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  • Elizabeth G. Fernandez, PhD

    George Rebane Our granddaughter Elizabeth received her PhD last Friday after seven years of research at the Department of Oncology of UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine.  She is one of the school’s research stars having developed a ground-breaking method for treating glioblastoma patients.  Glioblastoma is the most virulent and deadly form of brain cancer that…

  • Scattershots – 2dec24 (updated)

    George Rebane Trump’s cabinet picks are overwhelmingly on the mark by my lights.  However, there are a couple of them who are arguably inappropriate for their assigned jobs.  Former congress critter Tulsi Gabbard is a nice lady, and no doubt has many talents which do not include the executive experience and required knowledge base to…

  • The Webb at a million miles, really?

    George Rebane The recently launched Webb space telescope will be able to peer further back in time and see more of what was then there.  As an amateur cosmologist, I’ve been interested in this new instrument for some years now.  It brings these new capabilities to bear because of its very large mirror and that…

  • Equity Denies Reality (Addended)

    George Rebane [This piece was rejected by The Union as unfit for their readers.  I must admit that I was surprised at that response, and the reasons given by publisher Don Rogers.  I will have more to say later about my new understanding of the newspaper’s ideological coloring and journalistic demeanor.  The following is an…

  • ‘A Thousand Brains’

    George Rebane Jeff Hawkins, cofounder of Numenta, is the author of A Thousand Brains – A new theory of intelligence (2021).  To many, me included, Hawkins has been a national treasure since his first book On Intelligence (2004).  After inventing the Palm Pilot and becoming wealthy, Hawkins has devoted his life to brain research as…

  • Reliability in Predicting Termination of Minimally Known Processes

    George Rebane This mildly technical posting is intended for those concerned with the use of R-G Theory to predict the termination (and continuance) of minimally known processes (MKPs).  As initially posted in these pages and subsequently expanded, I extended Richard Gott’s seminal work that applied the Copernican perspective to calculating the probability of longevity for…

  • 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    George Rebane ‘The Turing Test is obsolete.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,…

  • Following the Covid Science (addended)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 23 September 2020.] The most recent Covid news is that the CDC “pulled new guidelines acknowledging the new coronavirus could be transmitted by tiny particles that linger in the air, saying a draft version of proposed changes was posted in error…

  • Sigfor: A Data Driven Pandemic Response Policy Evaluation Tool

    George Rebane The Covid-19 pandemic has called on hundreds of local jurisdictions to fashion response policies that are suitable for their particular locales and demographics.  In technical note TN2007-1 we introduce Sigfor, a computational tool that policy makers can use for monitoring the effectiveness of the current policy and yield an early prediction of the…

  • Epidyne – At first blush

    George Rebane As promised, I finally finished the V1.0 version of Epidyne during this enforced C19 self-quarantine, or hunkering down period as it is better known.  The stay at home has allowed a lot of things to get accomplished on everyone’s ‘do list’.  At our house we have not had a boring moment – so…

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