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  • Profiling Satoshi 1/3 – Demographics

    The identity of the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has become a topic of great interest and mystery in recent times. However, this was not the case when the Bitcoin white paper was first published in October 2008. The initial reception of the publication was lukewarm, with only four contributors commenting critically on it before…

  • The difference between Oracle Cloud and AWS Cloud

    In recent times, Oracle’s stock price has experienced a significant surge, propelling its CEO, Larry Ellison, back into the list of the top ten wealthiest men globally. This success is largely attributed to the company’s successful transition to cloud computing. However, it would be a mistake to assume that Oracle is similar to Amazon, the…

  • What it would take for AI to take our jobs?

    What it would take for AI to take our jobs?

    AI-powered tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney’s image generator have incredible abilities, leading to mainstream fears of AI taking over the world. Talk on online media and social media alike is not about whether AI will replace humans but when they will do so and whether this will be good or bad or even leave any…

  • Amazons journey from an online book retailer to cloud computing giant

    Amazons journey from an online book retailer to cloud computing giant

    On August 3rd, Amazon will share its earnings report, with a significant portion attributed to its cloud division. If you’re curious about Amazon’s journey from an online book retailer to a cloud computing powerhouse, here is a short overview based on my book, “Cloud Computing Basics” The story of Amazon is the story of its…

  • No closer to intelligent systems

    No closer to intelligent systems

    Much attention has been given lately to the success of Artificial Intelligence. The abilities of ChatGPT 3 and Dall E-2 are impressive. Apart from the fact that they sound like droids from Starwars, there is not much to suggest that they are the harbinger of any fundamental advance towards creating a general artificial intelligence. We…

  • The prospects of circular IT development

    Iterative or agile development in one flavor or other has become the standard for IT development today. It is in many contexts an improvement on plan based or waterfall development, but it inherits some of the same basic weaknesses. Like plan-based development it is based on decomposing work into atomic units of tasks with the…

  • Feature creep is a function of human nature – how to combat it

    When we develop tech products, we are always interested in how to improve them. We listen to customers’ requests based on what they need, and we come up with ingenious new features we are sure that they forgot to request. Either way product development inevitably becomes an exercise in what features we can add in…

  • Move Fast and Do No Harm

    The advent of SARS-COV-2 has mobilized many tech people with ample resources and a wealth of ideas. A health crisis like this virus calls for all the help we can get. However, the culture of the tech sector exemplified with the phrase “Move fast and break things” is orthogonal to that of medicine exemplified with…

  • How truck traffic data may detect the bottom of the the current market

    How truck traffic data may detect the bottom of the the current market

    It seems evident we are on our way to a recession . This will prove a challenge for many, and our world economies will suffer. Not least the stock market. We are similarly probably headed for a bear market. But the stock market is ahead of the curve and typically turns around about 5 months before…

  • Using traffic data to understand the impact of COVID -19 measures

    Using traffic data to understand the impact of COVID -19 measures

    We at Sensorsix have built a tool for ambient intelligence. Ambient intelligence is knowledge about what goes on around us. In our case it is built on what we can learn about human mobility from sensors. We have been in stealth until now working on a prototype to quantify the flow of human movement in…

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