Ideas
Fish Farms had always been a problem for the environment. When it comes to hawaii the problem is the same. Like in Turkey they have a natural resource to protect while all entrepreneurs are keen on making good profit. Just to give you an idea the size of negative trade balance due to fresh sea fish is around 10 billion dolars. The Kampachi fish of Kona (sashimi-grade seafood) is a good example. I have not…
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…
I could not stand posting a blog post about those wonderful photos. This is the moment at its best. Bravo Tobias. It must be real hard trial to get those photo streams
“..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…
From Wikipedia: an algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning. In simple words an algorithm is a step-by-step procedure for calculations. Now let’s analyze OkCupid.com it is a famous web site. On 2-Feb-2011 Match.com had acquired OkCupid for $50 million in cash. Many users expressed distress, worrying that they would now have to pay for…
This is the place of Carrier Hotel in Manhattan. This is the place where the internet fiber channel cables come out. And then the web is distributed to the other buildings. As you might imagine seconds count when it comes to high frequency trading. The question is “what if I was a few milliseconds infront of my competitor?” Could speed of data matter in such cases. Could a distance of few blocks create a significant…
