-announced-far-reinvent/ …
#reinvent2018
New jk #SiliconANGLE #reInvent article:
"All around the cloud: Here's everything AWS has announced so far at
re:Invent" (http://ow.ly/Yte830mM9JW )
New jk #InformationWeek
column: "Using Blockchain to Support Trustworthy Transactions on the
IoT" (http://ow.ly/emIh30mLGAK )
Exclusive interview: How CEO Andy Jassy aims to keep AWS
atop the cloud: https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/26/exclusive-interview-ceo-andy-jassy-aims-keep-aws-atop-cloud/ …
#reinvent2018
Oracle confronts growing challenge from AWS in the cloud: https://wikibon.com/oracle-confronts-growing-challenge-aws-cloud/ …
#reinvent2018
On the cusp of AWS re:Invent, the public cloud continues to
transform the public sector: https://wikibon.com/cusp-aws-reinvent-public-cloud-continues-transform-public-sector/ …
#reinvent2018
As AWS re:Invent approaches, AI becomes the killer app for
public cloud: https://wikibon.com/aws-reinvent-approaches-ai-becomes-killer-app-public-cloud/ …
#reinvent2018
Looking ahead to AWS re:Invent, public clouds keep gaining
momentum: https://wikibon.com/looking-ahead-aws-reinvent-public-clouds-keep-gaining-momentum/ …
#reinvent2018
I rarely take shuttle buses at business conferences unless
distances involved are > 1 mile. Walking is my primary exercise and I need
that outdoor air in my lungs. The rest of the time I'm sitting inside, inert,
cramped, & uncomfortable. Buses put that subpar experience on wheels
New jk #TechBeacon article:
"How containerization brings AI to your DevOps pipeline" (http://ow.ly/qEmV30mKBUt )
Wynn Las Vegas is having an exclusive engagement by Robbie
Willliams. Should do a double bill with Cliff Richard targeting that lucrative
70+ British expatriate demographic who never charted in the States.
Bringing the Cloud to High Value Traditional Applications https://wikibon.com/bringing-cloud-high-value-traditional-applications/ …
via @wikibon @plburris
Now, cloud companies want to run the rest of your business https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/24/now-cloud-companies-want-run-rest-business/ …
via @SiliconANGLE
Catch me at Amazon Web Services #reInvent all this
week in Las Vegas. Expect detailed #SiliconANGLE #Wikibon blogs from me
on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Expects lots of tweets and photos too. My
usual.
Bought/downloaded Janelle Monáe's brilliant album
"Dirty Computer." One of my favorites of the year. A tour de force of
great messages, inventive songwriting, infectious beats, and some deliciously
smutty good fun.
RT @KEXPNowPlaying
#kexp Joanna Newsom
"Sprout and the Bean" from The Milk-Eyed Mender JK--2004. Harpist's
second cousin twice removed is governor-elect of California. Her husband is a
comic actor best known for his SNL sketches such as "Dick in a Box."
Day after Thanksgiving. This is the day that feels Saturday, just as Thanksgiving felt Sunday. For those twisted feelings I give
thanks. And it’s not even weekend yet.
Good Thanksgiving experience. Not even a speck of politics
talk around the table. Everybody needs a break from this horror show.
The Andaman Islanders are well-known for their aggression
and distrust of outsiders, including people from elsewhere in the nation that
claims their territory. Calling the missionary who lost his life there a
“martyr” is incredibly wrongheaded. “Reckless” is it.
Wife insisted on going out to our bootcamp class this
Thanksgiving morning. So now I’m all tight and toned for that turkey this
afternoon. Lean meat through and through.
Saw “Crazy Rich Asians.” Loved it. Singaporeans are odd
birds, for sure. Singa senang puranya emas.
Ah yes, a particular high-profile IT industry merger will
usher in "tectonic changes." Fissures in the industry's surface will
steam for millions of years while occasional jolts may move large plates of
commercial crust several feet apart every few centuries. That's disruptive.
