Just exercised my unfriend and block options in FB and Twitter, respectively. One individual seemed disturbed. The other just obnoxious.
My advice 2 so-called "futurists" is 2 rebrand as "speculationists." You have no magic crystal balls. Not "speculators" unless have $ riding
Glad to be home. Have a thick stack of printed-out #cogcomputingpreso slides I'm going to ponder at length. But not on my weekend.
Solid cloud deck. When viewed from an airplane at 30,000 feet, the day isn't overcast. It's undercast.
If there's ever a final episode of "Simpsons," it needs to be Bart racing thru Springfield on his skateboard tying up loose plot threads.
Jimmy Buffett "Come Monday" (http://ow.ly/ADqb1 ) JK--As Labor Day approaches, I feel this way. Yes, my girls, it's been quite a summer.
It's always easier to keep my head straight when I visualize myself as a bobblehead.
Speaking in any number of cities on any number of topics this fall. Pick any number below infinity. That's what I'll be doing & where.
The "ice bucket challenge" is getting kind of boring. What I'd like to see is who steps up for the "molten lead challenge."
Sitting here in the flats at the far southern end of San Francisco Bay Northern Silicon Valley . North San Jose . #IBM office building
RT @kexpplaylist#kexp Heart of Darkness by Pere Ubu JK--1975. @djkevincolediscussed cofounder Peter Laughner contribution & fast flame-out
This wk #IBMDataMagqhs: http://ow.ly/ABR69 http://ow.ly/ABR7P http://ow.ly/ABR9A http://ow.ly/ABRb1 http://ow.ly/ABRch
Data-scientist skillsets? Teaming within open expertise communities p1: http://ow.ly/ABPQc p2: http://ow.ly/ABPSc Fri #IBMDataMagqh
Uninstalled Facebook Messenger from my smartphone with extreme prejudice. I quite seriously cannot stand it.
RT @skempe42: Love this panel o speakers on #CogComputing@ajbowles@sardire@n2semantics@jameskobielus@MattSanchezpic.twitter.com/NNxvHZpVaX
Speaker regards jazz as pinnacle of musical achievement. Demeans rock, in this case death metal, as undifferentiated crap. Oh, brother.
Turing test equal parts conversation ("how does other party respond?"), context ("response feel natural?"), cognition ("that human think?")
Culture shift. When someone matter-of-factly mentions her "wife" in prof setting & nobody bats eye, you know 20th century is ancient history
At #CogComputing, I've met vendors o solutions that do algorithmic extract/translate/render o data 2 insights 2 human-relevant narrativ text
Any definition o "cognitive computing" that doesnt reference cognition--i.e., thinking--is non-starter. What thought processes do U compute?
New #IBM jk blog: "Doing something about the weather" (http://ow.ly/AzLIu )
Business travel. What I like most is the change of scenery. It's still work, but with a different backdrop. Sometimes, it makes a difference
Nothing terribly interesting on the Internet this morning, apart from the fact that we live in "interesting times."
Advanced analytics? The converged & accelerated machine learning of ensemble methods (http://ow.ly/Aza1o ) Thursday #IBMDataMagquick-hit
Speaker has a thick New Zealand accent. Unmistakeably NOT Australian. Short "e" expressed like short "i." Pronounces "express""ixpriss."
"Introduction 2 Deep Learning: From Perceptrons 2 Deep Netwks" (http://ow.ly/Ay92P ) JK--Good overview. Fundamental 2 cognitive computing
IGNORE ME//An anomalous/anemone insists on/anonymity.
RIP Don Pardo. Near as anybody can tell, he was an incorporeal being: a disembodied voice introducing "Jeopardy,""SNL,"& other TV shows
Speaker on neuroscience @ #CogComputingdiscusses problems recalling 50-year-old memories. I remember the Beatles on Sullivan like yesterday
Listening to Dave Sullivan of Ersatz Labs at #CogComputingblowing my mind with excellent, in-depth tech discussion. All's coming into focus
Enjoying ex-IBMer Chris Welty keynote at #CogComputingSan Jose . Cogn sys devel proc: metrics, data, truth, explore, fail, combine, follow.
Data-scientist skillsets? Girding 4 commoditization o yr profession p1: http://ow.ly/AwPVV p2: http://ow.ly/AwPYh Wed #IBMDataMagqh
"Excuse me, do you speak fraud?" (http://ow.ly/AvIjE ) JK--Good visual overview o network graph analysis & machine learning in anti-fraud
"For #BigData Scientists, ‘Janitor Work’ Is Key Hurdle to Insights" (http://ow.ly/AvI3S ) JK--Dumb headline. Refers to data preparation.
Earth viewed from 30,000 feet? I see patches of green, brown, & blue down there. I'll keep you posted if other colors emerge on the horizon
Request for definition of "big data" in "simple words." Exactly how much simpler than "big"& "data" must these English words be? "A"? "I"?
