Update A nice article in the ACM Digit magazine provides a concise history of artificial intelligence. One of the best contributions is this great summary timeline. January 4, 2020 A recent article in Kaiser Health News about the overblown
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Does China Have a History of Dishonesty?
Most folks like to tell anyone that will listen that they are stupendously intelligent and wonderful prognosticators… Well, with all of the recent uproar about China, I recalled that my very first blog posting 14 years ago was to call
Is Greece the “Canary” for Economic Decline?
The continuing saga of economic decline in western democracies… Is Greece the “Canary in the Coal Mine” for how these events unfold? Update Some relatively positive news on the economic situation in Greece. The Greece Public Debt Management Agency says it
Do US Tech Companies Have Too Much Influence?
If you want to review business and political fireworks that will become front-page news, then take a look at the major US-based technology companies: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter. These six behemoths control the vast majority of information flow,
Communism, Capitalism… and Money
The latest with the NBA and China has focused a bright light on the tensions between Communism and Capitalism (always remember that the true tensions are between tyranny and anarchy). It’s an interesting situation with all of the emerging American
Do Google and Yahoo Provide ‘News’?
Update We now have a Google engineer stepping forward to explain the Google has innate bias in their search engine and news feed. Hours after Google engineer Greg Coppola appeared with James O’Keefe in a Project Veritas video, he was
A Socialist Politician is a Hypocrite?!
On-line users have called Bernie Sanders a hypocrite and mercilessly mocked him after the socialist firebrand admitted that he will have to cut the hours of staffers so that he can pay them the $15 minimum wage that his campaign
Additive Manufacturing Conference in Detroit
I spent a couple of days in Detroit at the annual RAPID Additive Manufacturing Conference, where I presented a paper on one of my company’s ceramic 3D-printing technology. I stayed at the Marriott hotel at the Renaissance Center while attending
California Ignores Economic Fundamentals
An interesting evaluation and study of poverty rates around the United States places California as the worst State: So how is it that California, which has spent nearly $1 trillion on antipoverty programs, has the highest poverty rate in the
The Important Subtleties in the 10 Commandments
I have a philosophical position that believes that that the natural entropy of human nature is towards corruption. That is, left to our own devices, people manipulate and bend/break the rules in their societal situation to unduly benefit themselves (often