The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Algorithm identifies top ten technology news trend setters Kurzweil Accelerating News, July 5, 2012 Berlin Institute of Technology researchers studied the problem of trend-setting among news sites to determine which websites lead the news coverage and which ones merely follow, Technology Review Physics arXiv Blog reports. They took a snapshot of the words generated by 96 technology …
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Follow the Money Recent court decisions (re)affirming corporate personhood and premise that campaign contributions are (protected) free speech punctuated the fear of some that politicians—biennially for sale to the highest bidder—would increase in cost and become the exclusive province of the rich, which would give truth to the sobriquet, “the ruling class”. It is unfair, …
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Maybe we should stop worrying about analysts w second language capabilities and insist that policymakers have a second language. Thinking in foreign language makes decisions more rational To judge a risk more clearly, it may help to consider it in a foreign language. A series of experiments on more than 300 people from the US …
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Military Intelligence Gadfly Will Lead All Military Intelligence Spencer Ackerman WIRED, April 17, 2012 One of the most disruptive men in the sprawling U.S. spy community, someone who turned the military’s elite killers into top spies, will likely soon be in charge of all military intelligence. The Pentagon on Tuesday nominated Army Lt. Gen. Michael …
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How to Perfect Real-Time Crowdsourcing The new techniques behind instant crowdsourcing makes human intelligence available on demand for the first time. One of the great goals of computer science is to embed human-like intelligence in common applications like image processing, robotic control and so on. Until recently the focus has been to develop an artificial …
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Peak Intel: How So-Called Strategic Intelligence Actually Makes Us Dumber An industry that once told hard truths to corporate and government clients now mostly just tells them what they want to hear, making it harder for us all to adapt to a changing world — and that’s why I’m leaving it. Eric Garland The Atlantic, …
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