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Space weather, sun storms, “Black Swan” & Carrington events
This giant prominence erupted from the sun on Aug 31, 2012, sending a shockwave towards Earth that could have caused some very serious problems. This sun storm illustrates how space weather can cause so-called “Black Swan” events: potentially devastating events like the Carrington event that are low probability and therefore may not be properly modeled or planned for. Continuing on the theme from our last two photos of data and mathematical models of civilizations, we already pointed out (in our Dyson swarm photo) that a civilizations capable of harnessing all of the energy from the sun would be a Type II civilization. Mathematical models of civilizations (including historical human civilizations) is a recurring theme on our blog and here on IG. Our first photo linked to a blog article discussing this. We’ll almost certainly revisit this subject in the future, perhaps to take a look at the conquistadors, or our own, current civilization (aka economics or operations research).… Read the restEbola: Can big data or semantic text help?
“Many problems” in this case Yes it can. We’ll get to to how big data or semantic meaning can help in a moment. First a few observations. As the Prof. Redlener, the NYT’s expert on disaster preparedness put it, “There are many, many problems that have been revealed by this single case.” This is a polite way for saying what at the Dallas hospital was a major screw-up that needlessly put lives in danger and unnecessarily forced additional people into a 21-day quarantine. We can talk about using semantic text technologies to prevent these kinds of hospital errors, or big data to improve traveler screening processes. At the end of the day, however, this is a type of error that the billing department at the Dallas hospital should have been able to catch. EbolaCare(TM) insurance “Where do we send this bill?” “Hmmm, address in Liberia. Looks like he has EbolaCare(TM), the national health plan of Liberia.”… Read the restOh send in the trolls. Oh where are the trolls? There aren’t any trolls….
Send in the trolls…. Oh where are the trolls…. (With apologies to Stephen Sondheim) Our Miley Cyrus SQL Server Hadoop article got trolled on Twitter today. And we thought ‘yes! Finally! A troll.’ Then it turned out he had no Twitter readership. We admit there was a problem with the article. We didn’t list the fact that some people think Miley Cyrus and using SQL Server together with Hadoop are both somewhat messed up. Mea culpa. (Also, we did not come down nearly hard enough on Microsoft. The article goes on endlessly with its tepid praise for SQL Server. If you can’t afford Oracle and need an top-of-line SQL solution it is actually quite a cost effective solution. If you can afford the risk of running Windows, that is. Mainly we attack MySQL. We thought that we’d at least get some MySQL fans trolling us. No, some random Microsoft type apparently thought their honor had been grievously offended with our insufficient praise of Redmond.)… Read the rest14 Surprising Ways Miley Cyrus is like SQL Server Hadoop Analytics
14 Ways Miley Cyrus is like SQL Server Hadoop Analytics?!?! Yup, you read that article title right. We’ve done past articles on how computers were now writing newspaper articles automatically. When we learned there was software to “auto-generate” blog content, we were exhilarated. We can just let software write this blog and hit the beach! Unfortunately, the software is only first-generation. It doesn’t actually write the blog article, just suggests a title. So, we asked this first-generation system for a computer-generated blog title for this article about Microsoft’s continuing embrace-and-extend gambit for generating Microsoft SQL Server licensing fees from Hadoop users. This is what the all-knowing automatic blog content generator came up with for a title. Apparently, the software has a thing for Miley Cyrus. You’re probably thinking, Miley Cyrus doesn’t seem to have a whole lot in common with SQL Server Hadoop Analytics. So… is it even possible for us or anyone to come up with … count ’em ….… Read the restRecent Posts
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