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WhirCat

5/1/2009 in General by face | No comments

I got tired of trying to choose between UDAP and Rdb Notes for keeping track of work-related things.

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Self-guarding storage

2/19/2009 in General by face | No comments

Executable code and supporting data that doesn’t change often, along with software and data that has an operational impact when inadvertently or maliciously altered, should be stored on media that is read-only or volatile (reverts to a known stable image on reboot).

via Self-guarding storage for ultimate server security |Ahead of the Curve | Tom Yager | InfoWorld .

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

6/25/2008 in General by face | No comments

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”
So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don’t have to settle for wrong models. Indeed, they don’t have to settle for models at all.