Big Data, internet of things, graphene, and Java's death

Big Data hasn't been on the debate desk until this very moment, because it was unlikely that we'd be able to deal with such amount of information, given our current communication lines. 

That has changed in the last years, and thanks to new materials, and new algorithms, even new computational systems in a short period not far from the present, we'll be using applications which use tremendous quantities of data. But I'll explain the details:


What's exactly Big Data?

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Programming languages: Next Generation

Everyone inside this little world of programming knows the existence of C, C++, Perl, Java, Ruby, Python, and others not so well known. But there are hundreds, even thousands, from Turing-complete languages to more specifically made ones i.r.t. classification.

In this post we're gonna introduce you briefly about the next generation. Even about where they might end eventually. Because at this moment they are specializing, even the Turing-complete ones, to be better at some purpose, while others are merging the old ones. Let's start this:

1. Slow and powerful languanges:

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The perfect program

One day you wake up, and you'll see that what you are doing, specifically, it's not getting you closer to your dreams, to your goals, to... Well, you get my point. That happens more often than we use to realize in time, neither it last for too long.

Too much on my plate?

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A* algorithm to solve a K-th puzzle with artifical intelligence.

Climbing is sometimes rooting up around. What defines intelligence is something that can't be measured completely. As a matter of fact many sort of those exists and are well known.

What i had to do these past few days was driving me nuts. To program accordingly to a given API, 2 classes, 1 as a client, to automatically solve it and find the shortest path to the solution. This to be done in the smallest possible time. I won't say it was easy. My main problem is that i have to visualize internally what my program does, as if i was looking it at a screen, and this couldn't be done here until the very end. I didn't use the Solver Visualizer a colleague made,

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A.I. vs human mental block: Trying to avoid the brain death factor...

Yeah, you read me. 

I'm taking a little break on my week assignment about Algorithms. This time we're suppose to create a few data type structures, combining them in two classes, and rearranging it to automatically solve an NxN puzzle, from 3x3 to 128x128, in the minimum possible steps. It's like an artificial intelligence program with a single purpose, like most of them.

Here's an animation on what I'm building: 

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The inner core

Everyone needs a goal, something to drive them straight to the top, keeping them from taking sideways.

I called it my inner core. It's not the same as the 'place' where i get my strength from, it's more the place i look on to when i raise my sight, plus the small list in my mind of things i need to get along the way. It's a post-it every part of your house, car, or places you go. A big reminder. DO THIS, DO THAT, and DON'T FORGET YOU NEED THOSE. Sort of...

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Where does my strengh come from?

I'm taking a break from my algorithms class, from Princeton University. It's a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), that I'm doing right now, until October. At least the first part. I'll continue afterwards with part II, plus the other courses I'm doing this year. It's being VERY hard.

My timetable makes me get up early in the morning. I mean,

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Starting to breath the code

I've been learning about programming languages since i was a teenager, even a little when i was a little boy. But that was just having fun, or schooling. I always had dreams of how would be a program made by me... But then happened life. That "thing" that occurs when you start making big plans, and then you fall, and you do it big and hard.

But this summer i took a decision,

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