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US Government's been great at collecting tons of data. Analyzing it... not so much.

• squarefoot 7y ago
  "Analyzing it... not so much." Or maybe they have learned a few things by reading Sun Tzu.
  • mlb_hn 7y ago
    I'd guess there have been significant advances in network theory and NLP since Sun Tzu's time but I'm not an expert.
    • squarefoot 7y ago
      Yes, my point is that the military usually don't show what they can do and more importantly what they can't do. Should they have the best algorithm in the world to match anything with anything in that data, there would be many reasons not to reveal that.
      • mlb_hn 7y ago
        I'm not sure there's been any evidence that the military has had success utilizing current computational approaches to data. E.g. the DCGS project was a failure and I don't think that project tried anything beyond what you'd get out of Microsoft Excel (https://nypost.com/2014/10/27/army-spent-5b-on-failed-technology-created-by-vets/ https://nypost.com/2014/10/27/army-spent-5b-on-failed-techno...). DoD plans for projects that last for decades and the algorithms people are building for commercial purposes today are developing way faster than DoD's procurement can keep up I'd guess,