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The NY Times has a very interesting post up about some recent, and past, misses of the CIA and the US intelligence community. Interestingly the article mentions the US Intelligence Community has 16 agencies / elements. There is a WIKI about those here
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Found this interesting story at the NY Times about a wire checking robot which crawls high energy wires searching for issues. The robot eliminates / reduces the need for expensive helicopter examinations, can reach remote places faster then ground based vehicles or employees hiking in and it runs of stray voltage from the line. Very [...]
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Found a interesting story at the New York Times. It seems that China, not a traditional chess playing nation or chess power house, has been turning out a few masters the last few years. Currently the most promising one is a 16 year girl named Hou Yifan who recently one a chess championship. Full story [...]
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The NY Times had an article on the trends / steps in high school and college – focusing on Central Florida University and turnitin.com – to stop cheating (full story here). Since I have not seen a classroom in almost 20 years this kind of stuff was really interesting to me. I knew cheating was [...]
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First of all, yes I am alive and I due plan to blog regularly again. Moving on, over the last few weeks my life has been VERY VERY heckit and tough due to work. I will not go into details except to say that lots of stress, drama, and TONS of work. The good news [...]
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