A lot of data scientists are good at manipulating databases and structuring data, including using their code-oriented and math-based skill-sets to achieve analytical parsimony. The problem: doing data science this way isn’t particularly difficult. As a function of time, all people can solve a math problem. Corporations do not work at the speed of light when accomplishing their objectives so they have plenty of time – even when they are on a deadline. As a function of effort, all people can become coders. Corporations do not have to work hard to get code from scratch anymore. At this point, all the code is out there and all the tools are available. Its all about compilation – or the wrangling of code together to create something that existed separately into the sum of parts.
The world is becoming exhaustively complex and technical skills are becoming partly irrelevant because brilliant people are automating them for us. Think about all the packages, libraries, and IDE’s that are out there. You don’t have to do nearly as much work by hand as you used to, especially in math. This has lead to a sort of leveling effect: everyone can do everything with enough time and effort spent doing it. As a result, things requiring conceptual complexity, like causality, are becoming the mainstay of human innovation and success. Earlier causal problems in math used to be cave-man problems of A and B. In these scenarios, A was a function of B – meaning, A caused B. While useful, there are absolutely no circumstances where A causes B anymore. Firstly, human beings have increased their knowledge over time and this gives more nuance to our traditional viewpoints of causation. Secondly, human beings are affecting our environment to such an extent things do not always work as time moves along and future becomes reality. In today’s world, problems sound like this: A causes B while simultaneously being unmade in its interaction to make C, and changes over a time-series to become D overall while intrinsically maintaining its originally transacted qualities of C. Math is a rockstar language. But, it can only help you to codify statements of complexity you already grasp. Further, code can only help you codify math you want to use for an analytical product. Neither can help you create statements of causality. These types of statements have to be arrived at through hard won research and understanding of the kind only causality can give effectively.
I created Cydog Browser because I noticed a chink in the armor of corporate existence. Corporations are uniquely weak at change in an era of turmoil and in a future where new-ness cannot be contrived or forced onto people. You can’t hack your way to success. You have to earn your success through the types of analytical judgements that cannot be made with new math or better coding languages. The fact is: the future has never been more unwritten than it is now at any point in human history. We are in a moment in time where the titans of old are no better or worse at solving problems of today or tomorrow than the rest of us. In fact, some of us have been able to accomplish things that corporations choose not to accomplish or cannot accomplish outright. Cydog Browser was intended to be a minimalist browser. Some people do not want to mess with settings and features. Instead, they want them to be automated securely, decreasing the time spent looking for the information they need to make their lives easier. Some users love customization and I do too. However, the only real customization available on Android browsers is the equivalent of a home page or search engine change. It is this insane feature-rich, value-devoid corporate machination that led me to dive deeply into the Android browser ecosystem. I realized there were a ton of big companies who really didn’t do much of anything successful for the average end user. And yet, they were absolutely loaded with cash because the inventors who made the system at the beginning made something so great it was essentially baby-proof. Some of the mobile browser features I made more content valued are private browsing, anti-fingerprint tracking, and cross-site tracking prevention.
With Cydog Browser, I was able to solve the private browsing and fingerprinting problem. Fingerprinting is a methodology where people can be tracked based on the unique-ness (signature) of a given browser. Think about it this way… If you are the only person wearing a blue shirt in a crowd of people wearing pink shirts, it is fairly easy to find the person wearing the blue shirt. Your browser gives off data and this data allows corporations to track you on the web. Their goals are to profile you with ad-tracking in the hopes of serving you more relevant advertising to maximize corporate profits. Cydog Browser currently scores better on all fingerprinting tracking tests when compared to other Android browsing applications on the market. There is only one exception and it is a browser called Privacy Browser, which is also available on the Google Play Store. Unfortunately, Privacy Browser scores extremely poorly on pretty much all browser security tests. I truly think you will enjoy Cydog Browser more when you give it a chance to grow on you, as it totally reverses the current mobile browser model in UI, function, privacy, and security.
I will repeat this for those who have heard me say it time-and-time-again in person: these technological gunslingers are working faster than governments and corporations. In fact, most bug bounty programs are supported and paid out to individual programmers and developers. Corporations and governments are woefully inadequate because they are hiring the wrong sorts of people and they end up having to farm out their bounty programs to the people they should’ve hired outright. Or, corporations are so woefully inadequate at using their people that those employees are doing more on their free-time by bug bounty hunting than they do at work in a traditional corporate setting. Either is bad for utilizing key talent and maximizing our only truly valuable resource: people. People make inventions; data does not. My hope is that this starts the discussion on changing the current emphasis on math and coding to an emphasis on causality.
Enjoy my incessant need to produce and provide value to the world by downloading Cydog Browser! It is more than just a browser: it is a safe place to get information and a place where you can explore the internet securely with all the wonder it was meant to harness and purvey.