“There is the finest line between data and evidence.” LinesAbilityEvidenceDataFinest Author:Randall Dale Adams
“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.” MenAbleActionIndividualAbilityEnvironmentInformationDependsFutureBehaviorFairsFlowBasesRationalDataOutcomesFedsSanityHinges Book:future shock Source: future shock
“There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.” ThinkingWayFirstsMayThreeAbilityFocusPiecesInformationRoundsDataStreamsContemplatingInterrupted Author:Rebecca Solnit
“We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.” WorldHumansUseProblemBigsAbilityDataMake SenseEnteringBig Problems Author:Erik Brynjolfsson
“The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.” EndsGovernmentFreedomAbilitySupportInformationProgramTrackTerroristDataUsaSufficientCollectionsJustificationNsaData CollectionUsa Freedom Author:Ted Cruz
“So, what we do as the game accesses the Blu-ray disc, is we take any data that was accessed and we put it on the hard drive. And if then if there is idle time, we go ahead and copy the remaining data to the hard drive. And what that means is after an hour or two, the game is on the hard drive, and you have access, you have dramatically quicker loading And you have the ability to do some truly high-speed streaming.” IfsMeanTwoHardGamesHoursAbilitySpeedAccessDataCopiesRaysIdleStreamingHigh SpeedDiscsIf ThenIdle Time Author:Mark Cerny