A quick note on inference & poetic design

Ezra Pound’s statements on some of the implications of imagisme and symbolism, it seems, can relate directly to some of the dilemma between object-oriented and functional programming approaches. 1916: “The symbolist’s symbols have a fixed value, like…

XEROPHYTES

Cortana asked Siri, what
Are you? It’s a surprise, said
She. Alexa, overhearing noted
The weather, and Jarvis and Sam
Sat outside. The sky was clear and
The sunlit ocean showed the rocks
Her hands. Throughout the day,
You can expect more of the same, with
Flurries and a high of fifty-eight
Degrees, they…

2016 Spark Summit West

This year’s Spark summit west was held in San Francisco, near Union Square and the Financial District, earlier this week. The Apache Spark project (Berkley, AMPLab) is a distributed compute and analysis paradigm two years ago initially released.