Thursday, May 4, 2017

@12:00, 5/4/17

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Health

Black Americans Are Living Longer, C.D.C. Reports

Disparities between blacks and whites in death rates and life expectancy are disappearing over time, according to federal researchers.

This is an optimistic view.
I would like to see a more detailed statistical image.

2
U.S.

House Approves Spending Deal, Clearing a Hurdle to Avoid a Shutdown


This is a Trump failure.

3
U.S.

Video: U.S. Antimissile System ‘Operational’ in South Korea

The American antimissile system — Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, known as Thaad — in South Korea has been deemed operational. The system was deployed in response to inflating threats from North Korea.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/world/asia/thaad-north-korea-missile-defense-us.html

The deployment is an escalation of hostilities.

Trump is not successful in dealing with Kim Jong-un 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un

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U.S.

Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosopher of the Limits of Computers, Dies at 87

Professor Dreyfus’s 1972 book “What Computers Can’t Do” made him a scourge and eventually an inspiration to researchers in artificial intelligence.

http://full-tilt.blogspot.com/2005/10/hubert-dreyfus-interview.html
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2006/P3244.pdf

"Inevitably, he said, artificial intelligence ran up against something called the common-knowledge problem: the vast repository of facts and information that ordinary people possess as though by inheritance, and can draw on to make inferences and navigate their way through the world."

This is the integrated world model that is acquired by rote 
memorization in early childhood.   
Young children memorize everything.

I will read further.

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Times Insider

Meet the Mexico Bureau Chief. (His Job Has Changed Since Trump.)

Azam Ahmed, who is bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, says the new spotlight on Mexico has helped reveal its contradictions

Human intelligence works better than walls.
"Attention must be paid"
                             The Death of a Salesman

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Opinion

The Great Vietnam War Novel Was Not Written by an American

Literature about the war and its aftermath by Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Americans is plentiful and good. Too few Americans read it.

Vietnam was a defeat for the American Military.

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U.S.

In Sign of Independence, Gorsuch Is Out of Court’s Labor Pool

Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, like Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., will not receive recommendations written by a group of law clerks in deciding which cases to hear.

His mind is made up.  Do not confuse him with the facts.

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World

Two Muslim Teenagers Killed in India Over Accusation of Cow Theft

They were kicked and hit with sticks by a mob of hundreds. The police said the attack was not motivated by religious concerns.

India is a sovereign nation.
I am concerned though I believe I am powerless.
Nuclear war should concern everyone.

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U.S.

Trump’s Immigration Proposals ‘Conspicuously Absent’ From Spending Bill

Lawmakers from both parties rejected key elements of the president’s proposals to enforce the nation’s immigration laws more aggressively.

Noted with interest.
Real Estate

$700,000 Houses in Connecticut, Michigan and Texas

A 1790 farmhouse in Roxbury, a midcentury house near Grand Rapids and a 1902 cottage in San Antonio

We would do better by designing and building.
Connecticut is worth another look.


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