Mongoose: VICE on CIA’s 9/11 Failure Before & After

Ineffective supervisors, lack of language and other expertise, 10 seconds per cable, at war with NSA and FBI — the comatose CIA? ‘Blind Spots and Inefficiencies’: The CIA Before and After 9/11 “I think that America confuses resources with capabilities, and we say that more is better, though that’s not true — better is better,” …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Begins to Understand Very High Cost of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Google: Technical Debt Has Implications for Some AI Cheerleaders If you are interested in smart software, you may want to read “Machine Learning: the High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt.” I like the credit card analogy. It combines big costs with what some folks see as a something-for-nothing feature of the modern world. … …

Stephen E. Arnold: Is Human Collaboration Key to Big Data Progress and Future of Internet?

Is (Human) Collaboration the Key to Big Data Progress? The article titled Big Data Must Haves: Capacity, Compute, Collaboration on GCN offers insights into the best areas of focus for big data researchers. The Internet2 Global Summit is in D.C. this year with many exciting panelists who support the emphasis on collaboration in particular. The …