This site under reconstruction.
Well, I’ve been sick the last few days. The first part of the week was focusing on the ACA data review and just when I was close to printing out forms, I came down sick. So this week I didn’t get any artwork done but I did do some self-education on Excel/statistics from a book….
I am time crunched right now as I am working on the ACA, so I will stick to some quick notes on a couple of things. How come I haven’t thought of this before? Two or three weeks ago, I was reviewing some numbers, especially looking for things such as “#N/A” or “#VALUE!” or “#DIV/0!”….
“We are approaching the time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task,” Moshe Vardi, a computer science professor at Rice University in Texas, has said. Venture Beat, “A Candid Take on the Future of AI and Job Automation”, Fred Stevens-Smith, 1/20/2018. Some time ago, there had been a spate of…
Every day I encounter another article or two discussing the impact of automation on jobs. I’m sure most people are hearing or reading about such things, but outside of IT, do they really understand how blindingly fast computers can go, performing flawlessly (once programming has been tested and perfected) without tiring? And the IT guys,…
The gorilla joke is either a great meme or “a sign of the imminent collapse of critical thought and public discourse”. New York Times, “Let’s Talk About the Gorilla Channel For One More Day”, Vivian Wang, 1/6/2018. There’s been a couple of articles on topics of social media, critical thinking and how to communicate with people…
There was a surprising development in the past week or so that I still remain skeptical. I’m adopting a stance of I’ll believe it when I see it happens. But first, before broaching that surprising development, I want to point to an article on capitalism I read back in December. This article describes the problems…