What do you need to build machines that can learn and reason?

What do you need to build machines that can learn and reason?

Machine learning
Belief propagation
Markov chain approximation method (MCAM)
MATLAB
Natural language processing (NLP)
Knowledge representation and reasoning (KR)
Default logic
Machine perception

Another issue of national security

Another issue of national security:

Close to half of black men drop out of high school. High unemployment and high rates of out-of-wedlock birth leave too many of them without guidance.

How many local police officers are in the U.S.?

How many local police officers are in the U.S.?

The Bureau of Justice Statistics put the number of full-time equivalent sworn state and local police officers at 646,213 in 2011—up from 531,706 in 1991.

Persons below poverty level in Ferguson (city), Missouri.

Persons below poverty level in Ferguson (city), Missouri.

Persons below poverty level, percent, 2008-2012: 22.0%   

How regulations are designed?

How regulations are designed?

They are designed to be  complex  and to create compliance advocates.

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Why give incentives for companies to keep their cash offshore rather than invest it in the U.S.?

Because you have a weapon to fight a risky dollar currency fluctuation.

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Why is impossible to cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions?

Because according to the IRS 2009 Data Book, IRS workforce counts up 93,337 employees , 91,082 of which being full-time permanent.

Because according to the IRS :

IRS FY 2014 Shutdown Contingency Plan (Non-Filing Season)


Total number of employees expected to be employed prior to implementation of the shutdown plan (direct and reimbursable)
    94,516
(as of 09/07/2013)