Primed Slot
I like math. Not great with it. But, I enjoy reading things like Flatland and find the application of second derivative and the resulting slope shapes scintillating.
Hence, it should not come as a surprise that when I had to pick a slot recently at PARC, I specifically requested a prime number. 19, in case you are wondering.
Cartesian Padlock
On the other hand, I am just a white belt at PARC.
In a recent conversation, I asked for the combination of a padlock. It starts with "-2". Negative two?! Took me a split second to realize that the combination was expressed in an one dimensional Cartesian number line.
Brilliant!
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sotomayor Web Chatter Index
Catching Sonia Sotomayor
As you may recall from the How to catch a spy entry, PARC has developed a technology that can automatically infer what are the relevant words to a particular topic.
It was announced earlier today that Ms Sotomayor had been nominated for an appointment to the US Supreme Court. I thought it would be interesting to run a regular scan of the web chatter to find out what are the words that web-tizens consider relevant to Ms Sotomayor.
Notes, Technical and Otherwise
This is based on results from three of the most popular search engines - Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. As a technology geek, it is interesting to see how different engines deal with the same data corpus from the internet.
Before going into the actual results, it is also worth noting that since this is literally day one of the web chatter, there is likely to be some divergence on the results. I would speculate that the results would converge over time, but we shall find out!
Finally, if you are interested in finding out more about the result details or the inference engine, please let me know at "yfjuan (at) parc (dot) com"
Results (top 20 terms ranked in the order of relevance with the most relevant on top)
As you may recall from the How to catch a spy entry, PARC has developed a technology that can automatically infer what are the relevant words to a particular topic.
It was announced earlier today that Ms Sotomayor had been nominated for an appointment to the US Supreme Court. I thought it would be interesting to run a regular scan of the web chatter to find out what are the words that web-tizens consider relevant to Ms Sotomayor.
Notes, Technical and Otherwise
This is based on results from three of the most popular search engines - Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. As a technology geek, it is interesting to see how different engines deal with the same data corpus from the internet.
Before going into the actual results, it is also worth noting that since this is literally day one of the web chatter, there is likely to be some divergence on the results. I would speculate that the results would converge over time, but we shall find out!
Finally, if you are interested in finding out more about the result details or the inference engine, please let me know at "yfjuan (at) parc (dot) com"
Results (top 20 terms ranked in the order of relevance with the most relevant on top)
| Yahoo | Microsoft | |
|---|---|---|
| 2009/politics/05/26 justices sotomayor presser nominate nominees nominations nominated appeals ruled sotomayorâ believes decisions alito employee gillibrand 21st fourth sekulow claim | sotomayorâ sotomayor souter scotus justices sonia ginsburg scotusblog www.cnn.com alito rel cabranes bader nominee rosen gillibrand sekulow breyer www.huffingtonpost.com leahy | sotomayor court â she her supreme judge sonia obama from new 2009 law may york nomination who has president us |
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Content as Network
Hero Worshiping
It is kind of rare to meet your hero in person. Rarer yet is to be able to work with your hero on a regular basis.
So, it is a pretty mind blowing for me to say that I sit only a few doors down from Van Jacobson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson) who is the primary contributor to TCP/IP which in term provides the foundation for internet as we know it today.
Content Centric Networking (CCN)
Van is leading the effort for content centric networking (CCN). This is a high level talk that he gave a while back that explains what he has in mind.
CCN for the rest of us
Naturally, if you are not fully conversant with the 7 layers of network protocol hierarchy, e.g. business development folks like me, too need an answer on what is CCN.
This is what I say, we are working on the next generation of internet. :-p!
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I hope to explore the roadmap and implications of CCN in periodic entries. Suffices to say, the CCN group is very busy at work right now.
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It is kind of rare to meet your hero in person. Rarer yet is to be able to work with your hero on a regular basis.
So, it is a pretty mind blowing for me to say that I sit only a few doors down from Van Jacobson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson) who is the primary contributor to TCP/IP which in term provides the foundation for internet as we know it today.
Content Centric Networking (CCN)
Van is leading the effort for content centric networking (CCN). This is a high level talk that he gave a while back that explains what he has in mind.
