The NSA shouldn't think that it can amass powerful hacks and be able to keep them secure, because we've seen just how porous the U.S. cybersecurity apparatus is.
In a remarkable paper published in 1997, John Lott and David Mustard managed to set the agenda for much subsequent dataset work on the impact of guns on crime in America by creating a massive dataset of crime across all U.S. counties from 1977 through 1992 and by amassing a powerful statistical argument that state laws enabling citizens to carry concealed handguns had reduced crime.
A phylogeny of H. sapiens would be an incredibly powerful tool that we could use to explore the vast database amassed by cultural anthropologists, to begin answering questions about the evolution of traits unique to human beings.
Today, we live in a data-driven age, and some careful students of the connection between money and politics have now amassed a powerful body of evidence to support Brandeis's moral claim.
Using an internet-first approach, Eilish has amassed a powerful teen following by adhering only to her most specific, and often strangest, musical whims, earning more than a billion total song streams already, before the release of her debut album last Friday.
Government officials there have amassed some powerful allies, including the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Latin American branch of the World Health Organization, which this year unveiled a plan to urge governments worldwide to eliminate trans fats.
Fact: There was a time, not so long ago, when Chinese foreign-policy strategists were guided above all by a powerful interest in "hiding their claws," as Deng Xiaoping used to say, to avoid encountering unnecessary resistance as they amassed power.
But as the cajas amassed power in Galicia, the tendency "turned out to be excessive control not by politicians but by a few bankers who got so powerful that even politicians became afraid of them," said Santiago Lago-Peñas, an economics professor at the University of Vigo.
"We've spent over thirty years amassing a very powerful portfolio of new ways to save oil or substitute for oil, but no one had bothered to add it up.
The visual data sets of images and videos amassed by the most powerful tech companies have been a competitive advantage, a moat that keeps the advances of machine learning out of reach from many.
