Cloud Computing Notes:
Google pretty much the poster child of cloud computing.
Cloud runs upon whether or not it can be trusted, and the decisions are very split.
Cloud computing functions by removing data off an important computer and onto the "cloud" which is managed by many other systems.
"Cloud computing typically outshines the company's internal abilities to store information."
"The ingredients are the same, but the receipe is different."
"The cloud will not be trusted with all aspects of computing."
Blog:
Started in 2005 with benefits mainly focused on cost savings vs. features and functions. In 07, speed and innovations became the larger concerns vs customization, reliablitity, integration. Now, tectonic shifts where it's changing the "game" vs trust.
Cloud computing is a hosted applications and platforms built on shared infrastructure delivered via a web browser.
Google has taken the role of becoming the poster child for supporting cloud computing. It allows others to post much of their information upon a google server where it can be stored. Google's specialization is now focusing upon Google applications almost all of which function by working off the cloud, take for instance the Android phones (such as the Motorola Droid) which runs almost entirely off google applications many of which are now synchronizing with many other service providing web sites such as Facebook or Twitter.
The debate for the effectiveness of the cloud still rages and will continue to rage on until a general consensus can be reached amongst all users, which currently seems to be a fifty fifty debate.
But one thing (according to Google and many other experts) the cloud computing is here to stay and it will continue to evolve.
Eric Summers
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
4.13
It's no secret that we've become dependent on our technology as a nation, so much so that there are times that we seem incapable of living without it at our constant finger tips.
Yesterday, I went to Zanies in Nashville to see Lewis Black perform as part of his new tour.
It is important to realize this fact, I don't go to Nashville very often. While in Tennessee I have lived in either suburban towns or for the majority of the time, in a small country town in the middle of nowhere. Given how it was an hour drive away from Nashville, making trips into the larger city was an extremely rare occurence. I therefore know very little about the layout of Nashville which is excerbated even more by the fact I typically do not travel there until it is already late at night, hardly the time for one to try to catalog mental landmarks to make navigating the city easier.
Fortunately for me, I have a smart phone with a GPS option. I used this function for the first time yesterday, turning it on as I passed the Briley Parkway enterance ramp on 24 in addition to my hand written instructions that I brought as a 'just in case' measure. I missed my ramp to 210B after for some strange reason driving North has the 210s in the following order C, A, and then B. By the time I realized this, it was too late for me to get in my lane. I turned on the first exit and the GPS came to my rescue and directed me to my destination from there, even after I accidentally ran a few red lights.
On the way back I decided to use the GPS again to find my way back to the interstate. It froze up on me for the remainder of the trip. I ended up in a fury of frustration having to turning around about three different times before exitting the GPS mode to the normal map locator and planned my drive by looking at the map rather than it telling me what to do (which ended up being taking 65 to 440 to 24 east).
Oddly enough one of Black's core materials was how the population of this country has a completely inane sense of what's important. In his example, he stressed "we can't agree over a health care policy that's meant to help us, but we know how many useless applications we can get on our iPhones. I have an application on this that allows me to come to a city like this, and the phone will tell me where the best place to get a slice of pizza is and how to get there by walking. I could always ask the people on my way to the place where the best place is, but f**k that, I have a phone doing it for me."
Our technology is great, but once it stops working, we need to be able to rely on ourselves.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Yesterday, I went to Zanies in Nashville to see Lewis Black perform as part of his new tour.
It is important to realize this fact, I don't go to Nashville very often. While in Tennessee I have lived in either suburban towns or for the majority of the time, in a small country town in the middle of nowhere. Given how it was an hour drive away from Nashville, making trips into the larger city was an extremely rare occurence. I therefore know very little about the layout of Nashville which is excerbated even more by the fact I typically do not travel there until it is already late at night, hardly the time for one to try to catalog mental landmarks to make navigating the city easier.
Fortunately for me, I have a smart phone with a GPS option. I used this function for the first time yesterday, turning it on as I passed the Briley Parkway enterance ramp on 24 in addition to my hand written instructions that I brought as a 'just in case' measure. I missed my ramp to 210B after for some strange reason driving North has the 210s in the following order C, A, and then B. By the time I realized this, it was too late for me to get in my lane. I turned on the first exit and the GPS came to my rescue and directed me to my destination from there, even after I accidentally ran a few red lights.
On the way back I decided to use the GPS again to find my way back to the interstate. It froze up on me for the remainder of the trip. I ended up in a fury of frustration having to turning around about three different times before exitting the GPS mode to the normal map locator and planned my drive by looking at the map rather than it telling me what to do (which ended up being taking 65 to 440 to 24 east).
