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Michael Wu, Ph.D. is Lithium's Principal Scientist of Analytics, digging into the complex dynamics of social interaction and group behavior in online communities and social networks.
Michael was voted a 2010 Influential Leader by CRM Magazine for his work on predictive social analytics and its application to Social CRM.He's a regular blogger on the Lithosphere's Building Community blog and previously wrote in the Analytic Science blog. You can follow him on Twitter or Google+.
OK, let's pick up where we left off. In my last post, we examined the first step in any big data processing engine – searching and filtering. In essence, the goal is to identify the relevant data from the irrelevant data (noise). If you've analyzed any form of big data, you probably noticed that the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty low. Most of the data are noise, and only a tiny fraction is the signal. The question then is, why do we need big data?
Depending on which camp you're from, there are many answers to this excellent question. I will talk about three in this post, but keep in mind that there are many more. Just because you can track, store, and analyze big data, doesn't mean you should.
The Uncertain Future
One of the most common arguments favoring big data is that data is versatile and doesn't really have a shelf life. Even though you don't need it today, its relevance and utility may become apparent in the future. And since you never know what you might need in the future, you might as well store everything that you can now.
This argument is almost tautological. That means it is irrefutably true no matter how you interpret it. Since the future is inaccessible (at least for now), and humans are risk aversive, we will always want to hedge against the unknown future. The only question left is how cheaply can we track and store these data? If it is cheap, this approach makes sense!
Although data storage is relatively cheap these days, there are hidden costs in big data initiative beyond the mere cost of hard drives. Since big data are so big that they cannot be stored in, nor analyzed on conventional databases, you need a completely new stack of technology for its capture, storage and analysis. This stack is known as the SMAQ stack (i.e. Storage, MapReduce and Query). One of the most popular SMAQ stacks is based on Hadoop, an open source implementation of Google File System (GFS). So the actual SMAQ stack itself isn't expensive. The cost is the new talent that is needed to use this stack effectively so enterprises can derive insights from the big data.
Despite the fact that big data technology is relatively cheap, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of any big data initiative may still be quite high when you factor in the cost of human resources. So, big data is definitely an investment that may not be right for everyone.
Your Signal is My Noise
Let's look at a different argument for big data. Although the relevant data is not big at all, the overlap between everyone's relevant data is also tiny. That means everyone's relevant data is quite different and there is very little overlap between them. What is relevant to me may be completely useless to you and vice versa. Likewise, your signal is probably somebody else's noise. Since we usually don't know who will be looking at these data, we must store everything we can in order to better serve everyone.
The small overlap in relevance is most apparent in Data as a Service (DaaS) vendors like Social Media Monitoring (SMM, a.k.a. Listening Platforms). If you are a company or a brand using SMM, you are probably concerned with the conversation about you and your competitors. That is actually a very tiny fraction of the conversation on social media because there are conversations about hundreds of thousands of different brands out there. Every brand will be interested in the conversation about itself, and every brand will have a different set of competitors. Since no one knows which brand will subscribe which DaaS, DaaS vendors need to be prepared to serve all brands by storing all conversations on the social web.
Now, if you are not a DaaS provider (e.g. SMM or VRM) you might not need all these "big" data. For a brand, all you really need are the conversations about you and your competitors. There are several options for getting these data.
Maybe You Don't Need Big Data
Both arguments above hinge on the fact that the precise use of the big data is unknown. We don't know what questions we may need to answer, and we don't know what data can help answer them.
Sometimes, however, we do know the questions we need to answer. In fact, we often have some very specific business questions with regards to social media. What is the ROI? Which technology is most engaging? Who are your most valuable influencers, etc. In these cases, you don't need "big" data. You just need the "right" data, the relevant data, the precise data that addresses your question! And that is usually a pretty small data set; sometimes it can even be loaded and analyzed on a beefy personal computer.
Alright, there are probably hundreds of reasons for and against big data. I've talked about three here, what are your arguments for or against big data?
Although there is little dispute to the utility of big data, collecting and storing these data by yourself may not be the most economical way to get it. So when should you start thinking seriously about your own big data initiative?
Finally, a little preview for what's coming. Without going too deep into the technical details, next time we will address the question of where did big data came from and how it got so big. See you next time!
Hi Michael,
I am with you on the reasons you mention about for big data. One other point I will add is that unlike a decade ago, firms are now forced to look at more and more unstructured data because of the social and mobile explosion (as opposed to a relational table of transactional information). This along with the need to merge structured and unstructured data is another possible reason to move into the realm of "big" data.
Having said that, I am also of the opinion that firms should not just collect data for the sake of collection. They should have a clear vision of what they want to do with that data and how it would help with their business objectives . While memory is cheap today and it is possible to store large amounts of data, processing large amounts of data is still a tricky issue and adds complexity to the analysis.
Great post!! Another relevant data point before you begin is try to at least understand the scope of the return of the initiative. For example, if managing big data on a plant floor at a manufacturing company can drive significant operational improvements that drive improved results the reason for such an initiative may be more clear. If you are uncertain what the benefit is of big data in your social media, matbe you can defer the decision until the *reason* you are doing it and expending all the resources is more clear...
