Collaborate Disseminate
Lately I’ve been reading about Mission 101, where just a few thousands in an Allied expeditionary force were sent into Ethiopia to defeat a far greater Italian occupation force 100 times their size. It’s mentioned in books like “Fire in the night : Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion,” or the more obvious title of…wait […] Continue reading Where does the expression 101 come from?
A curious thing about writing a poem is how it can suggest to the reader a topic while subtly communicating a tangent. Recently I was being peppered by questions of attribution in security that reminded me of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem: My Lost Youth OFTEN I think of the beautiful town That is seated by […] Continue reading “My Lost Youth” by Longfellow
Next time you bang on a vending machine for the bag of sugary bits that refuse to fall to the bottom, ask yourself if restaurants soon will be just robots putting every food-serving human out of work. Maybe it’s true that humans have no future in service industries. Maybe driving around all day is going […] Continue reading Could truck drivers lose their jobs to robots?
The American Civil War, initiated in 1860 by those intending to use violence to stop abolition of slavery, was in its third year when President Lincoln made his famous Emancipation Proclamation: …all persons held as slaves [within the rebellious states] are, and henceforward shall be free. His phrasing had been developed over many months and […] Continue reading Today in History: 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation
I presented “Pwning ML for Fun and Profit” at Kiwicon X When: Friday, Nov 18th, 2016 at 14:15 Where: Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington Everyone is talking ML this and AI that as if they expect some kind of Utopian beast to be waiting just behind the next door and whisk us all away to a […] Continue reading Kiwicon X: Pwning ML for Fun and Profit
Here is a copy for convenience of the 2014 presentation by Dr. Adam Oliver, a London School of Economics (LSE) Reader in Health Economics and Policy: (PDF 2.1 MB) Dr. Oliver is published in the areas of health equity, economic evaluation, risk and uncertainty, and the economics and policy of health care reform. The interface […] Continue reading “Using Behavioral Economics to Inform Policy” – Dr. Adam Oliver
Thanks to everyone recently telling me they miss my blog posts. To be honest I have a queue of written posts unreleased because I went through one of those writing phases where erratic Tweets seemed like an easier public legacy than slogging through full paragraphs and illustrations. For six years I wrote a post every […] Continue reading I should blog more again, I know
Rick Holland pointed out today that Dave Aitel last April wrote an article “US Steel demonstrates why we need Cyber Letters of Marque” …while economic competitiveness is at some level a strategic need, the particular defense of a US Company is not something the NSA can and should prioritize. The answer to this problem is […] Continue reading How We Could Use Cyber Letters of Marque
Charlotte, North Carolina, has a history marker that I noticed while walking on the street. It is in need of major revision. Let me start at the end of the story first. A search online found a “NC Markers” program with an entry for L-56 CONFEDERATE NAVY YARD. Closer to the end of the war…tools […] Continue reading American Pro-Slavery History Markers
The US used aircraft to drop explosives in Somalia, killing a large number of people. This action abruptly has reminded many people of the existence of US military operations there, under the aegis of Africa Command (AFRICOM), and I see confusion in my social networks. Perhaps I can help explain what is going on. Allow […] Continue reading Why Were 150 Somali Militants Killed in a US-led Air Strike?