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I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there’s a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it. Norvig’s statement is obviously not true if we’re drawing samples from the general population – most people can’t code. MORE
Erasure coding, a new feature in HDFS, can reduce storage overhead by approximately 50% compared to replication while maintaining the same durability guarantees. This post explains how it works. HDFS by default replicates each block three times. MORE
By Bob Gourley. The 2015 State of the Union address was full of technology related content. Here are key takeaways from the perspective of a CTO: The President showed respect for something many American''s may not have heard of, but you dear readers know very well: Coding! MORE
By Matt Southmayd. Cybersecurity is one of the most high-profile topics for organizations today and one of their biggest sources of risk. Numerous recent incidents have heightened awareness of and sensitivity to this risk, and have made it even more critical that they assess their cyber readiness. MORE
One third of the fuel that goes into a car is spent overcoming friction. By comparison, an electric car loses half as much energy - one sixth - to friction. Who knew electric cars had such an advantage? MORE
“We are a conservative company, so we are just starting our agile transformation,” the manager told me. But we expect big things from it: faster delivery, easier recruiting, happier customers.” Interesting objectives,” I thought to myself. Something I might have heard ten years ago.” MORE
If you use Google Chrome , you could be subject to eavesdropping by Google. Similar to what Samsung's TVs are doing, the Chromium browser listens to conversations in the vicinity of your laptop, PC, or tablet, and transmits it back to Google. MORE
The list below is an update to our reference of "Cyber Security Wake-Up Calls." What does it take to be on the list? Generally each of the events below was so significant policy makers were loudly proclaiming to all who would listen that they were a wake-up call. MORE
Annoy is a library written by me that supports fast approximate nearest neighbor queries. Say you have a high (1-1000) dimensional space with points in it, and you want to find the nearest neighbors to some point. Annoy gives you a way to do this very quickly. It could be points on a map, but also word vectors in a latent semantic representation or latent item vectors in collaborative filtering. MORE
Of course you know Carl Sagan the distinguished astronomer and great explainer of science via best selling books and the TV series Cosmos. One of his last interviews was conducted by Charlie Rose in May 1996. MORE
There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. MORE
By Bob Gourley. Data science history was made on 19 Feb 2015. For the first time in the history of Hadoop World, the President of the United States gave a keynote. Dwell on that for a bit. This is huge. No matter what your politics is, you really have to agree, this is huge. MORE
Friend and CTOvision reader Sean Moore of Centripetal Networks is a proven engineer with experience developing technologies and leading tech focused businesses. He is highly regarded for his mastery of network cyber security, IP communications technology and TCP/IP networking. MORE
Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an amazing experience. I joined Spotify in Stockholm in 2008, mainly because a bunch of friends from programming competitions had joined already. Their goal to change music consumption seemed ridiculous at that point, but six years later I think it’s safe to say they actually succeeded. Back in the early days, my job was to do almost anything related to data. MORE
We were in a conference room near the Waterfront in Cape Town. “I I just lost a crown from one of my teeth.” my husband Tom declared just before I was scheduled to open the conference. Someone at our table responded, “You’re lucky, Cape Town has some of the best dentists in the world.” MORE
It’s now clear to me that we must take bold new steps if we are to truly improve the state of workforce collaboration in most organizations. As the majority of us are doing it today, digital collaboration is largely stuck in the doldrums. MORE
Call centers are a great place to start to use your big data tools Image Credit: King County, WA. MORE
By Chris Mellon. The good news for the moment is that the North Korean attack on Sony Pictures is in the headlines and has the nation discussing cyber security issues. The bad news is that neither the press nor the government is placing the Sony attack in context. MORE
Evaluating which streaming architectural pattern is the best match to your use case is a precondition for a successful production deployment. The Apache Hadoop ecosystem has become a preferred platform for enterprises seeking to process and understand large-scale data in real time. MORE
You’ll need a bridge to move from providing a service to being a partnerbr /> Image Credit: JOHN LLOYD. So here’s a question for you: based on the importance of information technology, what is IT’s role in your company? MORE
Data scientists have hundreds of probability distributions from which to choose. Where to start? Data science, whatever it may be, remains a big deal. “A data scientist is better at statistics than any software engineer,” you may overhear a pundit say, at your local tech get-togethers and hackathons. The applied mathematicians have their revenge, because statistics hasn’t been this talked-about since the roaring 20s. MORE
Sometimes you have these awesome insights. A few days ago I got an idea for how to improve index building in Annoy. For anyone who isn’t acquainted with Annoy – it’s a C++ library with Python bindings that provides fast high-dimensional nearest neighbor search. Annoy recursively builds up a tree given a set of points. The algorithm so far was: at every level, pick a random hyperplane out of all possible hyperplanes that intersect the convex hull given by the point set. MORE