This post was very helpful. There is so much hype about Big Data that this post helps better understand the cons of Big Data that I have not seen much. It seems like small companies have to do this as *aaS with platform, infrastructure, analytics and data. I might have missed something. Perhaps you can give us some idea.
Hello Ned,
Thannk you for the comment.
You are absolutely right. In fact, the next article in this series will examine what characteristics will cause the data to grow rapidly and eventually become big data. Structure or unstructure is actually not that important. There are plenty of unstructure data that are very small. Of course they can be big, in the case of social media or mobile data. Structure vs. unstructure is not the reason why big data is so big. And we'll talk about that nex time.
I think most firm do want to make use of their big data if they have them, but they just don't know how. My feeling is that they just don't have the right talent. data scientist are very different, a support vector machine expert and a markov randome field analyst can solve very different problem, but unfortunately they are all labeled as data scientist in the industry, because the industry don't know how to tell them apart.
Anyway, maybe I'll write about this later. See you next time.
Hello PaulMarshall,
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
What you said is very true. However, in most realistic scenario, it is very difficult for anyone to predict, or even make an reasonable guess at the ROI of big data (or any data for that matter). In most situations, you won't know the ROI until you get the data, analyzed it, and use the insight to change or optimize parts of your busines, and measure the outcome again.
So I see big data is an investment. You have to just try it. That is why in this article, I say that, if you can do it cheaply, then definitely do it. Otherwise, buy it, subscribe to a DaaS to get the data you need, in most cases it will be cheaper.
Realistically, if you want to wait until the benefit is clear, then you can pretty much wait forever.
This is just my observations and experience.
Anyway, hope to see you next time. Have a great weekend.
Hello Jay,
Thank you for commenting on my blog. I'm very glad to hear that you find this blog useful.
There is definitely hypes, but I would say that big data (or just any data in general) probably have tremendous latent value. They just have to be extracted with the right searching and filitering technologies, and then analyzed by the right statistical techniques. This may not be so easy.
I would say that for smaller/mid size business (SMB), it may be more economical to just subscribe to a DaaS to get the data they need. Large enterprises have the economy of scale on their side, but the up-front cost of big data may still be too expensive for SMBs. If you only want the data, why pay for the whole data collection mechanisms, storage infrastructure, analytics platform, etc. DaaS is a more economical approach, because all the SMBs share the cost of the data infrastructure.
But as data product become more prevalent, this may change, and SMB would one day be able to aford the cost of the data infrastructure themselves.
Alright, hope this address your question.
Hope to see you next time and have a great weekend.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the response. I agree with you that it is not purely structure vs unstructure scenarios that ends up in big data.
What I meant to say was that as compared to the environment of yesteryears (a) there are more sources of unstructured data that is increasingly becoming critical to doing business (social and mobile being two of the most important ones), and (b) the sheer frequency and volume of these "unstructured" interactions along with the need for a multi-channel outlook corners organizations into looking at big data and finding ways to reduce and extract insights from it.
Looking forward to your next piece.
We've already had the chance to duke it out on twitter! 🙂 I'll post more on this in another comment later, and then post on my blog within a few days, but I thought it would be a good idea to kick things off tonight.
First let me reiterate how enjoyable our twitter back-and-forth has been--I hope we can meet in person sometime!
I think we're at odds over what we mean by "noise" and "irrelevant". I admit I was thinking of noise in the way most data miners or statisticians in customer analytics think about it, namely, "unexplained variance". In this case, there is information in the data, but we can't explain it because we don't observe what is causing the data to appear as it does.
You have brought memories flooding back over the signal and image processing view of noise which clearly is where you are drawing the "irrelevant' label. In this case, the noise truly is uninteresting and just gets in the way of identifying the signal. In signal processing then, we try to filter out the noise to get at the signal; if the noise is linear, just simple LMS filters suffice. but if the noise is nonlinear, not random (white), then it can take a lot of samples to differentiate signal from noise using nonlinear filters. Michael, you know all this far better than I do, but I am just reiterating for those who don't think about data this way. In these cases, we typically use time-series techinques to filter the noise, whether simple filters, Kalman Filters, or neural networks.
OK, back to big data, noise, and irrelevant data. (I can't help but continue!) Let's take an example with lots of data, such as credit card transactions. Millions...no billions of transactions. big data. lots of customers. My heartburn over the irrelevant label is that I was thinking about these kinds of applications. For credit card fraud, *all* of the data is important: both the normal transactions and the abnormal (suspicious or fraudulent) transactions. Even though we are focused on the fraud cases, we must have the normal, regular transactions so we can differentiate normal from abnormal. Even stratified sampling can cause problems because it can distort the interactions between measured fields. So when I was arguing that no data is irrelevant, I was really arguing that all transactions are needed: some to represent normal, some to represent abnormal.
