The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Open Source Software: The Community Model in 2021 I read “Why I Wouldn’t Invest in Open-Source Companies, Even Though I Ran One.” I became interested in open source search when I was assembling the first of three editions of Enterprise Search Report in the early 2000s.
The Building Blocks of Smart Software: Combine Them to Meet Your Needs I have a file of listicles. One called “Top 10 Algorithms in Data Mining” appeared in 2007. I spotted another list which is, not surprisingly, quite like the Xindong Wu et al write up. The most recent listing is “All Machine Learning Algorithms …
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Computing: Things Go Better with Light Electricity is too slow at matrix math for IBM. Now, announces ZDNet, “IBM Is Using Light, Instead of Electricity, to Create Ultra-Fast Computing.” The shift could be especially important to the future of self-driving automobiles, where ultra-fast processing is needed to avoid collisions at high travel speeds. Reporter Daphne …
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Technology and Exponential Costs: MBAs Confront a Painful Online Reality The article “When Costs Are Nonlinear, Keep It Small” addresses exponential costs in terms of technology in general. A business uses software; costs can grow exponentially. I completely agree. The author, one Jessitron, states: Read source article and commentary.
Mobile and Social Media Users: Check Out the Utility of Metadata Carry a cell phone (or drive a computerized connected car, you are TRACKED.
The Many Ways Police Can Access User Data We hope that by now, dear reader, you understand digital privacy is an illusion. For those curious about the relationship between big tech, personal data, and law enforcement, we suggest “How Your Digital Trials Wind Up in the Hands of the Police,” shared by Ars Technica. The …
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Does This Mean Bad Actors Are Now Riding in 10,000 SolarWinds Powered Digital Sailboats? I read “Hackers Breaking into Networks without SolarWinds, CISA Says.” The write up states that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency offered: “Specifically, we are investigating incidents in which activity indicating abuse of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens consistent with …
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