Category: Data Science

Don’t Fear the Deeper

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Borg, Data Science, Platforms & Tools

You may not have heard of Numenta. Perhaps the name Jeff Hawkins is only slightly familiar. That’s Jeff Hawkins, not to be confused with Stephen Hawking. Hawkins is a true tech pioneer. Founder of Palm, he was instrumental in ushering…

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Network Age Eyes

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Borg, Data Science

The holiday season is now nearly done — with The Epiphany soon upon us, Christmas 2013 comes to a close. It’s been a wonderful holiday this year; hope yours was equally joyful. Time to now get back to work ……

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Bio Hack

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science, Platforms & Tools

After the winter holidays in 2012 I played CMU’s Eterna for several weeks, often for hours at a stretch. My addiction lasted about 6 weeks or so, as I recall. Eterna isn’t a game, really, although the ranking system did…

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Quantum Hack

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science

NY Time Blog headline this morning: Google Buys a Quantum Computer Teaming with NASA, they’re forming the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QAIL) to focus on machine learning. Better search will come, one supposes. I missed the announcement of the first…

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Foundation and Empire

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science

Is it possible to predict global conflict? For those sired on Asimov’s work, the title of this post will be familiar. You may recall psychohistory, Isaac’s early-50s term for the mathematical mashup of history, sociology, and statistics used to make…

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Brain Jack

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science

“I can imagine a cognitive prosthesis–some digital mnemonic device that extends my personal storage capacity in some way, but accessed directly via my own thoughts, as if it were an integral part of my own cognitive system.” — The Artisan…

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Love and Money and in an Indeterminate Age

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science

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…

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Data Science in the Facebook World

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science

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…

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Dude, Who Printed My Car?

Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science, Platforms & Tools

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!

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Posted on by Max K Goff Posted in Big Data, Data Science, Platforms & Tools

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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