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  • America’s Literacy and Numeracy Crisis: The High Cost of Left-Wing Dominance in Public Education

    [This commentary was published in the 25feb26 edition of The Union.  It is posted here as it appeared in the newspaper. gjr] Over the years in these pages and on my blog I have been a critic of our nation’s public school system that has produced a workforce and electorate marginally able to maintain our…

  • Scattershots – 16feb26

    George Rebane Hit to Gov Newsom and the state’s Democrats for finally figuring out the homeless problem.  By spending $24B (supposedly) on California’s homeless, that then increased their numbers by 20% to over 180,000 according to HUD data, the Democrats have shown that taxpayers need only pay about $800,000 to add each additional person to…

  • The Singularity is here?

    George Rebane “The accelerating sophistication of artificial intelligence is driving a wave of warnings (from tech insiders) that AI can create real-world harms, including autonomous cyberattacks, mass unemployment, unrelenting market disruption and the replacement of human relationships.” (WSJ 15feb26)  It is getting very hard to argue that we are not already witnessing the Singularity.  And it has…

  • Scattershots – 1feb26 (updated 3feb26)

    George Rebane Gold finally crashed last Friday, dropping to $4,899 from its $5,615 high on Thursday (29jan26).  That’s a 12.75% plunge after starting its most recent run-up last November.  Looking at the price history, it occurred to me that this was no garden variety exponential growth pattern, but something special – super-exponential growth.  Exponentially growing…

  • Delay your dementia

    George Rebane Research has shown that if you spend some time noodling on problems like math/logic puzzles or play chess or other similar pursuits that stretch your brainbone, then that can help delay or even eliminate the onset of dementias.  As a public service I am doing my part in offering readers the prophylactic shown…

  • Scattershots – 9oct25

    George Rebane The Turing test is dead, we are told.  There’s a reasonable basis for this assertion, because today’s AIs already convince humans, on a regular basis, that they are talking with another human.  So the new goal is AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that is defined as AIs that are ‘smarter’ than all humans in…

  • RR has arrived on WordPress

    George Rebane After some considerably hard work in transferring files and going through the process of developing a new blog, Rebane’s Ruminations has arrived on WordPress and is now ensconced there.  I welcome all of our longtime readers from TypePad to resume their participation in this new home, and learn how to navigate its pathways. …

  • Scattershots – 12aug25

    George Rebane Trump and Putin without Zelinsky will provide us a new perspective on pissing in the wind.  Don’t know why The Donald is setting himself up for a failure in Alaska.  Putin can’t back-off giving back conquered Ukrainian territory, and the West can’t afford to have Putin have another success in restoring USSR’s boundaries. …

  • Getting from here to there

    George Rebane OK boys and girls, it’s time to take a break from our socio-political harangues and debates, and delve into something more intellectual yet delightfully accessible.  The figure contains a 10-by-10 network of nodes each identified by their blue numbers from 1 to 100.  The related red numbers denote the cost of traversing that…

  • B-2s over Iran (partially restored)

    George Rebane [This 23jun25 blog post was mysteriously deleted by Typepad which they cannot recover.  I fished out a partial draft version of the post from the Recycle Bin and am reposting it here.  It does not include the two updates and graphics of the original of which I don’t have copies.] Don’t let an…

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