Got input from IBM, talked to Cringely, heard from lots of folks in the trenches--and came up with a few more numbers to consider, like 10,000 (Number IBM is now suggesting is accurate), 50,000 (number laid off second half of 2014 in India), 20,800 (26 percent of U.S. workforce, which some say is target) and others. See http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-...
exactly. The compression algorithm is fictional; the score, while created for the show, can actually be calculated. Whether it will catch on as a metric remains to be seen.
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very much like dissolvable stitches
Got input from IBM, talked to Cringely, heard from lots of folks in the trenches--and came up with a few more numbers to consider, like 10,000 (Number IBM is now suggesting is accurate), 50,000 (number laid off second half of 2014 in India), 20,800 (26 percent of U.S. workforce, which some say is target) and others. See http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-...
exactly. The compression algorithm is fictional; the score, while created for the show, can actually be calculated. Whether it will catch on as a metric remains to be seen.