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The issues thrown up in the wake of the U.S. presidential election have fundamentally undermined trust in the workings of the international media and further damaged U.S.–Russia relations. A report by the U.S. intelligence services accusing Russia of attempting to influence the outcome of the election, prepared for President Obama and published in the election’s immediate aftermath, led to the expulsion1 of 35 Russian diplomats from Washington just days after the results were announced. President Putin, on the other hand, opted not to expel any U.S. diplomats from Russia. The investigation into Russia’s involvement and influence on the U.S. elections continues today.
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Pasukan Siber, Manipulasi Opini Publik dan Kebangkitan Otoritarianisme Digita...LuqmanulHakim259964
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The rise of the social networking sites in the early 2000s, has led to the increase in the worlds networked population. Social media ensured that people have greater access to information, content and opportunities to engage in public sphere to undertake united action. Social media has entered into our daily lives and it influences people and organizations all over the world involving many actors regular citizens, social activists, non governmental organizations, telecommunications companies, software service providers, and also governments at large. Social media revolution in Indian politics is real and its impact can be assessed by General elections of 2014 and 2019. The General election of 2014 was regarded as the 1st social media election of India due to the ever increasing use of social media by political actors. Nevertheless, Social media has also impacted politics in all major states including West Bengal. No doubt social media is now being seriously considered by the West Bengal political parties as a mean to reach out to the electorate, but will it influence the 2021 Assembly Elections in the same way as in Obama’s Presidential elections This paper analyses the reach of West Bengal based parties in various social media platforms. Rajarshi Guha "Social Media and West Bengal Political Parties: A Brief Analysis" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-2 , February 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38402.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/38402/social-media-and-west-bengal-political-parties-a-brief-analysis/rajarshi-guha
Martina Chichi describes Amnesty International Italy's Barometer of Hate ProjectVienna Data Science Group
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2. The internet in particular has allowed terrorist groups to spread their messages to huge audiences worldwide with very little cost or regulation. Terrorist groups use websites and social media to recruit, fundraise, and share information and resources.
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How will the future of politics and political campaigning look like? Who will be the heroes in the future political battles? Where will the battle take place - on the streets or in the virtual world? What weapons will the future political parties use?
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1) Social media has disrupted traditional media and allowed for easy spread of disinformation by states and individuals.
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2) Tweets reflected both fears about the election early on, as well as expanding hopes as the process continued.
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How can we build one?
Architecture and evaluation
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The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Databasejavier ramirez
Talk Delivered at Valencia Codes Meetup 2024-06.
Traditionally, databases have treated timestamps just as another data type. However, when performing real-time analytics, timestamps should be first class citizens and we need rich time semantics to get the most out of our data. We also need to deal with ever growing datasets while keeping performant, which is as fun as it sounds.
It is no wonder time-series databases are now more popular than ever before. Join me in this session to learn about the internal architecture and building blocks of QuestDB, an open source time-series database designed for speed. We will also review a history of some of the changes we have gone over the past two years to deal with late and unordered data, non-blocking writes, read-replicas, or faster batch ingestion.
Natural Language Processing (NLP), RAG and its applications .pptxfkyes25
1. In the realm of Natural Language Processing (NLP), knowledge-intensive tasks such as question answering, fact verification, and open-domain dialogue generation require the integration of vast and up-to-date information. Traditional neural models, though powerful, struggle with encoding all necessary knowledge within their parameters, leading to limitations in generalization and scalability. The paper "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks" introduces RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), a novel framework that synergizes retrieval mechanisms with generative models, enhancing performance by dynamically incorporating external knowledge during inference.
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Smart Govs III: How Political Players Sway Public Opinion
1. Smart GOVs Swaying Public Opinion:
Is investigative journalism becoming part of
the infotainment?
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الذكية السياسية المنظومات
:
للترفيه؟ سلعة االستقصائية الصحافة اصبحت هل
2. The Shapes of Discussion Analysis
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3. Political Discussions
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Polarized:
- Dichotomy: with / against – left / right…
- Strong and non-negotiable positions
- High risk of conflict
- Political debate
Community Clusters:
- Different ideas, different priorities
- Social / Emotional debate
4. Garbage Crisis 2015-2016
Analysis of 200,000+ interactions on Twitter – Sep.8, 2015 to Feb. 2, 2016
Civil society groups
Community Clusters
Two major groups: IranianAffairs and KSA24
Polarized crowds
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A health/societal problem becomes a political issue, paralyzing street/civil society action
5. Resignation of PM Saad Hariri - Nov. 4, 2017
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A serious political issue becomes a joke
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Switching
to
Emotions
Resignation of Hariri Hashtag
Community Clusters (analysis of 10,149 interactions)
Nov. 4, 2017 – 11:00 Nov. 6, 2017 – 00:00
Sharing
Emotions
7. How Serious is Serious?
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1. A judge is ignoring the public prosecutor order
2. A judge is being supported openly and physically by
supporters of a political party
3. A judge is taking investigation in her own hands,
without judicial police support
4. Mecattaf is a witness, not a criminal. And, in any case
innocent until proven guilty.
15. Conclusion
• “The reptilian brain always wins”
• The role of ONG for Investigation not to become infotainment
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Editor's Notes
Jayawant N. Mandrekar,
Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve in Diagnostic Test Assessment,
Journal of Thoracic Oncology,
Volume 5, Issue 9,
2010,
Pages 1315-1316,
ISSN 1556-0864,
https://doi.org/10.1097/JTO.0b013e3181ec173d.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1556086415306043)
Abstract: The performance of a diagnostic test in the case of a binary predictor can be evaluated using the measures of sensitivity and specificity. However, in many instances, we encounter predictors that are measured on a continuous or ordinal scale. In such cases, it is desirable to assess performance of a diagnostic test over the range of possible cutpoints for the predictor variable. This is achieved by a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve that includes all the possible decision thresholds from a diagnostic test result. In this brief report, we discuss the salient features of the ROC curve, as well as discuss and interpret the area under the ROC curve, and its utility in comparing two different tests or predictor variables of interest.
Keywords: Sensitivity; Specificity; ROC; AUC