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- 127 terabytes: per year growth in blockchain if bitcoin wins; 4: hours from tabula rasa to chess god; 1.4 billion: Slack jobs per day; 400: hyperscale data centers worldwide by 2018; 9.8X: Machine Learning Engineer job growth; 14%: Ethereum transactions are for Cryptokitties; 80: seconds per hash on 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe; $110 billion: app stores spending in 2018; 25: years since first text message; 4,000: AWS code pushes per day; two elephants: of space dust hits earth every day;
- Quotable Quotes:
- @DavidBrin: Now that's what I call engineering! [Voyager 1] Thrusters that haven't been used in 37 years - still reliable!
- drkoalaman: So despite not supporting other cryptos the majority of my time on the DNM's I think its officially time to step away from bitcoin, at least for the time being. Went to do a direct deal today with a vendor, realized my $250 purchase would end up costing me $315 or so with fees and would still take probably 24 hours to get to him. As of this morning the lowest electrum fee was approx $32 to send coin.... and people reporting at the highest level still not having coin move 12-16 hours later. Vendors are loving this surge but its creating a sellers market and backlogging the blockchain and fees are just crazy... Not to mention not knowing if your $250 will be worth $300 when it gets to the vendor or a random drop in BTC causing it to be less...
- Alex Lindsay: 30 years ago you couldn’t get cash on Sunday. Now you can send cash on your watch.
- @prestonjbyrne: “We’re launching on Ethereum” == “100% uptime, unless someone makes a cat app, at which point all bets are off”
- @GossiTheDog: So I got somebody to talk, without names, about one of the big S3 bucket leaks. A developer set a bucket to open by mistake. They had open S3 bucket monitoring scripts running and got warning emails, which nobody did anything with - nobody had ownership of S3 buckets.
- @jaksprats: reInvent 2017 Amazon Time Sync Service … Prediction: by reInvent 2018 either they build their own Spanner or they acquire CockroachDB
- @PatrickMcFadin: 4/ I don’t think we’ll see many more big AWS database announcements after this year. What they have is “good enough” for them and the consensus is they are moving to AI and “everything Alexa” quickly.
- Eric Horvitz~ in 50 summers, the aviation industry went from canvas flopping on a beach to the Boeing 707...And what is this thing called consciousness, that we use the word consciousness to refer to. Where does that come from? What are these subjective states? We have no idea. We have theories and reflections, but they are not really based in any scientific theories just yet. However, is it possible in 50 summers, we have a whole new world. We have big surprises. We understand how minds work.
- @martinkl: Google Realtime API is shutting down … — It’s so risky to rely on proprietary services for building apps.
- @jeremiahg: Equifax’s stock price isn’t recovering post-breach as expected. If the stock remains flat over the next two months, it’ll been interesting to discuss why — what made them different.
- @xmal: A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox is that any sufficiently advanced civilization is dedicating all its resources to bitcoin mining.
- @rbhar90: The AI future where megacorporations control enormous datasets and near infinite compute letting them machine learn to predict our every action terrifies me. At NIPS, it's clear this future is nearer rather than further.
- Sue Hartley: This plant has built this little structure. It's sort of like a barracks for the ant army. And they live inside. When herbevores arrive the ant army comes out and attacks the herbivores...The plant can spend up to 20% of its resources housing and feeding its army.
- Netflix: With great elasticity comes great responsibility.
- Michael Widmann: There’s a change in the (NATO) mindset to accept that computers, just like aircraft and ships, have an offensive capability. I need to do a certain mission and I have an air asset, I also have a cyber asset. What fits best for the me to get the effect I want?
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