[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/19/2018 11:07 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 8/19/2018 2:22 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Facebook has crunched all his FB page views, his FB likes, his
>> location when visiting facebook and all the pages using FB
>> that he has visited - and knows his friends, his hobbies,
>> his political opinions, his religious beliefs, his sexual preferences,
>> where he has physical been every day or hour the last decade - they
>> know everything.
>>
>> http://wumo.com/img/wumo/2018/07/wumo5b438d7861e152.54362870.jpg
>>
>> Arne
> 
> Is that so they can send over the right type and price call girl ??
> 
> :-)

It may be so close to reality that it is more scary than funny.

https://news.stanford.edu/2015/01/12/personality-computer-knows-011215/

<quote>
...
The study, published Jan. 12 and conducted jointly by researchers at 
Stanford University and the University of Cambridge, compares the 
ability of computers and people to make accurate judgments about our 
personalities. People’s judgments were based on their familiarity with 
the judged individual, while the computer used digital signals – 
Facebook “likes.”
...
According to Kosinski, the findings reveal that by mining a person’s 
Facebook “likes,” a computer was able to predict a person’s personality 
more accurately than most of their friends and family. Only a person’s 
spouse came close to matching the computer’s results.
...
</quote>

And that was just FB likes - not even including all the other
info FB has.

Arne