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Cheap Visual Bioinfo Sensor
Couple cool uses for this. Biodefense platforms for a community. Flip side, spying on workerbees for a corporation. So far, graduate student Ming-Zher Poh has demonstrated that the system can indeed extract accurate pulse measurements from ordinary low-resolution webcam imagery. … Continue reading
Automatically Detecting Disruptive Technology
The tough nut on this is the ‘prior performance’ of ‘expert opinion’. Earlier this year, the agency solicited proposals for a system that would evaluate and rank the value of expert opinion based on niche, learning style, prior performance and … Continue reading
Blurring the HUMINT/Translation Line
Eventually, strategy just devolves into managing hiring locals to achieve an endless stream of objectives with semi-controlled levels of violence. (Open source counterinsurgency.) Earlier this week, Mission Essential Personnel won a Central Command contract for “aiding in the coordination, planning … Continue reading
On A Question of Superempowerment
Adam and Crispin have an interesting piece up on SWJ. The question is, while the a global economic superinfrastructure enables individuals to have ^n’th impact, can this actually bring about a desired change in policy or is it only destructive? … Continue reading
Mumbai-Style in Europe
Like I predicted in 2008, this plot is in motion. Even if this particular instance fails to get off the ground. Notes from my article back then: To achieve greater speed and inflict exponentially more damage, terrorists will likely cut … Continue reading