Who would a lockdown benefit the most? Who would be paid huge federal grants to build the locks? Oh yes, the people who know how locks work. Well played anon.
I'm sure we will see this anyway. It's easy to arrest a few people on suspicion whether they did it or not. It doesn't matter if anyone gets convicted, the arrests are just a bit of media theatre and have to happen soon after the event. Like in Spain, Holland, Turkey, etc.
PDFs are nearly as bad imho. I will never understand why someone would think A4 was a sensible format for a screen based document - who has an A4 monitor? Copy/paste from PDF readers always seems clunky/nonfunctional. Yes you can convert to text and lose all the formatting.
He used a standard text mining approach (TF-IDF), followed by clustering of documents on pairwise distance. We did something similar here http://journal.imbio.de/article.php?aid=121 to text mine the biological literature although we went further in terms of figuring out which metrics work best. He eventually ran up against the same thresholding problem we did - at some point you have to decide what you are going to call 'not related' and what 'related' and there doesn't seem an obvious principled way to do it, unless you have a 'truth' to test your precision/recall scores against.
The video has a reasonable explanation - they look at every word in each document and give it a relevance score - TF/IDF term-frequence/inverse document frequency - i.e. how often the word comes up in the document compared to how often it comes up in the whole document set. This gives you a rating for every word on how 'document-specific' its use is. Then for every pairwise comparison between documents you can calculate the distance between the pair of documents by looking at the overlap between the terms in the documents, scaled as the the TF/IDF of the terms. Once you know how far every document is away from every other document, you pick a threshold - ignore documents too far away from each other - and visualise links between the rest based on distance.
Or something like that. People have been doing this with the scientific literature for a few years to save scientists from having to read everything ever published. I think it's safe to say the results are mixed - it is good at spotting the bleeding obvious, but also tends to highlight some interesting connections that people never noticed before.
Choosing the thresholds is a work in progress i would say.
Perhaps it's their way of discrediting Anonymous. "Hey guys, anonymous was us all the time". Nothing like smearing anon as a US government plot to cut down its popularity around the world.
as well as being the safest addictive substance known to man. There's a reason so many people smoke, and it's a combination of social and genetic factors which creates a tendency for them to establish addictions. Alcohol addiction kills quite quickly as do a lot of illegal drugs. Food addiction only takes about 20 years to kill people and money and sex addictions can easily ruin lives very quickly indeed. Cigarettes take an average of about 50 years of sustained use to kill people and still don't kill all of their users. Pretty good safety record in comparison to any of the alternatives, and they keep you thin too. Win win.
IT support is generally focused on Windows (IT Services support a managed desktop for general users), though Mac support is also now creeping in due to demand. Of course, anyone can connect to the wifi with anything. In individual departments focused on compute-intensive work (Maths, Physics, CompSci, Engineering etc) many people use Linux as their desktop of choice, and a specialised managed desktop is available for high-performance computing based on Linux. Most of the high-performance backends are Linux, with a couple of Mac clusters also, but the backend general purpose web and email servers probably are Windows (I don't know tbh).
So to answer your question, support is mainly for Windows, because it's reasonably easy to provide and support a managed service that suits the needs of people who mainly do email, web browsing and word processing. The higher you go in terms of expected functionality, the more of your own system you are expected to support, except for the case of high-performance work, where Linux is system of choice and is provided for as a specialised service separate from regular IT services. Macs are big in biosciences though, and I expect support for Macs for general purpose use to increase alongside Windows.
No business would touch nuclear energy if it wasn't for the enormous subsudies from governments. The clean up is too astronomically expensive for any sensible business model.
we need to let go of. Most of the so called economic growth of the last few hundred years has been entirely based on digging things out of the ground and consuming them. Nothing grew, we just reduced the value of our asset base in favour of revenue to spend. Yes we could find other assets to strip that would keep us 'growing' a while longer but really, can we keep pretending?
When I watched the video it said that the area is currently orchards and in the before and after shot it looks like there is a big hole in the orchards. I don't know how old the trees are or how biodiverse the area is but planting a bunch of saplings isn't really the same as maintaining a long-standing wooded area. The traffic alone would make quite a detrimental impact on the wildlife I would have thought. 6000 shiny new trees isn't necessarily better than 3000 old ones, at least for the next hundred years or so.
It's one thing to set the defaults on the firewalls but another about who gets let inside? How many of these organisations employ oversees or offshore IT contractors with access inside the firewalls?
...they change the schema? I can't see any version numbers in the tags so how do the search engines know which version of the schema you mean, or will they continue supporting every version of every schema forever? Or will we all have to edit all our webpages in vi every time they bring out a new schema version to keep all our tags up to date?
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Who would a lockdown benefit the most? Who would be paid huge federal grants to build the locks? Oh yes, the people who know how locks work. Well played anon.
I'm sure we will see this anyway. It's easy to arrest a few people on suspicion whether they did it or not. It doesn't matter if anyone gets convicted, the arrests are just a bit of media theatre and have to happen soon after the event. Like in Spain, Holland, Turkey, etc.
