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2013/01/182013/01/18

Stuart Umpleby: Limitations of Hand-Held Dashboards + Cyber-Brain RECAP

Before Fruit Ninja, Cybernetics By WILL WILES New York Times, November 29, 2012 EXTRACT (Conclusion) The No. 10 Dashboard taps into the same desire to master available information — a desire that has only grown as the amount of information in circulation has increased. Where Cybersyn needed dedicated national infrastructure and rooms full of equipment, …

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2013/01/10

Yoda: Twitter Brain — Human Not Computer

Human, force is. Twitter’s human-powered search is the present and future of AI Summary: Twitter’s use of actual human intelligence to make sense of its search results, points to the mundane reality that even with machine learning and lots of data, sometimes humans are the best source for insights — something those trying to create …

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2012/12/172012/12/17

Michel Basuwens: The Relational State – The Human Factor

THE RELATIONAL STATE HOW RECOGNISING THE IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS COULD REVOLUTIONISE THE ROLE OF THE STATE Edited by Graeme Cooke and Rich Muir Featuring Lead Essays by Geoff Mulgan and Marc Stears Institute for Public Policy Research (UK), November 2012 click here for the pdf file (64 pages) Comment, Links, and Table of Contents …

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2012/12/062012/12/06

Marcus Aurelius: Max Boot on Better Spies, Not More

Better Spies, Not More By Max Boot Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2012, Pg. 19 The Defense Intelligence Agency is planning to dramatically expand the ranks of its covert “collectors” — a.k.a. case officers or, more popularly, spies. It has 500 or so and hopes to double that number. There is nothing inherently wrong with …

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2012/11/052012/11/05

SmartPlanet: Supercomputers Have Limits – Humans Do Not

Why supercomputers will always have limits Joe McKendrick | November 4, 2012 A couple of decades back, in his seminal work MegaTrends, author John Naisbitt pointed out that no technology can ever succeed without a compelling human benefit, referring to it as “high tech-high touch.” EXTRACT: Likewise, some technologists are discovering that many computational challenges may be …

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2012/10/072012/10/07

Mini-Me: Former NSA PM – U.S. Is Turning Into East Germany

Huh? Greg Adams of We The People Foundation posted this video. It’s the first of three videos which that group is releasing. Source. Phi Beta Iota: The principal witness is William Binney. Jim Bamford and others provide some useful commentary. This is fraud, waste, and abuse, but on balance it is not the widespread violation …

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2012/07/062012/07/06

Yoda: Top Ten Technology News Trend Setters

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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