Context: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/08/u-s-government-designated-prominent-al-jazeera-journalist-al-qaeda-member-put-watch-list/ https://firstlo

Context: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/08/u-s-government-designated-prominent-al-jazeera-journalist-al-qaeda-member-put-watch-list/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/08/u-s-government... Pretty scary what kind of confirmation bias is creeping in to the NSA's methods there, and the broader implications. Anyone who has worked with big data knows how easy it is to "discover" all sorts of patterns that are not really there.