The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Lovely to see a search like this. Here are the core references and then a comment and then a number of other references, but the reality is that this entire website is about creating a smart nation, and world brain, and four reforms: electoral, intelligence, governance, and national security. Afterthought: all the references from the …
This is both a very intelligent search and a very funny search. CIA and the rest of the IC do not have a “method” because they do not do “learning” in the classical sense. It is virtually all “on the job” training and the culture across the board is one of hubris as in “we …
Continue reading “Search: the method used by the c.i.a in learning”
Chuck Spinney is still the best “real” engineer in this town–almost everyone else is staggering after fifty years of government-specification cost-plus engineering. Also, as Chuck explores in the piece on Complexity to Avoid Accountability is Expensive we in the “requirements” business are as much to blame–Service connivance with complexity has killed acquisition from both a …
Phi Beta Iota: From an individual who trained many of the NCTC analysts, is fully familiar with the database mess as well as the management mind-sets, and wishes to see America get the best value for its $75 billion a year. We have added emphasis (bold) to the two paragraphs below. 18 January 2010 The …
Continue reading “Journal: Opinion on the Failure of “The System””
Graphic: 360 Degree View of the Frog Graphic: Analytic Tool-Kit in the Cloud (CATALYST II) Graphic: A Short Story-Terrorism as a Boil Graphic: Culture Simplified Graphic: Culture Complex Graphic: Definitions Graphic: Earth Systems Graphic: Engineering Interventions Graphics: Life 101-The Tetrahedron Graphic: Life 102–Open Everything Graphic: Multinational IO + OSINT = IO2 Graphic: Participatory Budget Outreach
Manifold Learning, Calculus & Friendship, and Other Math Links Big Data and Real-time Structured Data Analytics Mechanical Turk Best Practices
UPDATE: A colleague from within asked us to highlight this quote with the observation that neither the US IC nor DoD have any clue how to execute. We agree. Both lack leadership with vision and multinational panache; they simply do not know what they do not know because they have both wasted the last 21 …
