Agreed. Companies like Amazon have been coolecting and using consumer data for decades and consumers have mostly appreciated the results. I like to have products suggested to me...that is the retailer's job: to introduce me to products that may be cheaper or higher quality or that may solve my problem.
Let;s not compare that to raping people's contact lists and using it in a sneaky way to build our network or fain relationships or make predictions about political affiliations.
Exactly, it is only a matter of time before genetic and medical data are correlated with facebook data into predictive sets (in the hands of insurance companies, brokerages, and banks). It can be completely anonymized and still be a menace to society. There is no precedence for this amount of power--any that are close have never ended well.
No one understands analytics and what we call "AI." No one! Not CEOs, not CIOs, not the media, and certainly not the general public "Jill Facebook." People are slowly starting to realize what kind of information and power can be derived from large data sets--especially personal data like FB collects. It is a data scientitsts wet dream. In that dream they do not pine over the source of that data--they just want their hands on it. It is the new gold, and they have data fever.
If Facebook has to get into the business of policing people who buy its services (data) that is a clear sign that something is wrong. If it ain't fire-and-forget, forget it. Who builds systems like that?
The cookbook no one can ever bother themselves to read half the time. It blows me away how many times I find failed implementations because no one bothered to read the documentation.
I feel like I need to go underground and join this odd Creimer cult to find out what is really going on around here. At first it was funny. Funny as hell. But after a while it just got weird.
Yeah. Somebody has to get Skype together. It is still playing out like your typical Microsoft acquisition of old. Languishing under technical issues and ease of use.
Try a 40" 4K 60Hz TV for a monitor. They will love it. I have been running a 49" TCL Roku TV 24" from my face and it has eliminated any visual strain. Highly suggest touch screen if you can swing it. I would love to play Age of Empires 3/4/Definitive on a large touch screen. A workout.
So you haven't built yourself a workstation? I don't like messing with barriers and problems, that is why I build my workstation from scratch and run bleeding edge Windows 10. No tinkering required.
Time after time I sit and I wait for your call I know I'm a fool But what can I say? Whatever the price I'll pay For you, Madame Blue Once long ago A word from your lips and the world turned around But somehow you've changed You're so far away I long for the past and dream of the days With you, Madame Blue Suite Madame Blue Gaze in your looking-glass You're not a child anymore Suite Madame Blue The future is all but past Dressed in your jewels, you made your own rules
Plus you can still get your hands on the Facebook data and run over to the third parties to get their dataset to perform your own analysis. This has moved us one step back towards obscurity and less accountability, not that I would consider FB a broker of accountability. So we really have less of a clue how the data is actually being used. Before we could point to Facebook and find out...now with this convenience removed, companies will just horde the data and analysis away in their own private systems.
I'm all for this in the hopes that it will help those few who will go on to be programmers and would have anyway. I don't expect initiatives like this to create more coders. It could possibly result less coders; in fending off those who would later pursue programming and get locked into the industry before figuring out that they don't really like it.
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Agreed. Companies like Amazon have been coolecting and using consumer data for decades and consumers have mostly appreciated the results. I like to have products suggested to me...that is the retailer's job: to introduce me to products that may be cheaper or higher quality or that may solve my problem.
Let;s not compare that to raping people's contact lists and using it in a sneaky way to build our network or fain relationships or make predictions about political affiliations.
Exactly, it is only a matter of time before genetic and medical data are correlated with facebook data into predictive sets (in the hands of insurance companies, brokerages, and banks). It can be completely anonymized and still be a menace to society. There is no precedence for this amount of power--any that are close have never ended well.
No one understands analytics and what we call "AI." No one! Not CEOs, not CIOs, not the media, and certainly not the general public "Jill Facebook." People are slowly starting to realize what kind of information and power can be derived from large data sets--especially personal data like FB collects. It is a data scientitsts wet dream. In that dream they do not pine over the source of that data--they just want their hands on it. It is the new gold, and they have data fever.
If Facebook has to get into the business of policing people who buy its services (data) that is a clear sign that something is wrong. If it ain't fire-and-forget, forget it. Who builds systems like that?
Agreed. This is the same exact story with a fact tweak. Nothing of substance has changed.
Besides...how would we subsidize my beef habit without copious amounts of corn and soyabeans to fatten the bovine?
I know exactly what you are talking about. I lived the dream you describe. Looking for a new one.
The cookbook no one can ever bother themselves to read half the time. It blows me away how many times I find failed implementations because no one bothered to read the documentation.
I feel like I need to go underground and join this odd Creimer cult to find out what is really going on around here. At first it was funny. Funny as hell. But after a while it just got weird.
Yeah. Somebody has to get Skype together. It is still playing out like your typical Microsoft acquisition of old. Languishing under technical issues and ease of use.
Home users can hop on shitty Google Docs and bang our stuff for free.
Try a 40" 4K 60Hz TV for a monitor. They will love it. I have been running a 49" TCL Roku TV 24" from my face and it has eliminated any visual strain. Highly suggest touch screen if you can swing it. I would love to play Age of Empires 3/4/Definitive on a large touch screen. A workout.
So you haven't built yourself a workstation? I don't like messing with barriers and problems, that is why I build my workstation from scratch and run bleeding edge Windows 10. No tinkering required.
Full .NET stack is available to end users from the command line. Its called PowerShell.
If you can't abstract your systems away from a particular cloud provider you have no business in the cloud.
OpenStack and CloudFoundry come to mind. If it can't be deployed on Pivotal Cloud Foundry in a few minutes send your devs back to the drawing board.
Tizen is obscure like IoT is obscure
Off by many oders of magnitude. Basically sitting still relative to the speed of light.
The issue is that mainstream scientists and views are equally as clueless perhaps?
Its pun day. Another story about coffee has a judge mentioning insufficient grounds.
I might add that this mission is far more interesting than a trip to Mars.
Time after time
I sit and I wait for your call
I know I'm a fool
But what can I say?
Whatever the price I'll pay
For you, Madame Blue
Once long ago
A word from your lips and the world turned around
But somehow you've changed
You're so far away
I long for the past and dream of the days
With you, Madame Blue
Suite Madame Blue
Gaze in your looking-glass
You're not a child anymore
Suite Madame Blue
The future is all but past
Dressed in your jewels, you made your own rules
You conquered the world and more
Heaven's door
America, America, America, America
You don't have to tell everybody..just hit up facebook. Too soon?
Chris....is that you?
Plus you can still get your hands on the Facebook data and run over to the third parties to get their dataset to perform your own analysis. This has moved us one step back towards obscurity and less accountability, not that I would consider FB a broker of accountability. So we really have less of a clue how the data is actually being used. Before we could point to Facebook and find out...now with this convenience removed, companies will just horde the data and analysis away in their own private systems.
I'm all for this in the hopes that it will help those few who will go on to be programmers and would have anyway. I don't expect initiatives like this to create more coders. It could possibly result less coders; in fending off those who would later pursue programming and get locked into the industry before figuring out that they don't really like it.