= Сообщение: 9267 из 12492 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 06 Jan 20 11:06:47 Кому : Björn Felten 06 Jan 20 11:06:47 Тема : Our data collected from the internet FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5e1306b0 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5e12a2ba = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP437 ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:292/854+10023d0b ============================================================================== On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 04:00:16 Björn Felten -> David Rance wrote:
DR>> Are you suggesting that I should be deceitful? Oh, Wilfred, I am DR>> surprised at you!
BF> LOL! You must forgive the new generation, they've been raised in a BF> totally -- as in not Cold War -- environment.
But it is a trend which has spread right across the globe. Telling lies (or even just suppressing the truth) seems to be ok as long as one doesn't get found out. And if one is found out, it doesn't seem to impinge on one's good character any more.
BF> Yes, giving out personal information to anybody is not advisable, BF> but rarely damaging. But when all of us can benefit from the collected BF> data, only a few hard-core extremists are excluded -- and it's totally BF> OK from a statistical POV.
BF> Take for instance Google Trends. It's a collection of data BF> correlating to what the conglomerate of humanity has been asking for BF> many years. Yes, it's commercial use is obvious, but the "side effect" BF> maybe not so.
Where I can avoid social media I do so. I do have a facebook account but it tells very little about me and I use it just to find out news of some of my friends. I rarely write in it. In fact the last time I wrote on facebook was on the centenary of my uncle's death in Word War I in July 2016. I don't have any other SM account as far as I know. But, of course, information about me is readily available elsewhere and I have to live with that.
BF> Studying Google Trends for some key words (that I will give you when BF> you pay me EUR100) you can easily see how the credit crises ten years BF> ago could be predicted with almost a 100% certainty day for day -- but BF> also how the present day economic will evolve with the same 100% BF> certainty. Day for day, take it or leave it...
I think we could have predicted past crises without Google Trends. It's like pyramid selling - it has to crash under its own weight at some point.
BF> As usual: Learn from history if you want to predict the future -- BF> Google can actually be your best tool. Ignore it if you want to repeat BF> the last failure.
Who was it who said that the only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history? And so we are doomed to repeat the same old mistakes.
David
-- Formerly ICHTHUS (Reading) UK (1987-2007 R.I.P.) (2:292/854.110)
