Big Blue in Justice Net?

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into IBM's business practices as they pertain to mainframes.

IBM seems to be stifling competition in its core mainframe business which is highly profitable for it.

The result of this is not yet certain. It will be interesting to see what those will be.

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Longforms and 'Best of 2017' Lists and Favorite Books by Ashutosh Joglekar and Scott Aaronson

Ashutosh Joglekar's books list. http://wavefunction.fieldofscience.com/2018/03/30-favorite-books.html Scott Aaronson' list https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3679 https://www.wired.com/story/most-read-wired-magazine-stories-2017/ https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/the-best-books-we-read-in-2017/548912/ https://longreads.com/2017/12/21/longreads-best-of-2017-essays/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/world/asia/how-the-rohingya-escaped.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-journalists-covered-rise-mussolini-hitler-180961407/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/artificial-intelligence-future-scenarios-180968403/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/01/20/citizen-kay https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/where-we-are-hunt-cancer-vaccine-180968391/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/dna-based-attack-against-cancer-may-work-180968407/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/22/dona

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Personality Tests, Online Quizzes, Cambridge Analytica — The Dangers

Online quizzes are not so innocent . It seems Myers Briggs is a bogus psychological test but very popular. Sigh. Somewhat better than a horoscope, MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) is as bad as a lie detector.

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