I have updated our 2006 paper on language pattern analysis to detect social network attacks. Some minor formatting changes were needed, given the last time I generated the PDF was 2011. The original post is here.
Attacks by scammers appear to make sophisticated use of language ideology to abuse trust relationships. Language that indexes a social group allows perceived “authenticity” to be constructed in a way that breaks down a victims’ defenses — a variety of linguistic devices are used as attack tools.
Many times before now I’ve written and given talks about the subject of big data as an asset, and there are a LOT of people repeatedly saying data is not like oil.
Forbes: “Here’s Why Data Is Not The New Oil”
BBC: “Data is not the new oil”
Financial Times: “Data is not the new oil”
Harvard Business Review: “Big Data is Not the New Oil”
WeForum: “You may have heard data is the new oil. It’s not”
Wired: “No, Data Is Not the New Oil”
I say this again here because I still see events in 2021 claiming things like “everyone says data is the new oil.”
It’s neither the most expensive nor the least fashionable. However, for half the cost of the best design, the Specialized Align II (MIPS) also received a five STAR rating with a close score of 9.6.
The STAR equation was originally developed to estimate the incidence of concussion that a college football player may experience while wearing a given helmet over the course of one
season… The bicycle STAR equation sums the exposure-weighted risks for each impact to generate a single representative concussion incidence value per helmet model. The predicted exposure (𝐸𝐸) is determined for each impact location (𝐿𝐿) and velocity (𝑉𝑉), while concussion risk (𝑅𝑅) is computed as a function of the average peak resultant linear acceleration (𝑎𝑎) and average peak resultant change in rotational velocity (𝜔𝜔) in each impact configuration.
Here’s a heart-warming (no pun intended) rescue story from a ship en route (Durban to Djibouti) on the Indian Ocean.
…urgent request for aid Saturday on behalf of U.K. mariner Kevin Nixon, who was experiencing symptoms of a heart attack while onboard U.S. cargo ship Liberty Grace.
Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa then deployed the five Air Force PJs aboard MV-22B Ospreys to rappel down to the ship and stabilize the patient.
Because the ship was 500 nautical miles east of Kenya in the Indian Ocean, a Marine Corps KC-130 tanker also had to provide aerial refueling for the Ospreys…
Quite a change since the 1980 Operation Eagle Claw outcome, foundational to the Osprey development and this rapid deployment force model from the Horn of Africa.
