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  • Ruminations – 11jul17 (updated 13jul17)

    For people whose work is the written word, reporters can be stunningly indifferent to what words actually mean. onthecommons.org George Rebane California is now a one-party state, as recognized by everyone in the land (more here).  The Democrats have sealed their decades-long control with an uncontestable supermajority in the legislature, and dominate all state elective…

  • Scattershots – 12jun17 (updated 13jun17)

    George Rebane Investigations will cease only after all allegations have been proven – Dictum from The Swamp The ‘Robot-Human Alliance’ is a hopeful promotion by Dr Kenneth Goldberg, a UC Berkeley engineering professor (here).  He sees little to worry about human job markets with the advance of ever more intelligent machines, and bases his sanguinity…

  • Scattershots – 25may17 (updated 26may17)

    George Rebane Former President Obama willfully violated Americans’ 4th Amendment rights for years by authorizing and executing large-scale surveillance on all electronic communications by our intelligence agencies (primarily NSA). He did this in the face of protests from the FISA court from which by law he is supposed to seek authorization before conducting such ‘wiretaps’.…

  • TT2017 Survivors’ Breakfast

    George Rebane This morning we held the annual Survivors’ Breakfast for TechTest2017 at our usual venue, Tofanelli’s in Grass Valley.  The event was scheduled earlier than usual (0730) due to some school needs; after all this is a school day and we wanted to hold the lollygagging to a minimum.  This was the eleventh breakfast…

  • How Deictic is Your Ontology?

    George Rebane While our Left, especially of the academic bent, assiduously works to stunt the English language – e.g. reduce/mangle the information carrying capacity of words – our technologists have been very busy expanding the language and introducing new words into English and other tongues.  This battle is both important and its outcome is not…

  • TechTestJunior Expands in 2017 (updated 28mar17)

    Russ Steele, SESF Executive Director This week the Sierra Economics and Science Foundation is sponsoring TechTestJr for 2017, with partners Telestream and AJA Video.  The TechTestJr exam took place on Thursday the 23rd of March at the following partner locations (pictured and indicated below).  This year TechTestJr was part of the Nevada County STEAM Expo [http://www.nevcoexpo.org/]…

  • The Wikileaks Conundrum Resolved

    George Rebane Bankable stereotypes:  Government regulators are imperious, hubristic, and unbelievably ignorant in proportion to the power they wield. Recently friends and colleagues have asked for my takes on the Wikileaks phenomenon, especially as it applies to its release of classified information and data that our government claims will compromise our national security.  The problems…

  • AI Will Change Everything

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regularly scheduled KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 March 2017.] For those who have been paying attention, you know that AI or artificial intelligence will change everything.  And the word here you want to wrap your head around is ‘everything’.  I’m a lifelong professional computer systems geek who…

  • Nevada County Robotics

    George Rebane Our intrepid roboteers under the banner of Acme Robotics have advanced to the West Super Regionals to be held in Tacoma on 9-11 March.  The team of high schoolers hails mostly from NUHS and is supported by various local organizations including SESF.  I reported on their most recent competition (here) and the 28feb17…

  • ‘A High-Tech Rebirth From Higher Ed’s Ruins’

    George Rebane Dr David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale and one of my favorite systems guys, writes the title article (here) in today’s (23jan17) WSJ.  It is an important look into the near future of higher education, and reflects everything we have been talking about in these pages – in short, I agree…

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