Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Chris Feola
Author, Perfecting Equilibrium: For a brief, shining moment Web1 democratized data. Then Web2 came along and made George Orwell look like an optimist. Now Web3 is Perfecting John Nash’s Information Equilibrium.
The weather outside is frightful
But that fire, hmm, delightful
Since we've no place to go
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Our part of Texas was hit with Lake Effect Snow — not a phrase I was expecting to hear after leaving New England. We got maybe a half-inch of powder. The six-year-old was anxious to get out in it, and complained the entire time we were bundling him into layers of sweaters and coats. Out we went “for the rest of the day,” he said. A half-hour later he said “I’M FREEZING!! NO MORE SNOW!!” And, as we walked home from the park, “I just want to be warm again.”
Don’t we all…
Pentax K3 III Monochrome with the SMC Pentax-DA 12-24mm F4 ED AL and the HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR RE
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Sunday January 21st-The Reader: Death by Dirty Data-At least four suicides. Hundreds of centuries-old family businesses bankrupted. Communities torn apart. More than 700 innocent people convicted of serious crimes: fraud. Embezzlement. Theft.
Except the crimes were imaginary; they only existed in the twisted memory of a bug-ridden computer system.
Dirty data sounds like one of those late-night TV diseases where some D-list star you don’t remember tells you of the heartbreak of some disease you never heard of...and then, of course, offers to sell you the cure. It isn’t. Corrupt data is everywhere, and it’s deadly.