The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. We describe the problems one by one in separate sections.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. Labor participation in the United States took a direct hit in September, 2008, and hasn't recovered. The bigger the tech economy, the better off everybody is.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Innovation 52

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

For many years, I explicitly advised people not to run their SQL Server workloads on AMD hardware because of the much lower single-threaded CPU performance and consequently higher SQL Server core license costs. This has led to a very noticeable reduction in generational performance increases since Broadwell-EP, as shown in Figure 1.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46