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Tuesday, September 27. 2022Tuesday morning linksPosits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI The first posit-based processor core gave a ten-thousandfold accuracy boost How to maintain peak brain health: Scientists say it comes down to these 3 factors " As demand has grown, Dr. Gallagher... has built a thriving top surgery specialty..." Climate Cult Seems Confused That People Keep Moving To The Doomed Coasts Man Used as a Poster Child for NY Bail Reforms Arrested on Attempted Murder Warrant Dick Morris to Newsmax: Dems Have Become 'Party of Abortions,' Not Pro-Choice President Trump Warned Us About Biden: “If He’s Elected, the Stock Market Will Crash” There's a Reason Conservatives are Becoming Less Tame The FBI’s Matt Gaetz Operation Sidelined An Effective Republican Voice At A Crucial Time. That Was The Point The EU vs Italy: "We have tools..." Is this the end of the European Union as we knew it? Trackbacks
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Re "Posits", they are not a "new kind of number". They are a new representation of real number in digital format. Instead of a fixed, implementation-dependent division of mantissa and exponent bits, it adds a field that allows flexibility in the number of bits assigned to each. It allows better control of error accumulation in some calculations at the cost of needing special hardware support.
The "Spectrum" editor however, if they have one, allowed the regrettable "is comprised of" solecism to slip through into the final text. How that magazine has slipped since I was an EE! Conrad Black: A Measure of Dissent in the world of Climate Science
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/conrad-black-a-measure-of-dissent/ar-AA11VXMS I remember when Bush was Hitler, then McCain and Romney were both Hitler as well. Of course, then the real, literal Hitler, Trump showed up, except that at least he's not as bad as the Hitler that is Ron DeSantis. When everyone the Republicans offer - even squishes like Bush, McCain, and Romney - is Hitler, you're making Hitler the only choice and you're going to get him one of these days.
Wonderful!
She makes a lot of spectacular points. I’m not a number! If Democrats modeled their platforms on this speech, then people would stop thinking they are crazy. If Democrats gave speeches like this and campaigned on these ideas then I could consider them a good-enough alternative when a Republican is sub-par.
They cannot backup and take that stance - they are well into fascistic socialism at this point. There are 'traffic spikes' that only allow traffic to run one way... Try to back up and your tires are cancelled ;->
Hitler? Hitler was a product of his environment, the remains of Europe following the Great War, and everything that evolved from that. No American politician is Hitler, or is like Hitler, or even remotely RESEMBLES Hitler.
As I said, Hitler was a product of his environment, and much of his environment was Weimar. What really concerns me these days is that so much of the Democrat establishment seems to be obsessed with recreating the Weimar government of corruption, cultural rot and collapse, right here in America. Don't want another Hitler? Don't create a new American Weimar. As soon as anyone compares a politician to Hitler, you just know the discussion is over.
"Is this the end of the European Union as we knew it?"
We can only hope so. Conservatives are becoming less tame. The author of the piece left out one important piece of history: Not only did the democrats deride the Tea Party movement, but more importantly, the ‘leadership’ of the Republican Party wanted nothing to do with us. And so much of that leadership is still intact. That needs to change.
via Ace
What Does Fidelity to Our Founding Principles Require Today? QUOTE: The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Those words were spoken by G.K. Chesterton, a Brit, in 1924. He was speaking of the British Constitution, not ours. But the words strike me as especially apt to our situation. . . . Meanwhile, I will tell you some of what I see. A giant, unaccountable, unelected fourth branch of government that does what it wants without input or supervision from the people, and that usurps executive, legislative, and judicial power. Rights are routinely trampled. Two-track justice—one standard for friends of the regime, another for its enemies—is now the norm. Just last week a man killed with his car a teenager for the “crime” of being Republican. He’s already out on bail. Meanwhile there are still dozens of January 6 protesters in pretrial detention for ridiculous noncrimes such as “parading.” The Justice Department, FBI, CIA—all the security agencies—are out of control in attacking American citizens. The FBI is now doing SWAT raids for misdemeanors. Earlier this month, the president of the United States gave a speech calling half the American population enemies of the state. I could go on. https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/26/what-does-fidelity-to-our-founding-principles-require-today/ Fake Meat Sales Plummet On High Prices, Woke Messaging
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/fake-meat-sales-plummet-high-prices-woke-messaging Jeez, I can barely afford the real thing. And now you tell me the fake stuff is even pricier? Hello, bean soup, bean salad, bean tacos.
re The EU vs Italy: "We have tools...
This would be a stupid tactic and shows the shallowness of thinking in the person behind it. For how many things does the EU require unanimous consent from member states before proceeding? Italy could easily retaliate by voting nay on a myriad of EU issues and could hurt the EU more than the EU could hurt Italy. And thus was born the Positronic Brain, which made possible all the products of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. Susan Calvin told me all about it.
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