Oddly enough one of Black's core materials was how the population of this country has a completely inane sense of what's important. In his example, he stressed "we can't agree over a health care policy that's meant to help us, but we know how many useless applications we can get on our iPhones. I have an application on this that allows me to come to a city like this, and the phone will tell me where the best place to get a slice of pizza is and how to get there by walking. I could always ask the people on my way to the place where the best place is, but f**k that, I have a phone doing it for me."
Our technology is great, but once it stops working, we need to be able to rely on ourselves.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Only a Month away...
As today draws to a close, I will be exactly one month away to my graduation date.
Nervous?
You bet your ass I am.
Excited?
Less than you’d think.
Relieved?
More than you can imagine.
Today after rushing about from work to class to help one of my group members to construct our power point presentation for tomorrow before our night classes, I somehow managed to find enough time to make an essential trip for food at the Quiznos in the KUC.
It was an extremely beautiful partly sunny day with a breeze just strong enough blowing north to play with my hair and to be pestering enough for me to have to carefully hold the notebook while I write this to prevent the pages from turning.
Turn the page.
Yeah, one month left and another page of the book of the life of Eric Shane Summers will be finished.
I digress in thoughts of anticipation…
I decided to eat my sandwich outside in the courtyard of the BAS to take advantage of the weather while it was still pleasant.
As I set on a bench against the west wall allowing me to overlook the entirety of the courtyard I couldn’t help but think about all the countless times I’ve strode through this courtyard. Granted most of the times I was just in a rush from one class to another, and at the time it was just an obstacle in my way. But if I reflect as I survey what lay before me I can recall memories. On those steps I did work group work in one of my previous groups for a class in my minor. I even wrote one of these notes on that bench over there when those trees were in full bloom last summer during my Maymester.
And I am not alone, neither the first nor the last. As I stare I must think about how many hundreds, thousands walked through this courtyard before me and hopefully the countless numbers to come after my time.
I sigh and take another bite of my Italian sub, half ashamed to admit to myself.
“I’m really going to miss this place.”
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Nervous?
You bet your ass I am.
Excited?
Less than you’d think.
Relieved?
More than you can imagine.
Today after rushing about from work to class to help one of my group members to construct our power point presentation for tomorrow before our night classes, I somehow managed to find enough time to make an essential trip for food at the Quiznos in the KUC.
It was an extremely beautiful partly sunny day with a breeze just strong enough blowing north to play with my hair and to be pestering enough for me to have to carefully hold the notebook while I write this to prevent the pages from turning.
Turn the page.
Yeah, one month left and another page of the book of the life of Eric Shane Summers will be finished.
I digress in thoughts of anticipation…
I decided to eat my sandwich outside in the courtyard of the BAS to take advantage of the weather while it was still pleasant.
As I set on a bench against the west wall allowing me to overlook the entirety of the courtyard I couldn’t help but think about all the countless times I’ve strode through this courtyard. Granted most of the times I was just in a rush from one class to another, and at the time it was just an obstacle in my way. But if I reflect as I survey what lay before me I can recall memories. On those steps I did work group work in one of my previous groups for a class in my minor. I even wrote one of these notes on that bench over there when those trees were in full bloom last summer during my Maymester.
And I am not alone, neither the first nor the last. As I stare I must think about how many hundreds, thousands walked through this courtyard before me and hopefully the countless numbers to come after my time.
I sigh and take another bite of my Italian sub, half ashamed to admit to myself.
“I’m really going to miss this place.”
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
4.6 - Neural Networks
Neural network applications
Brain maker
http://www.calsci.com/Applications.html#Stock Applications
Brain maker isn’t so much an application as much as it is a provider of many different neural network applications ranging from ones that focus specifically on stocks, commodities, and futures to pattern recognition (such as speech, numerical, and working with natural chaos).
It is a user friendly company that specializes in smart applications that generate spreadsheet based results based upon patterns in collected data that will then allow the computer to recognize, forecast, and predict. It allows for users to import lotus, excel, Dbase, and ASCII and binary files into the software for its statistical processes.
http://www.nd.com/apps/business.html
NeuroDimension
NeuroDimension offers a wide variety of Neural Network applications from the most basic of pattern recognition software to those that are more specifically designed for a specific process such as stock prediction. Similar to other Neural Networks, it uses statistical processes that mimic learning much as the way the human mind does.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Brain maker
http://www.calsci.com/Applications.html#Stock Applications
Brain maker isn’t so much an application as much as it is a provider of many different neural network applications ranging from ones that focus specifically on stocks, commodities, and futures to pattern recognition (such as speech, numerical, and working with natural chaos).
