My address to 100 Orion Health employees who were embarking on a hackathon. My goal: to inspire them about their role in the future, and to point them in a positive direction.
An overview of of the BBC's work on exposing an API for programme metadata as presented at XTech08. More information on the Radio Labs blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/05/helping_machines_play_with_pro.shtml
Economic History of Esoteric Metals - Sykes et al - Sep 2014 - China Metals WeekJohn Sykes
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An Economic History of the Esoteric Metals Markets: Batteries, Electronics, Light Alloys, Antimony, China, Cheap Energy, Industrialization, Globalization and High Technology
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Economic History of Esoteric Metals - Sykes et al - Sep 2014 - China Metals WeekJohn Sykes
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An Economic History of the Esoteric Metals Markets: Batteries, Electronics, Light Alloys, Antimony, China, Cheap Energy, Industrialization, Globalization and High Technology
Lady Barbara Judge has an extremely broad and successful international career...Lady Barbara Judge
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Lady Barbara Judge has an extremely broad and successful international career in multiple public and private sectors, including law, finance and nuclear energy. She has made significant contributions working at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, for which, in 2010, she was awarded Commander of the British Empire in the Queenâs Birthday Honours. An outspoken proponent of nuclear energy, she gave an inspiring speech at Columbia University's Earth Institute that aimed to present the main developments and the importance of nuclear energy for our world. In her speech, she emphasized how energy is one of the worldâs most pressing concerns and, in particular, the question of whether we have enough energy to last us in the future. One of the main points made is that, right now, nuclear energy contributes 20% of the worldâs energy. What Lady Barbara Judge also emphasizes is that, at this moment in time, scientists have not yet found a way in which renewable energy can be efficiently stored or transported, meaning that alternative energy cannot be considered a replacement of nuclear power. In her speech, she notes that nuclear energy acts like a base load generator that has unlimited capacity and that generates energy at a pretty low cost, which does not have to fluctuate like in the case of oil and gas prices.
Lady Barbara Judge reflected on the various concerns which, for decades, have prevented people from accepting the potential of nuclear energy. As she points out, nuclear power remains a political issue, which needs to change if we want to learn how to use it in a smart and efficient way. The politics of the past can no longer dictate how nuclear energy is perceived by the general public. According to her, the press has an important role to play when it comes to changing the narrative around nuclear power. The media must be engaged in the process and understand the issues around nuclear energy in order for us to see a shift in the public perception of the nuclear sector.
As an Honorary Visiting Professor at several academic institutions, including Cass Business School, Lady Barbara Judge has emphasized the importance of providing comprehensive education to students by the revitalization of nuclear departments in universities. The successful operations of the future nuclear plants depends on providing the new generation with the right training and resources.
Presentation on open data to the Association for Local Government IT Managers in New Zealand, 23 Nov 2010. Covers examples of open data applications, and what they in local government IT can be doing.
I was asked to kick off a set of 7x7 talks for the National Library of New Zealand as they tried to figure out what the "National Digital Library" should be and do. I threw a few grenades in a provocative talk.
I wrote and presented this talk to the 2009 conference of Association of Local Government IT Managers (ALGIM) in November 2009. I attempted to move from specific examples of Gov 2.0 in action to a wider view of what it all means in the bigger picture.
Closing keynote at GOVIS 2009 by Nat Torkington. First part: a Web 2.0 hypemerchant social media consultant. Second part: a bozo manager. Third part: honest truths.
A talk at Webstock 2009 by Nat Torkington. "Join a master of failure on a whirlwind tour of science, computing, and business failures, and discover the secret weapon that is the strategic failure." is how I blurbed it, but the talk itself is more about learning. Watch it, you'll see.
Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloudgnat
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An introduction to privacy issues around cloud computing, with an eye to the ubiquitous computing future of the cloud. First given 20/11/2008 to the Privacy Forum in Auckland, NZ.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
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Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
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Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navyâs DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATOâs (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Lady Barbara Judge has an extremely broad and successful international career...Lady Barbara Judge
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Lady Barbara Judge has an extremely broad and successful international career in multiple public and private sectors, including law, finance and nuclear energy. She has made significant contributions working at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, for which, in 2010, she was awarded Commander of the British Empire in the Queenâs Birthday Honours. An outspoken proponent of nuclear energy, she gave an inspiring speech at Columbia University's Earth Institute that aimed to present the main developments and the importance of nuclear energy for our world. In her speech, she emphasized how energy is one of the worldâs most pressing concerns and, in particular, the question of whether we have enough energy to last us in the future. One of the main points made is that, right now, nuclear energy contributes 20% of the worldâs energy. What Lady Barbara Judge also emphasizes is that, at this moment in time, scientists have not yet found a way in which renewable energy can be efficiently stored or transported, meaning that alternative energy cannot be considered a replacement of nuclear power. In her speech, she notes that nuclear energy acts like a base load generator that has unlimited capacity and that generates energy at a pretty low cost, which does not have to fluctuate like in the case of oil and gas prices.
Lady Barbara Judge reflected on the various concerns which, for decades, have prevented people from accepting the potential of nuclear energy. As she points out, nuclear power remains a political issue, which needs to change if we want to learn how to use it in a smart and efficient way. The politics of the past can no longer dictate how nuclear energy is perceived by the general public. According to her, the press has an important role to play when it comes to changing the narrative around nuclear power. The media must be engaged in the process and understand the issues around nuclear energy in order for us to see a shift in the public perception of the nuclear sector.
As an Honorary Visiting Professor at several academic institutions, including Cass Business School, Lady Barbara Judge has emphasized the importance of providing comprehensive education to students by the revitalization of nuclear departments in universities. The successful operations of the future nuclear plants depends on providing the new generation with the right training and resources.
Presentation on open data to the Association for Local Government IT Managers in New Zealand, 23 Nov 2010. Covers examples of open data applications, and what they in local government IT can be doing.
I was asked to kick off a set of 7x7 talks for the National Library of New Zealand as they tried to figure out what the "National Digital Library" should be and do. I threw a few grenades in a provocative talk.
I wrote and presented this talk to the 2009 conference of Association of Local Government IT Managers (ALGIM) in November 2009. I attempted to move from specific examples of Gov 2.0 in action to a wider view of what it all means in the bigger picture.
Closing keynote at GOVIS 2009 by Nat Torkington. First part: a Web 2.0 hypemerchant social media consultant. Second part: a bozo manager. Third part: honest truths.
A talk at Webstock 2009 by Nat Torkington. "Join a master of failure on a whirlwind tour of science, computing, and business failures, and discover the secret weapon that is the strategic failure." is how I blurbed it, but the talk itself is more about learning. Watch it, you'll see.
Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the Cloudgnat
Â
An introduction to privacy issues around cloud computing, with an eye to the ubiquitous computing future of the cloud. First given 20/11/2008 to the Privacy Forum in Auckland, NZ.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Â
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
Â
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
Â
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Â
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Â
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navyâs DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATOâs (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
Â
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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Clients donât know what they donât know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clientsâ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
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Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges â from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
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This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
⢠Communication Mining Overview
⢠Why is it important?
⢠How can it help todayâs business and the benefits
⢠Phases in Communication Mining
⢠Demo on Platform overview
⢠Q/A
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. Whatâs changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
1. Time Out
Nat Torkington
nathan@torkington.com
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Hi folks, Iâm honoured to be asked to speak to you all as you kick off
your hackathon. Iâm also, I have to say, rather intimidated: I have an
hour. An HOUR! Iâm reasonably conďŹdent that thereâs no topic upon
which I need an hour to say all that I know or, more importantly, all that
you want to hear.
3. The Message
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
But there is something that I do want to tell you, and Iâll use however
much of this time I need to get my point across. And that is,
4. You will make the 21C better.
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
I donât know if you remember the ads for BASF. They were a German
chemical company, and when they advertised they talked about a whole
pile of things and said âwe donât make the things you use, we make
them better.â I think that everyone in this room has the spirit of BASF.
You wonât make the 21st century, but youâll make it better.
5. Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Iâm sure youâre all âno wait, hold up dude, whatever youâre selling, I
donât want it.â
Iâm not selling anything, I donât have a god I want to talk to you about,
and I canât make anyoneâs penis larger in ways that I want to talk about
on stage. Let me explain what I mean by âyou will make the 21st
century betterâ ...
6. Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The 21st century is the Information Age. Every website, book, and
magazine tells us so. What does this MEAN, this âInformation Ageâ?
7. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Industrial
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Historians like to look at, well, history. And they can spot a couple of
clear divisions in human society. It turns out that the technology we
have changes the society we live in.
8. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Industrial
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
When youâre banging sharp edges onto rocks to cut down trees, thereâs
a limit to the size and complexity of the society you can build. Despite
that, historians say the Stone Age rocks. Well, their bumper stickers say
that. Anyway.
9. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Industrial
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
When you start to use metal, then things take off for your civilization.
Bronze is pretty hard to get right, though: itâs an alloy of copper and tin,
harder than either of them, and ores of these arenât found together, and
you need an enclosed ďŹre (like for pottery) to get to the head where the
metal melts and comes out of the ore. Metals travelled huge distances
because they were useful, because societies found them useful enough
to transport thousands of kilometers. You could make weapons and
tools that were better than those available to stone and wood
manipulators. People were making swords, cups, shields, brooches, and
axes. They were growing their farms and making languages.
10. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Industrial
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Iron ore is more abundant than bronze and iron is even harder. But itâs
a bugger to make! You must get it super hot, add charcoal to get rid of
oxygen in the ore, then heat and bang and reheat and bang to get rid of
brittle impurities in the metal. Iâm astonished anyone ever ďŹgured it
out, but when they did it changed society again. The swords, cups,
jewelry, and whatnot that were rare enough to be signs of privilege
became ubiquitous. You could have big armies with swords and shields,
you could plough the earth, you could make nails and build ships and
explore the world. All this, of course, happened.
11. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Industrial
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The next age weâre told about is the industrial age, but thereâs no
government panel deciding the name of these things. The previous age
was all about the transformation of matter: chipping sharp bits off,
melting and casting and forging. But the industrial age doesnât add any
new techniques to manipulating matter so much as it was a new way of
transforming energy.
12. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Energy
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
So I like to think of it as the energy age. People took the heat from
burning things and, through the steam engine, turned it into mechanical
motion: things spinning, hitting, pumping. The steam engine was a
valuable invention in the decades after it was created, not because
everyone rushed off to invent steam electricity generators and steam
cars, but because it produced regular motion. One of the ďŹrst
commercial applications were pumping water out of mines, so you could
extract more coal and ore from them.
This transformation of energy got us machinery, standardized
components, mass production, city-wide electricity, national power
grids, tractors, automobiles, and all the other trappings of civilization.
And they changed life, every aspect of it. Iâm not talking about the
growth of cities--weâve had cities for thousands of years, and theyâve
always vacuumed people up. In Shakespeareâs day, more people died in
London than were born in it, and that was true for centuries as
immigration and disease fought it out.
Iâm talking about everything from what we did in a day to when we did
it: the idea of a standardized day only got started with the factory. If
you lived in the countryside and thereâs no clock but the sun, you
worked with the sun and maintain an individual schedule. If thereâs
electricity and clocks, you live on a non-biological schedule, and
millions had to adjust to this.
All because we learned to transform energy.
13. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Energy
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Well, now weâre in the age when we transform information. Computers,
directed by programmers, gather, manipulate, and extrude information
to be acted on. The great things of the next century, and the terrible
things, will be done by computers manipulating information.
14. Tuesday, 20 September 2011
I used to work for the computer book publisher OâReilly Media. We make
all the books with the animal covers, though rarely with titles as
awesome as this one. I wrote one, the Perl Cookbook, and on the
strength of that got a job as editor and then conference chair.
15. Unix
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Tim got his start on Unix and X Windows books. He was a classics
major, but got into the techwriting business and took to it like a duck to
water. [Greek story]
16. The Internet and the Web
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
In the early 90s ...
âInternet in a boxâ
ďŹrst advertising on the Internet
Congress
17. Open Source
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Programming Perl, which we published in '96. 1st edition was in 1991
was one of the top 100 books in any category in borders for all of 1996.