This is another post based on my talk at NYC Machine Learning. The previous two parts covered most of the interesting parts, but there are still some topics left to be discussed. To go back and read the meaty stuff, check out. Part 1: What are vector models useful for? Part 2: How to search in high dimensional spaces – algorithms and data structures. You should also check out the slides and the video if you’re interested. Anyway, let’s talk about the curse of dimensionality today. MORE
A significant issue has been developing in digital collaboration for the last several years, and it’s now starting to become somewhat acute. I’m referring here to the pronounced trend towards app, environment, and channel fragmentation. MORE
I was featured in Peadar Coyle’s interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is kind of arguable since (a) all the other ppl in that series are much cooler than me (b) I’m not really a data scientist. MORE
With new technology, come new problems. Oft times, with the increasing demand for the latest and greatest tech, security is more of an after thought. What has been a consistent theme is developing the next best technology, and then figuring out how to protect it. MORE
CIOs need to start to consider the needs of disabled workers Image Credit: Leo Reynolds. CIOs need to understand that the environment in which their company operates is changing. Two important things are happening at the same time. The first is that a lot of us are becoming older. MORE
The DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is playing an increasingly important role in collaborating across multiple sectors of the economy and across government in sharing important advisories and alerts. MORE
I’ve been taking a close look at what’s over the enterprise horizon for much of the year as the pace of technology change continues to accelerate, as most experts have long predicated and which will only continue. MORE
Erik Bernhardsson
APRIL 6, 2015
I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there’s a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it. Norvig’s statement is obviously not true if we’re drawing samples from the general population – most people can’t code.
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
With new technology, come new problems. Oft times, with the increasing demand for the latest and greatest tech, security is more of an after thought. What has been a consistent theme is developing the next best technology, and then figuring out how to protect it.
Cloudera Engineering
DECEMBER 3, 2015
Data scientists have hundreds of probability distributions from which to choose. Where to start? Data science, whatever it may be, remains a big deal. “A data scientist is better at statistics than any software engineer,” you may overhear a pundit say, at your local tech get-togethers and hackathons. The applied mathematicians have their revenge, because statistics hasn’t been this talked-about since the roaring 20s.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
I’ve been taking a close look at what’s over the enterprise horizon for much of the year as the pace of technology change continues to accelerate, as most experts have long predicated and which will only continue.
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LeanEssays
JULY 16, 2015
“We are a conservative company, so we are just starting our agile transformation,” the manager told me. But we expect big things from it: faster delivery, easier recruiting, happier customers.” Interesting objectives,” I thought to myself. Something I might have heard ten years ago.”
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Erik Bernhardsson
FEBRUARY 10, 2015
Febrary 6 was my last day at Spotify. In total I spent more than six years at Spotify and it was an amazing experience. I joined Spotify in Stockholm in 2008, mainly because a bunch of friends from programming competitions had joined already. Their goal to change music consumption seemed ridiculous at that point, but six years later I think it’s safe to say they actually succeeded. Back in the early days, my job was to do almost anything related to data.
Erik Bernhardsson
MAY 25, 2015
Sometimes you have these awesome insights. A few days ago I got an idea for how to improve index building in Annoy. For anyone who isn’t acquainted with Annoy – it’s a C++ library with Python bindings that provides fast high-dimensional nearest neighbor search. Annoy recursively builds up a tree given a set of points. The algorithm so far was: at every level, pick a random hyperplane out of all possible hyperplanes that intersect the convex hull given by the point set.
Erik Bernhardsson
JULY 3, 2015
Annoy is a library written by me that supports fast approximate nearest neighbor queries. Say you have a high (1-1000) dimensional space with points in it, and you want to find the nearest neighbors to some point. Annoy gives you a way to do this very quickly. It could be points on a map, but also word vectors in a latent semantic representation or latent item vectors in collaborative filtering.
CTOvision
JUNE 7, 2015
The list below is an update to our reference of "Cyber Security Wake-Up Calls." What does it take to be on the list? Generally each of the events below was so significant policy makers were loudly proclaiming to all who would listen that they were a wake-up call.
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CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
The DHS National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is playing an increasingly important role in collaborating across multiple sectors of the economy and across government in sharing important advisories and alerts.
CTOvision
MARCH 17, 2015
By Matt Southmayd. Cybersecurity is one of the most high-profile topics for organizations today and one of their biggest sources of risk. Numerous recent incidents have heightened awareness of and sensitivity to this risk, and have made it even more critical that they assess their cyber readiness.
