Thursday, August 28, 2014

Why Americans are not interested in other countries?

Why Americans are not interested in other countries?

Because we do not know each other.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

How does Warren Buffett minimize tax payments?

How does Warren Buffett minimize tax payments?

Cashing out his investment by executing tax-free swap of assets.

Exchange defers or eliminates tax.

Friday, August 22, 2014

What is the only difference between the poor and the rich.

What is the only difference between the poor and the rich.

The poor has less opportunities and less skills to implement the same impulses the rich has.

Who are the America's enemies?

Who are the America's enemies?

People desperate to belong to something.

Something like, al Qaeda, Taliban or ISIS.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

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.

Monday, August 18, 2014

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.