The revelation that Russian Intel (or Snowden working with Russian Intel) hacked into H R Climton’s Campaign Surveys should be both bad news as well as good news to cyber activists.
First of all it increases the demand in terms of jobs for legal cyber security
Secondly it pinpoints the need of security as an important component to decision makers at a time when they are most likely to pay attention ( oh ! My website got hacked! You got my attention!)
However the bad news is
Digital Assets of protected members would be secured by same agencies ( or different agencies) – a jurisdiction nightmare
Hacking into friends of friends, family after official government protection over is a crime, but when Govts hack it is difficult for a teenager /friend of teenager who hacked their Facebook. Ditto goes for Senate Staffers or Staffers combating cyber crime.
Will cyber crime and cyber war between nations make things personal not just business, due to the ease, low cost and plausible deniability
(Note- this is a strategic what if scenario, No Pokemons were hurt during the making of this post)
Psalm 2
1 Why do the nations conspire[a] and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together
Despite the plethora of data generated in Sports, there is not much open data for Olympics and one wonders why if sharing best practices and data openly on what works and what does not can reduce the level of Russian athletes being banned in a cylical cold war era game.
Could data mining techniques accurately predict the medal counts at the Olympics? A predictive model could give us an estimate of the number of medals each nation might win; but how close could we get to the actual outcomes? It was a tantalizing project …
By Dan Graettinger with Tim Graettinger
• Which nation will bring home the most medals at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia?
• Will any nation from Africa, South America, or the Middle East finally break through and win a medal?
• Why do some nations win a bundle of medals while others win only a few?
• Can data mining give us the answers to these questions?
the Graettinger brothers do? They used a seemingly standard methodology: learn from the past to predict the future. More precisely, they used past Olympics results to build a predictive model. Each country is represented by a feature vector, i.e. a set of quantities drawn form several categories:
Economic
Population
Human Development
Geography
Religion
Politics and Freedom
Then they used a standard technique known as linear regression to find which set of features were best for predicting medal count. I was reading their blog post with great interest until I saw what were the most meaningful features found by the linear regression algorithm:
Thankfully, there were some good sources out there[f3], and I collected enough data that I felt I had a good chance to predict some meaningful outcomes. But would it be enough? There is more than one way to go about predicting the medal count at the Olympics, and the route before me was the “30,000 feet” approach.
80 % interns drop out or are let go because they cannot keep up with the assignments
Remaining 20% usually learn a lot in the intensive program
Internships are like a free boot camp
No more internships till June 2017 because I am trying to write a book
Some research assistantships might be available in December 2016 to help with some code or Lyx formatting for the former
See my LinkedIn profile for reviews given by the 20% interns who manage to stick around
I usually emphasize writing, polyglot tools (both R, SAS and Python) , logical thinking and concise communication for my interns
I usually treat them as students since I dont work for or in a university. That might change as I try and transition out from business to academic research options for a non Phd
I had just come back after 5 months in the land of the brave and free ( Trumpistan ) so it was my first Bollywood movie in some time and Salman Khan did not disappoint in his annual Id outing. Sultan followed a wrestler who became a wrestler to impress a girl, and then gets separated post losing the girl. Fairly standard sports movie fare of rise, fall and rise again, though with a great Indian twist and I really think they could make Sultan 2.The heroine should be Rhonda Rousy in that one though. Anushka is not credible enough as a skinny wrestling prodigy, though Salman easily does the best acting of his career (minus the dancing)
The songs were ok ok, though the dialogues were amazing. Bhai rocks
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