That stated, in modeling projects I've worked out, there are always some examples we toss because they are either:
1) kinds of transactions we'll never see again,
2) have significant errors in the transaction data itself
3) represent transactions from cards that we don't want represented in the data (already under investigation, for example)
In these cases, these transactions are for my purporses irrelevant because they are not representative of what my deployed models will be seeing, and therefore I don't want my predictive models to be biased by them or even care about them. However, I wouldn't characterize these records as "noise" really, though in a sense they are like the "noise" or "cluttter" in signal processing in that they are uninteresting.
I hope this helps to describe different views of "signal" and "noise" depending on the type of problem we are trying to solve.
Hi Michael,
I just wanted to follow up on our Twitter discussion from yesterday (Thanks to you and Dean BTW). I also commented via Twitter to Dean this AM about relevance but wanted to elaborate on that as well.
I started my career with "Big Data" well, in 1998 we thought terabytes were big, at a firm that had Discover Financial Data as a client so I got to "cut my eye teeth" on transactional and credit risk data at it finest. That was many moons ago but things haven't really changed that much in the analysis of data.
Let's go back to the basics of data and statistical analysis, you don't just pull relevancy out of a hat, it is decided with correlations, homoscedasticity, heteroscedasticity, goodness of fit, experience...etc. If you find a variable has no significance, then it becomes irrelevant to the task (as Michael says, you may need it for another task). I added experience to what would be considered mathematical why, because even with all the tests we can run there are things that will stand out or jump off the page as I like to say, something that mathematics wouldn't have picked up on.
Example, everyone talks about data but no one talks about quality of the data, "cleansing" data and ensuring the metadata is correct. I have ran tests that gave me results that didn't make sense, my gut told me something was up, not mathematics... I go back and see a column has been shifted over in a percent of the data and that I have characters in my numerics or visa versa, long story short..... What is your hypothesis, what variables do you have to work with, are there correlations or redundancies, is the data clean, (garbage in, garbage out), is there metadata, missing data, correct format of data (char vs num), can I do a RANUI (can I take a smaller sample size to work with to expedite the assignment), what systems am I on, what load can that system take, what tools do I have at my disposal, what is my budget, structured vs unstructured, parsed or not....
There are many decisions to be made each time you sit down to run an analysis and what is deemed important and relevant data with this task may not be the same on the next. You never want to throw the baby out with the bath water but yes, there may be some data that just isn't useful (noise) for "this" task.
Thank you for your post and the lively discussion that followed, have a great data day!
Carla aka Data_Nerd
@Dean - Having been in the analytics field for quite a long while I can see your pov and I think it is relevant. But I also see this as a semantic difference of how one is defining noise for their analysis.
One way of tackling 'noise' in general (imo) is by taking a funnel approach. Look at data and remove random fluctuations and errors and then drill-down to removing irrelevant (but "good" data) - the latter more in line with Michael's filter concept.
Anyway, just a thought - great discussion folks.
Michael, great article.
Since my company is a Big Data database provider and I'm not a consumer or analyzer of Big Data
I find both arguments of signal and noise equally compelling. My only contribution here is to agree that even though disk storage is much cheaper than it has ever been, and technologies such as Hadoop can leverage MPP to scale and analyze extreme data sets, data growth and the desire to keep more data will always outstrip capacity. The only way, in our opinion, to cope is to de-duplicate and compress the data and therefore limit its physical growth while sustaining the ability to query and access it without penalty or loss of content.
This is what our database does.
Would love your thoughts on our technology at www.rainstor.com
Ramon Chen
VP Product Management RainStor
Hello Dean, Carla, and Ned,
Thank you all for the engaging and stimulating conversation. Since all of you are in this conversation, I will just write one long reply here. It's very fun. I wish we have of this type of discussion, and I wish I will have more time for it.
First, let me try to pitch in with my perspective about noise. I actually thought about it when I was doing stats and machine learning way back. And I think I have a way to reconcile the different perspectives. At first, I was going to write it as a full blown blog article by itself, but since you all responded here, I'll just continue the discussion here. The two different perspectives are:
(A). Unwanted data variation are noise with respect to the problem.
(B). Unexplained data variance are noise with respect to the model.
There is no right or wrong views here, just a different reference.
(A) If we focused on the problem, then anything that does not help us address the problem is not relevant to the problem at hand. If the problem is a fraud detection, then yes, you need data from both the normal as well as the fraud activities. Fraud detection is equivalent to the statistical problem of outlier detection, which is a subclass of problem under umbrella of density estimation. And density estimation does require a lot of data.
But there are still lots of irrelevant data for this fraud detection problem. Any data that would contaminate the underlying distribution of normal behaviors (or the distribution of fraud behaviors) that are not classified as fraud would be irrelevant. As Dean mentioned, these may be (a) transactions you will never see again, (b) known errors in the data, (c) data that we don't want to represent the underlying distribution, both the normal behavior and the fraud behavior. If we take perspective (A), these would be considered noise (with respect to the problem).
The problem with perspective (A) is that for a different problem, these unwanted data (noise), may all of a sudden become totally relevant (signal). So what is noise (irrelevant data to the problem) changes as we switch from one problem to another as I described in this article.