Erik Bernhardsson
OCTOBER 19, 2015
This is another post based on my talk at NYC Machine Learning. The previous two parts covered most of the interesting parts, but there are still some topics left to be discussed. To go back and read the meaty stuff, check out. Part 1: What are vector models useful for? Part 2: How to search in high dimensional spaces – algorithms and data structures. You should also check out the slides and the video if you’re interested. Anyway, let’s talk about the curse of dimensionality today.
Cloudera Engineering
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
Erasure coding, a new feature in HDFS, can reduce storage overhead by approximately 50% compared to replication while maintaining the same durability guarantees. This post explains how it works. HDFS by default replicates each block three times.
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JULY 30, 2015
It’s now clear to me that we must take bold new steps if we are to truly improve the state of workforce collaboration in most organizations. As the majority of us are doing it today, digital collaboration is largely stuck in the doldrums.
LeanEssays
AUGUST 19, 2015
One third of the fuel that goes into a car is spent overcoming friction. By comparison, an electric car loses half as much energy - one sixth - to friction. Who knew electric cars had such an advantage?
The Accidental Successful CIO
APRIL 8, 2015
Call centers are a great place to start to use your big data tools Image Credit: King County, WA.
CTOvision
JANUARY 9, 2015
By Chris Mellon. The good news for the moment is that the North Korean attack on Sony Pictures is in the headlines and has the nation discussing cyber security issues. The bad news is that neither the press nor the government is placing the Sony attack in context.
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CTOvision
FEBRUARY 21, 2015
By Bob Gourley. Data science history was made on 19 Feb 2015. For the first time in the history of Hadoop World, the President of the United States gave a keynote. Dwell on that for a bit. This is huge. No matter what your politics is, you really have to agree, this is huge.
CTOvision
JUNE 24, 2015
If you use Google Chrome , you could be subject to eavesdropping by Google. Similar to what Samsung's TVs are doing, the Chromium browser listens to conversations in the vicinity of your laptop, PC, or tablet, and transmits it back to Google.
CTOvision
MAY 2, 2015
Friend and CTOvision reader Sean Moore of Centripetal Networks is a proven engineer with experience developing technologies and leading tech focused businesses. He is highly regarded for his mastery of network cyber security, IP communications technology and TCP/IP networking.
CTOvision
JANUARY 20, 2015
By Bob Gourley. The 2015 State of the Union address was full of technology related content. Here are key takeaways from the perspective of a CTO: The President showed respect for something many American''s may not have heard of, but you dear readers know very well: Coding!
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CTOvision
JULY 1, 2015
Of course you know Carl Sagan the distinguished astronomer and great explainer of science via best selling books and the TV series Cosmos. One of his last interviews was conducted by Charlie Rose in May 1996.
Erik Bernhardsson
OCTOBER 27, 2015
I was featured in Peadar Coyle’s interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is kind of arguable since (a) all the other ppl in that series are much cooler than me (b) I’m not really a data scientist.
Cloudera Engineering
JUNE 1, 2015
Evaluating which streaming architectural pattern is the best match to your use case is a precondition for a successful production deployment. The Apache Hadoop ecosystem has become a preferred platform for enterprises seeking to process and understand large-scale data in real time.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
JUNE 29, 2015
A significant issue has been developing in digital collaboration for the last several years, and it’s now starting to become somewhat acute. I’m referring here to the pronounced trend towards app, environment, and channel fragmentation.
Speaker: Sriram Parthasarathy, Senior Director of Predictive Analytics, Logi Analytics
Applications with predictive analytics are able to deliver massive value to end users. But what steps should product managers take to add predictive analytics to their applications? In this webinar, we’ll walk through an end-to-end lifecycle of embedding predictive analytics inside an application. Find out how a real-world application decided what predictive questions to ask, sourced the right data, organized resources, built models, deployed predictive analytics in production, and monitored model performance over time.
LeanEssays
JUNE 5, 2015
We were in a conference room near the Waterfront in Cape Town. “I I just lost a crown from one of my teeth.” my husband Tom declared just before I was scheduled to open the conference. Someone at our table responded, “You’re lucky, Cape Town has some of the best dentists in the world.”
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 19, 2015
You’ll need a bridge to move from providing a service to being a partnerbr /> Image Credit: JOHN LLOYD. So here’s a question for you: based on the importance of information technology, what is IT’s role in your company?
CTOvision
NOVEMBER 2, 2015
There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity.
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