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How data has failed us

The rise of “uneducated” pundits, and the fall from grace of the “educated” elite.

2016 has been an interesting year when it comes to the rise of more precise data analysis, with infinitely further reach, which has failed two political proceses which seemingly defied all “logical” thought to be the triumphant underdogs, shaping opur year and future.

China, Japan, Russia, & South Korea Plan Renewable Energy Super Grid

Steve Hanley / CleanTechnica

The founder and CEO of Softbank has created the Renewable Energy Institute after the Fukushima disaster. This institute has garnered the interest of other tech companies and are thinking to develop an ultra-high voltage grid operating at more than 1,000 kilovolts AC and 800 kilovolts DC.

Announcing Google Research, Europe

Research Blog

Very interesting to see Google’ research department extend to Zurich. Would love to see what comes out of it!

Interesting to see Zug flourish harnessing a culture of it’s own

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CACM / Vimeo

Apache Spark: A Unified Engine for Big Data Processing

CACM / Vimeo

Matei Zaharia discusses "Apache Spark: A Unified Engine for Big Data Processing" (cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/11/209116), a Contributed Article in the November 2016 Communications of the ACM. --- TRANSCRIPT 00:00 There's cooking for one... and then there's cooking for a thousand. It's more than just a difference of scale. Big crowds demand completely different facilities and procedures.