This primer offers analytic techniques to assist intelligence analysts in dealing with complex international developments, incomplete and ambiguous information, and the limitations of the human mind. The challenge of understanding the intentions and capabilities of adversaries and foreign actors, especially when concealed, is compounded by the complexity posed by transnational threats involving multiple adaptable nonstate […]
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Author argues that mental liquidity is the key to success, as more often than not, the world is constantly changing and new information is brought in. However, the ability to change personal beliefs and convictions is rare, as people often find it easier to believe falsehoods than admit mistakes. The author regards conviction as a […]
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For decades, we have been told that drugs are highly addictive due to a series of rat experimentations that placed one rat alone in a cage with two water bottles – one containing cocaine or heroin, and the other just water. However, Professor of Psychology in Vancouver, Bruce Alexander, believed that the rat experiments were […]
Settling down by the sea, in a so-called “blue space,” has been linked to a 17% reduction in mortality rate. Researcher Wallace J. Nichols, who coined the term “blue mind theory,” stated that any engagement with water, even a creek, can offer a salve for our embattled brains. Nichols argues that temporary proximity to clean […]
Canonical s-expressions are a way to format s-expressions into data packets suitable for network transmissions. To get a canonical s-exp, it has to be converted into a tree of byte streams, which can then be easily transmitted in a stream. The unique aspect of writing a given s-expression is ensured by adding suffixes with the […]
The Dutch government is proposing changes to its intelligence and security services act, allowing automatic extension of warrants to hacking victims who are not the primary target. The legislation would make it possible for Dutch services to obtain permission to monitor a computer or communication, following a warrant for another hacker, without the need for […]
Mike Brixius is on a quest to finish his Commodore 64 CRPG, Digital Dungeon Master, which he started in 1984. Based on the Avalon Hill tabletop games and Telengard, the game boasted a limited line of sight and open-world inspired by Ultima IV. Brixius has kept all disks, tapes, notes, and hand-documented assembly code printouts […]
The author conducts a performance analysis of the Intel AVX-512 sort implementation, comparing it to other generic sort implementations, such as std::sort and vqsort. The analysis aims to put the popularized “10~17x” number into perspective and look at how hardware specific manual vectorization with wide AVX-512 SIMD is not the only way to write efficient […]
Seagate has given an update on its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, revealing that it will release its first commercial hard drive using this recording method in Q3 2023, with a capacity of 32 TB. The new recording technology will allow for a relatively swift upgrade to a 40 TB capacity. Seagate says high-capacity HAMR hard drives […]