The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Data and Information: Three Cs for an Average Grade I read “Why Companies Are Not Engaging with Their Data.” The write up boils down the “challenge” to three Cs; that is, a mnemonic which makes it easy to pinpoint Big Data clumsiness. The three Cs are:Callowness,Cost,Complexity.
FTC Chair Edith Ramirez outlines concerns about Big Data The FTC is worried about algorithmic transparency, and you should be too Watchdog: Obamacare Exchanges Fail to Detect Counterfeit Documents
Algorithmic Bias and the Unintentional Discrimination in the Results The article titled When Big Data Becomes Bad Data on Tech In America discusses the legal ramifications of relying on algorithms for companies. The “disparate impact” theory has been used in the courtroom for some time to ensure that discriminatory policies be struck down whether they …
Can Online Systems Discern Truth and Beauty or All That One Needs to Know? No. Read full post.
Alphabet Google: Dreams of a Churning Welchian Summary: Ad revenue under pressure; massive legal problems around the world; losing primacy in search and held in disdain.
Short Honk: Crawl the Web at Scale Short honk: I read “Aduana: Link Analysis to Crawl the Web at Scale.” The write up explains an open source project which can copy content “dispersed all over the Web.” Keep in mind that the approach focuses primarily on text. Aduana is a special back end for the …
Hewlett Packard Autonomy: Bank Issues Alleged “The Price of Silence on Wall Street” provides a bit of information about the role of intermediaries in the HP deal for Autonomy. I find it difficult to figure out if the bank was doing its normal sales job for a juicy deal or if the bank was doing …
