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  • Consciousness and uploading your mind

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 4 December 2019.] OK, let’s try something different this week.  This being the Christmas season and all, it’s time to think about our souls and eternal life.  Well, on second thought, maybe we should back off on all that divisive spiritual…

  • The Split Pill Problem Solved

    George Rebane RR readers were introduced to the Split Pill Problem (SPP) in a passing Scattershots entry last summer.  The problem involved giving our puppy Puna her pain meds after her second knee repair surgery, and that evoked an interesting problem the solution to which turned out to have several features which generalize to and…

  • Toward the Singularity via super-intelligence

    George Rebane Knowing my relationship with Dr Judea Pearl, fellow blogger Russ Steele sent me a link to a recent interview (here) on AI with Judea.  Longtime RR readers recall pieces citing my friend, colleague, and mentor Judea Pearl as the inventor of Bayes and causal nets, and one of the true pioneers of AI…

  • Where Are They Indeed?

    George Rebane There are about 2,500 galaxies (not stars) in the picture below – each of even the smallest dots is a galaxy.  Each such galaxy has about 300 billion stars, and each star has at least five planets.  Today we can see over 2,000,000,000,000 = 2 trillion such galaxies.  Fainter galaxies exist but don’t…

  • On Smaller Governments and Corporations

    “The skill of making and maintaining Commonwealths, consisteth in certain rules as doth Arithmetic and Geometry”,  John Hobbes in the Leviathan. George Rebane Time to review some important tenets of my credo as they impact Rebane Doctrine’s prescriptions for the size and complexity of good governments, good businesses, and good organizations in general.  I do…

  • When will the bull run end?

    George Rebane We are now in the longest bull run in the history of America’s security markets. The nearby figure filched from the 15jun19 WSJ provides some perspective. The question on everyone’s lips is when will this bull run end. As readers know, I’m a semi-retired successful entrepreneur and capitalist who has managed his own…

  • Scattershots – 18may19

    George Rebane Freedom and equality have never been bedfellows – naturally enabled inequality in all dimensions is the litmus test for a free society. ‘The Myth of Wage Stagnation’ is explained by Phil Gramm and John Early.  Dr Gramm is an economist and the former chair of the Senate Banking Committee. Dr John Early is…

  • Deciding with Minimally Known Processes

    George Rebane [Trigger warning – this post is primarily for our technically oriented readers.] We encounter ongoing minimally known processes (MKPs) continually in our daily round, and we often need to make decisions based on the likelihood of their terminating during a specific future time interval, or surviving it.  Yet few are aware of this…

  • NASA now reports global cooling

    George Rebane Now here’s a report by some people from the mother temple of global warming that is guaranteed to summon the Left’s crickets.  More cool-headed scientists have been reporting on the new cooling trend that correlates with low sun-cycle activity for years now.  This has been echoed and amplified on many serious websites (e.g.…

  • Earthshaking News – Cancer Cured?

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regularly scheduled KVMR radio commentary broadcast on 30 January 2019.  An edited version of this commentary appeared in the 2feb19 Union.] Standby for the next tranche of earthshaking news.  You know, the kind of report that promises to make a big impact on the lives of each…

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