Linear Regression Is Better Than Machine Learning
It’s not AI/ML, it’s three linear regressions in a trench coat. Read More
It’s not AI/ML, it’s three linear regressions in a trench coat. Read More
Attention all technology people! The word you want is “premises”. Not “premise“. Words have meanings! “On premise deployment”, means something like “assuming some other unstated assertion is true, we should put our hardware here”. You’re making where you put hardware conditional. It’s not as if we need any more jargon… Read More
Nutanix had a bit of a rough start to their presentation. They were asked to provide a bit of background on the company, which is fine, but the main issue I had was with the length. My impression was that Greg Smith didn’t understand his audience well enough, or maybe… Read More
Veeam, like Nutanix, are Tech Field Day veterans, so I expect a smooth presentation. I’ve heard a bit about Veeam for some years now, though not in great detail. What I heard was generally glowing praise for its capabilities in backing up VMware environments. Unencumbered by issues of backwards-compatibility, or… Read More
As I mentioned in the update to my last Commvault post, I found some extra public financial data after I’d finished writing that post. It sheds some additional light on the company that helps to test what I wrote last time. Here’s the DuPont breakdown for financial years 2006 to… Read More
Earlier today, the following tweet was sent from the @ABCReligion account on Twitter: Here is the ABC’s Editorial Policy for Social Media: http://about.abc.net.au/reports-publications/use-of-social-media-policy/ Here is the text of the complaint I lodged with the ABC: I feel the tweet sent by @ABCReligion: “Hmm, just tuned in to #QT to catch… Read More
I have a theory about IT people, related to Not Invented Here syndrome. It’s Thrill Of Discovery syndrome, or TODS. TODS is a product of ignorance. Unlike Not Invented Here, where solutions from elsewhere are actively rejected simply by virtue of being Not Invented Here, TODS occurs because people remain… Read More
Get hold of a personal finance program of some sort. I use GNUcash, but it’s probably a bit industrial for the casual user who doesn’t know accounting. There are a bunch of online ones like mint.com. Get out all your bank statements for the last financial year. Enter them all… Read More
The SNIA BlogFest 2 event has brought some important issues for IT infrastructure into sharp relief. Internal IT, at least as we have come to know it, is doomed. What will emerge from the wreckage will be an entirely different beast. There will be a great deal of collateral damage,… Read More
I was reading MetaFilter this morning, and came to this comment in a thread about the root pwnage hack of the PS3, regarding why people harbour animosity towards Microsoft. The comment is a sincere query, coming from a place of ignorance. It is interesting to me that enough time has… Read More