Another morning, another group of analysts declaring
everything except their particular coverage area overhyped.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Art d’Ecco
"Dark Days (Revisited)" from Trespasser JK--2018. Vancouver group.
Nice one. Reminds me a bit of Yeah Yeah Yeahs or Blonde Redhead.
"Swimming in a Sea of Quantum Foam" (http://ow.ly/vnY730mFPlL )
JK--After 30 seconds of trying to wade through this stuff, I start to foam at
the mouth.
"LF Deep Learning Delivers First Acumos AI Release
Making it Easier to Deploy and Share Artificial Intelligence Models" (http://ow.ly/GXh130mFNhg )
JK--I'm curious if the Linux Foundation is squaring Acumos work with Kubeflow.
Overlapping scopes re AI DevOps and containerization.
"Drones, data analytics, smart seeds: How to reforest
1,000 times faster after wildfires" (http://ow.ly/hKHC30mFLcL )
JK--I'm curious if this approach can be adapted to terraform Mars--after it's
used to radically remake Earth's biosphere.
"Does Synthetic Data Hold The Secret To AI? " (http://ow.ly/AVwx30mFJJm )
JK--AI doesn't need gobs of the real thing if you can "artificially
manufacture data....based on user-specified parameters so that it’s as close as
possible to properties of data from real-world scenarios."
"How to Fit Large Neural Networks on the Edge" (http://ow.ly/q38Z30mFJzC )
JK--Nice discussion of the engineering trade-offs.
"China's application of AI should be a Sputnik moment
for the U.S. But will it be? " (http://ow.ly/L3vK30mFJ0V )
JK--Even dumber than headline is this historical analogy in body: "“China
is the OPEC of data." See my Datanami column debunking this nonsense:
New jk #SiliconANGLE #reInvent article:
"On the cusp of AWS re:Invent, the public cloud continues to transform the
public sector" (http://ow.ly/M6H330mFG6P )
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Active Child
"Hanging On" from You Are All I See JK--2011. OMG, I love this album.
I bought it when it came out. I always put it on as a sort of dreamy default
massage rub for the mind.
Checking the headlines to see if the governor of New York
has changed his name legally yet to "Amazon Cuomo." I heard that was
part of their end of the deal. If he doesn't, we here in Northern Virginia can
claim all 50,000 new HQ2 jobs. Governor Northam made no such promise.
"Once upon a time" & "and they all lived
happily ever after." Clearly, those phrases came before the era of science
fiction. Once upon a time, people only contemplated futures (heavenly or
hellish) in the afterlife, not on the Earth or in space. http://ow.ly/Uhob30mFApw
"AI must be scrutinized by regulators, top Fed official
warns" (http://ow.ly/Uuwm30mFzpp ) JK--If
they thought collateralized debt obligations were arcane, just wait till they
wrap their Fed brains around convolutional neural networks and restricted
Boltzmann machines.
"The Surprising Thing That Can Sap Your
Motivation" (http://ow.ly/UPCZ30mFz4S ) JK--Does
that thing have anything to do with being surrounded by idiots?
"Google Home and Amazon Echo Can Store Your Voice
Recordings. Here's When They Could Be Used Against You" (http://ow.ly/lrIU30mFyXq )
JK--If it's in a court of law, I suggest that they be programmed to read you
your Miranda rights.
Enough of this "data is oil" jazz, already. I just
saw "data is jet fuel." How about we extend the metaphor to
"data is all petroleum-based products, including the plastic straws that
are found jammed down turtles' throats"?
Caught "The Children Act" on DVD. Another fine
unshowy performance from the always superb Emma Thompson. A great legal
thriller told from the judge's point of view, which is unusual. Also an
excellent examination of when law comes into conflict with religious belief.
Geez. The local pop station has already begun their
Christmas music assault. Crass. I’m going to suggest that they put randomly
auto tuned versions of Mel Torme’s Christmas song on endless loop. a yule log channel on radio
Wegman’s is supercrowded in advance of Thanksgiving. I’ve
imbibed from three separate wine sampling stations. At least the wife can be my
designated driver.
