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Month: December 2020

  • Turing Test – Alexa ‘head scientist’ unclear on the concept (updated 2jan21)

    George Rebane ‘The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI’.  On the FastCompany website we read, “The head scientist for (Amazon's) Alexa thinks the old benchmark for computing is no longer relevant for today’s AI era.”  And why does that head scientist Rohit Prasad have such a thought?  Well,…

  • Scattershots – 27dec20 (updated 30dec20)

    Suspension of judgment is always the part of wisdom in a listener, and the remission of faith to authority the part of wisdom in a speaker.  Gracian #154 George Rebane Identity politics is a totalitarian enterprise, as called out by Paul Gigot, op-ed editor-in-chief of the WSJ.  About Gigot's defense of Joseph Epstein’s commentary on…

  • Covid Related – 26dec20

    George Rebane The evidence against our lunatic lockdowns continues to pour in.  And as fast as it arrives, it is rejected/ignored by our anti-American, pro-control, anti-science Left.  Assemblyman Kevin Kiley writes, “California, with the nation’s most severe lockdowns, now has the most new cases per capita in addition to all the other harms. It’s hard…

  • Sandbox – 26dec20

    [Hopefully, after our Christmas gut busting binges, everyone today is eating more lightly, no matter that such professed dedications never last long.  In the meantime we must gird our loins for the Georgia vote, and then the darkness that the new regime promises to spread across the land in 2021.  gjr]

  • Christmas – 2020

    Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.  Matthew 1:23 George Rebane Last year I wrote – Another tumultuous year is ending with celebrations for peace and joy.  The Rebanes count themselves among the diminishing number…

  • ‘The Sovietization of California’

    George Rebane We have covered this dreadful progress to autocracy for years from a number of perspectives.  In my lifetime California has descended from its Olympian perch as the planet’s jeweled jurisdiction, to one that today competes with second and third world countries in governance, infrastructure maintenance, husbanding its natural resources, extracting tribute from its…

  • Contending and Correcting Elections

    "Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord."  Isaiah 1:18 George Rebane There’s an ‘open letter to the President’ going around the email circuit beseeching him to invoke the Insurrection Act, activate National Guard and the military to seize ballots and vote computers across the nation, publish all the secret evidence of alleged voting…

  • Scattershots – 18dec20 (updated 22dec20)

    George Rebane The recall of Gov Gavin Newsom is making good progress, and petition signatures may be collected until 10 March 2021.  Here is the link to get your signature on a petition to recall this hubristic progressive idiot before he does more damage to our state. Cato’s annual Human Freedom Index just published; it…

  • Sandbox – 18dec20

    [So now the C19 vaccines are arriving in backwoods counties like ours.  Does anyone know of a list or policy that prioritizes who should get the vaccine and when (and where)?  The news about its distribution stops with vague references to healthcare workers and old folks in care facilities being somewhere near the top of…

  • The fat lady has sung, off key (Addended and updated)

    George Rebane [This is the addended, edited, and updated transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 16 December 2020.] Last Monday the Electoral College elected Joe Biden to be the 46th president of the United States.  The election was heavily contested for two distinct reasons, but to no avail.  Let me be clear from…

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