Radar O'reilly Quotes

When Radar O'Reilly, just out of high school, left Ottumwa, Iowa, and enlisted in the United States Army it was with the express purpose of making a career of the Signal Corps.

the best data scientists tend to be “hard scientists,” particularly physicists, rather than computer science majors. Physicists have a strong mathematical background, computing skills, and come from a discipline in which survival depends on getting the most from the data. They have to think about the big picture, the big problem.

The future belongs to the companies who figure out how to collect and use data successfully. Google, Amazon, Facebook, and LinkedIn have all tapped into their datastreams and made that the core of their success.

The ability to take data -- to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it -- that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.

The ability to take data — to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it — that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.

Making data tell its story isn’t just a matter of presenting results; it involves making connections, then going back to other data sources to verify them.

The key innovation of MapReduce is the ability to take a query over a data set, divide it, and run it in parallel over many nodes. This distribution solves the issue of data too large to fit onto a single machine.

At 5: 41 p.m., Eastern time, cheers go up in Washington, DC. This is the moment when both SEAL teams cross safely into Afghanistan. Nine minutes later, they touch down safely at Jalalabad Air Base. US intelligence will later learn that Pakistani authorities had turned off their radar on this hot Sunday night, and that even if there had been advance warning, their fighter pilots were unwilling to fly in the dark.