The unsettling persistence of cybersecurity vulnerabilities
in the cloud https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/15/unsettling-persistence-cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-cloud/ …
via @SiliconANGLE
New jk #Wikibon
blog: "The Unsettling Persistence of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in the
Cloud" (http://ow.ly/hP9E30mDoYI )
All for the best that Arlington/Alexandria didn't give into
the dumb idea years ago to put Redskins stadium in Potomac Yard, site of th
long-gone eyesore trainyard, just south of Crystal City. Stadium neighborhoods
are a business turn-off. Very limited econ accelerator potential.
Crystal City VA has a long underground shopping mall. My
sense is that this will be totally made over as Amazon's legions move in,
hunker down, and start banging out code down there 24x7. Seems tailor-made for
that. Underutilized by the federal contractors who once dominated CC.
To @loserboy : I
totally relate to what your wife shared regarding loss of her sibling while she
was a child. I lost my mother to cancer while I was in 5th grade. I had no
emotional support resources other than my family, who were also in shock.
Enjoying hearing #kexp DJ @loserboy and his wife Amy discussing
how to emotionally process losing a loved one. These are lessons no one wants
to have to learn. But you're a strong person for recognizing the line when
endless grief slips into emotional "pathology."
Being sexagenarian isn’t all that bad. At least there’s sex
in it.
In potential win for AWS, Oracle loses protest against the
Pentagon’s $10B cloud contract https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/14/potential-win-aws-oracle-loses-protest-pentagons-10b-cloud-contract/ …
via @SiliconANGLE
AI drives innovation in next-generation cloud business
intelligence https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/14/ai-drives-innovation-next-generation-cloud-business-intelligence/ …
via @SiliconANGLE
New jk #SiliconANGLE
article: "Oracle confronts growing challenge from AWS in the cloud" (http://ow.ly/92Qx30mCCZ0 )
New jk #Wikibon
blog: "AI Drives Innovation in Next-Generation Cloud Business
Intelligence" (https://wikibon.com/ai-drives-innovation-next-generation-business-intelligence-cloud/ …)
My guesses on neighborhoods that will become popular with
Amazon millennials working in Crystal City: Old Town and Del Ray (in
Alexandria), Shirlington and Clarendon (in Arlington), and Huntington (in
Fairfax County). In DC: Georgetown and the Southwest Waterfront.
"Amazon picks new HQ: Split between Virginia suburb
& New York" (http://ow.ly/i7PZ30mBB6t ) JK--It's
not exactly accurate to call Crystal City--ie, east Arlington--a
"suburb" of DC. It's an integral part of DC area urban core. That'd
be calling Oakland a "suburb"
of San Fran
I want to thank Cognilytica for
""hyperpersonalizing this newsletter for YOU James Kobielus."
Hey Ron, please don't factor into it the snarky asides that you and I have
personally exchanged while sitting listening to AI vendors at industry events.
That would truly be hyper.
Working. Over my shoulder is Game Show Network with
"Match Game" rerun from 1977. My wife doesn't inquire into who
Charles Nelson Reilly was. I don't volunteer the info. The word
"blank" figures into Gene Rayburn's questions. I don't fill in the
blanks. The '70s got on my nerves
Watched Michael Palin’s excellent travelogue from North
Korea. Wondered how he kept a straight face wandering through a dead parrot of
a country if there ever was one.
RIP Stan Lee. I was partial to DC Comics superheroes, but
thought Spider-Man was cool. I wanted to shoot webs from my wrists and swing
between skyscrapers.
I always enjoy the postgame ritual of the losing coach’s
excuse of “we just didn’t have our A-game going today.” Just once, I’d one of them to say “well, you can’t win ‘em
all” as they hand him his walking papers.
"‘Parts Unknown’ review: Anthony Bourdain’s final show
is joyous journey into his past" (http://ow.ly/zVNj30mALw7 )
JK--I was mesmerized by his pre-demise lunch with Lydia Lunch, the
poet-singer-screamer-songwriter from late '70s punk/no-wave outfit Teenage
Jesus & the Jerks et al
Working. Over my shoulder the TV is tuned to the Hallmark
Channel. They've begun their annual Christmas programming schmaltz assault.
