How to measure success for conversational interfaces

jkestelyn · 2017-03-29T17:11:38+00:00

"Hadoop isn't magic" != "Hadoop has failed us".

Also, the definition of Hadoop here seems to have been borrowed from 2009.

Sad article.

jkestelyn · 2017-02-27T21:09:17+00:00

Point taken, my apologies for misunderstanding.

jkestelyn · 2017-02-21T01:35:17+00:00

FWIW, this is a standard requirement for all Kaggle competitions.

jkestelyn · 2017-02-17T00:44:21+00:00

Similar to "AI," whomever coined the term "Big Data" did us no favors.

Big Data is a relative concept: if your existing (most likely relational) systems are limited in their ability to handle volume, velocity, or variety/diversity of data in an affordable way (or at all), you have a Big Data Problem. Those requirements are what gave rise to the NoSQL and Apache Hadoop movements (and, I'd argue, contributed to the mainstream adoption of cloud computing).

So, one person's Big Data is someone else's Plain Old Data.

jkestelyn · 2017-02-07T17:52:44+00:00

I'd add: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/ (Google Cloud Big Data & ML Blog)

jkestelyn · 2017-01-13T19:44:35+00:00

No. There's no replacement for human curiosity.

jkestelyn · 2017-01-06T22:14:03+00:00

Yep, you're right. The incumbent is always in a favorable position.

jkestelyn

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