JACK MAVEN AND THE "MAJOR"....THEN ALONG CAME FLUFFY

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The stories that are best known today were collected and set down by enthusiasts like the Brothers Grimm, ETA Hoffman and Hans Christian Andersen. In so doing, they codified tales that had always been in flux, passing from teller to teller, acquiring and losing details as in a game of telephone. But once they existed in written form, they became texts that scholars could parse, and for Freud and Jung, they were as productive as the goose that lay the golden eggs. Operations Center Cognitive Assistant: This project aims to streamline the flow of information through the force. It will start with using natural-language processing to sort through radio chatter, turning troops’ urgent verbal calls for airstrikes and artillery support into target data in seconds instead of minutes. We brought in world-class talent into that CDAO and we’ve paired [its fresh leadership] now with folks like the Maven community that we’ve pulled into CDAO, [who] understand how to connect at a more tactical operational level to the AI-data-level talent,” she explained. “And they’re going to be really focused on creating that integration layer at the software level.” Google says that it is no longer “developing custom AI/ML solutions to facilitate upstream extraction” for the oil and gas industry, but it is not clear if it provides custom solutions to midstream and downstream companies, or whether it provides non-custom solutions for upstream extraction. Its genesis was partially inspired by the creation of Project Maven in April 2017, which the lieutenant general also played a key role in establishing.

Many questions remain about how Maven and its complex components will function and scale once that transition is completed early next month. But at this point, one thing is clear: This shift marks a significant waypoint in the project’s evolution and will likely influence the military’s ability to win future wars with AI and associated advanced technologies. Bushcraft Courses, Bushcraft Qualifications, Ancestral Skills, Foraging & Woodland Craft Courses in KentI don’t pretend to have the energy that I had when I was 35, and I don’t pretend to understand music that is not — like rap and pop today…I can’t produce it…I don’t want to or try — but I know what’s good and I’m happy to have young producers do it. So, I know what I can do, and I love doing it.” But the chair shot. It stung more than it hurt. But honestly, I was on top of the world just knowing because after I did the chair shot, I think Taker goes and he throws the camera guy down and they stayed on that shot. Normally they’ll change shot, but they stayed on that on purpose. He had to get the gig out to give me color. And he came over. And he told me great job, kid. And at that point, I just knew my night was all I had to do was sell and then get thrown into a popcorn machine.” In every single instance the data is never quite in the quality that you’re looking for,” he says. “If it exists, I have not seen a pristine set of data yet.” The spa facilities boast a diverse repertoire of treatments, which you can enjoy while gazing at an ocean view that’s built into the spa’s floor, and listening to the sounds of the sea. If simply being on the island doesn’t relax you completely, then a 60-minute signature massage certainly will. Adaptability is one of the fairy tale’s secrets of survival and there are feminist readings (Beauty and the Beast is a parable about women’s self-sacrifice in a patriarchal society), Marxist readings (Snow White’s seven dwarves epitomise the peasant classes, surviving by dint of hard work and solidarity), even Nazi propaganda readings (the prince must wake the sleeping Aryan beauty from the dense hedge of Jewish and Communist conspiracies). But it is definitely possible to do too much delving, which is why it’s refreshing to see these time-worn tales used as a jumping off point for new stories, of which Maleficent is just the latest. Earlier this year, Helen Oyeyemi, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, retold Snow White in her mischievous fifth novel, Boy, Snow, Bird, braiding themes of race, gender and ethnicity without sacrificing any of the magic that we associate with the form.

