Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book
Items
I happen to view each day. Science, Techonology, Management, Culture,
and of course Writing
This is my day book for this week. I have modeled this after science
fiction and computer writer Jerry Pournelle's view, or as he calls it,
his Day Book.
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This
week: September 26-October 2, 2016
Summary of this week:
- Arnold Palmer dies at 87
- Lenovo lays off more Motorola employees
- Google makes a leap in language translation
- Tech giants form the Partnership on AI
- Google has several announcements about its cloud computing services
Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Monday September 26, 2016
Arnold Palmer dies at 87. There are many stories about him on the Internet.
"Hence
the challenge--because when we start to treat things of significance as
if they're a spectator sport, we all lose."—Seth Godin
Photo of the year: we want our picture. Forget the presidential candidate.
How Apple and IBM work to create mobile apps for businesses.
Free speech? Facts? California passes a law that requires sites to remove the date of birth of celebrities.
Krebs on Security hit with DDoS attack so bad that only Google can shield it.
A look inside commerical passenger flying. It can be ugly, but it doesn't need to be.
Forget driverless cars. We'll see driverless trucks first, and then we'll see the unemployed.
ITT Technical Institute's malpractice. Where were all the reviewers during the past 50 years?
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Tuesday September 27, 2016
The praises continue to rain in for the Snap Spectacles.
Windows 10 is now running on 400million devices.
Disney is now the leader in the who-will-buy-Twitter speculation.
Google releases YouTube Go—it has features no one in America will use, but emerging market place will.
Too bad if you used to work for Motorola as Lenovo just laid you off.
Our government is suing one of our government's data analytics contractors (Palantir).
Microsoft claims to make the Edge browser a virtual computer giving greater security to your computer.
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Wednesday September 28, 2016
Strong rumors that Facebook at Work will be released real soon now.
IBM enters the machine learning toolkit market with DataWorks.
Google makes a jump in performance in its language translation. They had a big jump in Chinese-English.
Google to put WIFi on busses starting in India.
Microsoft is boosting its data center performance with FPGAs.
Hofstra hosted the Hillary-Trump gathering and gouged everyone with WiFi fees. FCC now investigates.
Aetna health insurance will buy you an Apple Watch. No, it isn't free—you have paid for it.
Elon Musk made a big speech about going to Mars and all that. Perhaps something will come of this.
Searchable Log of All Conversations and Knowledge. Pretty good idea.
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Thursday September 29, 2016
Some HP offices in Silicon Valley have become museums as a tribute to the past. Great stuff.
This Commodore 64 computer is still working and is used in an auto shop in Poland. Don't mess with what works.
The Internet of Things becomes the vehicle for unprecedented DDoS attacks.
Blackberry loses $372million and decides to stop making its own hardware. Just put a logo on something.
The post-nation world of conglomerate rule: Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, IBM and Microsoft for a Partnership on AI. Who cares who "wins" the next election. The politicians are irrelevant.
Apple to move 1,400 employees into a new London headquarters. Brexit? Job loss?
Apple brings in Deloitte to help it push into large enterprises.
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Friday September 30, 2016
More health care companies are pulling out of Obamacare exchanges. They house of cards is collapsing.
Google Apps for Work become G Suite and has more intelligent assitance for us users.
All these computers speaking and understanding speech are speeding the loss of speech accents.
Estimations of the compute power to run Pokemon Go were woefully short.
Microsoft re-organizes all its AI research into one division.
Sales of luxury underground bunkers to the 1% are booming.
Google releases YouTube-8M. A labeled dataset of videos so that anyone can do research in video classification.
Google announces eight new Google Cloud Regions.
And Google gives a new name for the umbrella of all its cloud computing: Google Cloud. No very original, but...
Amazon announces a multi-million $$$ prize for having its Alexa chat for 20 minutes.
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Saturday October 1, 2016
Views of the Apple spaceship campus construction. It is the Pentagon with rounded corners.
Our
NASA has to pay the Russians more $$$ for trips to orbit as schedule
foulups continue. We may be able to put a person in space by the end of
this decade.
How the Germans are using technology to help refugees find homes and lives.
Google Glass, augmenting reality, and doctor visits. Finally, someone gets it.
The Rosetta probe soft lands on a comet to end its 12-year mission.
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Sunday October 2, 2016
Our DHS tells various states that hackers are hacking the election. How about using "dumb" systems that can't be hacked?
Pennsylvania uses Windows XP to run its elections.
That is easily hacked. You don't have to hack the election. You just
have to make voters think you hacked the election. FUD attacks are
better than real ones.
We have now officially handed the Internet's address book to ICANN.
Alternatives to TED talks. They seem to be though provoking, and that isn't a bad thing these days.
Cobalt—essential to smartphones—comes from dirty mines run by sometimes corrupt people.
The fantasy of the Author Life. I guess someone out there actually lived this at some time.
And some more tips on how to be more productive. Be ready, be rested, be organized.
Some tools to help the writer read more efficiently.
Frustration, passion, hope, and their role in candor in writing.
The five-hour a week rule: Read, reflect, experiment.
Writers: “The number one most important thing is knowing why you are doing what you are doing.”
Some places to look for writer grants.
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