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Yes This time it is about Shazam: We all love shazam and we wonder how it works right. Let me give you some clue. It just gets the finger prints of songs and they are so small and efficient any part of the finger print would reveal which song you are listening to. The finger print of the songs are really very very small and in an in-memory database you can query 27 million songs…
I had been crawling and watching many Science and Technology project recently. (I know I have not been blogging for sometime and you criticized me and I am back with stories) You probably know my favorite sites like www.kickstarter.com www.indiegogo.com Depending on your appetite – there are simple or complex technology and science projects all around. As you surf those sites you would see many successfully funded and deliver projects. By the way I call…
Don’t let the name fool you. Coca-Cola’s Simply Orange juice is anything but pick, squeeze, and pour. That cold glass of 100 percent liquid sunshine on the breakfast table is the product of a sophisticated industrial juice complex. Satellite imagery, complicated data algorithms, even a juice pipeline are all part of the recipe. “You take Mother Nature and standardize it,” says Jim Horrisberger, director of procurement at Coke’s huge Auburndale (Fla.) juice packaging plant. “Mother…
If you are a frequent visitor you would remember my SAP HANA video. It was just created for the fun of it. During a visit made by Sanjay Poonen (President & Corporate Officer, SAP, Technology & Innovation Products) in Turkey we were discussing about his youTube video where we was explaining what SAP’s solution portfolio was about. During our round table discussion I promised him to make a similar video with an other motive. And…
“..R combined with SAP’s in-memory platform technology called HANA, R offers the potential to take the in-memory analytics to a whole new level. Imagine performing advanced statistical analysis such as decision tree, game-theory, linear and multiple regressions and much more inside SAP HANA on millions of rows and turning around with critical business insights at the speed of thought. This is possible now with R and HANA. This combination has the potential to completely…
I have been discussing with many c-level executives about mobility and what is the next best thing that would transform the way we operate in our companies. For sure mobility is a real game changer. I have not seen anybody objecting to this! But going into a deeper dialog requires creating a sense of urgency or awareness. In order to create this I have 5 questions to ask: 1- Do you have a mobile first…
Cinematch, Dinasour Planet, and finally Pragmatic Chaos –predicting what movie you might want to watch- is determining 60% of the movies being rented. Pragmatic Chaos got the 1 million dollar prize. Prize for reading what is in your brain. The above photo is from the ceremony in New York City. (20 Sept 2009) for more photos visit. On the other side of the equation we have companies like Epagogix. In their web site they define…
After a few days From http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 Michael Eisen’ Blog: “….But two questions remained. Why were they doing this, and how long would it go on before they noticed? As I amusedly watched the price rise every day, I learned that Amazon retailers are increasingly using algorithmic pricing (something Amazon itself does on a large scale), with a number of companies offering pricing algorithms/services to retailers. Both profnath and bordeebook were clearly using automatic pricing –…
