Popular Posts 2021

Pretending Not To Panic is intended to summarize news that is, significant, factual, based on data, logic, and apolitical for Continue reading →

Causes Of Death Compared – Updated

Conflicts, terrorism, and disasters grab headlines, making it appear that they are the leading causes of death. There are about Continue reading →

Data That Matters June 2021

With a market cap of $680B, Bitcoin was accepted as a legal currency by a government, El Salvador. Several large Continue reading →

Slaughterbots

Slaughterbots are here. In Spring 2020, autonomous drones were used against humans in Libya. Desperate people will ignore international edicts. Continue reading →

Data That Matters January 2021

Instead of zero, the average increase in global temperature is 0.32F (0.18C) per decade, and accelerating. Estimates for the US Continue reading →

Drone Warfare Dominates USAF

The US Air Force now need more pilots for drones than it does for any particular conventional airplane. It may Continue reading →

Bots Attacking Bots

The bot wars have begun, at least on Wikipedia. As silly as it may sound, autonomous software bots patrol places Continue reading →

AI Wins Again

Another critical milestone was reached in the development of artificial intelligence. At least in a simulation, an AI pilot has Continue reading →