Peter Thiel’s Strategy Quadrant PayPal founder Peter Thiel is obviously a prescient individual with ample cognitive gifts. You should take the time to view his session at SXSW this year: You are Not a Lottery Ticket The future has always …
Perhaps one day we will wake up to find that over night a next-generation network access devices were dropped from above, like particles of fertilizer sprayed by crop dusters over corn fields. Who said print was dead? 🙂 I wonder …
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I laughed out loud when I read Harry Roberts’ blog touting shame.css — but as I think about it, he may be onto something. In the spirit of Convention Over Configuration, why not cloister hacks whenever possible? Wouldn’t doing so …
If you’re a geek and haven’t yet read Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science think of this as a goad — at least buy the tome. The basic premise is simple — specifically, that those classes of simple programs that …
Wow. A car, printed via 3-D printing technology, making the NY to SF sojourn on 10 gallons of gas! Today’s article on Wired has got to be a mind blowing, hope radiating, consciousness expanding trip!
I’m working with my fellow Rotarians at Club 24 on a fundraising event. Club 24 is over 100 Years Old — yet we don’t have an annual fundraiser that we can call our signature event. So we’ve been brainstorming. As …
The Network Age demands improved modes of learning and communication. By presenting information in compact, creative formats, infographics are able to quickly convey knowledge and engage us. Infographics are visual presentations meant to communicate complex information quickly and clearly. A …
One of the major pillars of e-commerce is the web store — that virtual shopping garden through which an estimated $230 billion will flow in 2013. Lots and lots of online stores compete for their share of the still-growing e-commerce …
Via Big Data University IBM offers free introductory courses for Hadoop fundamentals, some rudimentary text analytics, and their SmartCloud cluster management services. SmartCloud to initiate and administer a Linux cluster on Amazon’s AWS is decent.
With a nod to Kernighan & Ritchie, Big Smart Data begins. The intent of this site is to seek out, organize, explore and understand a layer of software infrastructure characterized by clusters of cooperative processors, machine learning, the wisdom of the …
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