Posted in Musing, Technology, tagged abstraction, engineer, quote, science on 12 October 2011| 1 Comment »
In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state.
Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Posted in Musing, tagged change, philosophy on 31 August 2011| Leave a Comment »
Don’t be afraid of big changes, but beware small ones.
Posted in Musing, tagged disappointment, expexctation, philosophy on 22 June 2011| Leave a Comment »
Recipe for disappointment.
Posted in Fun, Musing, PhD, tagged big data, data mining, grok on 18 June 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Musing, Technology, tagged computer, intelligence, quote on 16 April 2011| Leave a Comment »
Il computer non è una macchina intelligente che aiuta le persone stupide, anzi è una macchina stupida che funziona solo nelle mani delle persone intelligenti.
(A computer is not an intelligent machine which helps stupid people, rather it’s a stupid machine that only works in the hands of intelligent people.)
Umberto Eco
Posted in Musing, Technology, tagged Facebook, Google, privacy on 6 April 2011| Leave a Comment »
Are you really aware of the price you are paying for Web commodities?
So I can only imagine the reaction in the boardrooms of those traditional firms when Facebook and Google built their Psychographic Marketing Honeypots and disguised them as a social network and a search engine. “All that data we’ve worked so hard to source! Merde! People just sit there all day giving it to them!”
The world has changed though, hasn’t it? We have entered the Matrix, but it’s not our body heat they want. They want the preference model encoded in our amygdala and a list of all the people that might influence that model tomorrow.
You can read the whole post here at O’Reilly Radar: Amygdala FarmVille.
Posted in Musing, tagged assumptions, choice, kindness, people on 14 March 2011| Leave a Comment »
If, out of kindness, I do something for you once,
you should not automatically assume I will do it every time you want or need it.
It’s my own darn choice!
Posted in Musing, tagged economy, growth, mad, quote on 1 February 2011| Leave a Comment »
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever
in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
Kenneth Boulding
Posted in Musing, tagged philosophy, tradition on 9 December 2010| Leave a Comment »
Traditions = Wisdom – Understanding
Posted in Musing, tagged doubt, problem on 1 November 2010| Leave a Comment »
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts
Kenkyuu 