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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 27 July 2015

The really part of this week was in Charleston SC for a great mini conference. I blogged about it earlier in the week. The rest of the week was catching up around... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 27, 2015 at 05:48 AM

From Putting People First

New qualitative research on video consumption by UK youth

TV viewing (live, playback and Broadcaster VOD services) dominates the video viewing of all ages; however 16-24s have a more varied video diet, with TV accounting... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 27, 2015 at 03:26 AM

From Putting People First

Breaking Free from The Lean Startup religion: The Service Designer Manifesto

Breaking Free from The Lean Startup religion: The Service Designer Manifesto by Tenny Pinheiro Eise Books July 21, 2015 – 52 pages Free on Kindle Abstract Our civilization... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 27, 2015 at 03:22 AM

From Putting People First

Nudging to fix the world

Last week the UK media were suddenly abuzz on how behavioural insights can help government decisions and actions by being able to nudge behaviour in a favourable... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 27, 2015 at 03:17 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Telling Good Data from Bad

From Forbes. Hardly complete, but a reasonable starting point. Which can be mostly summarized as: Understand your sources, ask for certification when available... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 27, 2015 at 12:30 AM

From insideHPC

OpenMPCon Lists Abstracts and Tutorials

Today OpenMPCon Developer Conference has published their list of abstracts of papers and tutorials. The post OpenMPCon Lists Abstracts and Tutorials appeared first... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 26, 2015 at 12:37 PM

From insideHPC

Numascale Powers Big Data Analytics with Transtec

"At ISC 2015, Numascale announced record-breaking results from a shared memory system running the McCalpin STREAM Benchmark, a synthetic benchmark program thatNumascale... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 26, 2015 at 12:16 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Thinking about Attentive Analytics

In a lunch time conversation last week the concept of an 'attentive' system emerged. You can make many systems, analytic or otherwise, alert people to conditions... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2015 at 11:57 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Intel is Fixing the Cloud

In CWorld: " ... Intel has kicked off a broad effort to speed the adoption of the modern cloud infrastructure, which it says has been slow to take off because the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2015 at 11:37 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Content Analytics Re-Emerges

This was an approach we called 'Content Analytics' a long time ago, when the data we analyzed came from big spools of tape. I had thought the term had gone away... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2015 at 09:42 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

On Pluto and the Nature of Seeing

What does it mean to see in a technological world? A Wired look at visual sensors, using the Pluto flyby as an example. At what, when and how are we seeing things... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2015 at 09:29 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Dark Data Repository

In the Chronicle: An example of clearly sourced dark data" .... Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are leading an effort to create a... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 26, 2015 at 01:11 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon as an Internet of Things Superpower

In the Motley Fool: Very good piece on a number of Amazon IOT dimensions I am currently following. In particular I am looking forward to trying theAmazon Dash... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 25, 2015 at 09:59 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Data about China

Was involved in the early examination of available data about China, driving retail models. See Simulex and Agent Models tag.In Clickz:The way data is collected... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 25, 2015 at 02:58 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Creating A Marketing Persona

Market equity in a persona, simplified. " ... The foundation of marketing is the process of identifying, meeting, and satisfying customer wants and needs. In... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 25, 2015 at 02:30 PM

From insideHPC

Tsinghua in China Makes $23 billion Bid for Micron

In what could be one of the biggest acquisitions of a US company by a Chinese firm, China’s state owned Tsinghua Unigroup has made an bid to acquire US semiconductor... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 25, 2015 at 01:01 PM

From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC Software Product Manager at Intel

Intel is seeking an HPC Software Product Manager in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Software Product Manager at Intel appeared first on insideHPC... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 25, 2015 at 12:30 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Phone an Expert Friend. Past and Future

Has been very interesting to be part of this evolution over the years.Jim Spohrer of CSIG writes. The Future of Phone-a-Friend (Discussion) The evolution of "Phone... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 25, 2015 at 09:41 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tracking Job Loss Through SmartPhone Data

With the use of a Bayesian model. Via O'ReillyCan mobile phone data predict economic change?This paper describes a structural break model to correctly detect the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 25, 2015 at 08:53 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Mapping Math onto the Real World

My entire career has been about applying math to real world problems. This Quanta article in Wired tracks the dilemma. It remains to be a hard thing to do. Even... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 25, 2015 at 08:48 AM