Autonomous Ground Reconnaissance & Surveillance: This involves adding Maven-style analysis algorithms to more kinds of scout drones and even ground robots, so the software can call humans’ attention to potential threats and targets without someone having to watch every frame of video. Though a little skepticism remains, in the most recent conversation with DefenseScoop, he also explicitly pointed out that he feels “more optimistic than ever” about this point in Maven’s transition, because he has heard that new NGA director Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth has made Maven “his priority project.” In a statement, the Pentagon welcomed the report, which speaks to the immense challenges facing the US military in embracing a technology that it sees as integral to a possible conflict with Russia or China. “The speed, the op tempo of that conflict will be so fast,” Shanahan says. “Twenty years from now we'll be looking at algorithms versus algorithms.” If that happens in the next couple years, it could lead to “an explosion of ideas that no one knew about because they weren’t being tried out at the so-called tactical and operational” levels, according to Shanahan.Maven was founded with one goal in mind: to breed and cultivate rare and exotic indoor cannabis of the highest caliber. As a company, they are driven by an absolute passion for the flower and dedicated to sparking innovation and craftsmanship in every step of the process. They believe that everyone who seeks more from cannabis is a connoisseur, an enthusiast, and a true maven. And that’s about all I can say, because I’m not day-to-day tied in, in terms of classified sources — but I know it’s being used and being used effectively. So, I think they’ve sort of pushed the envelope almost as far as they can go by Maven itself,” Shanahan said. “Now it’s time to get this to the entire Department of Defense and the entire intelligence community.” Facing that kind of firepower, with Sir Richard Burton looking on in support, what’s a working-class kid from the Bronx, who’s been bouncing between playing guitar, petty crime, and interactions with the local cops and judicial system, to do? That’s right. You play your music.

The marine biology tour also provides information about the conservation efforts that are underway on the reef. Stingrays have been coming to the resort’s ‘stingray beach’ for decades to be hand-fed tuna before embarking on their daily hunting routine. CDAO is responsible for continuing development on the non-GEOINT lines of effort until such time as they are ready to transition to follow-on mission partners,” which will be fully moved over by fiscal 2025, statements from the press officials said. They also noted that “ongoing work post-transitioned will be overseen by [I&S,]” and that “details of that oversight function are still being established.” We want to have APIs [Application Program Interfaces] that allow anyone to come in and access our common foundation or platform. We will publish API definitions, what you need to write to,” Shanahan said. But the sheer diversity of the data and the different purposes it can be put to, he said, means that “there is never going to be a single standard API.”There are a lot of people who want to just jump to data standards. I don’t,” he told me. “Every weapons system that we have, and every piece of data that we have, conforms to some standard. There are over a thousand different standards related to data today. They’re just not all enforced.”

And many of JAIC’s projects don’t involve video at all: They range from predicting helicopter engine breakdowns and using natural-language processing to turn troops’ radio calls for air support into unambiguous targeting data. Underneath the sunloungers, spas, restaurants and villas is an ecosystem teeming with sea life. Fish, turtles, stingrays, sharks (of the PG-13 variety) swimming above a rich tapestry of coral means that snorkelling, scuba diving and one or two lessons in marine biology are always on the menu. Even when JAIC is seeking to apply Maven-style video analysis to other kinds of surveillance footage, the algorithms need to be retrained to recognize different targets in different landscapes and weather conditions, all seen from different angles and altitudes through different kinds of cameras. “You can’t just train an algorithm on electro-optical data and expect it to perform in infrared,” Shanahan said. “We tried that.” That year, Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith concurred: "We believe in the strong defense of the United States and we want the people who defend it to have access to the nation’s best technology, including from Microsoft." When asked about taking the steel chair shot from The Undertaker, Maven joked that it wasn’t a butterfly kiss.

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His thinking strongly influenced psychoanalytic theorist Bruno Bettelheim, whose book The Uses of Enchantment became a hit in the late 1970s. In it, he describes how the forest in The Two Brothers “symbolizes the place in which inner darkness is confronted and worked through; where uncertainty is resolved about who one is; and where one begins to understand who one wants to be. Since ancient times the near impenetrable forest in which we get lost has symbolized the dark, hidden, near-impenetrable world of our unconscious.” Dynamic & Deliberate Targeting: The idea here is to take targets (for example, ones found by the Sensor To Shooter software) and figure out which aircraft is best positioned to strike it with which weapons along which flight path – much like how Uber matches you with a driver and route. Spokespersons from the CDAO and NGA recently confirmed to DefenseScoop that their organizations are considered “mission partners” in the work. Lines of effort associated with Maven’s GEOINT functions — meaning those that analyze geospatial intelligence, or signals and data of specific locations — will move to NGA by the start of fiscal 2023.