Hey, that's Turk from "Scrubs"! I wonder if Donald Faison gets sick
of people over-identifying him with that role. Regardless, he's my TV bro!
"'Human brain' supercomputer with 1 million processors
switched on for first time" (http://ow.ly/CwKz30mAveg )
JK--UK AI. The SpiNNaker machine (University of Manchester School of Computer
Science) can model biological neurons in
real time than any other machine on the planet.
"Will GraphQL Become Standard for the New Data Economy?
" (http://ow.ly/IXDG30mAtVK )
JK--"Sits on top of all your existing svcs & super-imposes a graph on
all those cloud....resources so app devs can freely query that without having
to create REST endpoint for every new use case"
New jk #SiliconANGLE #reInvent article:
"As AWS re:Invent approaches, AI becomes the killer app for public
cloud" (http://ow.ly/OwNX30mAo4P )
"Clarifai Partners with RichRelevance for Greater
Personalization with Visual AI" (http://ow.ly/qIEA30mAnrW )
JK--E-commerce apps: visually similar product recommendations, image matching
using current product catalog with external pix from mobile/social, and catalog
enrichment.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Ty Segall
"Class War" from Fudge Sandwich JK--2018. Great new one from this
amazingly prolific and always bang-on brilliant rocker.
Incoming US House of Representatives' subpoena targets in
the Trump administration:
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Sinéad O’Connor
"Throw Down Your Arms" from Throw Down Your Arms JK--2005. Nice one
from the Catholic-born now-Muslim Irish singer's then-Rastafarian/reggae
period.
Kubeflow Pipelines: Google's contribution to machine
learning DevOps. Reusable end-to-end workflows:
Dear infomercial: I’m half-inclined to take your advice
about calling the number on my screen. But which screen? TV, laptop, tablet,
smartphone, MP3 player....? Too many choices.
If Trump orders this new attorney general to fire Mueller, that’s
clearly obstruction of justice, hence sufficient grounds for impeachment. The
next speaker of the house needs to make that very clear.
As my birthday approaches, Facebook asks if I want to
establish a charitable fundraiser. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Shouldn’t all my Facebook friends be chipping in to raise money for a huge cake
and many candles to celebrate the historic occasion?
Doing a reality check on GPU-accelerated databases https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/09/reality-check-gpu-accelerated-databases/ …
via @SiliconANGLE
New jk #Wikibon
blog: "Doing a Reality Check on GPU-Accelerated Databases" (http://ow.ly/GJ2930mz2UX )
"Ford Buys Dockless Scooter Company Spin" (http://ow.ly/z6iA30myKtC )
JK--OK. Just don't start calling their low-end model the "Spinto."
Don't even think about it.
Just registered for the Google AI briefings next week. The
registration form asked for country declaration. Alphabetically near top, it
listed one option as "Aland Islands." I had to Google that. An
"autonomous" region of Finland. When did this qualify as a
"country"?
I'd to see
"customer experience" solutions that implant friendliness chips and
courtesy actuators in employees' brains. That would be the most disruptive
thing you could possibly do in digital transformation.
This just in: astronomers have discovered exoplanet WD-40,
where it rains lubricant and there's not a squeaky hinge to be found anywhere
on its surface.
"Exomoons could have 'moonmoons,' and they might
support alien life" (http://ow.ly/90Au30myFBW ) JK--Wow!
Our country needs to build a deep-space telescope able to detect the infinite
regress of exomoonmoonmoonmoonmoons. We might find exoalienalienalienalienalienaliens
living there
Building the hybrid serverless multiclouds of the future https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/08/building-hybrid-serverless-multiclouds-future/ …
via @SiliconANGLE
ESPN in-studio panel. Do they instruct all these guys to
shout every sentence, no matter how banal? Or are all these ex-jocks hearing-impaired?
