Posted on

Stephen E. Arnold: IBM PR in Overdrive — IBM Substance Completely Lacking

Watson and Shopping: No Service, Just an Assertion I read “Make IBM’s Watson Your Personal Shopping Assistant.” IBM wants to leapfrog www.pricewatch.com, www.amazon.com, and the aging www.mysimon.com, among other shopping services. Now quite a few people have embraced Amazon’s flawed, yet popular, recommendations service. I am trying to remember when I first noticed this somewhat …

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: IBM PR in Overdrive — IBM Substance Completely Lacking”

Posted on

Marcus Aurelius: Ground Truth from an “Average” Lieutenant in Afghanistan

Below is one of the better pieces of its type that I’ve read.  While it refers several times to USMA, the majority of it is, IMHO, applicable to new officers from all commissioning sources. I think the most important point author makes comes at the end where he emphasizes the reality of a platoon leader’s …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Ground Truth from an “Average” Lieutenant in Afghanistan”

Posted on

Berto Jongman: Symour Hersh on Obama’s Wrong Red Line, CIA’s Illegal Rat Line and The Benghazi-Turkey-Syria Cluster

The Red Line and the Rat Line Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this …

Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Symour Hersh on Obama’s Wrong Red Line, CIA’s Illegal Rat Line and The Benghazi-Turkey-Syria Cluster”

Posted on

Stephen E. Arnold: Elasticsearch: 70:30 Odds as the Next Big Thing in Search — and Open Source Tool to Boot

Elasticsearch: 70:30 Odds as the Next Big Thing in Search We learned on March 26, 2014  suggesting that the German search vendor Intrafind has been looking for the next big thing. The company may have found it, and we expect that this low profile vendor will be plugging into the Elasticsearch power cable. Wikipedia already …

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Elasticsearch: 70:30 Odds as the Next Big Thing in Search — and Open Source Tool to Boot”