As you can see from all the other posts below, I am into technical writing. This time, my wife and I decided to try our hand at fiction, in particular science fiction. It happens to be based loosely on something upon which I'd published below concerning a means of improving education via the use of retired professionals being tutors and mentors in formalized study halls. Take that, add some mystery, and a near future context and you have our story. Enjoy.
Title: Sweet Compliance
I, like many, and a former Republican, want to see some real progress being made on healthcare funding, especially now with the Republicans doing it damage. Even from a political point of view, it seems like the obvious time for Democrats to demonstrate that even in the minority that they are capable of, at the very least, building a bipartisan consensus on where this nation ought to be on healthcare. As valid as it is to point out even the cruelty of the many Republican leadership's actions, we voters want to see the positive alternatives that they’ll be bringing to the table when we re-elect Democrats in now less than two years.
With that in mind, with a desire to create something that can have some real buy-in from across the non-MAGA spectrum, I’ve created a small web page outlining a possible framework for addressing what amounts to a form of universal healthcare funding for this nation. None of it is particularly ingenious, indeed borrowing heavily from the ACA and Europe, but it works to also address many of its criticisms from the right. Again, we ought to be looking for buy-in and then for votes.
But part of the trick to getting the votes is to also show how democracy can be used generate something on the lines of what I happen to be outlining. Take the process of creating that new American approach to healthcare on the road, using each and every vehicle of communication available to communicating with Americans. Indeed, use AI to summarize what gets said. Keep Americans apprised of what is getting created while it is being created. Show what real democracy looks like, all while creating real positive solutions to this nation’s problems. The comparison to our current authoritarian autocracy won’t be lost on Americans.
Let’s just get on with it, NOW! Less than two years remain. (3/3/2025)
Enjoy. Thank you for your interest..
https://mrfunk.info/HealthcareFundingViaGovernmentAssist.pdf
A prerequisite for a degree in Computer Science often involves having to take a class called Discrete Mathematics. I, a bit of a computer science guru, never took that class. Recently a computer science student asked me for help and I found, on the subject in question, that I couldn't help. So, I started doing some self-study and found the book for the class to be horrendous. Rather than providing a nice base for programmers, it covered discrete math from a theoretical standpoint. Following up, asking other students about the class, the feedback I got was of general confusion with the subject and no real connection to their programming. In short, it was mistargeted. So, I took the class myself, found it interesting, but the students were right. So, I bring you my attempt at targeting Discrete Mathematics to the computer science student. Enjoy.
Although I support some notion of Univeral Health Care, my interest is not that of an ideologue, but instead I focus on how it financially could be done. In this page I look at an alternative means of bringing it online, not via a federal-based approach, but instead via at first a confederation of states, largely to show to all states how it can be made to work fairly and from there get the needed citizen buy-in. You'll find that here. And also see below the related post called "The Search For A Single-Payer Bill". Enjoy, and let me know what you think.
Not that I am any kind of an AI expert, but I had recently learned of newly developed processors that include AI-specific hardware enhancements and decided to figure out what they had actually done and how it fit in. As you can see from previous posts below, I am in the habit of occasionally providing for the web site The Next Platform deep dives on some of the higher-level concepts which these folks address. What I learned was interesting enough that I thought I could explain via such an article. That article DOING THE MATH ON CPU NATIVE AI INFERENCE was just published today. Enjoy.
This, another article on The Next Platform, is pretty esoteric but it is also my idea of a fun investigation into computer architecture. Enjoy.
The Power Of Power10’s Memory Inception Clustering (nextplatform.com)
I’ve been thinking that I’ve been becoming technically well past my prime. Perhaps not. As an adjunct professor at WSU in computer science, I’d been worried about whether the Zoom infrastructure would be able to take on the load of all of us suddenly showing up to keep our education – and indeed much of our economy – infrastructure flowing. So, I did some research to find out how it is that they pulled it off and in the process got an article on the subject published. Here it is. Enjoy.
Thought Experiment: How Did Zoom’s Infrastructure Keep Us Connected? (nextplatform.com)
After quite some time (since 01/2017), I again have had the pleasure of having an article published in the web site The Next Platform. This one, as was true for a number of the preceding articles, deals with the use of a persistent memory attached directly to the processor chips in much the same way is RAM has been for years. That introduces a number of changes required in software, in this case within the kernel of operating systems.
You can find this article at https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/05/20/those-without-persistent-memory-are-fated-to-repeat-it/
Enjoy.
As you will see in the page with link provided below, I happen to be part of a team at a local university which mentors math students in something similar to a study hall. What's interesting about it is that the concepts used there and outlined in the referenced page have what appears to be a means of improving productivity throughout our school systems. Read on. I'll let you see the opportunity for yourself.
Retired Professionals Improving Productivity in Education
Enjoy.
A good friend of mine suggested after reading my previous post that that was interesting and all, but what we really needed was an outline on what should/would go into a Single-Payer bill. That is, what would Single-Payer really be. A sat on that for way too long, but it began to dawn on me that even those who are pushing Single-Payer haven't thought that through to much. Part of the problem is that, although Single-Payer can be feasible in a number of different forms, there really are a lot of variations on that theme. It happens that the devil is in the details. It also struck me that, even though there are a lot of folks backing Single-Payer, a lot more would provide their buy-in if their interests were supported. So, not only do we need some description of what Single-Payer could be, but we need to start a nation-wide discussion concerning what we want from it. Presumptuous, I know, but we need to start what should be a completely non-partisan process of creating Single-Payer somewhere.
Enjoy.
02/20/2018