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BOOK GIVEAWAY: Last week was my birthday. I turned 21 (again...if you round generously).
To mark the occasion, I'm giving away one copy of my new book, Missing Persons: Beyond Serial Killers and Unexplained Disappearances.
The response has been so positive. The first print run sold out within a matter of days, which I suppose suggests that at least some people read it. I appreciate everyone who bought a copy, mentioned it, or quietly tolerated me talking about it. And so I'd like to give back.
To enter, leave a comment on this post. That's it that's all. Then I'II select a winner at random in one week from today.
Please share with your networks to reach the police, SAR, mispers, practitioner, academic and other communities to which I owe a great deal for their support.
BREAKING: Government Ministers inspect HMS Miniwarboat before she deploys to protect Cyprus. HMS Miniwarboat is powered by 2x AA Batteries and at just over 8.0085inches long is the second smallest boat in the Navy and cost just £71.75bil to build
Photographed from a Canberra
Photo of the Day: Typhoon EF2000s (made by the Eurovision consortium) escort HMS Victory, and her 717.5 crew, back to the UK after a successful win at the Battle of Waterloo!
Photographed from a Canberra
Ever wanted to know how to #BeatTheHouse at #Roulette?
This book by James Kellaway, an ex-London #Casino dealer explains something I've known for years - carefully watching the dealer and betting the right segments of the wheel can make you money!
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🇩🇰🇪🇬 Men are simple creatures.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum’s opening.
Look how happy he is.
98.5% of data from 1870-1970 has NEVER been digitalized!
It is an unfortunate assumption by some of the most brilliant minds in AI engineering that “all the human data is online already, and AI trained on it, so now we will use ‘synthetic data’”.
This is assumption has caused AI companies to believe the only answer is “Synthetic data”.
I knew this would be a problem in 1979, and saved as much as I could for AI training. Today it is a crisis and unfortunately no AI company cares to engage in a solution.
The amount of human data from 1870–1970, the most high protein, can-do euros that has never been digitized is ~74.25 PB.
98.5% of 75 PB is undigitized, leaving ONLY 0.75 PB digitized.
It requires a Manhattan Project to stop the loss of data:
Archival estimates indicate:
• ~70–80% of pre-20th-century documents are lost (e.g., due to events like the 1871 Chicago Fire or WWII bombings).
• For 1900–1970, loss rates are ~70–80%, from media degradation and routine disposal.
Averaging these rates across the period yields ~85% total loss. Thus, the amount of data from 1870–1970 already lost is ~98.75 PB (this excludes post-1970 losses and focuses on pre-digitization destruction, as substantiated by archival reports like those from the National Archives).
So we can solve the lack of data issue with the focus on saving erasing of data today and curating what I have.
I know how to do this but we are running out of time. Each week we lose the equivalent of The Library Of Alexandria.
Think about it.
Today is the first day of my last full working week as a full-time soldier.
Nearly 24yrs have passed and the feeling is indescribable. I am happy but equally as sad.
The Career Management Officer said if this post gets 1M likes, I will sign a new Army contract. IMPOSSIBLE ☠️
We get it, @SkyNews and The Guardian - same initials, both wear uniforms, operate internationally, and move fast. But only one SAS was affected by the Heathrow power outage. Spoiler: it was the one with the free coffee onboard, not the one with parachutes.