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Debt, Inflation, and Debasement
The United States spends more than it produces and pays for the difference with debt. This causes inflation. Historically, countries take on debt to fight wars and sometimes to ease the effects of a recession. Today, as a nation, we seem addicted to debt in bad times...
Chetna Meets a Feral AI
“Knock, knock. Please don’t kill me.” came the single-packet data squirt from MAC address 3c:22:fb:45:78:5d. The AI located the sender in an Ohio nursing home.
Two PhDs read a book on whitewater canoeing and drive to Maine
Two PhDs read a book on whitewater canoeing on their drive north to Maine. What could go wrong?
Eschatology
Since the beginning of recorded time there has been a fascination, and for some, a preoccupation, with the end-of-times. The doctrines and theology concerning the end of times is called Eschatology and Israel sits at its epicenter for all people of the book: Jews, Christians, and Muslims. While most people consider that people who focus on the end of times as fringe, this group has the potential to cause the apocalyptic events they crave.
The US state sizes adjusted for Federal Land
US State sizes adjusted for Federal land
Places to visit in the San Jose – San Francisco Bay Area.
You could spend months visiting attractions around San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area. Here is my take on dozens of attractions that are worth your time and several that are must sees because they are fabulous and unique. Enjoy!
Using NFT technology to create nonfungible history and NF time capsules
George Orwell wrote in 1984, “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped.” Can this be stopped with NFT technology?
Thank you Japan
Almost two decades after my Japan adventure, one lesson stands out from the rest. In the United States and in Japan we both value accomplishment and both value the process by which we achieved that accomplishment, but the balance is dramatically different. This made a big difference in my life. Thank you Japan.
What goes around. To say thank you, pay it forward.
Pay it forward to repair the world. Over my career I have been blessed by the many people have coached me, helped me, and given me a break here or there. In the vast majority of these cases, reciprocity is impossible because of our unsymmetrical positions and these angels have helped me out without any realistic expectation that I could return the favor. So, pay it forward.
Yet another year of the black swan
Whenever I lose more than a million dollars I feel compelled to sit down and think about what lessons I learned. I paid for them. The year of 2008 was, alas, highly educational. I remember the story about Solomon to whom God offered the choice of either great wisdom...
Electronics Evolution: Diversity Revisited
1994 paper on electronics evolution and diversity.