Started Perl Conference, which became Open Source Convention.
18. OâReillyâs Business Model
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
So then we started to ďŹgure out what OâReillyâs business model was. Itâs
not publishing books on random bits of technology. We ďŹgure out
whatâs going to be big in 18-24 months, then build things around those.
19. OâReillyâs Business Model
Clairvoyancy
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
This obviously qualiďŹes me to talk about the future to you, because I
successfully did it.
Tim and I built the Where 2.0 conference, about Internet mapping, at a
time when Mapquestâs static maps were the state of the art. We
announced in November and in February Google Maps launched. Win!
20. Information Age
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
So what Iâm going to do is point you at some interesting technology,
some tools and mindsets thatâll shape the 21st century.
But ďŹrst, you have to understand four basic principles.
22. Mooreâs Law
SHIT GETS BETTER
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
It turns out that Mooreâs Law is a crock of shit. Everyone thinks that
back when Dinosaurs ruled the computing center, Gordon Moore
(founder of Intel) said âholy shit, these things are doubling in speed
every 18 months!â. Or maybe he said that transistor numbers double
every 18 months. Or maybe he said that transistor density doubles every
18 months. Because what he says he said, and what people report he
said, and what people report has actually happened, changes
periodically as they revise the truth.
So I prefer to think of this as Mooreâs Law of General Relativity: shit gets
better year after year. And not just slowly better, exponentially better.
Technically speaking it ought to be dull stuff like the number of
components, but practically speaking it translates to a steady stunning
growth in the capability of computers and stunning drop in price of
equivalent computational power.
23. Shit doubles every 2 years
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
So what does it mean to say that your shit doubles in 18 months?
When my son was born, I was using a shiny new 300MHz Pentium and
Intel were just launching 100MHz mobile CPUs. Fast forward to today
when my laptop has 5.6GHz in it (two cores, though) and his phone has
a 1GHz ARM in it.
Mooreâs Law is what makes smartphones possible. For the longest time,
phones were very low CPU, stuck in the long slow start of exponential
growth. I knew weâd left the gutter when my Nokia had a C64 emulator
(âholy shit, weâre up to 1981 already!â) and itâs been up up and away
since then.
Itâs not just CPU speed, itâs storage (I had 300M back then, now I can
buy a terabyte for less than $100).
Mooreâs Law is hitting the limits of whatâs possible with current physical
techniques but weâre moving into new techniques and learning to work
with multiple cores.
Ben Hammersley said something profound:
24. âanything that is dismissed
on the grounds of the
technology-not-being-good-
enough-yet is going to
happenâ
âBen Hammersley
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Itâs like sciďŹ determinism: if you tell me something outrageous could
happen if only we had the computational power, I can tell you that it will
happen.
25. 2. End of scarcity
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Copies are free. Different from every other age.
Ending era of scarcity.
Breaking our copyright laws, all built around regulating copying and tied
up with the fundamental economics of copies.
26. 3. Connectivity changes
everything
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
bacon makes everything better. bacon or chocolate.
Internet is technology bacon
networks make client-server possible, which is (at its heart) âthe cloudâ
I wanted to say âimprovesâ but bad things always come with the good.
27. 4. People donât change
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Technology changes how we do it, but we are basically the same eating,
drinking, fornicating, reluctantly working, music-making, social
creatures. Weâve built new political structures, but everywhere itâs the
elites against the commoners. Some things just never change.
Facebook doesnât create the urge to stalk, to marry, to chat, to show off,
to waste time--those things have always been in us. Technology just
gives these drives a new outlet and a new shape.
No prediction that says weâll magically become better people because of
technology is going to come true.
28. Data
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The ďŹrst idea is data. It comes from the Enlightenment, exploring how
we know what we know given we could be tricked by our senses. So we
need to measure, and the modern world is full of metrics. We measure
so we can answer the question âwhat works?â When Amazon want to
know whether dancing penguins on the home page will lead to more
sales, they test: show a thousand people the dancing penguins and see
whether sales for those thousand are higher than for a thousand who
visited at the same time but didnât see the penguins. This is A/B testing,
something the web makes easy but which is almost impossible on the
old world of CD-distributed software or any other physical artifact.
