Category Archives: alchemy

“Pelosi won, Trump lost”

Posted on 25 January 2019 by ecoquant

From Alex Wagner, contributing editor at The Atlantic and CBS News correspondent. Excerpt from “Pelosi won, Trump Lost“: “Nancy’s Prerogative” might be the name of an Irish bar, but in this case it signaled the waving of the presidential white … Continue reading →

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`On a piece of chalk` (Thomas Huxley)

Posted on 29 November 2017 by ecoquant

If a well were sunk at our feet in the midst of the city of Norwich, the diggers would very soon find themselves at work in that white substance almost too soft to be called rock, with which we are … Continue reading →

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“Hadoop is NOT ‘Big Data’ is NOT Analytics”

Posted on 8 April 2017 by ecoquant

Arun Krishnan, CEO & Founder at  Analytical Sciences comments on this serious problem with the field. Short excerpt: … A person who is able to write code using Hadoop and the associated frameworks is not necessarily someone who can understand … Continue reading →

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