Vlado Handziski

"submitted by reddit to blog." - Vlado Handziski

Sure was ugly! - mrlinky

"At the most basic level, it involves a fundamental change in the underlying business model. Both the medical profession and the energy utilities currently work on the assumption that if they hear nothing from us, they can ignore us for the next year. Now they’ll be hearing from us every few seconds. It’s not just the volume of data that is available, but the question of how to react to it. That new granularity will show deviations from the straight line, whether it’s raised blood pressure or turning on the hosepipe to water the petunias. What should a supplier do about it?" - Vlado Handziski

This was long overdue. Finally some reason coming out of the ruling coalition. - Vlado Handziski

I don't understand why they think that standardizing on integer counters will in any way help with the problem of the semantics of the represented value. For example, why do they think that Kelvin/100 is suitable standard unit for all potential use cases of the API. The only benefit that I see is in simplifying intermediate data processing code like averaging, etc. that can safely operate even without full knowledge of the semantics of the sensed value. - Vlado Handziski

"The Intel® Energy Checker SDK API exposes metrics of "useful work" done by an application through easy software instrumentation. For example, the amount of useful work done by a payroll application is different from the amount of useful work performed by a video serving application, a database application, or a mail server application. All too often, activity is measured by how busy a server is while running an application rather than by how much work that application completes. The Intel® Energy Checker SDK provides a way for the software developer to determine what measures of "useful work" are important for that application and expose those metrics through a simple API." - Vlado Handziski

"The Intel® Energy Checker SDK API exposes metrics of "useful work" done by an application through easy software instrumentation. For example, the amount of useful work done by a payroll application is different from the amount of useful work performed by a video serving application, a database application, or a mail server application. All too often, activity is measured by how busy a... more... - Vlado Handziski

Longing For The South... - Vlado Handziski

Nice discussion on the similarities and differences of four-dimensional space (x,y,z,w) and a complex plane (x+i*y, z+i*w) - Vlado Handziski

'''We shouldn't be asking, "Can you complete the task?" but rather "Are you motivated to do it in the first place?"''' - Vlado Handziski

We have to spend much more effort to educate people on how to properly use the technologies that are becoming an indispensable part of their lives. Crazy human dynamics like this can be really dangerous in other contexts. - Vlado Handziski

'''We shouldn't be asking, "Can you complete the task?" but rather "Are you motivated to do it in the first place?"''' Clay Shirky: Doing work, or Doing Work? | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM - cacm.acm.org - In a keynote delivered to this year's ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) , author and academic Clay Shirky captured this question in a distinction between work and Work.... - Vlado Handziski

We have to spend much more effort to educate people on how to properly use the technologies that are becoming an indispensable part of their lives. Crazy human dynamics like this can be really dangerous in other contexts. Data Underload #8 – Unsolicited - FlowingData - A few months back, the Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS) opened up a brand spanking new forum where people could discuss how they used the group's traffic data. They created an email list to tell everyone about the new forum. The problem is that PeMS used a single address to email everyone. So when someone "replied all," he would in turn email every single person on the list. What... - Vlado Handziski

Nice discussion on the similarities and differences of four-dimensional space (x,y,z,w) and a complex plane (x+i*y, z+i*w) Skew lines - 0xDE - You've probably seen images of the Hopf fibration, a nice decomposition of 3-dimensional space (or more accurately the 3-sphere) into nested tori, and of the tori into Villarceau circles, so that every point of the space belongs to one of the circles (including the z axis, which can be interpreted as a circle through the single point at infinity) and every two circles are linked. Here's a very... - Vlado Handziski