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Counting SandBonus: Season 1 RecapAngelo begins this episode with reflections on history and what brought us to the AI Winter. Why do we need a balance between research and practice? You don’t want to rediscover what has already been discovered or settle for something that could be better if you took the time to research a bit more. In episode 4 we meet Angelo’s friend Andy Lee who talks about computer science predicting our biological age. Andy actually met Greg Fahy who talked about longevity. The study focused on injecting the thymus gland with a growth hormone that produced regeneration effects. ...2022-01-2521 min
Counting SandThe Boundaries of Personal DataAngelo and Manos' connection began in the 265 Course at Harvard University on Big Data Systems. This course inspired Angelo's thesis. The two discuss Manos' papers and how the future of Big Data is on the boundaries of Moore's Law. If you think about LSM trees (Log-Structured Merge Trees) and compacting data, what is considered acceptable deletion when users ask for their data to be removed? Is it when the data is removed from the identifying user that is good enough? In the analysis of Big Data Systems, considerations are always towards performance. An extensive delete sequence will cause a s...2021-12-2832 min