(B) Now, if we are focused on the model, everything changes. If we spend years building the model, training it, etc., and we believe our model is correct. It's elegant and predictive, and has everything we want in a good model, then it is natural that we take perspective (B). If the model is perfect, then anything variation in the data that cannot be predicted by the model must be statistically random. And that is why statisticians call these noise.
The trouble with perspective (B) is that if you alter your model parameters, or use a completely different model, you will alter what the model can predict, as well as, what it cannot predict. So the unexplained variance changes as we switched models. If we use a simple linear model, the noise may be huge, and if we use a more complex models (e.g. neural networks, support vector machines, random forest, boosting, ensemble classifiers and regression, etc.), the model may fit the data better. Consequently, the noise becomes much smaller. So what is noise (unexplained data variance with respect to the model) in one model may become signals in a different model.
Being a mathematician/statistician and using machine learning for almost 10 years now, I rarely come across a model that I considered perfect. As Carla mention, situational constrains (e.g. time, funding, etc.) often forces premature termination of the model refinement exercise. However, I believe that all models can be improved until we get into the overfitting regime. Even the random data variations in the data that are often treated as noise can be model explicitly as a noise term in the model. That is why I often treat unexplained variance in data as a combination of two things (a) failure of the model, (b) poor assumption about the noise generation mechanism.
OK, I hope I've reconciled the two different perspective on "noise."
Now let's talk about the less heavy stuff.
Dean, Carla and Ned, I enjoy very much these type of academic discussion and debates. That is how we can all learn from each other and understand the different perspectives out there. Unfortunately, twitter is just not a conducive environment for these in depth discussion. Imagine repeating this discussion 140 characters at a time. That is why I really appreciate that you are willingness to carry the conversation here on my blog. It's awesome! And I am usually very responsive on my blog (unless I'm traveling).
As Dean mention, I would love to meet all of you in person too. In fact, Ned actually met me couple years ago while visiting San Francisco (SF). And we all started with these academic debates on my blog here on lithosphere. So please ping me next time if you visit SF, if I'm in town, I'd love to get together.
Carla, I totally agree that experience is huge. I was using machine learning to model how our brain process visual information for my PhD. And exploratory data analysis is always the first step. Basically it is playing with data. Our brain is able to pick up obscure trends and minute patterns better anything. In fact, that is how I spot real practicing data scientist from talking heads full of theories. That is not to say that theory is not important. I do a fair amount of theoretical work myself too, but actual experience with different kind of data is what make the different between a good data scientist and a great one.
Alright, this reply is getting very long. I hope enjoyed reading it as much as I wrote it.
Any discussion is ALWAYS welcome here. So please chime in if you are intrigued.
For now, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
Hope to see all of you next time.
Hello Ramon,
Thank you for commenting on my blog here.
First of all, I'm a scientist, not an industry analyst, so I don't really like to comment about anyone's technology publicly. I believe whatever the technolgy is, the market will figure out what is good and what is important and outcompete the marketing types. So I always go back to the basic principles.
Compression is definitely not a new idea. In fact, many columns store technologies do compress the data in the column because they are of similar type, and compress better. It is not a bad idea. But I certainly don't think that is the ONLY way to deal with data explosion. I can understand how you believe that is the case since that is your business.
But I do believe that as computing power increase, compression will just be a transparent layer between storage/transmission and computation/presentation. Basically everything will be compressed unless there is a need to use the data in the uncompressed format (e.g. for computation, presentation, etc.). It will just be something so standard that we don't even have to think about it.
Anyway, thank you for commenting. See you next time!
Hi Michael,
Thanks for a detailed response. Like you I too enjoy these exchanges (I guess once an academic, there is a part of you that is always 'research' oriented) and learn a lot from it.
I found it interesting that you took a position on noise in terms of problems and models. I agree with your statements relative to these. However, I feel (unless I misunderstood) there is also a third perspective here.
Noise related to both ' problem' or 'a model' are context specific as you mention. Noise for one problem can be a signal for another. Similarly, noise for one model can become signal if the model is tweaked or altered or for a different model.
The third perspective I am talking about is noise that is always irrelevant and meanignless irrespective of the model used or problem analyzed and so has to be either removed or corrected (Of course, one could argue that the problem might be estimating the noise itself in which case the noise is the 'signal'). One example I can think of is in text analytics where errors, degraded inputs and speech disfluencies can make the data/input noisy. These need to be addressed before any model building is undertaken.
I guess one could say that the problem is "analyzing the text" and thus classify it in your first category. The reason for me separting this out is because we could address multiple problems by looking at the same 'textbase' and there can be noise that is underlying to all of them.
Would you agree? Or would you classify this under one of your two categories?
Hello Ned,
Thank you for continuing the discussion.
However, personally I don't think there are data that are completely useless (i.e. data that are always noise) irrespective of the model or the problem.
