[Links of the day] 17/05/2016: CMU DB lectures , Seminal IA papers, Storage noisy neighbors

• Database Systems Lectures: Carnegie Mellon University lectures on database system. It gives a really good overview of the state of the art of database systems.
• Intelligence without representation & Intelligence Without Reason : 1991 Seminal paper by Rodney A. Brooks from the MIT artificial intelligence lab. In these the author argue that intelligent behavior could be generated without having explicit manipulable internal representations and it also can be generated without having explicit reasoning systems present.
• Noisy Neighbor analysis : a look at the effect of deploying heavy workload onto modern storage systems and the collateral effect on overall performance for all the participant in the cluster.