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QUESTIONS STILL IN NEED TO BE SOLVED (II) PROFIT, THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR ILLS

An English translation by Jean-Loup Komarower of the post QUESTIONS À RÉSOUDRE (II) LE PROFIT, SOURCE DE TOUS NOS MAUX

Robert Owen (1771-1858) was a Welsh social reformer, one of the founders of the cooperative movement. As a very early socialist who was blamed for being strictly speaking a “communist”, he considered profit as the […]

An English translation by Bernard Bouvet of my « QUOI QU’ON FASSE, CE SERA LA MÊME CHOSE ! » of March 11.

77% of you, my dear blog readers, not all of you, but a “comfortable majority” of you, happens to be French. Your country is now in full “election showbiz” mode, […]

GREEK DEBT SPECULATORS, NEUTRALISED

An English translation by Bernard Bouvet of my post “Les spéculateurs sur la dette grecque, neutralisés”.

Last Friday’s ruling by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) that the much talked about Greek debt swap, or the so-called private sector initiative (PSI), does not represent a “credit event” and, therefore does not trigger Credit […]

Guest post. Translated from the French by Bernard Bouvet.

This is Athens!

We are barely able to recover from Memorandum 2 (see the latest entry (Sightseeing Athens) on my blog “Greek Crisis”). The Shock Strategy, when undergone as a…patient, doesn’t give you any respite. Multi-risk, multi-faceted, a total weapon. In the […]

A THREAT (ALMOST) WITHOUT PRECEDENT

An English translation by Bernard Bouvet of my post Une menace sans précédent (ou presque).

You will recall what Dick Cheney, the former U.S. Vice President, said at the time, it was 2001, about Saddam Hussein? No, not that, I mean before there was any question of “weapons of mass destruction.” Cheney’s affirmation […]

MR. STIGLITZ HASN’T BEEN TIPPED OFF

An English translation by Bernard Bouvet of my post: M. Stiglitz n’est pas au courant.

What caused it? Is it the one year 7% decline in Greece’s GDP in 2011, 16% altogether since the crisis began in 2007? Or perhaps the defections among members of the Greek parliament during Sunday’s vote, followed by exclusions […]

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LLMs deal essentially with language but seems amenable to graphics as well. To such an extent that one may wonder…
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“the marvellous powers of the brain emerge not from any single, uniformly structured connectionist network but from highly evolved arrangements…
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When the entangled narrative is based on the Bible, the problem is the Bible.
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I intend to read the Krichmar paper, thanks for mentioning it. I looked in my library, I’ve got a 1987…
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It’s becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding.…
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Do Androids dream of electric sheeps ? Yes. Thanks Paul.
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I fear your views of AI are pretty much outdated. They pre-date in any case neural networks. What you are…
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