I looked at traffic statistics of popular 'big data' websites: publishers, media companies. I noticed that most are tanking. Most of these websites were two stars (US traffic rank better than 100,000) a few months ago.

Web traffic trend observed in the last 30 days

Two of them (AllAnalytics,…

In this series I reveal and explain rules of intelligence contained within grammar, that can be utilized to unleash intelligence in software. These rules are extremely simple, but still undiscovered by scientists.



To be able to explain making assumptions, we need to understand (the difference with) drawing conclusions first:

• Conclusions are drawn straight ahead - top-down - like in: Given "John is a father." and "…

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