29. Big Data
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
More particularly, though, the 21C will be characterised by LOTS of data.
We can capture far more information that we ever could before, and we
can use it because (thanks to Mooreâs Law) we have massive computation
in data centers. Google, Amazon EC2, and other virtualization are all
possible because Mooreâs Law has turned a CPU from an expensive
precious resource into a commodity. Googleâs MapReduce tool is now
available as an open source tool, Hadoop, for anyone to use.
My favourite stat is that, *last year*, logs from Twitter were *growing* at
12Tb a week last year. We can only analyze that volume of data with
massive computational power.
30. Sensor Networks
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Weâll also get data from sensors. At the moment we see things like Nike
+ (shoe + ipod to track your running), Botanicalls (plant tweets you to
say âwater meâ), GPS and similar smartphones (see Nathan Eagleâs MIT
research), and RFIDs (tracking locations and presence within an
environment).
This ties into the QuantiďŹed Self phenomenon. We are being measured,
studied, and tracked. There can be good as well as bad to this
measurement, so letâs use this information to improve ourselves. The
21st century will see huge amounts of data from and about us, gathered
by us for our own self-improvement.
(QuantiďŹed Self makes me think of Douglas Adamsâs invented planet
Bethselamin, where youâre weighed entering and leaving and differential
unaccounted for excretion is surgically removed from your body as you
go.)
31. Social Networks
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Activity and attention data are everywhere. Here itâs not for our own
use. Every company here is funded by advertising: âif you donât pay for
it, youâre the product not the customerâ. This explains Facebookâs
consistently decreasing approach to privacy.
Even when Facebook hasnât made a page public, âlikeâ or add an app,
and youâre giving the info to advertisers and other companies. Not just
companies, too: the US govt mine and monitor it actively. You might
think this is good or bad, but itâs happening.
Weâre putting our social networks online for good or bad, our network of
friendships and our communications. This is data for analysis, by good
or bad actors. The 21st century will see the apps built as a result of
this.
32. Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The old institutions of Media are changing, trying to ďŹnd dollars in
online world. This is a consequence of digitalâs ease of copying: the old
business model for journalism was to wrap it in crosswords and ads,
then slap onto dead trees and sell to the customer. Take away the ads
and the dead trees, and youâve not got nearly so much money to fund
journalists.
Clay Shirky: old institutions are destroyed before the new things come
along. 21C will see the old change, some die, and the new replacements
arrive. Theyâll be built by people familiar with software and what it can
do.
33. Crowdsourcing
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Computers canât do it all, though: crowdsourcing and the augmentation
of humans with computers is massive. Shirky says we have all this
cognitive surplus, spare brain time that we can now choose to deploy in
good ways.
Wikipedia: notable because thereâs an invisible culture which ensures
that revisions make the encyclopedia better: naming system, editors,
hierarchy, reviews, discussion. Itâs not perfect, but without it youâd have
the other blank space that everyone can write on: a toilet wall.
FoldIt: game based on protein folding. Itâs a tricky biological problem,
but one that you can turn into a game as addictive and simple as
minesweeper. Recently hit the news when an HIV-related protein which
had deďŹed analysis for years was folded by gamers in a matter of weeks,
yielding promising drug targets.
GalaxyZoo: telescopes generate terabytes of data taking photos of
space. Famous for Hannyâs Voorwerp. Hanny van Arkel is a
schoolteacher, Dutch, found a new thing. âVoorwerpâ=âthingyâ. Turned
out to be something unknown to science, about the size of our Milky
Way, sheâs now an author on a paper. AND more have been found.
21C wonât be just about software, itâll be about software and humans
working together.
34. Biology
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
One of the big promises of all this computational and storage excess
has been computational biology. Central dogma of biology: DNA to RNA
to proteins. Original conception is that itâs a computer program, so letâs
reverse engineer it. Race to human genome: 725M or 1 CD raw, but
people compress to 4M. 2.9B base pairs, 23k protein-coding genes.
Turns out itâs more like an operating system, interacting, with services.
