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  • edX meets the workforce (updated 21oct12)

    George Rebane [This continues the RR series on jobs and the economy, and illustrates the relationship between workforce skill levels and available jobs across a spectrum of productivity levels.  The objective is to give the reader a firm understanding of why and how America’s systemic unemployment has come into place, and its future in terms…

  • Today’s AI in tomorrow’s medicine

    George Rebane Wired magazine has a very lame article on what should be an exciting report – the advent and functionality of clinical AI systems that are entering the healthcare service.  ‘Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription for Health Care’ authored by Brandon Keim paints an inconclusive ‘on the one hand, … but…

  • Administrivia – Typepad problem (updated 17oct12, again)

    George Rebane Typepad has been having problems this morning.  Many readers have had trouble logging in to the comments – no comment window appears.  Had the same problem myself this morning, yet others seem to have no problem.  Have reported problem to Typepad.  Keep trying and report your success under this post.  Thanks. [17oct12 update] …

  • Ruminations – 21aug12

    Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams George Rebane So where’s all the wildlife? asks a visitor to a local pond and hiking trail here in Nevada County.  Our cartoonist RL ‘Bob’ Crabb drew this little funny filched…

  • Transhumanism, Cosmism, and the Singularity

    George Rebane Last week my son-in-law sent me David Brin’s latest great sci-fi novel, Existence.   I couldn’t help but immediately put it into my reading stack.  Like most of you who frequent RR, I read several books concurrently, and Brin’s description of the state of the world in mid-century was something I had to know…

  • New People, New Jobs

    George Rebane The systemic and growing unemployment in these pre-Singularity years is an ongoing topic on RR, and a stringently ignored social phenomenon by our political elites of all stripes.  A graphic that illustrates this unemployment growth is the graphic below showing how manufacturing activity varies over time along with employment in the sector. Note…

  • 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…

  • edX – ‘a revolution in education’ (addended)

    George Rebane MIT and Harvard have announced the launch of edX, a “disruptive” initiative in worldwide online education that will leverage the best teachers with interactive learning technology.  The promise of this newest of such initiatives that follow in the footsteps of the Kahn Academy is that it could well disrupt the careers of incompetent…

  • ‘Why the technical stuff?’

    George Rebane I was asked that question recently by a regular RR reader.  He went on to opine that not many of my readers would make the effort to understand all that high falootin’ stuff and just skip over it.  In short, I’m wasting time and effort in offering up such posts.  And, of course,…

  • Making Medical Decisions

    George Rebane [This introduction to modern medical decision making is intended as the first of a series of such essays on RR.  Subsequent pieces will cover simplifying nomograms (to avoid the arithmetic), personal utility (always subjective), and planning sequential diagnostics and treatments.  The aim here is to prepare the intelligent healthcare customer to communicate effectively…

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