The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Libraries: A Good Thing When you cannot locate information on Google, what does one do? Some people just guess? Others use spreadsheets and make up data? Quite a few people go to the library. Well, “quite a few” may be one of those unsupported factoids about modern life. Navigate to Pew Research and check out …
The Paradox of Open Source: An Interview with Douglas J. Naquin Click above to buy the article (encouraged). International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Volume 27, Issue 1, 2014 PDF (16 Pages): Bean Interview of Naquin Clean Letter from Robert Steele PDF (3 Pages): IJIC Steele on Bean-Naquin As Published Full Text of Letter Below …
ORGS ASK DNI TO PRESERVE ACCESS TO WORLD NEWS CONNECTION More than a dozen professional societies and public interest groups wrote to the Director of National Intelligence last week to ask him to preserve public access to foreign news reports gathered, translated and published by the Open Source Center and marketed to subscribers through the …
IBM Watson Apps Due Next Year December 22, 2013 To what pressing issue is IBM now applying Watson’s superior (artificial) intellect? Why, to shopping, of course. Business Insider reports, “IBM’s Jeopardy-Winning Supercomputer Will Power a ‘Cognitive, Expert Personal Shopper’ App Next Year.” Writer Dylan Love was especially taken by one app on the horizon from …
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I’ve been getting cranky as I have been reading and hearing all the hype over big data — data sets created by 1950’s mindsets on top of 1970’s technology and largely irrelevant to 21st Century solutions. I’ve also been looking at a few “solutions” packages — SILOBREAKER is still my favorite and Palantir is a …
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Only four percent complete massive open online courses: setback or growing pains? Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have relatively few active users, and user engagement falls off dramatically, especially after the first one to two weeks weeks of a course. Ultimately, only a handful of users persist to the course end. That’s the gist of …
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100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013 + Erica Chenoweth on Non-Violence + Jia Zhangke on Inequality = Violence Bushmaster Rifles Flying Off the Shelves CIA Bay of Pigs Documents – the last volume would “confuse” the public Deadly conformity is killing our creativity. Let’s mess about more People’s lives would be more fulfilling if they …