Need shitloads of data to ďŹnd correlations and track back. C. elegans =
100M base pair, 20k genes.
23 and Me with surveys, for example. Unclear that this model is right,
though: disproving the neat hypothesis may be the best contribution.
Complex systems everywhere, chaotic systems.
Evolutionary algorithms: antenna design that wonât compromise a
patent.
35. Security
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Iâm not a technological utopian: technology is, and people use it for
good and bad ends.
No such thing as absolute security, so can only talk about your posture:
what youâre ignoring, what youâre defending against.
Every new technology will face attacks and be twisted in new ways to
bad ends.
âEvery complex system has parasitesâ
Horrors committed: join the Risks Digest, read Bruce Schneier.
Privacy, destruction, control, cyberwarfare are all things to worry about
here.
Also powered by Mooreâs Law: breaking passwords ridiculously easy
compared to a decade ago.
36. Work is of two kinds: ďŹrst, altering the
position of matter at or near the earth's
surface relatively to other such matter;
second, telling other people to do so.
The ďŹrst kind is unpleasant and ill paid;
the second is pleasant and highly paid.
âBertrand Russell
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Russell knew all about avoiding matter relocation, he was a philosopher
and mathematician, two jobs famed for their lack of heavy lifting.
37. Makers
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
We havenât left physical behind: we still build countertops from stone,
statues from bronze, nails from iron, and machines to transform energy.
But the information we manipulate can inform and control the
movement of matter. The software guys are moving into hardware.
This is an artiďŹcial muscle made in Auckland at the Bioengineering Lab.
Hacked Prius: braking, fuel efficiency, safety. Team in NZ working on
electric car, open source drive train. Ian Wright, former Cisco, Tesla,
own car, funded.
DIY quadracopter. DIY Drones. Military, billions, hundreds, home.
Hardware is becoming a matter of software.
38. Startups
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
One of the things people are creating are startups
More fun to work for yourself than for someone else
Large companies have large barriers to creativity
Innovatorâs Dilemma
Lean Startup: hardest part is ďŹnding the customer, use data to tell you
when youâve got it right
Startups important for New Zealand
39. Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Sir Paul Callaghan, New Zealander of the Year
Everything he talks about is powered by software: milk powder auction.
Tourism wonât make a better country. Food manufacturing wonât make a
better country. We need tech heavy 21st-century startups.
40. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Energy
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
So, letâs bring this home. Weâve got these ages.
41. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Energy
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Youâve got the Stone Age of cavemen who learned to farm.
42. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Energy
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Youâve got Bronze Age people who made Stonehenge-like sites, and
ďŹnished Stonehenge.
43. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Energy
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The Romans conquered the world with iron, conquered and civilized.
44. Stone
Bronze
Iron
Energy
Information
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The Victorians did amazing stuff with the transformation of energy:
railroads, the tunnel, Londonâs sewers.
But whoâs the icon for the Information age?
45. Tuesday, 20 September 2011
At the moment itâs BIll Gates. But thatâs just an artifact of todayâs news.
Soon heâll be a name, like the Rockefellers, and nobody will be too sure
what he did or when he did it (was Rockefeller oil, railroads, property, or
stocks?)
46. Tuesday, 20 September 2011
The power to change the 21st century for the better is in your hands.
You are a programmer, you make computer programmes, you can build
the things that shape the 21st century.
Will they be tools of exploitation and oppression?
47. Do stuff that matters
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Work on things that will make the world better. Work on healthcare, on
education. Help parents be better parents, help keep government honest
and help governments to govern more wisely.
48. The best minds of my
generation are thinking
about how to make people
click ads.
âJeff Hammerbacher
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
This is so true. Donât join the waste of brainpower and potential.
49. The Future
If computation can make it happen, it will happen
End of scarcity
Connectivity is key
People Donât Change
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
So, to recap: the 21st century will be shaped by these forces and by you.
50. Do stuff that matters
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
You wield the power of the 21st century. You, programmers, will build
the things that change our world. Build things that make life better, not
for advertisers but for ourselves. Go build something thatâll make your
great-grandchildren proud.
51. Do stuff that matters
Nat Torkington
nathan@torkington.com
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Thank you.