Year: 2023
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in: Politics
To compare the American judicial system to that of Nazi Germany reflects a complete failure to understand what that state was like. There was no: People simply disappeared. I have many fragmented stories about the conditions in 1930s Germany, but it was my first cousin, once removed, recording in her 1981 memoirs, her childhood memories…
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AI: Addressing an Aging Population
in: Observation
The article “How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Reshape the World” published in the New York Time, July 16, 2023 notes: The projections are reliable, and stark: By 2050, people age 65 and older will make up nearly 40 percent of the population in some parts of East Asia and Europe. That’s almost twice the…
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Reminiscing Date & Nut Cake
During the pandemic I overcame my reluctance, my dread of unearthing memories of departed family, and mustered the courage to explore the catacombs of our basement, an effort I equated to an archeological expedition. In a chamber of mysteries, guarded under a veil of dust and cobwebs, were stored boxes of both cherished keepsakes and…
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AI: Are we going to be Eclipsed?
in: Research
This note includes large sections of the article “Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed,” written by David Brooks and published in the New York Times, July 13, 2023. The Turning Test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 submitted: [it] is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable…
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Dancing in the Park
Each twist and turn we experience through our lives acts like a kaleidoscope, that shifts the colour and pattern with each rotation, reshaping how we understand our recollections and how we might interpret and accept each new event that comes along. One event that comes to mind marks, for me, the cultural and moral shifts…