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RON PAUL: REALITY SETTING IN FOR AMERICA; IT’S A POLICE STATE; BASED ON LIES & IGNORANCE – Video

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Rand Paul announces campaign manager for likely 2016 campaign

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday announced the hiring of a campaign manager for his likely 2016 presidential bid, part of an aggressive effort to build a national political team as the race for the White House heats up.

The hiring of strategist Chip Englander, who recently guided a gubernatorial candidate to victory in Illinois, marks a clear step forward for the Kentucky Republican as he prepares to transform his cadre of loyalists into a full-scale campaign.

Doug Stafford, Pauls longtime confidant, will remain as his chief political adviser. In an interview Tuesday, Stafford said he will rely on Englander for the day-to-day execution of Pauls operation.

The move underscores Paul's unorthodox approach to presidential politics and his expected candidacy, with plans to put an emphasis on outreach to the poor and younger voters while also courting conservative activists in early-primary states.

In an interview Tuesday, Englander argued that Pauls unconventional positions would lay the foundation for a potent Republican coalition. Paul has articulated mostly non-interventionist views on foreign policy, while taking hardline stances against tax hikes and President Obamas health-care law domestically.

America has intractable problems and its going to take a transformational leader to fix them, Englander said. Senator Paul is going to be the bold, transformational figure in this race.

The hiring of Englander comes as former Florida governor Jeb Bush and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney are moving closer to launching their own 2016 campaigns and connecting with donors and Republican officials.

Rather than bringing on a consultant well-known in Washington or one with ties to his father, former Texas congressman Ron Paul, the Kentucky Republican has enlisted a youthful outsider to coordinate his efforts.

Englander, 33, who spent much of his early career working in California politics, last year managed Republican Bruce Rauners campaign for governor in Illinois, guiding the wealthy businessman through a competitive primary and then to a decisive win in the general election - in part by outpacing Democrats in some urban areas and steering clear of hot-button social issues.

Stafford cited the work of Englander in helping Rauner win a blue state where Republicans have had scattered success as a key reason why Rand Paul settled on him. He also focused on Englander's management of Rauner's sprawling network of volunteers and a campaign budget of nearly $70 million.

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Rand Paul looks to steal 2016 spotlight

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Jeb Bush is a Big Government Republican. Mitt Romney had his chance. And Marco Rubios recent jabs on foreign policy are silly and childish.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is back in insurgent mode, lobbing bombs at his potential Republican presidential rivals and looking to take back a political spotlight that Bush and Romney have been hogging lately. Paul is also heading to New Hampshire and Nevada this week, hoping to strike a fire with voters who want a new voice to carry the GOPs message to the White House.

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You need a candidate who reaches out to new constituencies and is able to bring new people into the party, Paul said. Because if we do the same old, same old candidates, we are going to get the same old result.

While other Republican House and Senate members attend this weeks rare GOP joint congressional summit in Pennsylvania, Paul will be in New Hampshire to meet with mothers and activists railing against Common Core, the education program reviled by the tea party right. An added advantage: The issue gives him a chance to further needle Bush, a prominent Common Core supporter who would probably be a front-runner for the presidential nomination.

(Also on POLITICO: Rand Paul taps Chip Englander as likely 2016 campaign manager)

In an interview Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican did just that.

Hes been a proponent of Common Core, a proponent probably of a much bigger government a Big Government Republican who believes more things should be occurring in Washington rather than decentralization, Paul said of the former Florida governor. He added that his rivals brother and father, former Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, also backed education policies aimed at more Washington control.

Jeb Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell responded: Gov. Bush would put his successful conservative governing record up against anyones.

Pauls assessment of Romney is only slightly less critical.

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Ron Paul : Libertarianism – Charlie Rose Interview Full – Video

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How Facebook Knows You Better Than Your Friends Do

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In the movie Her, Joaquin Phoenixs character falls in love with his computers operating system, which through the magic of machine learning and Hollywood comes to know and understand him better than anyone else. Its a futuristic critique of human reliance on technology. But according to one new study, its a future that may not be all that far away.

This week, researchers from the University of Cambridge and Stanford University released a study indicating that Facebook may be better at judging peoples personalities than their closest friends, their spouses, and in some cases, even themselves. The study compared peoples Facebook Likes to their own answers in a personality questionnaire, as well as the answers provided by their friends and family, and found that Facebook outperformed any human, no matter their relation to the subjects.

Thats a substantial finding, the researchers say, particularly given the fact that human beings are evolutionarily designed to have good personality judgement. Its what keeps us out of danger and influences our relationships. But the realization that, perhaps, computers are better equipped to make these judgements than humans are could help cut through the natural bias that pervades human interactions. Never mind what this says about how much of power Facebook wields.

Were walking personality prediction machines, says Michal Kosinski, a computer science professor at Stanford, but computers beat us at our own game.

The researchers began with a 100-item personality questionnaire that went viral after David Stillwell, a psychometrics professor at Cambridge, posted it on Facebook back in 2007. Respondents answered questions that were meant to root out five key personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Based on that survey, the researchers scored each respondent in all five traits.