New jk #Wikibon
blog: "Building the Hybrid Serverless Multiclouds of the Future" (http://ow.ly/6IYX30mybPl )
Looking forward to discussing multicloud data protection on
this #ActionItem.
cloud means distributed data. distributed data in a digital business means
data protection is strategic. Join us
now. #actionitem
"Google rolls out new tools to make AI accessible" (http://ow.ly/VK5H30mxZte )
JK--AI Hub + Kubeflow Pipeline system. One-stop for ML pipelines, Jupyter
notebooks, TensorFlow modules, etc. + open workbench to compose/deploy/manage
reusable ML workflows on Kubernetes.
"Watch an AI Modeled After a Worm's Brain Park a Tiny
Car a Pro" (http://ow.ly/t3TV30mxRTx )
JK--Cool, but I'd be impressed if a
robotic AI worm could be engineered to win the Daytona 500 in that car.
"Best Practices and Anti-Patterns for Containerized
Deployments" (http://ow.ly/3chV30mxRoY )
JK--"Best practices and anti-patterns"? Oh geez. Whatever happened to
"do's and don't's"?
"7 tools that ease serverless adoption" (http://ow.ly/oUrT30mxQrH )
JK--"To create a function, developers can use a tool that works across
different serverless clouds. Who's hybridizing serverless? I mention that
possible pattern in this 2017 #Wikibon note:
"You need API management help: 11 open-source tools to
consider" (http://ow.ly/J4eC30mxQdY ) JK--I'm
still on the fence regarding whether API management is the most incredibly
boring segment of the integration market. I'm torn between that and metadata
management.
"Is an Internet Bill of Rights Necessary?" (http://ow.ly/5VTC30mxPxX )
JK--This list includes various concerns of compelling societal interest
(privacy, neutrality, access), but this is of a political agenda than anything I'd want
to carve into an onerous regulatory regime.
Looking into the market for IT change management solutions.
I hope somebody develops some "this incredibly disruptive IT will change
everything" management solutions. I'd to use that to the turn the screws on every
other hyperventilating tech marketing pitch.
"Google’s hometown passes new business tax to cope with
rise in tech commuters" (http://ow.ly/7OCH30mxNym )
JK--Mountain View prop will also fund affordable housing. Voters in SF--which
has egregious homeless issue--approved proposition to fund housing & mental
health services.
Caught "Loving Pablo" on DVD. Excellent true story
of Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar seen through eyes of his former
mistress, a journalist recruited by US DEA. Among the very best performances
I've seen by Javier Bardem & Penelope Cruz (and that's saying a lot).
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Kurt Vile
"One Trick Ponies" from Bottle It In JK--2018. Vile? Au contraire! I
have yet to hear a song from this guy that's anything less than great.
cloud means distributed data and that requires strong
enterprise data protection. Join me @davidchapa
@sarbjeetjohal @plburris @stu @dfloyerhistoday 12noon EST on #Wikibon Community
event in live chat Multicloud Data Protection https://www.crowdchat.net/actionitem
#backup #recovery
Kubeflow shows promise in standardizing the AI DevOps
pipeline - SiliconANGLE
Nevadans elect dead pimp to state legislature. If he weren’t
a Republican, I’d attribute this to the blue wave.
After they regress to the mean, what's the next step?
Progressing to the nasty?
New jk #Wikibon
blog: "Kubeflow Shows Promise in Standardizing the AI DevOps
Pipeline" (http://ow.ly/Kbqa30mxin5 )
Michigan legalizes marijuana. Perhaps I was too hasty when I
moved away from the Detroit area 36 years ago.
Abigail Spanberger defeats rightwing airhead incumbent Rep.
Dave Brat in US House race from Virginia. Cue up the Ramones “Beat on the
Brat.”
Wisconsin gives Walker his walking papers. I want to commend
America’s dairyland on ending this guy’s ruinous run in Madison. My
next-to-home state deserves better.
Good. Impeach him.
I voted prop tax relief for spouses of people who died
defending the country, for local infra improvements, and to re-elect Sen Kaine
and Rep Beyer. Soundly rejected odious racist confederacy lover Trumpster Corey
Stewart.