CCN for the rest of us
Naturally, if you are not fully conversant with the 7 layers of network protocol hierarchy, e.g. business development folks like me, too need an answer on what is CCN.
This is what I say, we are working on the next generation of internet. :-p!
--
I hope to explore the roadmap and implications of CCN in periodic entries. Suffices to say, the CCN group is very busy at work right now.
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P@P
Monday, May 18, 2009
Nothing is a success until it has been canceled three times
Hi-Tech Ethos
I was chatting with one of the PARC colleagues about one of the projects that I am working on and he made the observation "nothing is a success until it has been canceled three times."
I think this captures the spirit of Silicon Valley as well as any that I have heard.
Let a thousand ideas bloom
In the old days, the rule of thumb about getting a new idea funded by a VC works something like this.
For every 10 ideas, 1 turns into a business plan
For every 10 business plan, 1 turns into a VC conversation
For every 10 VC conversations, 1 gets funded.
In other words, an idea has a 1 in 1,000 chance of getting funded. And, this is makes no prediction on if a funded idea has even a 50-50 chance of surviving beyond the first two years.
1 in 3 vs. 1 in 1,000
Given the 1 in 1,000 context, having something canceled/rejected three times is really not that big of a deal.
On the other hand, if you feel light-headed after reading this statement, you should not be in Silicon Valley.
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I think the real question is how does PARC continue its longevity and relevance. Maybe I can convince somebody in the social science group to do an analysis.
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I was chatting with one of the PARC colleagues about one of the projects that I am working on and he made the observation "nothing is a success until it has been canceled three times."
I think this captures the spirit of Silicon Valley as well as any that I have heard.
Let a thousand ideas bloom
In the old days, the rule of thumb about getting a new idea funded by a VC works something like this.
For every 10 ideas, 1 turns into a business plan
For every 10 business plan, 1 turns into a VC conversation
For every 10 VC conversations, 1 gets funded.
In other words, an idea has a 1 in 1,000 chance of getting funded. And, this is makes no prediction on if a funded idea has even a 50-50 chance of surviving beyond the first two years.
1 in 3 vs. 1 in 1,000
Given the 1 in 1,000 context, having something canceled/rejected three times is really not that big of a deal.
On the other hand, if you feel light-headed after reading this statement, you should not be in Silicon Valley.
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I think the real question is how does PARC continue its longevity and relevance. Maybe I can convince somebody in the social science group to do an analysis.
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P@P
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Earth Day 2009
Subject: PARC Earth Day 2009!
PARC’s Earth Day Celebration this year is going to be held on Wednesday, May 6th.
Our theme this year is: “Sustainable Smarts”. During the event you will be able to:
• Drop off personal e-waste from home. Leave it in the large cardboard bin marked “e-waste”.
• Drop off expired or unwanted medicine for proper disposal—At the P.A Water Quality Dept. booth
• Exchange your old mercury thermometer for a new electronic one for free!
• Pick up a plant, vegetable or flower at our Adopt-A-Plant booth
• Enter a drawing to win sustainable and eco-friendly prizes
• Shop organic produce at the Farmer Stand
• Check out the electric car
• Take a ride on the scooters
• Eat food cooked via solar power
My contributions to PARC earth Day 2009
Dropped off
• CPU
• Latptop
• PDA
• Cell phones
Got a sweet basil plant.
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P@P
PARC’s Earth Day Celebration this year is going to be held on Wednesday, May 6th.
Our theme this year is: “Sustainable Smarts”. During the event you will be able to:
• Drop off personal e-waste from home. Leave it in the large cardboard bin marked “e-waste”.
• Drop off expired or unwanted medicine for proper disposal—At the P.A Water Quality Dept. booth
• Exchange your old mercury thermometer for a new electronic one for free!
• Pick up a plant, vegetable or flower at our Adopt-A-Plant booth
• Enter a drawing to win sustainable and eco-friendly prizes
• Shop organic produce at the Farmer Stand
• Check out the electric car
• Take a ride on the scooters
• Eat food cooked via solar power
My contributions to PARC earth Day 2009
Dropped off
• CPU
• Latptop
• PDA
• Cell phones
Got a sweet basil plant.
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P@P
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