The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Published on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 by TomDispatch.com Our Fossil-Fueled Future: World Energy in 2040 by Michael T. Klare What sort of fabulous new energy systems will the world possess in 2040? Which fuels will supply the bulk of our energy needs? And how will that change the global energy equation, international politics, and the …
US spies missed signs of Aug. 21 Syrian WMD Strike By KIMBERLY DOZIER Associated Press, 4 September 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies did not detect the Syrian regime readying a massive chemical weapons attack in the days ahead of the strike, only piecing together what had happened after the fact, U.S. officials say. …
New! Humanitarian Computing Library The field of “Humanitarian Computing” applies Human Computing and Machine Computing to address major information-based challengers in the humanitarian space. Human Computing refers to crowdsourcing and microtasking, which is also referred to as crowd computing. In contrast, Machine Computing draws on natural language processing and machine learning, amongst other disciplines. The Next …
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Big Data Analytics Proves Invaluable In Tax Fraud Investigation Posted: 29 Aug 2013 03:57 PM PDT The article on ComputerWeekly.com titled Big Data Journalism Exposes Offshore Tax Dodgers reports on the findings of Offshore Leaks, the result of the work of an international group of journalists. The fascinating story of offshore tax evasion by over …
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Google: A Losing Battle for Relevance I wrote a feature for Beyond Search which summarized the relevance problems for the query “ocr programs.” You can find that article at http://goo.gl/aBDjyI. The main point is that an average user would find links to crapware, flawed software, or irrelevant information. But Google was not the only offender. …
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It’s the poets who destroy the old order “[Poetry] should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a Remembrance…” (John Keats) “And then your life, the life you are telling me about, becomes a short story that had force only because it was viewed from a particular …
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Another Information Priority: Legacy Systems Posted: 16 Aug 2013 05:29 AM PDT The hoohah about cloud computing, Big Data, and other “innovations” continues. Who needs Oracle when one has Hadoop? Why license SPSS or some other Fancy Dan analytics system when there are open choice analytics systems a mouse click away? Search? Lots of open …
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