The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Amazon Moves To Depose Trump In Lawsuit Over $10 Billion ‘JEDI' Contract
Phi Beta Iota: Amazon has filed a frivolous lawsuit, knowing full well that they lost because Microsoft offered a better solution and Amazon tainted it's bid with grossly unethical behavior obvious to all.
Phi Beta Iota: Detailed article will be posted shortly. Preliminary updates at https://tinyurl.com/virus-hype
Blacklist Valley: How Big Tech reshapes politics by censoring conservative ideas
Three forces are driving Big Tech’s online censorship. Two are external and related: market pressures and de-platforming campaigns by liberal activists and journalists. The third pressure is internal: Silicon Valley is staggeringly one-sided politically.
A Former Search Wizard Explains Why Artificial Intelligence May Be a Bit of a Challenge
Artificial intelligence is the next evolution of digital technology and experts predict we are going to rely on AI as much as the Internet. While AI is amazing, many projects built around AI fail to deliver the promised results. Louis Monier, the Chief Scientist at Node, one of the founders of Altavista, and headed Airbnb’s AI Lab, spoke with Forbes about his opinions on AI in the interview: “The Little-Acknowledged Truth About AI—According To The Founder Of Altavista,” DarkCyber wants to mention that Monier worked at the Google, which, for DarkCyber, is an important factoid.
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A Solution to the Blockchain Trilemma?
Struggling to deliver a blockchain application which is decentralized, secure, and scalable? A solution may have been developed. Navigate to “Ex-Microsoft Researcher Says He’s Solved the Blockchain Scalability Problem.” Despite the hype about blockchain, there’s a problem mixed with the promise:
…It says that it’s easy to have a blockchain with two of three key attributes: decentralization, security, and scalability. What’s difficult is getting all three; so far, cranking up the volume has always meant sacrificing on another.
The alleged solution comes from Asensys, led by former Microsoft lead researcher JiaPing Wang.
AWS AI Improves Its Accuracy According to Amazon
An interesting bit of jargon creeps into “On Benchmark Data Set, Question-Answering System Halves Error Rate.” That word is “transfer.” Amazon, it seems, is trying to figure out how to reuse data, threshold settings, and workflow outputs.
Think about IBM’s DeepBlue defeat of Gary Kasparov in 1996 or the IBM Watson thing allegedly defeating Ken Jenkins in 2011 without any help from post production or judicious video editing. Two IBM systems and zero “transfer” or more in more Ivory Towerish jargon “transference.”
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon AI, Non-Transfer, & Future Cross-Correlation Issues”
American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations
From the Peace of Westphalia to the Law of the Jungle
The January 2nd American assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani of Iran was an event of enormous moment.
Read full article covering many books and decades of history up to 9/11.
