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  • Ackerman to leave The Union

    George Rebane I was surprised to read this in the 20jun12 online paywalled edition of The Union.  H/T to RR reader. Jeff Ackerman, publisher of The Union, announced today that he will be leaving the newspaper after 10 years of serving the western Nevada County community. Ackerman will be taking an expanded scope of responsibilities…

  • Judea Pearl, Turing Laureate

    George Rebane Judea Pearl, Professor of Computer Sciences UCLA, received the A.M. Turing Award last night at the awards banquet of the Association of Computing Machinery at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco.  He now joins the forty-three previous laureates of the ‘Nobel prize of computing’, of whom twenty-five were in attendance to honor him. Jo…

  • Silencing and Suppressing the Right

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary that will be broadcast early next week due to this week being the station’s regular late spring pledge week.] The debate about who is trying to silence whom continues.  Over the past decades the evidence has favored the Right since McCarthy was accused of…

  • TechTest2012 Survivors Breakfast

    George Rebane Last Friday (25may12) the annual ‘Survivors Breakfast’ was again held at Tofanelli’s.  The event has become a tradition to celebrate the young people who took the year’s test and those who received the top scores on the SESF sponsored merit scholarship exam.  TT2012 top three scorers (in no particular order) were Ben Martin,…

  • Knowledge Engines

    George Rebane Part of our rush toward Singularity involves the web becoming ‘smarter’.  In case you haven’t noticed, search engine technologies are rapidly evolving from providing ‘information’ to becoming so-called knowledge engines.  Wolfram Alpha was an early one into this functionality, and it is now being joined by Google’s Knowledge Graph Microsoft will soon upgrade…

  • Ruminations – 16may12

    George Rebane The bad news about Obamacare just keeps getting worse.  In addition to recent reports that colleges are dropping higher costing student health plans prescribed under the law’s provisions, we now discover that Obamacare puts a new excise tax on one of the remaining areas of job creating and innovation in which we still…

  • Happy Mother’s Day

    George Rebane   Ellen Rebane (1914 – 1990)  

  • Conspiracy Theories by the Dozen, Oh My! (updated 21may12)

    George Rebane [Correction: This is the submitted form of my column that appeared belatedly in the print edition of the 25may12 Union.  I was informed of the delay due to a rush of political columns and articles on the new marijuana ordnance.] In this election year all the weird stuff we’ve been hearing about seems…

  • Ruminations – 1may12 (updated++)

    George Rebane It looks like getting your college education subsidized will now become a new ‘right’ across the land.  Neither party is willing to let student loan interest rates increase automatically as they were supposed to.  As a taxpayer, I want the government out of the student loan business (among many other businesses they are…

  • TechTest welcomes TechTestJr

    George Rebane TechTest2012, the sixth edition of SESF’s annual merit scholarship exam, was held on 14 April 2012 in the Nevada Union High School’s science lecture hall.  As has become tradition, the exam’s solution key has been posted on the SESF website (here), and the upcoming annual ‘Survivor’s Breakfast’, with the obligatory ‘Where the Elite…

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