Hey, it's HighScalability time:

 How long would you have lasted? Loved The Martian. Can't wait for the game, movie, and little potato action figures. Me, I would have died on the first level.

• 60 miles: new record distance for quantum teleportation; 160: size of minimum viable Mars colony; $3 trillion: assets managed by hedge funds; 5.6 million: fingerprints stolen in cyber attack; 400 million: Instagram monthly active users; 27%: increase in conversion rate from mobile pages that are 1 second faster; 12BN: daily Telegram messages; 1800 B.C: oldest beer recipe; 800: meetings booked per day at Facebook; 65: # of neurons it takes to walk with 6 legs


• Quotable Quotes:
  • @bigdata: assembling billions of pieces of evidence: Not even the people who write algorithms really know how they work
  • @zarawesome: "This is the most baller power move a billionaire will pull in this country until Richard Branson finally explodes the moon."
  • @mtnygard: An individual microservice fits in your head, but the interrelationships among them exceeds any human's ability. Automate your awareness.
  • Ben Thompson~ The mistake that lots of BuzzFeed imitators have made is to imitate the BuzzFeed article format when actually what should be imitated from BuzzFeed is the business model. The business model is creating portable content that will live and thrive on all kinds of different platforms. The BuzzFeed article is relatively unsophisticated, it's mostly images and text, and mostly images.
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• Is what Volkswagen did really any different that what happens on benchmarks all the time? Cheating and benchmarks go together like a clear conscience and rationalization. Clever subterfuge is part of the software ethos. There are many many examples. Cars are now software is a slick meme, but that transformation has deep implications. The software culture and the manufacturing culture are radically different.


• Can we ever trust the fairness of algorithms? Of course not. Humans in relation to their algorithms are now in the position of priests trying to divine the will of god. Computer Scientists Find Bias in Algorithms: Many people believe that an algorithm is just a code, but that view is no longer valid, says Venkatasubramanian. “An algorithm has experiences, just as a person comes into life and has experiences.”


• Stuff happens, even to the best. But maybe having a significant percentage of the world's services on the same platform is not wise or sustainable. Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption and Related Impacts in the US-East Region.


• According to patent drawings what does the Internet look like? Noah Veltman has put together a fun list of examples: it's a cloud, or a bean, or a web, or an explosion, or a highway, or maybe a weird lump.

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