Raft, a better Paxos?

https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf

Map Reduce

Map Reduce: It's so scalable, just add more machines!
Map Reduce: Good thing too, because it's so brain dead you are going to end up running over the same data 10 times.
Map Reduce: We couldn't hire decent programmers so we made up for it by buying more machines.

Lasers!

More fuel for my all-seeing laser detector of the future:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/using-lasers-to-find-land-mines-and-ieds/0
This article solves the problem of detecting gaseous chemicals. Apparently the lasing creates an area that reflects radar pulses when the target chemical is present.

And the original that got me thinking:
http://gizmodo.com/5923980/the-secret-government-laser-that-instantly-knows-everything-about-you


-JD

support vectors

http://see.stanford.edu/materials/aimlcs229/cs229-notes3.pdf