Mind-NOX | data http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress the faceblog Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:13:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha Metric Mania http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/metric-mania http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/metric-mania#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 13:59:49 +0000 face http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/?p=1768

the problem of reasonable aggregation is no idle matter
via The Way We Live Now – Metric Mania – NYTimes.com. the “extreme and hypothetical” illustration is quite good.

]]> http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/metric-mania/feed 0 WhirCat http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/whircat http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/whircat#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 16:25:35 +0000 face http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/?p=1228 I got tired of trying to choose between UDAP and Rdb Notes for keeping track of work-related things.

Welcome to WhirCat

]]> http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/whircat/feed 0 Self-guarding storage http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/self-guarding-storage http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/self-guarding-storage#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:05:31 +0000 face http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/?p=1200 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 .

]]> http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/self-guarding-storage/feed 0 The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/the-end-of-theory-the-data-deluge-makes-the-scientific-method-obsolete http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/the-end-of-theory-the-data-deluge-makes-the-scientific-method-obsolete#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:23:04 +0000 face http://face.centosprime.com/wordpress/the-end-of-theory-the-data-deluge-makes-the-scientific-method-obsolete 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.
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