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bemildred

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7. I saw that number some time back, in July or thereabouts, but not since.

Reply to randome (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 3, 2013, 11:48 PM

Dec 2013

I've been wondering why? It's a stunner. The context IIRC was the private army of analysts going over the PRISM stuff. If you think about it, it makes sense, that is one hell of a lot of data, and algorithms can only do so much when it comes to analysis of human language. You would have some pre-filters to weed out the babble, and then a great big pile of stuff that might mean something, or not. I still don't know where the number came from.

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