At Boomi World, new accelerators for connected business in
the cloud https://siliconangle.com/2018/11/06/boomi-world-new-accelerators-connected-business-cloud/ …
via @SiliconANGLE
"Tim Berners-Lee Pushes for 'Contract' to Protect the
Web" (http://ow.ly/fynC30mwfCh ) JK--That's
highly Rousseau of you, Sir Tim. But we best let Hobbes' state of nature have
the run of it till Calvin returns to the funny pages of cyberspace & the
tiger goes cute & mute once
On this election day, I urge all Americans to vote for the
candidate of my choice.
New jk #Datanami column:
"How AI, IoT, and Other Technologies Will Need to Coalesce into
Comprehensive Counterdrone Defenses" (http://ow.ly/BtIv30mwbEK )
New jk #Wikibon
blog: "At Boomi World, New Accelerators for Connected Business in the
Cloud" (http://ow.ly/TKPr30mwbet )
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Beck "I’m So
Free" from Colors JK--2017. His performance the week before last at SF's
AT&T Park was the greatest concert I've every seen (no charge to me) at a
tech conference--or ever in any context. Love this guy.
"How Vertically Integrated AI Stacks Will Affect IT
Organizations" (http://ow.ly/e6n230mw19P )
JK--Sketchy discussion that glosses over the fact there are open-source choices
and abstraction layers up & down the "stack" (actually, of an ecosystem) preventing
"vertical" lock-in
"What Can We Expect From AI?" (http://ow.ly/Tvk430mw0VD )
JK--Don't worry. Killer robots will not strangle you in your sleep. They'll
anesthetize you first & then dissolve your body in strong acid exuded from
their mechanical glands. You won't feel a thing.
"F*cking Vote" (http://ow.ly/4enE30mw0yY )
JK--This is the funniest get-out-the-vote radio campaign ever. Tender ears may
not want to hear #KEXP DJs
screaming [bleeped-out] obscenities at the listeners and each other. My
favorite is @DJMorganSeattle
and @loserboy . Classic!
"Five Powerful Enterprise Agile Frameworks" (http://ow.ly/kZxM30mw0oZ )
JK--I need independent verification of whether "LeSS Huge - Large Scale
Scrum" is a legitimate framework or just an elaborate put-on.
"Making Your Data Intelligent" (http://ow.ly/P4X530mw060 )
JK--Traces a 50+ year historical narrative grounded in heroic accomplishments
by guys named Ted and Tim. I'm waiting for the new gospel of intelligent data
to be revealed by a lady. I predict it will be a Tess this time.
OMG! It's "'Tis' the season" season again in
commercial email solicitations. Next up: seasonal e-greetings cards from tech startups
I've never heard of thanking me for all the love and support I've given them
over the past year.
"How to Create Robots That Can Deal With Unpredictable
Humans" (http://ow.ly/qAvw30mvYeW ) JK--Now
that's a practical application of robotics! Someone please sic one of those on
Trump ASAP!
"Europe’s AI ethics chief: No rules yet, please" (http://ow.ly/Dn4c30mvXHu )
JK--Agreed. But EU needs to crack down on figures of speech such as "you
eat the elephant by slicing it." But that could be a Finnish delicacy, so I'll
try to show some cultural sensitivity on the matter.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Creedence
Clearwater Revival "Fortunate Son" from Willy and the Poor Boys
JK--1969. Swamp rock. Band got start in the swamps, bayous, & shotgun
shacks of Contra Costa County, California, right next to some deeply rightwing
one-horse town called Berkeley
"Requests for ML Research from East African Tech
Scene" (http://ow.ly/HJg930mvWUp )
JK--"Handling Rapid Code–Switching with Models trained on Single Language
Corpora: Many East Africans rapidly code–switch...multiple times per
sentence...between English and another language.
"Facebook reorganizes Oculus for AR/VR’s
long-haul" (http://ow.ly/4ZLR30mvWJl )
JK--"Whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual
reality mainstream"? What is this? The Starship Enterprise?
