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The 103-page document [...] takes lessons from the last six years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan to outline Air Force policies in “a violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations.”
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Besides their usefulness in consumer transactions, Ayres argues, regression and data analysis can predict outcomes far better than we can, and have already had a huge impact on human behavior.
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I was just talking to someone about the “Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra” episode of Star Trek:TNG last night at dinner!
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“Our Truth-O-Meter will help voters sort fact from fiction in the campaign. This is a working database and over time it will grow more valuable.”
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1 daddy democrat // Aug 25, 2007 at 12:20 am
My favorite political post of the week was by Barabara O’Brien’s “The Power of (Right Wing) Myth.” She does a really good job at breaking down the misuses of history by the current generation of right wing propagandists. (Tip by way ofAkkam’s Razor.) You might need to be a fan of Star Trek: TNG to really appreciate it, though. (If you read O’Brien’s post, you may pick up on the delicious irony of using a referential metaphor to illuminate the dangers of explaining complex historical events
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