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Jesus is ahistorical - no documents, no records. Everything about him written long after he died.

In contrast Pontius Pilate is historical - there are extant documents with his name and title.

Simply b/c Pontius Pilate was real doesn't mean Jesus Christ was real. And it certainly doesn't mean he rose from the dead!

Anecdotal evidence? Two thousand years later? "Consider the source!"

But when you try to imagine how it could be split up there are all kinds of problems. e.g., obviously CA + NY makes sense plus some large cities(e.g., Chicago). It all seems untenable w/o excessive relocation a la Stalin.

Truly splitting up the USA would require a war and that's more trouble than its worth in most peoples' opinions: I've kinda grown fond of letting my neighbor's kid cut the lawn for $25, even though he is a Democrat.

Now, OTOH, spinning off a state or two is within reach: e.g., giving CA and NY their independence would be fine with me. But then that's just me!8-))

The loss of jobs and transfer of production abroad was driven by the widespread introduction of MBA degrees and consequent recognition of how offshoring could increase profits plus simple capitalistic greed. All politically implemented by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, one of the greediest and most powerful of the capitalistic organizations in the USA.

Now, with Dems in control, USCoC is back in the driver's seat:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/4/chamber-comm...

Move the boot factory to China and profit!

Its bad reasoning to shoot the messenger even when its a bot!

The government should have investigated it. The media have poor access to voting procedures and ballots and are unable to properly investigate. They can only question.

The Stalin misquote is difficult to deny: "It doesn't matter how people vote as long as [those in power] count the votes."

Also few, if any, election results were truly audited.

There was undeniably fraud. E.g., in Pennsylvania mail-in ballots had mismatched signatures, ballots were accepted beyond the law's limiting dates, ballots with no date were accepted, etc.The fraud was committed by Democratic-party supporting voters, judges and local voting officials.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/12/07/mark-l...

Mail-in ballots are an invitation to fraud and now that the Democrats got away with it bigtime in 2020 the floodgates will open in 2022 and 2024 producing a flood of fraudulent mail-in votes in other states where Dems will do their best to pass and modify (by legislative fiat or court order) similar mail-in voting laws.

The sitting president simply told it like it was.

As soon as the media got away from reporting "Who, What, When, Where, Why and How" the whole system fell apart.

Today every newscaster wants to project his personality onto the news and the results are deadly. We need an AI that strips news down to the 5W's+H and makes it available.

I have never heard of any true historical proof of the existence of Jesus whatsoever. No eyewitness accounts, no Roman accounts, no Jewish accounts, etc.

And to top it off, his story ends with him rising from the dead!8-))

themodelplumber says> "And this guy was a _master_ at a certain language starting with the letter P...

Prolog?

What a shame he couldn't use his best language! It has such nice web frameworks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages#...

"ELM" = "Extreme Learning Machine" is apparently heavily based upon previous work, if not outright plagiarism. The Wikipedia article on ELM discusses this only briefly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_learning_machine#Contr...

Yann LeCun' opinion on ELM: 'What's so great about "Extreme Learning Machines"?':

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/34u0go/yan...

A sort-of "How-to plagiarize successfully" guide including "Easy but Proven 5 Steps to Academic Fame" with Huang's work as a gleaming example:

https://elmorigin.wixsite.com/originofelm

Two very detailed plagiarism analyses of two of Huang's papers. They are quite sarcastic, funny and enlightening:

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/5256f1_ac3a0f6b08524a3ca6101d...

And finally, as one poster says, the provenance of "Deep Learning" itself has some controversy:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_Extreme_Learning_machi...

"But, just recently I also found that there is also a problem with the inventorship of Deep Learning. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.htm... For this, I post a question for discussing these issues. https://www.researchgate.net/post/Any_enlightment_on_the_ori... https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/5256f1_556b42c00d0d4d5bb199fb...

"Smart guns" in the form of the Magna-Trigger Conversion have been available for decades:

http://gunssavelives.net/gear/smart-guns-have-been-available...

From the article:

"Magna-Trigger conversion is a custom process in which a magnetic piece is placed in the gun, preventing it from firing unless the user is also wearing a magnetic ring. Despite the simplicity in this system, it never really caught on for one simple reason. Generally people want their defensive firearms to be as simple as possible. Simple, well machined firearms make for reliable firearms."

BTW what responsible manufacturer would sell a gun that might not shoot when you need it to? That's a lawsuit-in-waiting for manufacturers. Depending on the local political beliefs, a gun that _would_ shoot under the circumstances is _also_ a lawsuit_in_waiting! So "smart guns" are a lose-lose situation for gun manufacturers.

And when a "smart gun" mechanism fails (say, due to low battery) should it allow _anyone_ to shoot it)? That's what I would want but I think others would want a gun to be disarmed under such circumstances.

Imagine being raped/robbed/killed b/c your gun has a low battery! [the Magna-Trigger system requires no batteries]

Learn Prolog - everything else is an extension.

"One [language] to rule them all."

O'Rourke has a broken mind that money cannot fix:

"Buff My Balls": Beto O'Rourke Wrote Creepy Poems; Joined Old School "Slaughterhouse" Hacker Group

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-15/buff-my-balls-beto...

The Constitutional criteria for removal of the President from office are "treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors." Here's a good short description:

http://www.crf-usa.org/impeachment/high-crimes-and-misdemean...

Fuzzy logic (FL) made it easier for control systems engineers to implement rule-based systems where rules were often extracted in human language from experts who had learned to manually control the systems.

The Japanese were quick to adopt FL and benefited enormously financially. Now FL is embedded almost everywhere.

Michio Sugeno built a fuzzy logic control system that flies a helicopter with a rotor blade missing! It is possible to do that with a conventional control system (that is, a mathematical solution must exist), but I believe the mathematics might be a bit more difficult.

enruquito says>"you can also do exactly that in probability theory by multiplying the probabilities."

Have you got a concrete example?

i.e., show us the probability version precisely with mathematics and maybe someone can tell you the corresponding fuzzy version, if any.