The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Eight (No, Nine!) Problems With Big Data By GARY MARCUS and ERNEST DAVIS New York Times, APRIL 6, 2014 BIG data is suddenly everywhere. Everyone seems to be collecting it, analyzing it, making money from it and celebrating (or fearing) its powers. Whether we’re talking about analyzing zillions of Google search queries to predict flu …
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Google and Pricing: High Stakes WalMarting I read a number of write ups about the new Google cloud pricing. The main idea, in my opinion, that unifies the different reports is, “Everybody loves a bargain.” Consider “Google Slashes Cloud Prices: Google vs AWS Price Comparison.” The essay-editorial begins with the invocation of the Google-Amazon joust: …
Food Costs Soar Following Severe Worldwide Drought Food prices are expected to see their biggest annual increase in the past three years thanks mostly to devastating drought conditions all over the world. Dry conditions mean poor crop production; poor crop production means fewer livestock; and fewer livestock means higher prices for meats and dairy at …
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If you are in the Louisville-Cincinnati-Nashville-Indianapolis-area on February 13, 2014, you are invited to a free Deeper Quick Intel briefing. We also have available a 50 page analysis of Autonomy IDOL technology. If you want to know more about this report and how to get it, write me at deeperqi@gmail.com. See Especially: Worth a Look: …
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Semantria: A New Face For Text Analytics Semantria applies Text and Sentiment Analysis to tweets, facebook posts, surveys, reviews or enterprise content. A cloud based company that specializes in text analytics and sentiment analysis named Semantria has just released a new website. The design of the website emphasizes the different products and features Semantria has …
Tough love, this is. Lessons Learned from a 22 Year Fight: 01 Steele’s biggest mistake was in not ensuring OSS conference presentations were indexed in Conference Proceedings. Core value of presentation at International Studies Association (Intelligence) is that papers presented there are indexed and visible. 02 International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, American Intelligence Review, …
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Huh? Do You Trust the Washington Post‘s Sources on Morale at the NSA? Former officials insist that employees are upset because President Obama hasn’t visited to show his support. Conor Friedersdorf Reuters via The Atlantic, Dec 10 2013, 8:20 AM ET A strange Washington Post story gives readers the impression that morale is low at …