"How to turn your writing into an obstacle course"
(http://ow.ly/EZY630mvWoc )
JK--WashPost humorist @geneweingarten
misses point of Gmail Smart Compose & predictive type-ahead in general.
Writing emails isn't "creative process." Usually, it's dashing off
unambiguous stock phrases
"IBM and Red Hat merger could impact the future of Ceph
and Gluster" (http://ow.ly/rVXp30mvVAZ )
JK--Software-defined object & file storage techs, respectively. But I've
always felt they sound a hayseed comedy
duo that plays the Grand Old Opry.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp LCD Soundsystem
"North American Scum" JK--2007. Hey! I resemble that remark!
I did my civic duty already: I delivered my election-worker
spouse to the polling place in the wee pre-dawn hours so they can get the
electoral machinery up and working on time. I will do my civic duty again
later: I'll vote after work at that same precinct. I'm voting Democratic
Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 in Two Locations https://nyti.ms/2D6vxvy
Crystal City and Long Island City. DC & NYC. Reagan & LaGuardia
Microsoft and IBM flock to the center of all things open
source - SiliconANGLE
Amazon plans to split HQ2 evenly between two cities https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-plans-to-split-hq2-evenly-between-two-cities-1541446552 …
via @WSJ
New jk #Wikibon
blog: "Microsoft and IBM Come to the Center of All Things Open
Source" (http://ow.ly/1Gfg30mvpzn )
"Who contributes most to open source? The answers will
definitely surprise you" (http://ow.ly/MpRD30mvfDI )
JK--Microsoft. The vendors who used to boast of their number of software
patents now fall all over themselves boasting of the volume of their
open-source software contribs.
New jk #SiliconANGLE #reinvent article:
"Looking ahead to AWS re:Invent, public clouds keep gaining momentum"
(http://ow.ly/jocZ30mv9JR )
"Google says 'exponential' growth of AI is changing
nature o compute" (http://ow.ly/TFV430mv5M0 )
JK--Dynamic feedforward/backpropagation weight computation: "Google's
scientists are saying 'please give us a tera-weight machine," computers
capable of computing a trillion weights.'"
"Learning Complex Goals w/Iterated Amplification for AI
Safety" (http://ow.ly/LYtk30mv4eT ) JK--When
reward signals & training data insufficient. Exceptionally complex challenges
that humans can't do in entirety, but which they can break down into subtasks
& perform specific tasks
"Microsoft Roadmap Updated for Azure DevOps (Formerly
VSTS)" (http://ow.ly/I49D30mv2HT ) JK--Microsoft's
development ecosystem is wrapping around their recently acquired GitHub
platform.
"Amazon in advanced talks about putting HQ2 in
NoVa" (http://ow.ly/xnn930mv17w ) JK--Amazon
econ dev director tweet: “Memo to genius leaking info about Crystal City VA as #HQ2 selection. You’re not
doing Crystal City any favors. And stop treating NDA you signed a used napkin”
"Do neural networks really work neurons?" (http://ow.ly/Zqfu30mv0Hs )
JK--Sort of, brain neuronal connections are way complex, robust, powerful, nuanced, and
efficient that artificial neural networks. Brain is capable much sophisticated non-linear computations.
"An AI Physicist Can Derive the Natural Laws of Imagined
Universes" (http://ow.ly/mXVE30muZC3 )
JK--Derived by looking at the universe-specific movement of a ball over time:
how gravitation, electromagnetism, harmonic oscillation, etc interact there.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Andrew Bird
"Bloodless" JK--2018. Nice new one from Bird. His usual rich musical
vibe. A political message on this one.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Tiny Topsy
"Cha Cha Sue" JK--1958. Sounds they're launching into "Tequila,"
but turn it into a big brassy riotous hip-shaking glory of song.
RT @kexpnowplaying
#kexp Ray Sharpe
"Kewpie Doll" JK--1959. This one has a quick-stepping country-blues
snap to it. Very cool.
