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Judaical
Cyber-safe!
I bought me a cyber-safe tablet for the holidays this year….
Noah and the Covenant
Another brilliant commentary by Rabbi Yitz Greenberg. Enjoy, and repair the World!Listen — Download text Parashat Noah 5781R. Yitz Greenberg The Torah inherited a Mesopotamian cultural consensus that a Great Deluge had wiped out almost all of humanity. In the Gilgamesh epic, the gods (Anu and Enlil) inflict this catastrophe arbitrarily in a display of […]
The astonishing revival of Israel’s Persian fallow deer
Reposted from Israel 21c https://www.israel21c.org/the-astonishing-revival-of-israels-persian-fallow-deer/ A nearly extinct species is slowly reintroduced into the wild, where they play a key role in the natural ecosystem. By Naama Barak OCTOBER 15, 2020, 7:00 AMPersian fallow deer are reintroduced to Israel after previously disappearing from it in the late 19th century. Photo by Dotan Rotem/INPA Once upon a time, […]
Creation – Parashat Bereshit: R. Yitz Greenberg – 5781
A wonderful 10-minute listen or read from Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, bringing together ancient and modern thinking in one amazing and convincing text. Listen Download Creation R. Yitz Greenberg Parashat Bereishit 5781 Rashi famously suggests that if the Torah is primarily a book of laws—after all, it contains hundreds of laws—then the Five Books of Moses […]
Complexity
Artificial? Intelligence?
Welcome to 2023! AI (Artificial Intelligence) is in the news these days in part because of GPT-3. GPT-3 is a natural language processing (NLP) engine coupled with a deep learning model built by the San-Francisco-based OPEN-AI startup company. The GPT-3 model follows the GPT-2 model introduced in 2019. The GPT-2 model includes 1.5 billion parameters […]
Cave Rescue: A lesson in leadership
July 10, 2018 The following weeks will likely reveal the intricacies of the rescue of the youth soccer team from the Chiang Rai cave in Thailand. But from the outside, it seems to me that the operation is a clear example of sucessful leadership in a complex environment. The area’s acting Governor Narongsak Osatanakorn, personally […]
Complexity, Reliability And Cost
Reprinted from Semiconductor Engineering JUNE 14TH, 2018 – BY: ED SPERLING Fraunhofer EAS’s top scientist digs into new technical and business challenges shaping the semiconductor industry. Peter Schneider, director of Fraunhofer’s Engineering of Adaptive Systems Division, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to talk about future challenges in complexity, time to market and reliability issues, advanced packaging architectures, and the […]
The Guardian view on internet security: complexity is vulnerable
A huge weakness in wifi security erodes online privacy. But the real challenge is designing with human shortcomings in mind.
Bernard Markowicz
Tour de France 2021
Today, July the 18th, 2021, marks the end of this year’s edition of the Tour de France, and what a glorious edition this was. Perfect!
RIP RBG!
It did not take long for political jockeying to begin following yesterday’s passing of RBG. Republicans want to confirm a new Justice now, Democrats later. Our country’s political system and the balance of power between its branches was a bold experiment carefully crafted by the Nation’s founders. This system has been able to maintain the […]
Covid or not Covid?
July 5th, 2020. The spread of the Corona virus in the U.S. is reaching a level so high that the chances of beating the pandemic are becoming slimmer by the day. What do I mean by that? When the spread of the disease is in the 2-5% , it is possible to contain the spread […]
Why I now support Bernie Sanders
I have been supporting Pete Buttigieg since the beginning. I liked his poise, his intellectual stances, his moderation, his ability to answer complex questions. But at the same time I kept thinking about my kids, their peers and their future. I have been able to earn enough during my prime working years to save for […]
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