Thinking in AI
“This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it. They will appear wise, but not be so.” — Thamus to the god Theuth, on the invention of writing, in Plato’s Phaedrus Sometime in the …
Tag: Platforms & Tools
BIG SMART DATA requires new tools, new platforms, new frameworks.
The No-Regret Portfolio
You cannot win a bet on a future impossible to predict. You can only become a human who survives regardless of outcome. Three AI fears walk into a bar. The first tries to order everything on the menu at once …
E-commerce and Big Data
One of the major pillars of e-commerce is the web store — that virtual shopping garden through which an estimated $230 billion will flow in 2013. Lots and lots of online stores compete for their share of the still-growing e-commerce …
Big Data University
Via Big Data University IBM offers free introductory courses for Hadoop fundamentals, some rudimentary text analytics, and their SmartCloud cluster management services. SmartCloud to initiate and administer a Linux cluster on Amazon’s AWS is decent.