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by mlb_hn 7y ago
While Trump's undoubtably been helping Palantir, I'm not entirely sure how much can be attributed to Trump vs. ongoing procurement issues. E.g., the military's previous analysis software was arguably vaporware [1] and should
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
I think the author might be confusing nationalism and patriotism? I'm not sure what's unpatriotic about working with other countries while recognizing that those countries have their own interests.
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
Or the flip side, if the goal of the simulation is to see how simulations react when they figure out they're in a simulation and if we decide to never try to figure out whether we're in a simulation they'll reset the simulati
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
Um, Iraq has had numerous issues not directly related to global warming in the last 40 years which might have impacted their electrical infrastructure a bit (wars, occupations, firing the government, corruption, etc.).
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
I'm a bit confused what the lax privacy practices are supposed to be. The stories were public and companies scraped them (IANAL but as the article even points out, hiQ vs LinkedIn seems to mean it's legal). They seem to have only
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
Or imagine it at scale. It seems there are two uses of deepfake which have separate effects: 1) High profile low volume content that trends (article) 2) Low profile high volume content spam (your point) The second one seems like a much hard
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
Wait a second, is Buzzfeed planning on using GPT with the article text and A/B testing to generate perfect headlines and save on overhead?
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
I'm doing my graduate work on that. It's hard. MIT has a cool project looking at how individual terms are covered though: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/media-cloud/overview/ The relationships w
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
Wasn't that thorough. ODNI report from 2017 was broader in scope ( https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf ). The 2019 Mueller report looks restricted to areas where there was possible collusion (ju
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by 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&#x
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by 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.
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
US Government's been great at collecting tons of data. Analyzing it... not so much.
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
The full friend data is the only substantial difference I'm seeing between the two (which is quite substantial). The current Facebook API doesn't allow an app to even see friend names unless the friends also authenticate the app.
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
Uh, isn't the ability to export your data what got Facebook into the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal in the first place?
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
Apologies on the terminology - by invalid traffic I'm referring to bots as well as click farms and other issues as used in the Media Rating Council's definition (they divide it into general and sophisticated invalid traffic both o
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
Thanks for posting here pixelmonkey! I had a question; I asked the Parse.ly help/marketing people a while ago if you guys were tracking the rates of invalid traffic on articles and they said you guys don't track it. Is that accura
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
At ~53:00 or so Mr. Brown asked about the impact of analytics on newspapers. You pointed out that the newspapers are basing editorial decisions on the analytics (article metrics). As we all know, click-fraud's a huge problem on the int
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by mlb_hn 7y ago
I think there are two issues with the FB data being conflated here: CA's targeted advertising and the population data itself. For the advertising, concur there's a lot of disagreement over whether or not CA's models worked. F
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
> 1. In most responsible news organizations, there is a significant firewall between advertising and news. In two places I worked, the sales people weren't even allowed to go into the newsroom. Do reporters not get any access to the
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
A lot of the advancements that made the Manhattan project were published by the Germans. On hearing about Hiroshima, Otto Hahn was "'shattered,' and went on to say that he felt 'personally responsible for the deaths of h
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
The misconceptions about nonhuman/invalid traffic (NHT) seem like a problem brewing. There's an arms race between the NHT guys (e.g. ad fraud networks) and the guys trying to detect it (e.g. ad providers). Meanwhile, a lot of peop
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
DOD issue, if not USG. Army had (has?) the same issue as well, 2015 whitepaper on sweeping everything under the rug until it breaks ( https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pdffiles/pub1250.pdf )
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
One reason would be that RBC was allowing people to send money from its app via Messenger - http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/news/2013/20131211-facebook.html
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
That's what that article had - on Googling it looks like Spotify makes suggestions in messenger when talking about music as well. https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/14/16143354/facebook-messeng...
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
> Spotify, which could view messages of more than 70 million users a month, still offers the option to share music through Facebook Messenger. Not sure why the others needed it
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
One substantial difference worth noting between the Russian astroturfing and astroturfing from other countries is that Russian crime have been refining their ability to automate human-like behavior for ad-fraud purposes. For those not famil
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
One difference is the Russians have massive malware networks available from their criminal operations they can use for certain information operations, e.g. https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Bedep-
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
It's not just comments - the ability to drown out other views applies to actual news articles too. We saw back in 2009 with the Time Person of the Year campaign how easy it was for coordinated groups to drown out the public ( https:&#x
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
Yeah, the article is a bit misleading, looking at the linked study the authors point out those limitations, > The findings also support the need for further research in this area, particularly longitudinal studies that would allow for st
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
You may be misunderstanding how anonymous sources work. The NYT knew who the sources were, it's the public who did not (see https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/30/weekinreview/the-public-e... for NYT&#x

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