[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Dave Froble]

On 8/19/2018 8:20 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 08/19/2018 03:09 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
>>> via Info-vax
>>> Sent: August 19, 2018 2:30 PM
>>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>>> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
>>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications
>>> book ?
>>>
>>> On 8/19/2018 9:34 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, August 19, 2018 at 12:15:53 AM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>>> On 8/18/2018 11:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/18/2018 1:13 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>>>>> Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody
>>>>>>> really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing
>>>>>>> it, so everyone claims they are doing it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---Dan Ariely
>>>>>> Big data is being used.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Intelligence agencies, social media, retail, health care, election
>>>>>> campaigns, science, sports etc..
>>>
>>>>> Don't have a clue what "big data" actually is.  Now, if it's the
>>>>> social media junk, I think calling it "data" is sort of a stretch ...
>>>>
>>>> Many in our industry don't know what it means but it is something that
>>> started in 2003 when Google published an ACM paper describing GFS (the
>>> Google File System) which later morphed into Hadoop and other stuff. Big
>>> Data really exploded in 2007 but, according to some, the financial
>>> meltdown
>>> of 2007-2008 obscured this paradigm shift.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, here is my point-form explanation for whatever its worth
>>>>
>>>> http://neilrieck.net/docs/technological_change.html#epiphany11
>>>
>>> There are a couple of perspectives:
>>>
>>> data science perspective - what data are there and what business
>>> value an
>>> they provide
>>>
>>> IT perspective - how the fuck do we store and search all that data
>>>
>>> Due to our background we may find the second more interesting.
>>>
>>> But it is actually the first that is most important - if there is
>>> money to be made
>>> crunching PB of data, then the IT guys will find a technical way to
>>> crunch PB of
>>> data.
>>>
>>> Arne
>>>
>>
>> <https://www.lifewire.com/what-exactly-is-big-data-4051020>
>> " 50% to 80% of big data work is converting and cleaning the
>> information so that is searchable and sortable. Only a few thousand
>> experts on our planet fully know how to do this data cleanup."
>>
>> Like the large data warehouses of the past,  garbage in, garbage out.
>> If the data is not cleaned up, then it will produce crappy and/or
>> inaccurate results.
>>
>
> And even if it is cleaned up it may still be garbage, but I am
> sure they will find someone to pay for the results gathered by
> sorting and searching the garbage.
>
> bill

Dumpster diving ?????????

Hey, at power plants, a friend pulled out some nice sheets of aluminum 
and stainless steel.