Computer
Security backgrounder. Sounds like we’re on the attack.
Really interesting article
by and interview with Paul M. Nakasone (Commander of U.S. Cyber
Command, Director of the National Security Agency, and Chief of the
Central Security Service) in the current issue of Joint Forces
Quarterly. He talks about the evolving role of US CyberCommand,
and it's new posture of "persistent engagement" using a
"cyber-presistant force":
… Unlike the nuclear realm, where our strategic advantage or power comes from possessing a capability or weapons system, in cyberspace it’s the use of cyber capabilities that is strategically consequential. The threat of using something in cyberspace is not as powerful as actually using it because that’s what our adversaries are doing to us. They are actively in our network communications, attempting to steal data and impact our weapons systems. So advantage is gained by those who maintain a continual state of action.
That’s
the WWW part of the URL.
Celebrate
the Web’s 30th Birthday
CERN
2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild – 2019 rebuilding of the original NeXT
web browser – Party like it’s 1989!
Hello, World In December 1990, an application
called WorldWideWeb was developed on a NeXT machine at The European
Organization for Nuclear Research (known as CERN) just outside of
Geneva. This program – WorldWideWeb — is the antecedent of most
of what we consider or know of as “the web” today. In February
2019, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the development
of WorldWideWeb, a group of developers and designers convened at CERN
to rebuild the original browser within a contemporary
browser, allowing users around the world to experience the rather
humble origins of this transformative technology. This project was
supported by the US Mission in Geneva through the CERN & Society
Foundation.”
Might be useful for statistics or data analytics/
The
Stanford Open Policing Project
“Currently, a comprehensive, national repository
detailing interactions between police and the public doesn’t exist.
That’s why the Stanford
Open Policing Project is collecting and standardizing data on
vehicle and pedestrian stops from law enforcement departments across
the country — and we’re making that information freely available.
We’ve already gathered 130 million records from 31 state police
agencies and have begun collecting data on stops from law enforcement
agencies in major cities, as well. We, the Stanford Open Policing
Project, are an interdisciplinary team of researchers and journalists
at Stanford University. We are committed to combining the academic
rigor of statistical analysis with the explanatory power of data
journalism.”
Another statistic based article. (Podcast)
Changing
the Game: How Data Analytics Is Upending Baseball
… Wyner drew a parallel between how valuation
is done for corporate M&A deals, keeping in mind the net present
value of the future cash flows of acquisition targets. “What we
assume that the teams should know, but never seem to get, is that
you’re paying for the future, not the past,” he said.
“Historically that seemed to be what people did, because
statistically, people would look at the past and they would project
the future by just dragging out the past. That is just not the right
way to do it. The data available today has made it better and easier
to forecast the future.”
Dilbert’s pointy haired Manager seems very
similar to a certain strangely haired President.
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