Friday, March 28, 2025

Artificial Intelligence: This Month’s Fine Progress, Real and Potential

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From March 6 th to March 20 th , there was a string of articles – two about areas of true AI achievement, one questioning what may or may n...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Autonomous Vehicles, Starting and Stopping – Where Are They Going Now?

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We’re way past any idea that driverless cars will soon become the norm – but they are still progressing, in the taxi niche and elsewhere.   ...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Artificial Intelligence: Three Months, Six Different Facets

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Since mid-December, except for the DeepSeek brouhaha AI has been relatively quiet.   There have been small expansions here and there, and sa...
Friday, March 7, 2025

February’s Employment Data Didn’t Change Much, With 151,000 Net New Jobs and AJSN Showing Latent Demand Almost Stationary at 17.1 Million

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This morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation Summary wasn’t the important one – that will be next month, when it will have...
Friday, February 28, 2025

On the Edge to a New Paradigm for Human Behavior – I

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One of the more amazing books I have ever read crossed my desk earlier this winter.   It is Nate Silver’s 2024 On the Edge: The Art of Ris...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Unions These Days – Recent Events, and What Their Presence Indicates

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Trade unions have a long world history, mostly but hardly exclusively beneficial.   Now it is 2025, and few alive can even remember the pre-...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Progress, Problems, and Perceptions: Two Months’ Worth

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Recently, the DeepSeek kerfuffle has dominated the AI news.   But since late December, other things beyond future-success assertions have hi...