The Week Was Awesome 7 Sep
I’ll level with you. Things aren’t always awesome. But even when they’re not, you can count on me to awesome with you. In the words of John Lennon: “Don’t you know it’s gonna be… alright!”
1. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble (extra points to whoever can finish this quote)
Big data and analytics, boy do I have something for you! Check out how online conversations are being polarized on this twitter map!
My question: By using AI and algorithms to analyze our personalities, views, who we follow etc and serving up more of what we want, will this create two completely separate groups, thus completely polarizing the internet?
Or is there some way AI can help bridge and bring people together?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611807/this-is-what-filter-bubbles-actually-look-like/
2. What’s New with Big Blue: Absolute Power
Complex modelling? Piece of cake. Machine learning? Bring it on. The latest IBM Power Servers give you more raw power than ever before!!!
3. IoT in the Sky-OT
IoT and industry 4.0 seem almost magical. Teeny tiny devices sending information that is crunched by super computers to derive insight. But have you ever stopped to think how fragile the underlying infrastructure is? Almost everything hinges on one single, dated piece of technology: GPS.
4. Tales from the Crypto
Has crypto finally gone mainstream? Enter the Petro: The first state-sanctioned blockchain based crypto currency. Except that there are concerns that the Petro runs counter to how a blockchain is supposed to run...
https://futurism.com/venezuela-cryptocurrency-petro-blockchain/
5. What Kenvi learned this week: Old but Gold
While admiring my collection of solid gold bars the other day (as you do), I happened to scratch one with my fingernail, and long story short: Can you guess which is harder? Fingernails or gold?
Gold Mohs hardness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardness
Fingernail Mohs hardness: https://www.oakton.edu/user/4/billtong/eas100lab/hardness.htm
Someone told me I was just average. I said that’s mean.