Yahoo's Crypto Heat Map

This is one of a number of articles from the emergence of the blockchain - it will be deleted circa end of Janury 2026.

https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/predefined/all_cryptocurrencies_us/heatmap

AI confusion, submit submit, submit... ahhhh Submittable.com

Reports are coming in of a glitch with AWS... Amazon Web Services.. over February 29th... apparently an overzealous AI* marked 2017 as a Leap Year... the knock on effect for those writers, poets and artists submitting via the premier submission site Submittable.com could be described as "interesting".

As a writer myself I can empathise, a prominent writer I contacted (who asked not to be named) said;-

"I just need one more day, one more day, is that too much to ask"
Anon



Submittable CEO, Michael Fitzgerald, when asked to comment said;-

"I'll get back to you tomorrow. :)"

On the Amazon front - a former Amazon boffin proceeded to fill a whiteboard with AI decision matrix formulae in livestream but it did not make the editorial cut. (more later in a follow up article... when we have had a chance to decipher what we were being told...lol)


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AI's or Artificial Intelligence logarithms are becoming more pervasive throughout the industry. A perusal of Google identifies articles from mainstream publications around the issue of AI's and the level of autonomy acceded to them.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Articfical+Intellingenc&oq=Articfical+Intellingenc&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=Artificial+Intelligence&tbs=qdr:w&*

With heavyweights such as Scientific American and Forbes covering such heady topics as ...

• Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?

• Growth of AI Means We Need To Retrain Workers... Now

In this context one is reminded of Clarke's three Laws...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Enjoy your extra day folks.... ;-)


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UPDATE:

Any previous problems with AWS are now resolved and we back on track for March 1st
submittable.com is now fully functioning, if you are in Ireland you have about 35 minutes left before any 28th Feb deadline...



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Eagle 1 Drone 0

Imaginative approach to drone proliferation from the French.. 

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/france-trains-eagles-rogue-drones/

Golden eagles are being trained to view drones as prey, it will be most interesting to see the technological responses.

Zillions of radio stations .. point and click

Listen to good old RTE Galway, (..as Gaeilge) or zillions of other stations..

http://radio.garden/live/costelloe/rte/

or zoom out and listen to sounds from racy Rosario, Argentina
http://radio.garden/live/rosario/latina945/

Read the full article here
http://thump.vice.com/en_ca/article/radio-garden-global-radio-jonathan-puckey-interview

The world is your oysta (mf) <g>

kudos & thanks to Anna Tran , as always... ;-)

Update: alas there now f***ing restrictions for what one can see, listen, view.. so none of this may work for you :-(

So then jump to AI radio
https://listen.streamon.fm/radiogpt

Cisco Visual Networking Index Predicts Near-Tripling of IP Traffic by 2020 - & north Ireland's Un-internet

In a recent article Cisco predict:-

"Growth Driven by More Than One Billion New Internet Users and 10 Billion New Devices and Connections Over the Next Five Years"

What Does this Look Like in Traffic Terms?

Global IP Traffic Growth, 2015–2020

Table 1 shows the top-line forecast. According to this forecast, global IP traffic in 2015 stands at 72.5 EB per month and will nearly triple by 2020, to reach 194.4 EB per month. Consumer IP traffic will reach 162.2 EB per month and business IP traffic will surpass 32.2 EB per month by 2020.

White paper: Cisco VNI Forecast and Methodology, 2015-2020 

What's an Exabyte?

1 EB = 10006bytes = 1018bytes = 1000000000000000000B = 1000 petabytes = 1 million terabytes = 1 billion gigabytes. It is interesting to note that this is Per Month

Wikipedia say; "the world's technological capacity to store information grew from 2.6 ("optimally compressed") exabytes in 1986 to 15.8 in 1993, over 54.5 in 2000, and to 295 (optimally compressed) exabytes in 2007."

So we see a progression from our technological capacity of 2.6 in 1986 to a predicted volume of 194.4 per month, yes per month!

What Happens in an Internet Minute?

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/what-happens-internet-minute-2016/

The Downside

There is a downside for anyone in the north of Ireland - Government cannot get their head around it... :-(

• although Motorola made the first mobile call in 1973 we still do not have decent mobile service 
• the only thing fast about the broadband is the writing on the side of telecom vans,
• we are stuck in pseudo speed enhancement services like microwave / satellite 
• satellite - each transmission takes about a 45,000 mile trip between you, the satellite, and the Internet Service Provider. 
• Latency - 230 milliseconds or more, this may not be much but multiply it by 10 sentences or live video and you have a problem. For example if you Ping this site it resolves in circa 28ms (thanks Google)
• Fair Access Policy or FAP aka Throttling - you are sharing this connection with everyone in the footprint of the satellite, internet connectivity via satellite is like a torch - not really much good around the edges - i.e. charge everyone the same - give everyone the same mediocre service so no-one can complain.

Anything apart from hardwired / fibre to the home is snake oil although there are a number of exciting projects running enhanced Wifi, 

There is a case to be made for a Communications Convention. I'm sure Cisco, Google Fibre & FTTH and other network providers / specialists would send representatives. We could all have a deep meaningful constructive discussion and workshops with definitive outputs leading to a better way - .i.e. objectives that are timebound quantifiable and measurable- is this is such a wild dream?

The Future?

“Digitization will be key to how countries maintain global competitiveness, increase GDP growth, foster innovation and create new jobs.” 

- John Chambers
https://newsroom.cisco.com/country-digitization?

Unless there is a major policy change, engagement with industry and a genuine recognition of an urgent problem needing a dramatic solution it is time to book a ticket to another country folks.

It will be most disappointing if the Unwilling appointed by the Unable to do the Unnecessary for the Ungrateful are in the ascendancy :-(

Full Cisco article Cisco Visual Networking Index Predicts Near-Tripling of IP Traffic by 2020

Detailed Cisco Infographic

Quo Vadis?

It would be most constructive and useful to bring all the players together via a Communications Convention in Belfast. Given the fact that it is now 43 years from the first mobile telephone call and we are no closer to a universal mobile service one is reminded of what Albert Einstein said;-

"the problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them"


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