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Month: January 2011

  • Chuckie Schumer, U.S. Senator (really!)

    George Rebane RR has reported the dismal results of surveys that show many of our political leaders are absolute dunces when it comes to knowledge about our form of government, geo-political events, numeracy, common sense, … .  On the national fiscal crisis CNN reports – “We have three branches of government.  We have the House.  We…

  • New AI Algorithmics – Probabilistic Programming

    George Rebane “GIVEN the choice between a flesh-and-blood doctor and an artificial intelligence system for diagnosing diseases, Pedro Domingos is willing to stake his life on AI. "I'd trust the machine more than I'd trust the doctor," says Domingos, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle.”  So starts Anil Ananthaswamy’s ‘I, algorithm: A…

  • Democrats Working on Jobs – Again

    George Rebane Did you catch the latest out of the District of Comedy?  As promised, and for what they were elected, the Congressional Repubs are doing their best to pull back Obamacare and the rest of the $1.5T economic effluent that has flowed out of Washington over the last two plus years.  Every day we…

  • Healthcare Utility Metric (with scriptural underpinnings)

    We don’t have the means to provide everyone a certain level of healthcare.  So who should be provided at what level, and how should we decide? George Rebane A compellingly reasonable way to make a decision or select from among alternatives is to maximize some measure of utility that each of the alternatives is expected to yield…

  • On the Equality of All Cultures

    http://www.liveleak.com/e/9eb_1293414372

  • SOTUS 2011 (updated 29jan2011)

    George Rebane The speech was delivered in a workmanlike manner by President Barack Obama, one of the best public speakers in the land.  But its content was so flawed that I thought it best to not say anything at all about it, primarily because it was immediately dissected so assiduously by so many conservative pundits…

  • Bet You Didn’t Know About this Tax

    George Rebane This year I promised to write more stuff on technology and finances.  In the winter I also start writing the year’s TechTest2011 which will be taken in the spring by a select cadre of Nevada County’s high school seniors and juniors.  Reviewing some of the problems from previous TTs, I came upon one…

  • How Social Engineering (almost always) Fails

    George Rebane Big government’s (centrally controlled) social programs have a daunting history of failures that more often than not spill over to spread their hurt into other unintended areas.  An excellent example of this – ‘The State Against Blacks’ – is given by economist Walter Williams in the 22jan11 WSJ.  Today we have entered the epoch…

  • Seating Assignments

    George Rebane I don’t know about you, but I want Congress to sit as they have been for decades during the President’s State of the Union speech.  This hooey about civility and bi-partisanship is more patronizing of the voting public by the ruling elites.  Most of us know its faulty pedigree from the aftermath of…

  • Dan Logue at CABPRO Dinner

    George Rebane Last night at Penny’s Diner CABPRO put on a fine feed to a full house that featured our Assemblyman Dan Logue as guest speaker.  The event was hosted by CABPRO’s executive director Martin Light.  In attendance were all the usual conservative suspects from our community and parts nearby (a few of them pictured…

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