Even for the cases that you mentioned where the data are either captured or stored with errors, those data could still be very useful for the problem of understanding why these errors occur. And I'm not making these up, these problems are very real. Engineers often need to analyze error data in order to improve the instruments or devices for data capture/storage.
Mathematically, the set of all possible models and the set of all possible problems are both infinite. And they can pretty much cover everything. So, even though I have not gone through and write down a proof for this, I suspect that noise with these respect two perspectives are pretty general.
So as you already suspected, this would be subsummed in perspective (A) in my reply above.
Therefore I must disagree with your presumption here.
Anyway, good discussion either way. See you next time.
As an analyst not a data scientist the ideas were thought provoking.
This approach does not apply to all use cases.
Why not leverage the endless hours of work, progress and improvement of big data output captured in thousands of reports used daily? Some of those reports have been audited; others reviewed by multiple functional experts derived from complex systems, web, PDF, etc.
There is a place for all methods but the report mining method could help direct more funds to complex big data projects while getting immediate ROI from a report warehouse or ad hoc use.
For example why capture all the detail financial transactions that will contain countless errors when you can have them correctly classified, accounted for and analyzed in reports that has been reviewed by experts or audited. I'm sure this could apply to not just operational functions but other data projects.
Thanks for the article. John
Thanks for this blog, I enjoyed very much your explanation about noise, by the way.
I'm very interested in knowing more about this, because it also articulates succintly the importance of context on the searching and filtering (if you do have a set of questions) and the analysis and interpretation (if you do not, and you have to formulate them once you have the pool of data at your hands).
I agree with you on the need to invest on the possibilities of data even before the interested parties may know what to do with it, but in my work environment I've also seen a lot of misticism with regards of Big Data (or any kind of data) in some audiences.
For what I have seen, I think it is easy for business people to get trapped in the promise and rhetoric of it, and pursue some initiatives for which they lack the specific questions AND the technical power to 'just explore'. Sometimes organizations do have the hard technical power, but there is no effective communication between that group of people and the people that could shed some light on the signals that could be right for a specific context.
I hear a lot (and I agree) that we have to foster data literacy for the whole organization, but until we get there I'm afraid it will continue to be 'magic' for some people, with the inevitable crash when they see they are not getting 'tangible results' once the initial excitement is over. This disenchantment might undermine further data initiatives, and that would be a pitty.
I will stay tuned to your writting and the discussion of the community.
Thanks all. Ana J.
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The Toy Story 3 party finally came and went today and it was such a great time! The candy buffet set up went really smoothly and Abby and I were invited to attend this super fun and colorful celebration for Evah, the sweetest little birthday girl. Check out the pics below for all the cheery details. Enjoy!
The backyard spread.
The birthday girl love, love, loves Jesse from Toy Story, so these sugar cookies are my "tip of the hat" to her.
The aliens have landed and they brought their rocket ship! These space alien cupcakes are a total riot and I couldn't be more pleased with how they turned out.
Butter cream icing
The hostess requested these Mr Potato Head cake pops by Bakerella, which I recreated here. Tons of work, but a great payoff.
Potato Head detail.
The wildly talented Theresa Willerford from Lollypops and Slingshots, who referred me for this party (thankyouverymuch!), created this fabulous cake for the birthday girl. How great is Andy's bed surrounded by all of his childhood friends? I mean I could lay my head on that fluffy pillow right now. So cute!
Cake detail.
I individually packaged these gummi green army men and created this display to give them maximum impact on the table.
These Buzz Lightyear lollipops originally came with Toy Story themed Valentines and make perfect mini cupcake toppers. Two treats in one - what a lucky find!
Rainbow gum balls fill containers and bring tons of color and a happy childhood vibe to the table.
Another special request from the hostess, Hamm (aka Evil Dr. Porkchop) cake pops.
Rainbow swirl pops get a big dose of Jesse.
I surprised the hostess with these Mr. Pricklepants cupcakes, which she was super enthusiastic about. Abby's Peter Pan hat gets some minor (temporary) alterations to stand in as a centerpiece for this cupcake display.
Sugar cookie badges.
To go goody bags
Abby tries a Mini Buzz Cake.
Evah, the birthday girl (left), was such a little sweetheart, and she and Abby got along from the jump.
Toy Story activity books
Paint your own piggy bank station
Oh, yeah. And did I mention the ponies?! Abs and Evah loved Dolly the Donkey and Blue the white pony (?). The handlers were great and gave them ride after ride. Such a great party!
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This honor goes to the October 1977 issue of Dirt Bike magazine, which had an authoritative Darth Vader looming large over his trusty dirt bike, "Droid." The fact that such a pairing never made it to The Empire Strikes Back just reeks of wasted potential.
This image comes to us courtesy of the Star Wars magazine cover archive. Other strong contenders for the above headline's superlative are the November 1977 issue of 1001 Van and Truck Ideas, Custom Vans circa April '78, the March 1980 issue of 321 Contact (which seemed to imply Empire was a covert documentary) and the not safe for work February 1978 cover of Film and Filming magazine, which juxtaposed Luke Skywalker next to some casual nudity.