Then, the researchers created an algorithm and fed it with every respondents personality scores, as well as their Likes, to which subjects voluntarily gave researchers access. The researchers only included Likes that respondents shared with at least 20 other respondents. That enabled the model to connect certain Likes to certain personality traits. If, for instance, several people who liked Snooki on Facebook also scored high in the extroverted category, the system would learn that Snooki lovers are more outgoing. The more Likes the system saw, the better its judgment became.

In the end, the researchers found that with information on just ten Facebook Likes, the algorithm was more accurate than the average persons colleague. With 150 Likes, it could outsmart peoples families, and with 300 Likes, it could best a persons spouse.

Whats more, at times, the Facebook model could beat the subjects own answers. As part of the survey, the researchers also asked respondents to answer concrete questions such as how many drinks they have a week or what type of career path theyve chosen. Then, they tried to see if they could predict how many drinks someone was likely to have in a week based on their answers to the personality test.

Once again, they found that Facebook Likes were a better indicator of peoples substance use than even their own questionnaires were. When people take the questionnaire, they present themselves in a slightly more positive way than they really are, Kosinski says. This tendency to self-enhance makes computers slightly more objective.

While the researchers admit the results were surprising, they say theres good reason for it. For starters, computers dont forget. While our judgment of people may change based on our most recent or most dramatic interactions with them, computers give a persons entire history equal weight. Computers also dont have experiences or opinions of their own. Theyre not limited by their own cultural references, and they dont find certain personality traits, likes, or interests good or bad. Computers dont understand that certain personalities are more socially desirable, Kosinski says. Computers dont like any of us.

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Watch The Deckhouse Of The Most Futuristic Ship Drop Into Place

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No matter which way you slice it, the new Zumwalt-class destroyer is one of the most futuristic ships in the world. That sort of futurism isn't limited to its operations on water. It starts even while it's being built, as they basically snap the whole thing into place like Lego bricks.

The USS Michael Monsoor, named after a US Navy SEAL killed during the Iraq War when he jumped on a grenade to save his teammates and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, is currently under construction at Bath Iron Works in Maine. Modern warships aren't entirely built from the keel up, as in traditional shipbuilding. Instead, huge sections of the ship are fabricated in blocks on land, and then attached together.

That's basically what you're seeing here. In the Michael Monsoor's case, the deckhouse, as the big sticking-up bit is known, was manufactured in Mississippi, then placed on a barge and shipped up to Maine for final assembly, where it was placed on top of the rest of the hull.

The deckhouse of the ship itself isn't made out of super-hardened steel, as you would find on a destroyer of old, but rather a carbon fiber-balsawood (yes, balsawood, the same as you find on model airplanes) composite. Carbon fiber itself is incredibly strong, and by using it in the deckhouse up top, it saves a ton of weight and lowers the center of mass in the tumblehome hull design. The carbon fiber-balsa combination also resists corrosion and adds to the boat's already considerable stealthiness, which are two huge factors in building a ship of the future.

Despite the lightweight construction, the deckhouse still weighs about 1000 tons, making this an incredibly impressive lifting job in its own right. But once everything was in place and the deckhouse was up in the air, the only thing left to do was slide the rest of the 610-foot-long ship underneath it. And then, you know, install all the radars, antennas, and everything else that goes inside it, and integrate it all together.

But from the sounds that the Navy is making, it appears as if it's all going well. Expect to see the USS Michael Monsoor in commission in 2016.

Update: We've changed the headline to reflect a slight wording issue. In Navy terms, the "head" is the toilet. The deckhouse is not a giant toilet, despite our wildest dreams.

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Firefly Space Systems Inks Space Act Deal With NASA

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Concept art for Firefly's first launch system. (Credit: Firefly Space Systems)

Texas-based Space startup Firefly Space Systems announced today that the company has signed a Space Act agreement with NASA.

Founded in January 2013, Firefly is focused on building a reusable launch system that is geared towards the small satellite market. Its first rocket, Firefly Alpha, is planned to be able to lift 453 kg into low Earth orbit and is slated to launch in 2017. It will be followed by its second system, Firefly Beta, which will be able to deliver 1114 kg to low Earth orbit.

The reason why Firefly exists is that if you look at emergence of space companies, you can see that a large number of them are smallsat companies, Fireflys VP of Business Development Maureen Gannon told me. That growth in the smallsat market is really what were seeing as opportunity for our company.

One big area where Firefly aims to be competitive is cost. According to Gannon, the company is targeting a launch cost of $8-9 million. By contrast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch costs $61.2 million.

Four years from start to launch is an aggressive schedule for any space company. Thats one area where the agreement with NASA comes in. Under this agreement, NASA and Firefly have agreed to collaborate on the engineering and design of the Firefly Alpha system. This includes areas of technical consultation, engineering services, and concept/design reviews, according to a press release. (However, theres no financial aspect to the agreement.)

The other way that Firefly is trying to reach its goal is by shifting the normal process through which rockets are developed. To that end, the company has partnered with ANSYS, which makes physics-based simulation software for engineering firms.

Our simulation software allows companies to develop in a different way, Rob Smith, ANSYSs Aerospace and Defense Industry director told me. The old way was to come up with an idea, sketch it, prototype it and test until it breaks. Its expensive and time consuming.

Firefly has been able to use the simulation software, which runs on the Texas Advanced Computing Centers Stampede supercomputer, to speed up their development process.

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Ford Piquette Plant Discussion With Futurist Sheryl Connelly 1-11-15 – Video

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