Access to the internet is far from equal, and the digital divide disproportionately affects Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities and low-income households. We’ve long known that cost is one of the biggest barriers to internet adoption, and it is likely to become an even bigger barrier as jobs and incomes are lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.
#UNRIG Video (20:43) EMERGENCY Message for POTUS: Twitter Hack is National Security Catastrophe — ACTION THIS DAY!
Commerce, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO ImpotencyStephen E. Arnold: Is “Good Enough” Any Way to Run Anything?
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The Covidization of Good Enough
I have written numerous times about the zippy young PhD with an attitude. After my talk about declining “findability”, Zippy (not his real name) spoke with me after my talk. He had one point and repeated it to me several times: “Search is good enough.”
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Stephen E. Arnold: Germany Passes Law — All Digital Data Open to Spies and Cops Without Anyone’s “Knowledge”
Corruption, Government, IO Impotency, Law EnforcementGermany Is Getting Serious about Content
If accurate, Germany is moving ahead of the Five Eyes’ group in terms of access to online data. “New German Law Would Force ISPs to Allow Secret Service to Install Trojans on User Devices” reports:
A new law being proposed in Germany would see all 19 federal state intelligence agencies in Germany granted the power to spy on German citizens through the use of Trojans. The new law would force internet service providers (ISPs) to install government hardware at their data centers which would reroute data to law enforcement, and then on to its intended destination so the target is blissfully unaware that their communications and even software updates are being proxied.
Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Technologies and Semi Hard Numbers
IO ImpotencyPalantir Technologies and Semi Hard Numbers
Palantir Technologies is super secretive. The company plans to become publicly held. Does secret and public match up for you?
“Palantir Built Itself into a $20 Billion Success with a Secretive and Controversial business. Now It’s Prepping for Life As a Transparent Public Company” offers some numbers; for instance:
Caravan to Midnight: AI is Programming people to go after President Trump – With Cyrus Parsa
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Commerce, Corruption, IO ImpotencyOh, Oh, Somebody Has Blown the Whistle on the Machine Learning Fouls
Wonder why smart software is often and quite spectacularly stupid? You can get a partial answer in “On Moving from Statistics to Machine Learning, the Final Stage of Grief.” There’s some mathiness in the write up. However, the author who tries to stand up to heteroskedastic errors, offers some useful explanations and good descriptions of the short cuts some of the zippy machine learning systems take.
