In Memoriam / On the Shoulders of Giants
Any passing is an opportunity for reflection, and when an individual of great portent passes this reflection runs deep indeed. My son will not know…
MFM @ Scale
Is indefinite scaling possible? These guys seem to think so: Pursue robust indefinite scalability with the Movable Feast Machine.
Type 1A Supernovae
An interesting paper, It’s Time for Low Latency, was just published by some smart folks over at Stanford University. In this paper the authors state…
AWS vs. Azure
Gigaom has posted an interesting article where two startup tech guys — Craig Knighton of LiquidSpace and Zach Richardson of Ravel Data — lay out…
We Create the Light
an echo remembrance the transient brought forth structure rethought what do i want? what can i affect? what can i give? positive education! we create…
Stanford AI
Stanford University is offering a free online Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class: https://www.udacity.com/ It will be headed up by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig. Norvig…
Wave After Wave
My wife and I decided early on Friday to voluntarily evacuate Hoboken in advance of Irene’s NYC arrival. Even though this event (still ongoing) isn’t…
Spastic Elastic
This is an interesting read: Amazon’s Post-Mortem on the 7/8 August 2011 EU West “Service Event”. There also is an interesting sidebar about it on…
ELM
My son, Eli Louis Mariano, was born Friday, 5 August 2011 at 4:45 ET. 7 pounds, 0 ounces and 19 inches tall. Speechless.
Army of the 12 Monkeys?
Netflix is a pretty big operation and they do some serious up-front testing and hardening of their systems which you can read about here: The…
Archived Mix Sets
These are a couple of my DJ sets from a while back – please enjoy: Chappa’ai Visual Flight
More Scale
CERN ATLAS produces up to 320M bytes per second, followed by CMS with 220M Bps and has an open source hardware effort. Amazon Cloud Now…