by Charles Cameron | Sep 7, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on a quote from my fellow whacky Brit, Geoffrey Pyke ] . Whacky? From a short description of the man by his biographer, Henry Hemming: Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor, war reporter, escaped prisoner, campaigner, father, educator–and all-around...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 7, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — I do believe this will be a new series ] . ** Intelligence, obviously, can mean something along the lines of bright thinking, but also that which is gathered, usually from the extremities of empire or the most hidden of an opponent’s...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 20, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — quick update on Cameron’s Recomended Reading: Michael Wilson from 2008 ] . Back in 2008, Zen wrote of Michael Wilson‘s papers: I’ve only just begun to look at these and I’m posting them here for those readers whose interests...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 18, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — games, games, games — & prepping a challenge for AI, the analytic community & CNA ] . Playing go, Hasegawa, Settei, 1819-1882, Library of Congress ** In the past, computers have won such games as Pong and Space Invaders:...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 25, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — spy vs spy as delicate moral balance ] . There are two sentences in When The Hackers Become The Hacked: Why Reading John Brennan’s Emails Feels Wrong, Ali Watkins‘ HuffPo piece a couple of days ago, that feature a neat sense of...
