by Robin Harris | Monday, January 18, 2016 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Dial-a-climate People are often surprised to learn that it snows in Arizona. While much of state is low Sonoran desert – it rarely gets below freezing in Phoenix – altitude is the primary determinant of climate in Arizona. That’s why it can be...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 18, 2016 | Off-Topic |
In Economic Inequality, Paul Graham – of Ycombinator fame – posted an astonishingly naive essay on income inequality. While many others have written take-downs (see here and here, of Mr. Graham’s factual and logical flaws, there’s another that...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, January 13, 2016 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
If, like me, you’re interested in AI and deep learning, you’ll like this. Neural networks are all the rage in AI, but there is a newer technology – Gödel machines – that is now a standard part of the AI toolset. What is a Gödel machine? From...
by Robin Harris | Monday, January 4, 2016 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech, Marketing, Object storage |
IDC’s Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Market for Q3 2015 had some interesting results. The thumbnail is the title of this post. But there are a couple more details. ODM vendors – who sell direct to the hyperscale data center customers – had the...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, January 3, 2016 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
I was under the weather for much of November and taking it slow in December. But for the new year I took a couple of short hikes of 2-3 miles. On the 31st I parked on Chapel Road and walked the Chapel Trail. The spires in this picture are the Two Nuns. The Chapel in...
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