Month: June 2016

There are 3 kinds of people on social media. People who make comments, People who share content, and people who stay silent.

Out of the people who share ,they are 2 types of people, people who want to promote their professional interests, and people who want to share personal stories.

People who share get better responses than people who promote.

There are 2 types of people who make comments. One who say they like content because they do, and the other who say they dislike.

I just wish the negative commenters learn to speak less, and the people who are silent on social media speak more

 

from

http://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6153903470568099841

and

https://infograph.venngage.com/p/123961/social-media_new

The continued inability of American led IC to decrypt , intercept and predict extreme events associated with the assholes known as ISIS- leads one to wonder if Big Data,  Data Science and Complex Event Processing can ever come in time to easy to use interfaces. Analysts are currently on overworked scrambled mode, and so are law enforcement while sleeper agents of ISIS sleep.

The targeted events of California (Pakistani Shooter), Paris (ISIS bombers-shooters), Belgium (continued) and Orlando (Afghan origin shooter) suggest terrorism communication has evolved or are using freelance agents from multiple sources. While Communist Russia used to provide freelance advice to terrorism in the past, and Pakistanis have been master in low intensity terror led assymetric warfare, one can only shudder if Intelligence can evolve in time as Terror. or Does Eisenhower’s famous remark on the military industrial complex suggest- USA needs another Nobel PEace Prize winner and a war to justify it

Will the 5 eyes ( America , Canada, Australia, UK, et al) ever take help from the rest of the free world. Or is Presidential ego in building a bigger library bigger than the need for a clean Olympics

Complex event processing, or CEP, is event processing that combines data from multiple sources to infer events or patterns that suggest more complicated circumstances. The goal of complex event processing is to identify meaningful events (such as opportunities or threats) and respond to them as quickly as possible.

Related- Time Series Analysis of Complex Events and Signal/Noise Ratio Evolution

The Battle of Badr On 17 Ramadan

https://www.facebook.com/notes/maktab-channel/the-battle-of-badr-on-17-ramadan/239795319392896/

I was asked to be a replacement judge for The FinTech City that Never Sleeps hackathon! This two day hackathon took place on Friday to Saturday in New York . It was brought by a startup accelator Startupbootcamp FinTech New York (@sbcFinTech) and sponsored by Byte Academy

 (Blogger conflict of interest disclaimer- I briefly advised one of the startups at Startupbootcamp for two weeks in data science and I gave a couple of free talks at meetups organized by Byte Academy)

Overall the theme of this hackathon was how to use innovation in technology for the biggest industry in New York (finance). Ergo the curious but rather catchy term fintech. Technology in Finance! Wall Street for the good of main street! One curious and common refrain was how millennials trust their mobile and Uber more than Banks or financial advisors.

My observations were- engineering talent in New York continues to lag behind California. Access to both money and design  makes New York a serious contender for usurping Silicon Valley’s mountain glory.

A serious advantage New York has over California is water. A serious advantage California has over New York is the sunlight.

The hacking kids in this hackathon were bright and innovative. Hacking is both a social experiment as well as practical need to think and innovate in stagnant industries like Finance, Fashion , Theatre, Social Empowerment and Entertainment. A healthy dose of reality shall ensure hackathons become the new more productive passtime of the children of America.  Star Trek Next Generation!

This one man team /guy won the best technical award and took all his prizes.

The judges pose

These guys (ideal karma !) won the overall hackathon

 

For details see http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fintech-city-that-never-sleeps-hackathon-tickets-25550744966 or more tweets me at https://twitter.com/holydatascience

 

I really enjoyed judging the hackthon in New York, which ironically is still my favourite city because of the libraries, trees and well pretty people besides the lovely Hudson in the summer.  It was nice to be back in New York since 2009 when I came over for the first Big Data meeting ( by AsterData later acquired by Teradata).

Afterthought- What is built by a human can be and should be hacked by another human. That is the only way we are going to be continuously improving as a species and as one world. Hacking is important to simplify a complex world where resources are precious and the costs of error huge #hackforchange