June 8, 2023 Terminator vs. R2-D2 Download this PDF here. Hollywood and Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Emotional Scars Are With Us Today In the movie Terminator, a dystopian society is under attack by artificially intelligent robots that are hell bent on the destruction of the human species. Skynet is the
May 11, 2023 Huckleberry Finn Is Not Tom Sawyer. Download this PDF here. “Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.” — Alan Greenspan When one thinks of blockchain, one quickly thinks of Bitcoin, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies. Just as so many confuse Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn with Tom
April 4, 2023 Download this PDF here. “The holy fool is a truth-teller because he is an outcast. Those not part of the existing social hierarchy are free to blurt out inconvenient truths or question things the rest of us take for granted.” – Malcolm Gladwell in Talking to Strangers
March 6, 2023 What’s a More Significant Risk, Inflation or Deflation? Download this PDF here. “Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know
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January 9, 2023 Patience is a form of wisdom Download this PDF here. “All models are wrong. Some models are useful.” — George E. P. Box, statistician “Patience is a form of wisdom,” notes Jon Kabat-Zinn, creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine at
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