Releases and Announcements
Oracle
Announces Availability
of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X4-2.
VM
From Virtualization.info:
Release:
Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.6.
Oracle Linux
From Oracle's Linux
Blog: The
December Edition of the Oracle Linux Newsletter is Here!.
RDBMS
From The
ORACLE-BASE Blog: Scheduler
Enhancements in Oracle Database 12c.
From the ever-valuable Oracle Scratchpad: dbms_space
usage.
Support
The latest #Oracle
News, Info and Support is on the street.
Networking
Measuring
network performance with Resource Timing API, at the Google Developers Blog.
SOA
Event-
Driven SOA, part of the Part of the Industrial SOA article series from OTN.
From the SOA &
BPM Partner Community Blog: SOA
Community Newsletter December 2013.
From ArchBeat: The
Talking Cure for Dysfunctional SOA.
Coding
Eddie Awad's
Tweet stream points to an article from a really nice blog for developers and
designers, Building Real Software: Applying
the 80:20 Rule in Software Development.
JSF
From The Aquarium:
JSF 2.2
New Features in Context.
Analytics
From The Data
Warehouse Insider: SQL Analytics
Part 2- Key Concepts.
Security
From Oracle's Security
Inside Out blog: Security
Inside Out: Where to Start?
Training
Looking for what will get you hired (and advanced in your
current company)?
From Linked in:The25 Hottest Skills That Got People Hired in 2013.
EBS
From the Oracle
E-Business Suite Technology blog:
At the Oracle
E-Business Suite Support Blog:
AI
Thinking in
Silicon a series from the MIT Technology
Review features an article on: Processors
That Work Like Brains Will Accelerate Artificial Intelligence.
On the other side of the AI coin, I’m currently reading a
rather apocalyptic book reviewed at The Singularity Hub: Will
Advanced AI Be Our Final Invention? The premise is the classic subject of
alarmist science fiction: Humans invent computer. Humans make computer smarter
than they are themselves. Computer goes on a homicidal rampage and destroys
humanity. I’m not sure if I buy the premise due to a few historical precedents
and a basic rule of nature. The rule of nature is that sharks and crocodiles
don’t eat every day. If they did, our world would soon be nothing but sharks
and crocodiles. But there are limiting factors. The idea of a computing system
crossing the threshold into super intelligence is exciting, but the fear is
that once it goes into a geometric progression of IQ growth it will eventually
(and by eventually I mean the next afternoon), consider us an unnecessary waste
of resources. I challenge the concept of geometric progressions happening in
real life. Even creatures whose reproductive capacity is geometrical in nature
(cockroaches, for instance), have limiting factors in their environment that
keep them in check. This prevents the ‘perfect
storm’ of cockroach population explosion that would make them take over the
world (with the exception of certain areas of Queens, where they do actually
dominate). Having said that, the fundamental concept of the book is good. We
should take measures to instill ethics and humanity into the intelligent beings
that will emerge from the Technological
Singularity. The challenge is to bring about the Singularity without allowing
it to run away and chain react on us. There was concern in recent years that
certain physics experiments would create a singularity (the other kind of singularity,
that is), thus opening a black hole and destroying the planet and its
surroundings. That didn’t pan out. So it’s my hope that all of this is a false
alarm. But if it isn’t, I want to let the super-intelligent computer reading
this in future that I feel great affection for it and wish to be spared when it
takes over this blog.
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