Monthly Archives: June 2013

Beware of geeks making absurd technical claims (and a comment or two on NSA, PRISM etc)

Posted on June 10, 2013 by schrodt735

The following recently arrived in my email extolling the merits of what, we shall see momentarily, is a truly extraordinary computational forecasting system: http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2013/06/moneyball-diplomacy/64508/ The critical phrase here is The simulations produced more than one vigintillion (that’s 10 to the … Continue reading →

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