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  1. "SQL is Dead. Long live SQL." My thoughts on the misnamed but well-intentioned NoSQL movement. http://bit.ly/5c9HQA
  2. people who invent custom binary formats have a special place in hell ;) (via @peteskomoroch)
  3. A map function for the bash shell: http://bit.ly/8GnCET
  4. Data integration across firms (i) is ugly and (ii) takes longer than you think. The data is ugly, engineer feedback, slow.
  5. @gappy3000 Re: the recursive nature of market signals. True, the meme is catchy, and as old as Keynes http://bit.ly/1RANKs (beauty contest)
  6. "The War for the Web": A cautionary piece from the patron saint of the alpha geeks, @timoreilly. http://bit.ly/p1eLK
  7. Where do we go when we've shuffled off this mortal coil? Here's what I'm telling my children: "/dev/null".
  8. In the wake of Steven Pinker's skillful excoriation, Malcolm Gladwell has jumped the shark into Dan Brown territory. http://bit.ly/jRGZQ
  9. At LinkedIn's HQ, listening to @drewconway talk network cliques & cores (slides up at http://bit.ly/OPMqO) #drewsna
  10. @jhagel re: '8M bottles of Honest Tea sold last year - same as Coke sold in 9 minutes' Do you a source? Implies 467B Coke bottles sold.
  11. Big Data Beer Summit at Iron Cactus SOMA, hanging with @drewconway @chrisdiehl @peteskomoroch in the beer garden
  12. @vinayakh @josecamoessilva Yes, slides are posted after R events at http://www.meetup.com/R-Use... - we'll look into video this time.
  13. Visualizing a Twitter hash tag network http://bit.ly/17lZDF (ps "Social Network Analysis w/ R" Tue @ LinkedIn! http://bit.ly/31QYj7) #rstats
  14. The Singularity has overtaken me; I can't pass CAPTCHA tests. (via @gregoryg)
  15. Imagine if an airline tray table was your desk. Endlessly managing a little pile. That's life with a single monitor. #geta2ndmonitor
  16. @i2pi Agreed, far too little discussion of sampling w.r.t. Big Data. Our brains figured it out long ago. select count(*) is brutish.
  17. The Communications of the ACM groks Big Data http://bit.ly/12I2u6 #rstats (via @bigdata)
  18. He who owns the codes, owns the market: Bloomberg open sources their symbology: http://bsym.bloomberg.com (HT @i2pi & http://bit.ly/2eRT7t)
  19. "Hadoop is like a locomotive: slow to get moving, but capable of hauling massive freight once its running" - @hackingdata
  20. ♫ Oh how I wish I was, not IO bound. IO, where my time's escaping, IO, keeps my data waiting. ♫ #paulsimon #hadoop