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  • AI masters Go – time to apply brakes? (updated 30jan16)

    George Rebane A couple of days ago Google’s parent Alphabet (actually its DeepMind division) announced that their AlphaGo deep-learned software system has mastered the ancient Chinese board game Go.  This is a very big deal during these pre-Singularity years and marks a milestone toward intellectual peerage with humans.  AlphaGo is not just a souped-up version of…

  • Local Left Situationally Unaware (updated 14dec15)

    George Rebane The local Left joins the national Left in their happy dance about the ‘Climate Change agreement’ reached in Paris this week.  What they don’t seem to appreciate is that it will have about as much impact on earth’s climate, no matter how widely it is accepted or rejected, as does the Iran deal…

  • Fourth Amendment Compliance

    George Rebane FBI director James Comey complains that his bureau is having a hard time tracking home-grown raghead recruits because as soon as they get hyped up and contact an outfit like ISIS, they’re directed to get an encrypted smartphone for all subsequent communications with the jihadists.  And modern encryption techniques are so powerful that…

  • Zapping Drones

    George Rebane Recent reports of private drones being flown above active wildfires again makes me lose another dollop of faith in the brainpower of my fellow citizens.  Why anyone would want to endanger the fire attack spotters and tankers fighting the fire is beyond me.  So I started noodling on how to solve the problem. …

  • Scattershots – 29jun15 (updated 30jun15)

    George Rebane Pot-based tourism in Nevada County is the topic of this week’s Union column by George Boardman whose comments are also often read on these pages.  This is a column full of thought provoking ideas, some obviously with tongue firmly planted in cheek.  But the gist of a TV series (‘High Country’) concerns local…

  • Agnosticism vs Atheism

    George Rebane [The is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 June 2015.] Our secular humanist brethren misconstrue Darwin as having claimed and conclusively demonstrated that the cosmos was uncreated, and that life arose by chance from the primordial muck.  In fact, Darwin made neither claim, but did present compelling evidence…

  • ‘They didn’t create that …’

    George Rebane Late yesterday afternoon Jo Ann and I were at the annual company picnic of a recent high tech start up.  It was a jolly event held in a local park with well over a hundred people in attendance – the employees brought their families and significant others, their kids were running around and bouncing…

  • Life After Self-esteem

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 April 2015.] We have all been to award ceremonies for academics and sports where the moderator intones, ‘We’re here to honor and recognize the marvelous achievements of our young champions who have demonstrated their drive and talents.  But in reality,…

  • Scattershots – 25feb15 (updated 26feb15)

    George Rebane FCC to make the Internet into another plodding government regulated utility.  If tomorrow’s vote goes as expected by the progressive Left, the rapidly innovative years of the World Wide Web will be over for all Americans.  The liberals’ dream of so-called ‘net neutrality’ will be achieved, sold to the true believers with the…

  • County Library Needs Your Support

    [Nevada County Librarian Ms Laura Pappani sent me the following byline to inform RR readers of the current goings on with the library regarding its funding and renewal of Measure C.  Our library is transforming itself to serve the community in the age of internet connectivity, providing citizens expanded opportunities to study, communicate, retrieve information, learn, … .  It…

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