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"Architecture against drones is not just a science-fiction scenario but a contemporary imperative," writes Asher J. Kohn.
Kohn, an American law student and editor of The Tuqay, a website covering "Central Asia and its hinterlands," has recently put forth a theoretical proposal for a city built to passively shield its residents against this ultramodern tool of warfare -- a drone-deflecting city. He created it for a class he was auditing in extreme architecture, and it has since been picked up for discussion by several websites.
Kohn's envisioned drone-proof community, which he calls "Shura City," is a thought experiment, a provocation (shura, Arabic for consultation, is a word associated with group decision-making in the Islamic world). It's a self-contained environment with elaborate architectural devices designed to thwart robotic predators overhead. Minarets, along with the wind-catching cooling towers called badgirs, would obstruct the flight path of the drones. A latticed roof, extending over the entire community, would create shade patterns to make visual target identification difficult. A fully climate-controlled environment would confuse heat-seeking detection systems. He has not included any anti-aircraft weapons in this scenario.
Shura City's design looks like a sci-fi riff on Middle Eastern building traditions. Yet the circumstances Kohn is responding to are no futuristic construct. The drone war is a very real fact of today, coming under increasing international scrutiny. Just this week, NBC News released a U.S. Justice Department white paper it had obtained detailing the government's legal justification for the use of lethal force against U.S. citizens abroad who are suspected of being top Al Qaeda agents – attacks that in practice are almost always carried out by drones.
And of course, U.S. drones don't just target U.S. citizens. Hundreds of drone attacks have been executed in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia since the practice began under the Bush Administration in 2002. These forays have proliferated under President Obama's tenure. The United Nations is just now launching an investigation into the practice of targeted killing by drone strike and other means, but critics say it won't go far enough.
Reports on the number of people killed vary widely, because the drone war has been shrouded in secrecy. But the independent Bureau for Investigative Journalism in the United Kingdom estimates numbers as high as 3,461 in Pakistan, 1,112 in Yemen, and 170 in Somalia — including hundreds of civilians, many of them children.
As Conor Friedersdorf wrote for The Atlantic last fall, these strikes have become a terrifying fact of life for significant numbers of people. Those people would probably be happy to live in an environment that offered some protection against these aerial bombardments, the same way that people around the world have hurried to retreat from crime to the perceived sanctuary represented by more traditional gated communities.
Kohn, an American, told me that some people have attacked his idea as anti-American. A few of his critics insisted on calling the drone-proof city a "compound," a term he objects to. "This isn't a compound, it's a family home," he writes in an email. "Nobody would call … the gated community I grew up in a 'compound.' Was it a compound only when family was visiting for Thanksgiving? Or when I had friends over for the Super Bowl? It's not a compound, it's a community. A passive gated community. What's so scary about that?"
Kohn writes in his proposal that he envisions Shura City as a brick-and-mortar response to a 21st-century conundrum, a world in which war is ill-defined and combatants on both sides live in an extrajudicial limbo:
As a law student, I am fascinated by drones' existence in a post-legal world. Architecture can adapt, and this project clearly aims to show just those adaptations, but American jurisprudence is simply not capable of making clear, comforting, adjudications on drones and the sorts of crimes they have been created to deter. Architecture as a discipline has a long history of being capable of developing within the cracks left by law.
Kohn elaborated on his thoughts in an email to me. "In the case of drones, the current legal regime is just wholly unprepared for warfare by algorithm," he writes. "Architecture can work where law cannot by giving dignity and safety to people physically when they are not afforded those privileges legally."
Kohn does imagine the construction of a few unlikely high-tech physical defenses, such as window grilles (mashrabiyas) that would somehow contain embedded QR-type codes that would cause drones to self-destruct. But most of his design plays on types of structures that already exist, all in service of the ancient instinct of a community to protect itself against intruders:
If there are people who want to strike with constant fear, the best defense is a life of comfort free from that fear. Shura City is constructed to be livable. It is built according to local logic, using local materials, and amenable to local needs. It is meant to be alien – but not hostile – from the outside while homey and familiar from the inside. It is meant to confuse the machines and their distant operators while creating a safe zone for people whose lives are being rended by war. … Shura City is about using architecture to create a space for humanity in an increasingly inhuman sphere.
Kohn says that he thinks it is a duty for his generation to challenge the newly mechanized means of warfare that have become routine over the last 10 years. "If people are going to create new and exciting ways to kill people, I think there's no harm in pushing the envelope of peace technology," he says. Imagining Shura City is part of Kohn's personal response to that challenge, a way to hack the machines of modern war.
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"We see hundreds of these targeted attacks every day," said Steve Quane, chief product officer at Trend Micro. Often called "advanced persistent threats," these APT attacks compromise employee PCs, often starting with a spoofed email with a malware-based attachment directed at a target. If the spear-phishing attack is successful, the hunt is on to get to sensitive information, such as what might be in a database. On compromised machines, there's often activity indicating the attacker is seeking to connect out to a command-and-control server for instructions or to send data, and Trend's Custom Defense concept is aimed at detecting that and stopping it.
