Do-Ho Suh - Home within Home (2011) - Photosensitive resin
My whimsy
Well not my whimsey, my good friend Sheryl Camp’s Whimsey .. I dont think you can have enough of it,
cut lines.
The AP’s Twitter account was hijacked and used to post the following: “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured.” Within a few moments, the stock market took a 1% nosedive, before returning to the norm when it became apparent the account was fake.
A few thoughts and questions:
- Are automated bidders using natural language analysis now? Is some cobbled together sentiment engine marking a tweet from a (usually) trusted source as negative, triggering a precise sale? If so, will we see a rise in noise bots, creating a shadow news economy to screw with competitive holdings?
- Look how liquid the market is: within a couple minutes 1% was gone.
- People are making real business decisions from Twitter. (This blip will likely figure into countless social media presentations for years to come.)
- What will we legislate first: news speed or market speed?
Thoughts? (Via The Atlantic Wire)
(via marksbirch)
THE problem with human-resource managers is that they are human. They have biases; they make mistakes. But with better tools, they can make better hiring decisions, say advocates of “big data”. Software that crunches piles of information can spot things that may not be apparent to the naked eye. In the case of hiring American workers who toil by the hour, number-crunching has uncovered some surprising correlations.
For instance, people who fill out online job applications using browsers that did not come with the computer (such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on a Windows PC) but had to be deliberately installed (like Firefox or Google’s Chrome) perform better and change jobs less often.
It could just be coincidence, but some analysts think that people who bother to install a new browser may be the sort who take the time to reach informed decisions. Such people should be better employees. Evolv, a company that monitors recruitment and workplace data, pored over nearly 3m data points from more than 30,000 employees to find this nugget.How long before highered admissions start using similar methods?
photo via flickr:CC | IntelFreePress
Network When people talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), the most common examples are smart cars, IP-addressable washing machines and Internet-connected nanny cams.
But IoT is coming to the enterprise as well, and IT execs should already be thinking about the ways that IoT will shake up the corporate network.
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“Products and services which were previously outside their domain will increasingly be under their jurisdiction,” says Daniel Castro, senior analyst with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington-based research and educational institute.
So, what are these devices?
Castro says that companies increasingly will be operating in “smart buildings” with advanced HVAC systems that are connected to the rest of the corporate network.
Many utility companies will be deploying Web-connected smart meters at customers’ facilities to allow for remote monitoring.
Companies are tying their physical security to their network security, so that data from security cameras and authentication readers are coming under the purview of enterprise IT.
Retailers such as WalMart, Target and Best Buy already use RFID and other tracking technologies to manage supply chain logistics, says IDC’s Michael Fauscette. IoT is a natural next step.
Then there’s “operational technology,” where enterprise assets such as manufacturing equipment, fleet trucks, rail cars, even patient monitoring equipment in hospitals, become networked devices, says Hung LeHong, research vice president at Gartner.
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Shanley Kane:
Make no fucking mistake that you occupy your cushy tech salary, your mid-level management job, your paltry access to power by permission of the patriarchy. It is a deal with the devil. They will pay you, and let you make small career advances, in exchange for acting more like a poster child than a revolutionary, more like a mother than a peer, more like a secretary than a boss. In exchange for you shutting the fuck up, in exchange for you being content with your cute women-in-technology dinners, in exchange for your affirmative-action speaking slots, in exchange for you focusing more on “community building” than burning shit down. In exchange, in exchange, in exchange.
Recognize these small concessions are just Trojan horses, wheeling feminist submission into the great city of our revolution under the guise of advancement. It is hard to renounce the few material demonstrations we have, that prove we are the equal of our oppressors. But we must rise above.
Oh wow ..edgy .. throw a few expletives and insults around and you begin to sound like a true revolutionary. Get a life
How a single-node cluster recovers from hardware failure.
BWAHAHA!
Net Migration Between California and Other States: 1955-1960 and 1995-2000, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Looks a little like cherry picking the dates ..Just saying
how about something a little more current ?
Guangzhou Opera House by Zaha Hadid,
photos by trevor.patt via ADDoA
(Source: ryanpanos)
Science Day in India, posting whole series of Scientists, their inventions or discoveries.
Oh clever.
