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POPSCongress Blinds The FBI These predictive models get better as the quality of the information going into them improves. As more terrorists are captured and interrogated, and their computers and data is translated, the predictions become more accurate. No one harasses researchers for using data mining, or makes fun of building supercomputers with graphics processors (often the same ones found in video game consoles, making super-fast computers cheap enough to be used in a combat zone to make life saving predictions), when it saves troops from getting killed. The FBI has been unable to make this point to Congress, mainly because some key legislators are ideologically opposed to data mining, and refuse to acknowledge the widespread success of the technique in civilians and military sectors.
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POPSMen And Women Respond Differently To Stress The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine is reporting research that shows that different parts of the brain are activated in males and females when confronted with a stressful situation. The researchers examined the activity of participant's brains using fMRI while exposed to stress.
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POPSPotential Paradigm Shift? I am always wary of ideas that glorify computers as the best (and perhaps only true) way to understand the functions of the world and life. However, this one is slightly different from the ones I've seen before, so...maybe?
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POPSAstronomical Alignments of Ancient Structures Whether one accepts conventional science's view of "primitive" man as an ape or not, there are volumes of evidence that cannot be explained away; that the ancients were anything but knuckle dragging near-beasts.
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POPS42 Can anyone translate what it says ......I don't get it. (except for the meaning of life gag)
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POPSMathematics "It is the application of a logically consistent set of rules and grammatical constructions to create more intricate rules and constructions. These constructions are used to model the world of external observation, and they do so with remarkable precision."
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POPSUSA and the Role in Science and Technology We are not all losers, but we depend very much on the immigrants. So let's not make it any herder on them. Open your borders America and fix your educational system. Don't privatize, schools are not for profit..we will profit, if we educate with more money that is spend on wars, Iraq, Afghanistan, Drugs, Terrorism, Iran? We got wars on all fronts. Can't win that kind of "Art of War"
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POPSCrimes of Passion Is this an instance of an "honor killing"? It certainly is an example of xenophobia gone amok. Either that or horribly twisted cultural traditions that I hope are based mainly with older members of society. If that's the case then, barring familial transference, we have a chance to rid our species of these obsolete taboos.
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