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Custom security updates are basically custom signatures related to specific IP address and domain blacklists that the enterprise can define based on APT-style attacks that are detected, said Quane, adding that by year-end, Trend Micro expects to have the ability to generate custom antivirus signatures as well.
The concept with custom signatures is to be able to add them to Trend's email protection product as well as its Web gateway, endpoint security and ScanMail for Exchange, as part of an APT defense strategy.
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The Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, known for his strong support of California's same-sex marriage ban, was officially appointed late last week by the Vatican as the archbishop of San Francisco.
Cordileone, 56, had been the presiding bishop of Oakland, The Associated Press reported, but will now take up one of the top bishop positions in the Unites States when he replaces Archbishop George Niederauer in October. The San Francisco Archdiocese serves 400,000 members in the city and neighboring Marin and San Mateo counties.
Currently, same-sex marriage is not legally recognized in California, and Cordileone played an important role four years ago with the passage of Proposition 8, which ended the state's short-term status when it granted marriage licenses to homosexual couples. Besides supporting the bill, the bishop also helped raise money to bring it to the ballot – voter records indicate he made a personal donation of at least $6,000 toward the ban.
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Thief leaves phone in jewelry store after robbery
Man believed to be responsible for other thefts
A jewel thief has been identified by police by the cell phone he left behind at the scene of the crime.
Police said 27-year-old Germain Ibrahim Fofana and a woman entered a jewelry store in London with a child in a stroller, The Associate Press reports. Fofana and the woman were looking at engagement rings and then left. The suspect returned later, alone, and grabbed two diamond rings and a wedding band before bolting out of the store.
Fofana left his cell phone in the store, with a photo of himself as the screensaver.
Police said the thief is believed to be responsible for other jewel heists in the London area.
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There are many flower fragrances in Ladies Perfume prices in South Africa used in perfumes but no fragrance can beat the smell of Rose which is known as the 'Queen of Flowers'. Roses are known for not only their beauty but also for their delicate scent and fragrant oil. Rose oil is one of the valuable ingredients in most perfumes for women. Rose Perfumes are feminine and classy and favorite with most women. Given below are some popular rose fragrances.
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2) Yardley English Rose: When speaking of Rose fragrances how can I forget Yardley English Rose? This English rose perfume is one of the popular from the brand of Yardley. With its own unique blend of this timeless fragrance Yardley English Rose by Yardley of London for Women has been enchanting women around the world for generations. If you love the smooth and refreshed feeling Yardley English Rose can work the magic for you.
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Wearing Rose fragrances are considered to be classy and romantic. If you like to smell like Roses all the floral fragrances for women listed above can help. These are also popular choices during Summer and also as gifts for women.
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Ferraris are sometimes fragile machines that roast engines as well as they roast tires. It takes a bold owner to do a burnout in one. That or you just have to bet him $500 that he won't do it.
Reader FalconHoon tells the story of this 430 doing burnouts for a bet Down Under.
At Powercruise 29 (Massive burnout, drag car, drift party 2011) a few Ferrari owners brought their pride and joy out. Well, Gup (The organiser who owns a 747ci Commodore) decided to rile them up a bit "I'm offering $500 to any of you pansies who will do a burnout in your Ferrari."
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I had a friend in college who spent a lot of time dissecting frozen rat brains (or something), which I always thought was funny but she swore was part of important neurological research.Yglesias is poking gentle fun, of course, but I found his tossed-off comment distressing. It indicated that, even at Harvard, it was difficult to bridge the 'two cultures' divide. Two things that I found disappointing: he didn't remember the 'how' correctly, and he couldn't connect the 'how' with the 'why.'
|A section of placenta. While I love chemistry, biology really
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slide, where they can melt and adhere. The slides can then be stained for morphology and presence of DNA, RNA or protein. The pictures that they can capture can be stunning. The most visually stunning 'how' technique in biology -- and he makes it sound like she's mashing frozen Hot Pockets.
What may be more disappointing is that Yglesias didn't remember (or his friend failed to press into him) the 'why' of what she was doing. Doubtless, there was an unknown region of the brain, or a key receptor or a new protein that would have shed light on some aspect of neurology. But sadly, that information is lost to him.
It got me to thinking about chemistry and people's perception of us as chemists. What do people think of us? Do they know the 'what' of chemistry or the 'how'? Do they know the 'why'?
What do people think of us? Well, according to this ACS study from 2000, honestly, they don't think of us at all. When they do, they're mostly vaguely positive. They're not so sure about the chemical industry (and these days, they're probably not keen on the pharmaceutical industry, either.)
Do they know the 'what'? To be blunt, I think the public thinks they know the 'what': we're chemists. We work with chemicals. (What are chemicals? That's someone else's post, I think.) To hear the jokes, of course, we're always making bad smells or blowing ourselves up. Thanks to AMC (and lots of other reasons), chemists and chemistry is also connected with recreational drugs. I don't think anyone blames 'Breaking Bad' for the perceptions of chemists (although some might), but it certainly doesn't help much.
