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Yoda: The Intertia of Large States – View from Quebec

Quebecois, he is.  Author’s translation, this is. States and the inertia With the commission Charbonneau, now we know what leads the inertia of the state. René Marcel Sauve Free forum Vigil Sunday, November 11, 2012 The State’s force of inertia. Concerning the imminent economic and political catastrophe awaiting the United States, I tend to agree …

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Yoda: Data Producing Intelligence — But Not in the “Intelligence” Community

Intelligence, this is. Predicting presidents, storms and life by computer Associated Press, Saturday, November 10, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future. In just two weeks this fall, computers models displayed an impressive prediction prowess. It started when the first computer model …

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Yoda: Research Fraud Has Exploded in Past Decade — Pattern of Fraud in Education, Intelligence, & Research

Sad, this is. Research fraud exploded over the last decade And retractions don’t always mention when data’s fraudulent (43% of the time, in fact). A number of studies have spotted a worrisome trend: although the number of scientific journals and articles published is increasing each year, the rate of papers being retracted as invalid is …

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Yoda: Dynamic Causation vs. Systemic Causation II

Complex, force is. Yoda: Dynamic Causation vs. Systemic Causation Further commentary: IDEN C:  John Pourdehnad just gave a talk, and I thought David Ing’s notes from it were good reading. John more or less channels Ackoff, but also relates it to contemporary efforts.  About half way down he says this: Mechanical systems may explain through cause …

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Yoda: Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction

With them, Force is. Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and …

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