Sunday, May 19, 2013

Predicting Aging By Accelerated Testing

My dad, Fridgan Lev, wrote the below article in 1973. The ideas were quite powerful. They allowed predicting future. Unfortunately only for a single building, not for the whole humanity.

Predicting Aging By Accelerated Testing

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Elephant Hunting for Pygmies

Here is an entertaining post by Tom Ilube, and Rob Styles. It compares introducing Big Data to a company to elephant hunting by pygmies.

The important angle to me was that a huge animal was hunted by my much smaller humans. They  stood on each other shoulders just to reach their target, and then ran like crazy not to be stomped out. 
Nowadays, we still need to work hard. However, using the right technology can replace the need for heroic efforts.