Chicken? Don't be! Reach right customer w/ right offer--eg dinner-- @ right time/place w/ #IBM Streams & ODM Webcast. http://ow.ly/Av5lD
Cool topics to immerse oneself in. Keeps life & work fun. There are always cool topics, some of which are hot. That's geek-heaven sweetspot
In a zen zone right now. Waiting to fly out to San Jose for Cognitive Computing Forum. I go to speak, but mostly to absorb. Hot topic.
"Visual control o #bigdata" (http://ow.ly/AuHkI ) JK--MIT data-viz tool IDs sources o aberrant results & recomputes visualizns w/out them
"How This Algorithm Detected Ebola Outbreak Before Humans Could" (http://ow.ly/AuGN0 ) JK--Mined 1000s o web-based data sources for clues
Outlier analysis. When applied to politicians' tweets, I'd like to see an analysis of how often they're out there, lying.
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"Wizard of Oz & new Analytics Fairytale" (http://ow.ly/AuEjO ) JK--Perfect example of cutesy allegorical overreach sabotaging a POV
When someone on LinkedIn says I'm "perfect" to attend some event (at my expense), I'd like them to endorse me: "James Kobielus is perfect."
RT @KirkDBorne: "How common is your birthday?" JK--Mine's annual, Kirk. How about yours?
Data lake. More of an exploratory multistructured data-science archive. Call it that instead. Dredge the muck from that definitional lake
Just saw description of unknown actress as "iconic." Probably one o those never-clicked icons Hollywood requested be purged from its desktop
Those insanely logo-dense #bigdataecosystem charts. Memorizing those is pointless. This innovative industry defies crisp categories.
RT @kexpplaylist#kexp Trouble Every Day by Frank Zappa from The Making of Freak Out! Project JK--1966. Great message song. Racial relations
"InfoSphere Guardium Tech Talk: InfoSphere Guardium on z/OS" (http://ow.ly/AtQXV ) JK--Wed Aug 27 11:30am EDT #IBMDataMag
"Webinar: Virtual Enzee and Netezza Underground" (http://ow.ly/AtQJ1 ) JK--Fri Aug 22 11am EDT #IBMDataMag
"IBM Webcast: #IBM Business Tech Trends Report" (http://ow.ly/AtQxp ) JK--Join the entrepreneur huddle Thurs Aug 21 1pm EDT #IBMDataMag
"Apply Open Source to Real-Time App Dev (http://ow.ly/AtQ8f ) JK--Podcast: learn about GitHub InfoSphere Streams project #IBMDataMag
"Hail to the Chief Data Officer" (http://ow.ly/AtPOX ) JK--New #IBM website w/comprehensive resources dedicated to CDO role #IBMDataMag
"Insights for Competitive Adv" (http://ow.ly/AtPsX ) JK--IBM redesigns #BigData Analytics website w/Watson Foundations capabs #IBMDataMag
"Take Offensive Against Cyberattacks" (http://ow.ly/AtPbH ) JK--Vid on #IBMInfoSphere Streams 4 hunting elusive black swans #IBMDataMag
"Enterprise-Level Muscle" (http://ow.ly/AtP0Z ) JK--Video on #IBM InfoSphere BigInsights #Hadoop#IBMDataMag
"Predict Prevent & Act on Security Threats" (http://ow.ly/AtOQx ) JK--KMadia on stream computing for real-time security intel #IBMDataMag
"Cloud Analytics: A Taxonomy for Service Offerings" (http://ow.ly/AtOsd ) JK--Ahmed Fattah second of 2-part series. #IBMDataMag
"Explore New Frontiers in Business Analytics" (http://ow.ly/AtNYQ ) JK--Polish-surnamed geek splits hairs. Like always #IBMDataMag
#BigData hardcore use cases? Assess when bigger data truly better p1: http://ow.ly/AtMSJ p2: http://ow.ly/AtMU0 Tues #IBMDataMagqh
RT @kexpplaylist#kexp One of These Days by Pink Floyd from Meddle JK--1971. Truly psychedelic jam best played at full mindbending volume.
Explore New Frontiers in #BusinessAnalyticshttp://ibmdatamag.com/?p=16266 by James Kobielus
Converging basic and advanced #analyticspaves the way for keen #insightand #businessinnovationhttp://ibmdatamag.com/?p=16266 by James Kobielus
Why the people who use #advancedanalyticstend to fall under the broad heading of #datascientistshttp://ibmdatamag.com/?p=16266 by James Kobielus
How today’s #poweranalystshave tools to do #analysisthat used to require a #datascientisthttp://ibmdatamag.com/?p=16266 by James Kobielus
Just got email from somebody named "Tony Orlando." Had to resist the urge to reply "Where's Dawn?"
