The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Casetext: A Disrupter Legal information is of interest to legal eagles. However, a business move by Casetext may cause pain at professional publishing shops operated by LexisNexis and Westlaw. Both companies pride themselves on their technology savvy. But a four year old company may have become the little engine that could run over executives napping …
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Averaging Information Is Not Cutting It Anymore “Rescuing Collective Wisdom When The Average Group Opinion Is Wrong” is an article that pokes fun at the fanaticism running rampant in the news. Beyond the fanaticism in the news, there is a real concern with averaging when it comes to data science and other fields that heavily …
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The DarkCyber program for January 16, 2018, reports on a possible Dark Web kidnapping, the Experian Dark Web scanning service, the shift to Monero and Zcash for some Dark Web merchants, and a facet of net neutrality which may provide some streamlined methods for law enforcement and intelligence professionals.
Google: Even More Humans Needed I read “Google Plans to Vet YouTube Premium Video Content.” The main point of the write up strikes me as: Google told partners that it plans to use both human moderators — the company recently announced it will have 10,000 employees focused on the task — as well as artificial …
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New York Begins Asking If Algorithms Can Be Racist The whole point of algorithms is to be blind to everything except data. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that in the wrong hands, algorithms and AI could have a very negative impact on users. We learned more in a recent ACLU post, “New York Takes …
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It’s Gonna Get a Lot Easier to Break Science Journal Paywalls EXTRACTS: For example the Chan Zuckerberg Initative, philanthropic arm of the founder of Facebook, is working on something aimed at increasing access. The founders of Mendeley have a new, venture-backed PDF finder called Kopernio. A browser extension called Unpaywall roots around the web for …
