The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Deciding who should pay to publish peer-reviewed scientific research How open-access journals are changing the field of peer-reviewed science John Abraham The Guardian, 18 September 2014 There is an important discussion to be had about the future of scientific publications. – – – – – – – A publisher cannot simply give papers away for …
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It’s Time to Break Up NSA Bruce Schneier CNN, 20 February 2014 Editor’s note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Thrive. (CNN) — The NSA has become too big and too powerful. What was supposed to be a single agency with a dual …
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Yale-6 On Thursday 6 February 2014 from 1800-1930, Robert Steele will address a group of undergraduates convened by Yale Politic. The event is free, open to the public without RSVP required, and the media has been invited. Yale University, Branford College Trumbull Room 74 High Street New Haven, CT 06511 Downloadable PPT (30 …
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Ian Bremmer 3.0 out of 5 stars Rooted in State Paradigm, Ignores Non-State World, January 5, 2014 I made a mistake buying this book. I let the marketing hype get to me. As soon as I got the book in my hands and saw that it had jacket blubs from Fareed Zakaria and Larry Summers, …
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1/31, Washington, DC: “The Ivory Tower, the Beltway, and the Fourth Estate.” Organized by the Carnegie Corporation and the Stimson Center, the workshop’s objective is to highlight the promise and challenges of bringing together academic social scientists in the area of national security affairs and strategize about how to strengthen the bridge between the Ivory …
Finally Some Cloudy News on Metadata For Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, his team broke down data silos and moved all the data to a cloud repository. The team built Narwhal, a shared data store interface for all of the campaigns’ application. Narwhal was dubbed “Obama’s White Whale,” because it is almost a mythical technology that …
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Big Data Fans: The Nitty Gritty Love talking about Big Data? I recommend doing a bit of reading. I found “What I Learned from 2 Years of Data Sciencing” refreshing. Quotes I noted were: With reference to Big Data projects where the author worked: “None of these projects gained traction within the company and became …
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