Day to Data

There are no new ideas

Any idea is free, but the best are expensive.

Jun 16 • 

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February 2025

Punched cards, the US Census, and a brief history on data storage.

How the US Census went from taking 8 years to 2 thanks to punched cards and a number crunching machine.

Feb 17 • 

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December 2024

A software girl in a hardware world

With thoughts on cooling in data centers & why it's so important

Dec 2, 2024 • 

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November 2024

A case for optimism in the age of AI

AlphaFold, Nobel Prizes, and a world where AI makes us smarter, healthier, and happier

Nov 4, 2024 • 

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September 2024

The unlimited budget of AI: major spend shaping productivity and our economy

Will the $1 trillion going into AI in the next decade be met with real economic value?

Sep 22, 2024 • 

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August 2024

AI's little power problem: are we ready for all the demand that's to come?

More on energy demand, power capacity markets, Jevons Paradox, and a distributed power future. And what happens if we're wrong about it all?

Aug 18, 2024 • 

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June 2024

Your wish is my command! Conversational recommendation systems and a future where we get what we want faster than ever.

How conversation, contextualization, and native interfaces will drive the evolution of recommendations

Jun 30, 2024 • 

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LLMs can be quite judgey - and it's a good thing!

If you pit one LLM against another LLM, you just might end up somewhere.

Jun 3, 2024 • 

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May 2024

Is SEO dead? Google I/O and the potential for a consolidated internet

In a flurry of tech announcements this week, Google's I/O conference, without saying it outright, signaled the potential consolidation of the internet…

May 20, 2024 • 

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Accept these cookies? Data regulation & the new push for privacy in the United States

America's version of GDPR, the American Privacy Rights Act, is a monumental step in the future of data privacy legislation for consumers and big tech.

May 5, 2024 • 

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April 2024

A tale of two sprawling cities - using data to better understand how our streets keep us connected

Are Copenhagen and New York a lot more similar than I think? A deep dive on the connectedness of our cities, down to the street.

Apr 21, 2024 • 

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Renaissance Technologies and using algorithms to beat the stock market for decades

From codebreaking to finance - how Jim Simons and RenTech paired algorithms like the Hidden Markov Model with a culture of academic innovation to build…

Apr 1, 2024 • 

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