The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Emphasize Data Suitability over Data Quantity It seems obvious to us, but apparently, some folks need a reminder. Harvard Business Review proclaims, “You Don’t Need Big Data, You Need the Right Data.” Perhaps that distinction has gotten lost in the Big Data hype.
In Connected World, Users Are Getting Reared as Slaughter Animals Yahoo, Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, Instagram and Microsoft all have one thing in common; for any service that they provide for free, they are harnessing your private data to be sold to advertisers. Mirror UK recently published an Op-Ed titled Who Is Spying on You? What …
Entity Extraction: No Slam Dunk There are differences among these three use cases for entity extraction: Operatives reviewing content for information about watched entities prior to an operation Identifying people, places, and things for a marketing analysis by a PowerPoint ranger Indexing Web content to add concepts to keyword indexing. Regardless of your experience with …
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A Decision on the Palantir US Army Dust Up Looms Palantir Technologies like many Silicon Valley-type firms, takes its inspiration from logical reasoning (our software is great, therefore, the US Army should use it, not DCGS which is not great), Google methods (do not ask permission, apologize later), venture capital infused advisors (we are the …
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BA Insight and Its Ideas for Enterprise Search Success I read “Success Factors for Enterprise Search.” The write up spells out a checklist to make certain that an enterprise search system delivers what the users want—on point answers to their business information needs. The reason a checklist is necessary after more than 50 years of …
Google and the Mobile Traffic Matter I read a couple of writes up about “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic.” Quite surprisingly there was a response to these “stealing” articles by Google. You can read the explanation in a comment by Malte Ubl in the original article (link here). . . . Today’s Google …
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PBI: Above is our editorial title, see our comment below the fold. Palantir Technologies: An Overview of What Looks Like a Muliti Front War I read “Conservatives See Political Reprisal As Obama Administration Sues Peter Thiel’s Palantir.” Here in Harrod’s Creek “political reprisal” gets translated as blood feud. The source for the “reprisal” allegation is …