Certainly, the federal government knows what we do -- that's a relief. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' description is pretty pat: "Conduct[s] qualitative and quantitative chemical analyses or experiments in laboratories for quality or process control or to develop new products or knowledge."
Do they know the 'why'? I don't know. I assume that they do. Chemists certainly do -- most chemistry papers make a least a head-fake towards the why: "We're making whateverol because we think it might have anticancer properties." "We're looking at the properties of gallium-arsenide quantum nanodots to make faster computers." "We're studying this polymer to make cheaper, greener plastics." That's the easier part, and the place where I think the public's perception of chemists is the closest to reality.
Do they know the 'how'? I think their perception of the 'how' is grossly distorted. In short, chemists look at chemicals. Check out these pictures -- there we are, chemists, staring at chemicals stored in glassware. Sometimes we look at them in the light, sometimes we look really hard at them, sometimes we raise them above our heads, sometimes we look at them with inspiration, but we look at them. Pages and pages of stock photos of chemists, and not a single photo that looks anything like a technique that I would recognize (although, it should be noted, that there is a wide diversity in what chemists look like.)
|Professor Test-Tube on the right is a crowd favorite, I'm sure.
I have no great science communication insights to share (yeah, no kidding. -ed.), nor solutions to the clear problems with the public perception of chemists. As someone who can't stop talking about chemistry and science with his friends and family (no matter how hard he tries), all I have to offer is the following that I've gleaned over the last two weeks of thinking over this problem:
Does it all matter? While I am sorely tempted to say that public perception of chemists doesn't matter, the cold truth is that it does. The chemical sciences (and industrial chemistry, certainly) are deeply intertwined with the economy and with the political, legal and regulatory systems of government. Communicating chemistry with candor and clarity is one of the few means we have to make sure our voices as chemists are heard.
If you've gotten this far, dear reader, thanks and I'd love to hear your thoughts. (And many thanks to Dr. Free Ride and her post on communicating chemistry informally -- it was an eye-opener.)


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We were out at the Ortona Burial Mounds near La Belle, Florida this afternoon and we kept coming across these ant colonies! They were in just plain, white sand and seemed quite large in size compared to most ants we see around here. I wish we had something we could have used for scale, granted we were equiped with a camera but not much else other than hands and we all agreed we were not using those! These seem to be the worker ants but there were a few ants with much larger heads almost soldiering about while the others did their work. We were not sure if they were a type of bull ant or a beefed up version of the typical fire ants we see down here. It would be wonderful if you could let us know what they are! We do also have a video of them moving about and if you would like to see it please let me know and I can email that as well!
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Hi Heather,
Thanks for your interest and observations! Based on the photograph and some of the clues you provided, I'm guessing these are Pogonomyrmex badius, otherwise known as Florida harvester ants. This species is unique in being the only one of 22 harvester ant species in the U.S. that occurs east of the Mississippi River. As you noted, these ants are considerably larger than most other ant species we're used to seeing, and they also display strong worker polymorphism, with major workers having larger bodies and disproportionately larger heads than minors. P. badius colonies nest almost exclusively in dry, sandy conditions in relatively open woodlands or grassy fields, which would explain their preponderance in the sandy clearings around the Ortona Mounds complex.
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Martin B. Dickinson was named the Robert A. Schroeder Distinguished Professor of Law in 1986. He is a nationally recognized authority in estate planning and taxation and a co-author of standard publications in those fields. He joined the KU law faculty in 1967 and served as dean from 1971 to 1980. He retired in 2015. Highly respected as a teacher and mentor, Dickinson received the Immel Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997; the Moreau Student Counseling Award in 1988, 1995, 1997 and 2009; the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1988; and a Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence in 2002. The Kansas Bar Association has conferred the President's Award for Outstanding Service and the Phil Lewis Medal of Distinction on Dickinson. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas, a master's degree from Stanford University, and a law degree from the University of Michigan, where he was editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review. He has received the ALI-ABA Harrison Tweed Award for excellence in continuing legal education. Dickinson is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the American College of Tax Counsel, and the American Bar Foundation.
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Estate planning, estate and gift taxation, and income taxation
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Associate, Holme, Roberts and Owen, Denver, 1964-67; Assistant Professor, Kansas 1967-69, Associate Professor 1969-71; Visiting Associate Professor, Michigan 1970; Professor, Kansas 1971-86; Visiting Associate Professor, Colorado 1971; Dean, Kansas 1971-80; Of Counsel, Barber, Emerson, Springer, Zinn & Murray, Lawrence 1980-2002; Robert A. Schroeder Professor since 1986; Consortium Professor, London, fall 1988.
American College of Tax Counsel; American College of Trust & Estate Counsel; Fellows of the American Bar Foundation; Order of the Coif; Chairman, Accreditation Comm., ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, 1981-82; Kansas Tax Review Commission, 1984; Probate Advisory Committee, Kansas Judicial Council, 2002-present.
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- "Taxation of Estates, Gifts and Trusts" (with others) (23rd ed. 2006)


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