Would it apply to such disclosures?
That must be where I saw it :)
In soviet russia the government runs the corporations.
PDFs are nearly as bad imho. I will never understand why someone would think A4 was a sensible format for a screen based document - who has an A4 monitor? Copy/paste from PDF readers always seems clunky/nonfunctional. Yes you can convert to text and lose all the formatting.
He used a standard text mining approach (TF-IDF), followed by clustering of documents on pairwise distance. We did something similar here http://journal.imbio.de/article.php?aid=121 to text mine the biological literature although we went further in terms of figuring out which metrics work best. He eventually ran up against the same thresholding problem we did - at some point you have to decide what you are going to call 'not related' and what 'related' and there doesn't seem an obvious principled way to do it, unless you have a 'truth' to test your precision/recall scores against.
The video has a reasonable explanation - they look at every word in each document and give it a relevance score - TF/IDF term-frequence/inverse document frequency - i.e. how often the word comes up in the document compared to how often it comes up in the whole document set. This gives you a rating for every word on how 'document-specific' its use is. Then for every pairwise comparison between documents you can calculate the distance between the pair of documents by looking at the overlap between the terms in the documents, scaled as the the TF/IDF of the terms. Once you know how far every document is away from every other document, you pick a threshold - ignore documents too far away from each other - and visualise links between the rest based on distance. Or something like that. People have been doing this with the scientific literature for a few years to save scientists from having to read everything ever published. I think it's safe to say the results are mixed - it is good at spotting the bleeding obvious, but also tends to highlight some interesting connections that people never noticed before. Choosing the thresholds is a work in progress i would say.
Perhaps it's their way of discrediting Anonymous. "Hey guys, anonymous was us all the time". Nothing like smearing anon as a US government plot to cut down its popularity around the world.
for anon attacks on foreign governments. It was only a matter of time.
I'm a let you finish caffeine and all but i still want a cigarette with my coffee
as well as being the safest addictive substance known to man. There's a reason so many people smoke, and it's a combination of social and genetic factors which creates a tendency for them to establish addictions. Alcohol addiction kills quite quickly as do a lot of illegal drugs. Food addiction only takes about 20 years to kill people and money and sex addictions can easily ruin lives very quickly indeed. Cigarettes take an average of about 50 years of sustained use to kill people and still don't kill all of their users. Pretty good safety record in comparison to any of the alternatives, and they keep you thin too. Win win.
IT support is generally focused on Windows (IT Services support a managed desktop for general users), though Mac support is also now creeping in due to demand. Of course, anyone can connect to the wifi with anything. In individual departments focused on compute-intensive work (Maths, Physics, CompSci, Engineering etc) many people use Linux as their desktop of choice, and a specialised managed desktop is available for high-performance computing based on Linux. Most of the high-performance backends are Linux, with a couple of Mac clusters also, but the backend general purpose web and email servers probably are Windows (I don't know tbh). So to answer your question, support is mainly for Windows, because it's reasonably easy to provide and support a managed service that suits the needs of people who mainly do email, web browsing and word processing. The higher you go in terms of expected functionality, the more of your own system you are expected to support, except for the case of high-performance work, where Linux is system of choice and is provided for as a specialised service separate from regular IT services. Macs are big in biosciences though, and I expect support for Macs for general purpose use to increase alongside Windows.
"rather than where THEY are stored"? Data are plural after all. And shame on the rest of the posters who made the same error. ITT: plurality fail.
Said agency and said Patriot Act has no force in my country. Only use the cloud if you want to expose your business secrets to American competitors.
No business would touch nuclear energy if it wasn't for the enormous subsudies from governments. The clean up is too astronomically expensive for any sensible business model.
we need to let go of. Most of the so called economic growth of the last few hundred years has been entirely based on digging things out of the ground and consuming them. Nothing grew, we just reduced the value of our asset base in favour of revenue to spend. Yes we could find other assets to strip that would keep us 'growing' a while longer but really, can we keep pretending?
When I watched the video it said that the area is currently orchards and in the before and after shot it looks like there is a big hole in the orchards. I don't know how old the trees are or how biodiverse the area is but planting a bunch of saplings isn't really the same as maintaining a long-standing wooded area. The traffic alone would make quite a detrimental impact on the wildlife I would have thought. 6000 shiny new trees isn't necessarily better than 3000 old ones, at least for the next hundred years or so.
Apple kills off orchards to build new headquarters.
It's one thing to set the defaults on the firewalls but another about who gets let inside? How many of these organisations employ oversees or offshore IT contractors with access inside the firewalls?
it's the bonware that's hard
invented the web for this didn't he? How about putting your files on a webserver with something like a Lucene index?
>Why the hell would they bet everything on one horse if they have two that perform perfectly well?! Margins.
...they change the schema? I can't see any version numbers in the tags so how do the search engines know which version of the schema you mean, or will they continue supporting every version of every schema forever? Or will we all have to edit all our webpages in vi every time they bring out a new schema version to keep all our tags up to date?
Geneva convention anyone? I thought governments weren't allow to commit acts of war against civilians.