There's misperception of me as "book-smart." Honestly, it took me forever to realize laying them down splayd open tends to break the binding
It sounds truly pathetic when a message states that "A friend wants you to like a page on Facebook." It's come to this? Begging to be liked?
"Sturgeon’s Law, #BigData& the New Literacy" (http://ow.ly/ArFSl ) JK--Actually, Sturgeon's own work violates that. ~90% of it was great
"Photo Editing Future Based on Machine Learning" (http://ow.ly/ArEFE ) JK--Yikes! Will we ever be able 2 trust foto verisimilitude again?
"Machine predicts heart attacks 4 hours before doctors" (http://ow.ly/ArE4t ) JK--Wow! Think of the life-saving potential!
"How Genes Could Predict Who'll Get PTSD" (http://ow.ly/ArDk1 ) JK--Even if could, unlikely that militaries would grant combat exemptions
"State Open-Data Policies & Portals" (http://ow.ly/ArC4M ) JK--Very useful detailed state-by-state overview.
"Making Sense o #BigDataw/Virtual Reality & Unconscious Mind" (http://ow.ly/ArBcO ) JK--Collective Experience o Empathic Data Sys proj
"On Path to Adv Analytx, Data Silos Still Major Stumbling Block" (http://ow.ly/Arz8L ) JK--Multichan mktg thrives on unified customr data
Siloes. Tech metaphor that always puts me in a "Green Acres" frame of mind. Always curls my lips into a smile, half-expecting Arnold the Pig
Apache ARGUS project (http://ow.ly/Aruas ) JK--Framework to enable, monitor & manage comprehensive data security across Hadoop ecosystem
My wastebasket. I'm going to reposition it as my repository for curationally deprecated content. Yeah, that's it.
"AMPLab’s Tachyon" (http://ow.ly/ArrI3 ) JK--Distrib FS on HDFS lets multi Hdp&Sprk jobs access same data at mem speed without corrupting
"Apache Storm and Spark Streaming Compared" (http://ow.ly/ArriB ) JK--Good SlideShare 4 compare these stream-computing open-source projex
Mahout algorithms for recommendation engines. Good SlideShare. Heavy-going practical data science: http://ow.ly/ArqqU
RT @kexpplaylist#kexp Tall Man, Skinny Lady by Ty Segall from Manipulator JK--2014. Nice crazy chaotic guitar freakout on this one.
"How do I become a data scientist? An evaluation of 3 alternatives" (http://ow.ly/ArnVU ) JK--Good comparative table of alternatives.
"Concepts in Predictive Machine Learning" (http://ow.ly/ArmDq ) JK--Interesting masters thesis. Download: http://ow.ly/ArmKH
"How NYC Fire Dept Uses DataMining" (http://ow.ly/Ark22 ) JK--Pred model assigns each inspectabl bldg a risk score 2 priortze inspections
Facebook's flaky API annoys me. Occasionally it craps out in middle of a Hootsuite session without warning. Sometimes it double-posts. Geez
Service-oriented analytics? #BigDataanalytics consulting as a service (http://ow.ly/Ar34q ) Monday #IBMDataMagquick-hit
RT @kexpplaylist#kexp It's All in My Mind by Teenage Fanclub from Man-Made JK--2005. I like their harmony singing.
Privacy and social experimentation http://bit.ly/1t9W9iT
Sitting late in the evening alone listening to music on my laptop at home. Perfect time to finish the wine. Perfect time to be selfish.
Hypertension: high blood pressure. Its cerebral correlate is hypercognition: high thought pressure. Curious if they mutually reinforce.
Challenging myself on the strength machines at LA Fitness. Trying to get to point that I can press at least my body weight in any direction.
Just bought & am downloading St. Vincent 's eponymous 4th LP, from earlier this year. Been meaning to spend time with Annie Clark's artistry
I'm generally better informed when I avoid TV news. I'm also calmer. No need to process the sounds of broadcasters' sensationalizing voices
Speaking at #DataversityCognitive Computing Forum in San Jose CA
Love when people's auto-created "#bigdata personal newspapers" have "stories via @jameskobielus" that R simply music videos I tweeted about
"As one guy at the suicide hotline said: 'Life isn't for everybody." -- Robin Williams to Terry Gross (NPR Fresh Air) in 2006
RT @kexpplaylist#kexp Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog JK--1991. I always thought this was Pearl Jam. Great one, nevertheless.
RT @kexpplaylist#kexp Alive by Pearl Jam from Ten JK--1991. Another Seattle grunge group whose sound grows more classic with age.
RT @kexpplaylist#kexp Brother by Alice in Chains from Sap JK--1992. Seattle grunge group. Cool sound. Has aged well.
Caught "American Hustle" on DVD. Lots o great performances, especially th ladies. Can't decide if I love Amy Adams or Jennifer Lawrence more