"Too scientific. Just for special people"I thought that was a very fair and amusing reaction. Many people do come to EclipseCon expecting to find out only about information that they can use to do their day-to-day work and are understandably more interested in practice than theory. I can tell you that when I walked into a room large enough for 80 people and there were maybe 20 people spread randomly around the room, I felt more than a bit awkward. I do appreciate the EclipseCon program committee giving me the opportunity to talk to people about what might seem to be esoteric topics. And you know what, my talk actually was pretty relevant, given that we had keynotes on Hadoop (Big Data) and Watson (Big AI) and I pretty much spend half of the slides taking swipes at both.
So I was thinking, aren't there a lot of special people in the world? If you're intrigued by any of these assertions disguised as questions...
- What do Egypt, Watson, Teenage Pregnancy, Big Data, Nuclear Reactors and the Eclipse Modeling Framework have to with each other?
- Why is Big Data Big Dumb?
- Why is AI just Smart Dumb?
- What kind of reasoning approach is just as valid as Induction and Deduction?
- What do Tasktop, Butterflyzer and other Eclipse RCP apps have to do with this?
- What does this have to do with Software Development?
- What does this have to do with me?
..then watch the video and find if you're special too!
I've left out the demos; I'm going to put them into a separate video. I've also left out the architecture slides because you can find them elsewhere and they're incredibly boring even to me.
[You'll need to click directly on the blog to see the video.]
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