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2015/08/072015/08/06

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Begins to Understand Very High Cost of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Google: Technical Debt Has Implications for Some AI Cheerleaders

If you are interested in smart software, you may want to read “Machine Learning: the High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt.” I like the credit card analogy. It combines big costs with what some folks see as a something-for-nothing feature of the modern world. … The paper identifies specific cost points which most MBAs happily ignore or downplay in post mortems of failed search and content processing companies. The whiz kids, both boys and girls, rationalize their failure to deal with shifting boundaries, “dark dependencies,” expensive spaghetti, and the tendency of smart software to sort of drift off center.

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2015/08/072015/08/06

Berto Jongman: Homeland Security Obsession with Terror to Exclusion of All Else

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, 10 Security, 11 Society, IO Impotency

14 plots, 65 arrests, 300 million citizens & illegal aliens.

PDF: Terror Snapshot (Homeland Security Committee)

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2015/08/042015/08/03

Stephen E. Arnold: MBA’s Do Not Use Intelligence

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Surprise! MBAs Do Not Make Use of Competitive Intelligence

I read “Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence but Don’t Use It.” The author, Ben Gilad, is a level headed person. His view is:

the competitive perspective is almost always the least important aspect in managerial decision-making. Internal operational issues including execution, budgets, and deadlines are paramount in a company’s deliberation, but what other players will do is hardly ever in focus. This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers.

What’s the fix? Read full post.

2015/08/032016/03/26

Reflections on Cyber-Corruption

All Reflections & Story Boards, IO Impotency

It breaks my heart to watch all things cyber continue along very corrupt paths associated with a melange of linear thinking, bureaucratic inertia, truly evil covert operations that undermine cyber-security, and of course the persistent lack of accountability.

It was my great privilege to be among the first to sound the alarm on cyber-security, joining with Winn Schwartau in sponsoring the Information Warfare Conference. Although I left that endeavor to focus on Open Source Solutions, Winn and I continue to marvel at how little everyone has learned.

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2015/08/032015/08/02

Antechinus: Human Terrain, My Ass …

Cultural Intelligence, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military, Officers Call

The US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) and the Quest to Commandeer Culture

A flurry of policy pieces written over the last several weeks have called for a new improved version of HTS, reflecting a deep longing by military-linked strategists to reboot the program. American military and intelligence agencies have a long history of seeking the sort of cultural knowledge that HTS’s architects sought to weaponize in Afghanistan and Iraq. These agencies have largely failed to harness social science for military purposes, but they stubbornly persist. Given this background — and ongoing efforts to subjugate and control foreign populations to fulfil the requirements of automated, mechanized killing via drones, algorithms, and predictive modeling programs — we should understand HTS’s termination as an exercise in retiring one brand and replacing it with newly packaged operations that are well underway. The gaps in military knowledge that HTS claimed to fill still remain. The desire to weaponize culture is as old as dreams of counterinsurgency, and such dreams do not die easily.

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2015/08/022015/08/03

Graphic: Future Finance Technology — Not Transformative at All

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Source

Tip of the Hat to Berto Jongman.

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2015/08/022015/07/31

Arno Reuser: Windows 10 Spys All

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Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out (in theory).

Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out

Phi Beta Iota: Microsoft probably uses the constant updates to do things other than update. They simply cannot be trusted anymore than Google. The global marketplace is waiting for a cloud convergence that provides absolute default security including at rest data encryption.