Infrastructure: a bunch of people who need the same thing (power, water, or the ability to get to work) find a large scale solution. Cloud computing is another version of this. For a nice writeup on the case for the cloud, see this post on James Hamilton’s excellent blog. To summarize James, most … Read More
“Anything Which Can Be Destroyed in an Action Movie”
A fun piece from John Oliver on infrastructure, which he defines as “anything which can be destroyed in an action movie”[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpzvaqypav8 The message, which you have no doubt heard before, is that we should spend more on infrastructure. What John Oliver misses is … Read More
Infrastructure: The Hidden Life of Great Cities
A data scientist rooted through millions of tweets to find words associated with either "geek" or "nerd". His name is Burr Settles and he works for Duolingo, a crowd sourcing translation platform. Settles plotted his results on this infographic. We’re not sure how many of these alternate words we … Read More
