Complete defeat of Japanese IT cloud industry forces university students to cope with the situation to a different direction: to be enrolled in an application service provider which uses US clouds such as AWS and Azure. The author argues the reason to have become a loser was that Japanese computer engineers could not persuade their superiors who graduated from authentic electric/electronic departments. They usually look down computer engineers in terms of basic math. and physics ability, but do not know what consistent-hashing technology is, for example. On the other hand, computer engineers in oldest stratum aged around sixty-years old at most, assumingly could not cause their bosses (management) to launch new cloud project …
This document discusses spurious correlations, where unrelated statistical variables show a relationship simply by chance rather than any causal connection. It notes that the website http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations collects many examples of spurious correlations found in large data sets, such as the correlation between per capita cheese consumption and number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets.