Okay, I sort of dropped the ball on this one. I have a free pass up for grabs to the O’Reilly Strata Conference next week, February 1 to 3. Here’s the short description:
Unprecedented computing power and connectivity are bringing new layers of experience to our lives in how we manage and present data sets of all sizes.
Throughout three days of training, breakout sessions, and plenary discussions, O’Reilly Strata connects the decision-makers, practitioners, and leading vendors from enterprise and the web who are at the leading edge of this space. Topics include data science, acquisition, organization, machine learning, visualization, and more.
Want to win the free pass? Leave a comment below by Friday, January 28, 2011 at 7pm PST. Tell us what super power you’d want if you could only pick one. I’ll pick a comment randomly and email you the discount code. Please only enter if you know you can attend February 1-3 in Santa Clara, California. I’d hate the pass to go to waste.
If you don’t want to leave it up to the randomized gods and just want to register now, it’s not too late to do that either. You can register here and get a 25% discount. The program looks like it’ll be a good one.
Update: Congrats to Tyson! “I’d like to fly”
The power to max out the potential of the powers I already have. Boom!
Ability to fly.
The ability to crunch numbers faster than a super computer. Imagine all the “good” decisions you could make if you could compute all outcomes with weighing probabilities. *Drooling*.
The power to enable infinite scrolling on any website just by thinking it would enhance my user experience.
Seems like a fantastic opportunity to learn and to meet emerging talent. Looking forward to it.
The ability to control the randomized gods.
Healing like Wolverine. I’ve always thought that was such an awesome power.
To summon and control swarms of flaming hummingbirds.
Seeking counterintuitive empiricism…
the ability to be invisible!
Absolute Travel: go anywhere, anytime, on earth or elswhere
I want Blake Griffin’s super powers.
The ability to fly!
I’d like to be the Flash. Not only would that super-speed come in handy for visiting the children, but I’d be able to start even later on deadlined projects.
Ability to Teleport.
Immortality, I’d have time to build the rest.
I want to time travel!
Power to not need sleep, but still be able of I wanted to.
The power to control a computer with my mind. Input devices are SO 20th Century…
The power to win tickets to Strata conference : )
Omnipotence
If I could have only one super power, it would be to learn anything and everything by watching a video. Or by downloading it directly to my brain.
Read minds, although there are some things I probably wouldn’t want to know …
My ultimate superpower? Invisibility in the dark…
Time travel, of course! Wait—did I already post that?
I’d like to fly
To receive messages from the future.. but without that Cassandra effect..
I’d like to see the future with complete clarity.
teleportation!
I’d like have a totally flawless visual/photographic memory!! I live in Santa Clara!
Live in Bay Area. Don’t need a super power, but one of the 3 elven rings doesn’t sound so bad.
I’d be Matter-Eater Lad.
I’d like to have the power to make more time in the day to do all the things I need to do.
I’d choose the ability to breathe underwater.
The ability to persuade.
To go out in the rain without melting!
To fly through L.A. traffic.
Ability to convert myself to pure energy (and fly)
The power to envision and apportion perfect salsa to tortilla chip proportions.
I’m sure… invisibility!
Ability to get through airport security without an enhanced pat down.
For me it’s always been the Mary Poppins ability to cause complete strangers on the street to simultaneously burst in to a choreographed song and dance number. I could have a lot of fun with that.
The ability to make the kitchen STAY clean.
I think I would like to master any subject on demand.
The ability to do massive matrix operations in my head