by Robin Harris | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 | Marketing |
I spent years working closely with engineers at DEC, Sun and other companies – and I always felt a bit sorry for them. They’d get flayed for every decommit and slip. They’d sweat blood figuring out solutions to hundreds of subtle problems. Then,...
by Robin Harris | Friday, February 12, 2016 | Enterprise, Marketing |
A few weeks ago Nimble Storage CEO Suresh Vasudevan flagged EMC’s aggressive sales tactics as a key problem for Nimble’s enterprise penetration. We can now put a number on how much this is costing EMC. For the full year, EMC’s Information Storage...
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...
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