It is a user friendly company that specializes in smart applications that generate spreadsheet based results based upon patterns in collected data that will then allow the computer to recognize, forecast, and predict. It allows for users to import lotus, excel, Dbase, and ASCII and binary files into the software for its statistical processes.
http://www.nd.com/apps/business.html
NeuroDimension
NeuroDimension offers a wide variety of Neural Network applications from the most basic of pattern recognition software to those that are more specifically designed for a specific process such as stock prediction. Similar to other Neural Networks, it uses statistical processes that mimic learning much as the way the human mind does.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
4.6
As the semester winds down it shifts into what I refer to as "hell month." This is the period of the final rush when those of us wonderful procrastinators must break our backs and sacrifice all the free time of our social life and sleep schedules to complete the projects that have piled upon us in addition to the projects that are being assigned and required at the end of the month.
My semester is divided amongst four classes, this one, ASP.Net, and 4790 Database which comprise the final steps of my major and I am enjoying the challenge they represent and the knowledge I am gaining from them.
The fourth class is BUAD 4980, Business Policy, the last class of my minor under the instruction of Dr. Myopi. To all readers who are on the business path I urge you to take anyone other than Dr. Myopi. Dr. Myopi is one of those instructors that go against everything I've come to love as an INFS major. In a casual explanation I have created, he is "out of touch with reality." He is completely opposed to the use of technology in the class room and it shows. His lectures are completely disjointed and unorganized. There is a required text book, but he rarely follows it. Instead he seems to be going off his notes using an outdated book, and another problem then arises as his notes lack the detail needed for a student to learn or more importantly use the information for the papers we are required to write.
And speaking of papers,
Dr. Myopi is clearly one of those professors who have no problem assigning work to his students without first trying it out him. As a for instance we are required to write papers, but unlike most professors when they assign papers his follow a very strict outline that offers really no room for creativity or independent thought on the side of the student who is to be writing this paper. The paper must include a predefined concept portion which he defines which input must be included. The concept portion is nothing more than book definitions and in the case this last paper took up six pages of my paper. Oh yes, he also has the gall to say in the guidelines for these reports that "a report is supposed be about five pages long." Upon the completion of my last report, I had twelve individual pages, now I may be stepping on some toes but I firmly believe that twelve is not "about five."
Cheers,
Eric Summers
My semester is divided amongst four classes, this one, ASP.Net, and 4790 Database which comprise the final steps of my major and I am enjoying the challenge they represent and the knowledge I am gaining from them.
The fourth class is BUAD 4980, Business Policy, the last class of my minor under the instruction of Dr. Myopi. To all readers who are on the business path I urge you to take anyone other than Dr. Myopi. Dr. Myopi is one of those instructors that go against everything I've come to love as an INFS major. In a casual explanation I have created, he is "out of touch with reality." He is completely opposed to the use of technology in the class room and it shows. His lectures are completely disjointed and unorganized. There is a required text book, but he rarely follows it. Instead he seems to be going off his notes using an outdated book, and another problem then arises as his notes lack the detail needed for a student to learn or more importantly use the information for the papers we are required to write.
And speaking of papers,
Dr. Myopi is clearly one of those professors who have no problem assigning work to his students without first trying it out him. As a for instance we are required to write papers, but unlike most professors when they assign papers his follow a very strict outline that offers really no room for creativity or independent thought on the side of the student who is to be writing this paper. The paper must include a predefined concept portion which he defines which input must be included. The concept portion is nothing more than book definitions and in the case this last paper took up six pages of my paper. Oh yes, he also has the gall to say in the guidelines for these reports that "a report is supposed be about five pages long." Upon the completion of my last report, I had twelve individual pages, now I may be stepping on some toes but I firmly believe that twelve is not "about five."
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Neural Networks
From my experience with neural networks (based entirely upon a very brief experience while using Neural classifier) the easiest description I can think of using to describe the neural network technology is that is very closely resembles a vaguely human thought process by implementing various logarithms, statistical processes, and limited artificial intelligence software.
Using Neural Classifier we have the ability to adjust certain constraints in a CSV file which determines the final output of the product based entirely upon which constraints are implemented. If I were to ask to compare it to any other type of similar tool, I would compare it to the Solver function of Microsoft excel which involves a similar statistical process of constraints and logarithms to determine the best fitting solution.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Using Neural Classifier we have the ability to adjust certain constraints in a CSV file which determines the final output of the product based entirely upon which constraints are implemented. If I were to ask to compare it to any other type of similar tool, I would compare it to the Solver function of Microsoft excel which involves a similar statistical process of constraints and logarithms to determine the best fitting solution.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
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