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A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military’s plans for “information operations” – from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
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# Allow Québec to play a role in international institutions, such as UNESCO, where its cultural responsibilities are at stake, based on the model of the Francophonie Summit; # Correct the fiscal imbalance between the federal government and the provinces;
Tags: autopoiesis, cybernetics, design, error, feedback, freedom, intelligence, knowledge, learning, model, politics, presentations, software, systems, thinking
I’m David HC Soul … and for those of you old enough to remember no
not THAT one … although I have been known to answer to the name
Hutch.
This web site covers an number of things of interest to me in my professional life:
- Complex Event Processing (CEP) – an
emerging way of looking at ways to manage the complexity inherent in
our global and enterprise computer and communications systems
- Cybernetics – the science of
communication and control in animal and machine – especially the design
of viable business systems according to Stafford Beer’s VSM (viable
systems model)
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I’m David HC Soul …
and for those of you old enough to remember no not THAT one …
although I have been known to answer to the name Hutch.
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from collision detection: Are smarter people better at ignoring things?
A team
testing the “visual working memory” of a group of subjects by getting them to look at red and blue bricks in a picture found, much their suprise, that people with the largest capacity VWM weren't actually retaining lots of additional information, but infact were simply selective in what they retained….or possibly the real genius comes in stripping out inessential information (filtering) and holding only in mind the red bricks that the researchers asked them to pay attention to.
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