A news release issued yesterday by the Lifeboat Foundation touted the launch of Singularity University as “a new school for futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become smarter than people.” Unfortunately, it appears the effort might be too late. I reached this conclusion after following an Instapundit tip and [...]
Machines Might Already Be Smarter Than People
February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
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Author: World War II Was a ‘Relative Bargain’
November 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Barry Ritholtz, author of the soon-to-be-published book, “Bailout Nation,” might have summed up the nation’s financial crisis and subsequent government bailout efforts best when he wrote, “Go figure: WWII was a relative bargain.” In a post published yesterday on his blog, The Big Picture, Ritholtz reveals research findings that show the government’s $7.75 trillion in [...]
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‘Space Junk’ Count Mirrors Tally of Folks Under Bus
September 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
An anonymous registered-Republican source at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston sent me some surprising data that compares observations from space with the perils of being a Barack Obama supporter. Each white dot in the full-color NASA image represents one of the thousands of individual pieces of tracked orbital debris (a.k.a., “space junk”), the source [...]
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Ted Kennedy Touts Health Care and Space
August 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment
During his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver tonight, the ailing Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) said two things that sounded odd to me. First, he bellowed about the Democratic mantra of “affordable health care for all” as if Republicans are against it. Doesn’t he realize that, until ordinary Americans can access health [...]
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Find Out Where Your Tax Dollars Went
April 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Have you ever wondered where your federal tax dollars go? If you have, then the information below is for you. The federal government disbursed $2.45 trillion in domestic spending in 2006, according to two reports published by the U.S. Census Bureau. That represented a 7.5 percent increase in federal spending over 2005. The first of [...]
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Warming Not Worth Wrestling, NASA Boss Says
May 31st, 2007 · 8 Comments
“I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists,” said NASA administrator Michael Griffin, speaking to National Public Radio’s Steve Inskeep on today’s Morning Edition program. “I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.” Translation: The Al Gore-spearheaded effort aimed at scaring [...]
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Minds Set, Changing on Subject of Global Warming
April 11th, 2007 · No Comments
It seems more and more people find themselves disagreeing with Al Gore or, in the least, beginning to question whether the former vice president-turned global warming alarmist might be wrong. Here are some examples I thought readers of Bob McCarty Writes might find interesting: Salon.com columnist Camille Paglia offers a refreshing opinion about global warming. [...]
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