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BYU is heightening its efforts to address racism on campus.
Since the protests surrounding the death of George Floyd and the subsequent rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, BYU has sought to follow the admonition of President Russell M. Nelson and leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to “review processes, laws, and organizational attitudes regarding racism and root them out once and for all.”
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reform
The BYU Committee on Race, Equity & Belonging was formed under the direction of President Kevin J Worthen over the summer. The committee’s mission statement says:
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Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security
Big data is a sham. For years now, we have been told that every company should save every last morsel of digital exhaust in some sort of database, lest management lose some competitive intelligence against … a competitor, or something.
There is just one problem with big data though: It’s honking huge.
Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time-consuming. Worse, all that data hanging around paints a big, bright red target on the back of the company for every hacker group in the world. Big data is expensive to maintain, expensive to protect and expensive to keep private. And the upshot might not be all that much in the end after all oftentimes, well-curated and chosen data sets can provide faster and better insight than endless quantities of raw data.