The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
(Big) Data Burping Data integration from an old system to a new system is coded for trouble. The system swallowing the data is guaranteed to have indigestion and the only way to relieve the problem is by burping. Chez Brochez has dealt with his own share of data integration issues and in his article, “Tips …
A Google Savior for US Government Web Sites Quote to Note: Big Data Getting Even Biggerest Super Fastly Full text with Phi Beta Iota comments and additional links below the fold.
Google Investing Billions to Get Billions. Obviously. I read “5 Google Projects That Will Pave the Future.” The title confused me. I think the author wanted me to think that Google was paving the way to the future. What I interpreted the title to mean is that Google wants to cover the future with Google’s own digital …
IBM Buzz Equals Revenues: The Breakthrough Assumption I am no wizard of finance. I have kept track of money for my Cub Scout troop. I do understand this chart from Google Finance: The blue column shows that revenue is going nowhere, maybe even trending down. The red line shows IBM’s profit margin which is flat. …
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Google Needs To Watch A Chinese Rival Asia appears to be the place to go for alternative search engines that are large enough to rival Google. Russia has Yandex and now China has created Baidu. Baidu, however, is now crossing oceans and is deployed in Brazil says ZDNet in “Chinese Search Engine Baidu Goes Live …
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The Cloud: Flecked with Scattered Twinkie-Like Information I read “Cloud Revenue Jumps, Led by Old Computing Titans.” If you have a hard copy of the “real” journalism Mt. Parnassus, you can find this story in the August 4, 2014 version delivered to Kentucky. Online, the story carries an August 3, 2014 date and, if you …
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No Search Or Publishing For Science The scientific method is used to approach a problem logically and come to reasonable conclusion based off the presented evidence. Allow me to present the following question: if only a small percentage of scientists publish their work, does that not distort scientific information? Let us approach this problem in …
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