Stephen E. Arnold: Search Bottlenecks — Still There, Getting Worse

Speeding Up Search: The Challenge of Multiple Bottlenecks I read “Search at Scale Shows ~30,000X Speed Up.” I have been down this asphalt road before, many times in fact. The problem with search and retrieval is that numerous bottlenecks exist; for example, dealing with exceptions (content which the content processing system cannot manipulate). I wish …

Penguin: Microsoft About to Fuck the Entire World — You (and Your Data) Are Hostage to 24/7 Microsoft Monitoring and 24/7 Microsoft Compliance

The new services agreement includes two big changes: 01 Microsoft reserves the right to censor your language and can cut off services if they judge you to have violated their speech guidelines. 02 Microsoft reserves  the right to cut off your use of their software and deny you access to all your documents if you …

Berto Jongman: Trump & The Truth — Comment by Robert Steele

Trump and the Truth: A President Tests His Own Credibility Since Mr. Trump became a presidential candidate, PolitiFact has evaluated more than 500 assertions and found 69 percent of them mostly false, false or “pants on fire” false. By comparison, it judged 26 percent of the statements by Mr. Obama that it evaluated as false …