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  • Singularity Signposts – 24jun2009

    George Rebane Forbes.com has an excellent extended survey of the current state and portents of AI and robotics.  ‘The AI Report’ is comprised of 24 short articles for the intelligent non-technical reader.  They range from descriptions of how machine or artificial intelligence is currently being developed and embodied, to how AI and robots are being used…

  • Ruminations – 17jun2009

    George Rebane Because many RR readers see various far out notions and ideas reported first in these pages, I am sometimes viewed as a wingnut and assigned to sit in a remote corner with the other fringe elements until the more established media catch up (some never do).  This is not a complaint, but a…

  • Ruminations – 10jun2009

    George Rebane Supervisor John Spencer emailed me a heads up on the progress of Nevada County’s massive influx of ARRA funds.  Obama’s American Redistribution and Re-election Act of 2009 (or something like that) was supposed to get money into the shovel-ready hinterlands double quick.  The county records our progress on the homepage of its website…

  • Of Horsepower and Deficits

    George Rebane P.J. O’Rourke wrote a wonderful reprise of America’s love affair with the automobile in yesterday’s (30may09) WSJ – ‘The End of Our Affair’.  The WSJ and our local Union are our morning papers that get us through breakfast in the comfortable, old-fashioned format.  Jo Ann and I divvy up the various sections of…

  • Singularity Signposts – 20may2009 Machine Augmented Man (Soon)

    George Rebane Let’s look ahead ten years or so.  You have finished lunch and are about to go back to work when you see something in a store window and go inside.  You examine the article and decide to pull up a couple of similar articles for comparison.  By thinking a command you make an…

  • Republicans Need a New Strategy (edited)

    George Rebane [This is an abbreviated summary of the invited talk -‘Requirements for a Winning Republican Strategy’ – I gave to the Nevada County Republican Central Committee last night (13may09) at the Rood Center.]  Fourth graders Sammy and Suzie were running for class president.  Each asked their parents for advice on their speech to the…

  • Sixty Years Ago Today – 4 May 1949

    George Rebane   At first light on 4 May 1949 the USS General Harry Taylor (above) had already slipped through the Verrazano Narrows by the time my father and I joined the other men and boys on the deck of the troopship.  We all wanted to see the Statue of Liberty and the lights of…

  • Cognitive Radio??!!??!!

    George Rebane With the recent explosion of mobile intelligent devices, cell phones, PDAs, laptops, netbooks, etc, etc, all speaking wirelessly to each other through various networks (clouds), the airwaves have become very crowded.  The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is pretty much fixed by the design of our universe, so it looked like we were going to…

  • Ruminations – 8apr2009

    George Rebane The French socialists and communists are really tuning up their anti-capitalist protesting methods.  You see, the market demand for getting properly trained in the skills of laying down in the streets, assaulting police lines, etc is getting so high that a new start-up will now teach you these skills over a weekend course…

  • Ruminations – 18mar2009 (21mar09 update)

    George Rebane The Clinton Reset Button show sure had an impact.  A week later the Russians escalated their standoff with the US by announcing a new military build up and signaling a harder line with Washington, in the process making our new Sec State look like a clown (more here). The Russians have now shoved that little device…

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