Quantum Computing and AI

 Quantum Computing and AI

Our world is constantly changing.

Some of us remember a simpler time, without computers and networks, without the Internet, and without hundreds of TV channels.  Not so long ago.  Within my lifetime.

 We live in a connected world, fueled by all of the above, in which we have instant access to anywhere in the world, and to some of the extended universe.  Our access is limited by the physical structure of silicon and other materials.

 I was just brushing up on where the next, post normal computing and Internet will occur.  It will be Quantum Computing utilizing Artificial Intelligence.

 “Quantum computing and artificial intelligence are both transformational technologies and artificial intelligence needs quantum computing to achieve significant progress. Although artificial intelligence produces functional applications with classical computers, it is limited by the computational capabilities of classical computers. Quantum computing can provide a computation boost to artificial intelligence, enabling it to tackle more complex problems in many fields in business and science.”

 Here are several reference articles on Quantum Computing and AI.

 https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/tip/9-top-AI-and-machine-learning-trends?utm_campaign=20231225_ERU-ACTIVE_WITHIN_90_DAYS&utm_medium=email&utm_source=SGERU&source_ad_id=252503200&src=15005581&asrc=EM_SGERU_284817559

 https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/tip/The-future-of-AI-What-to-expect-in-the-next-5-years

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2023/03/21/if-you-think-ai-is-hot-wait-until-it-meets-quantum-computing/?sh=2cba6dad1ff6

 https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/digital-world/quantum-computing-and-ai/

 Ray Gruszecki

December 26, 2023

Systemic Anti-Semitism

 Systemic Anti-Semitism

 Most of us know the sordid past of anti-Semitism.  The biblical Diaspora and millennia of being outcasts in numerous societies.  The ghettoes and pogroms of historical Russia and Central Europe.  The Dreyfus affair, years of prejudice, and ultimately, the Nazi Holocaust that killed six million Jews.

 And with what Palestinians call the Nakba”, or “Catastrophe”, the formation in 1948, of Israel, a constitutional democracy, in the lands that were once Ancient Israel and Judah.  Some 700,000 Palestinian Arabs, who occupied this land were displaced and left the area as refugees.  Upwards of 200,000 Palestinian Arabs remained in the new Israel, and eventually became Israeli citizens.

 So where did what seems to be a re-emergent anti-Semitism on our college campuses come from?  Why do modern left-wing activists consider the Israelis as “occupiers” and “oppressors”, and the Palestinian Hamas butchers as the “oppressed”?  Why are Palestinian flags being brandished by purple-haired co-eds to chants of “from the river to the sea”?  Why are calls for Jewish genocide not condemned recently by Ivy League college presidents and professors?

 One answer, that I’ve touched on before.  These college educators and indoctrinators are the ideological descendants of the Soviet communists and socialists that lost their battle against class in the early 1990’s, and who replaced class with a myriad of Marxist-based, “social justice” issues, including their interpretation of Israeli occupation and “oppression”.  The Gen-z bunch carrying the Palestinian flag and chanting anti-Jewish, pro-Hamas slogans has been steeped in the current Marxist ideology being taught in our schools.

 Ray Gruszecki

December 10, 2023

Dystopia

 Dystopia

 In the three years that Joe Biden has been in office, he, and his extreme left-wing minions have gone a long way toward ruining this country and its principles, morals and ethics.  Nearly everything that they have touched has turned to crap. They have made a mockery of our government and continue imposing some form of Marxism on the country.

 The reason for normal political parties is to define and implement differences of opinion on government.  Big versus small government, different levels of social programs, different views of environmental matters, and myriad other procedural differences in government philosophy normally define political parties.  In the past, most political parties have been patriotic, loved the country, and promulgated what they thought was best for all of the people of the country.

 It seems that Biden’s administrative state, his advisors, and the people that define Biden’s far left cabal, reflect the same Marxist ideology that festered in our colleges and universities since the demise of the old Soviet Union in the early 1990’s.  This takes several destructive forms.

 One is the Marxist based “oppressor verso oppressed” or the so-called social justice theme that fuels the street mobs like Black Lives Matter and Antifa that caused 20 deaths and billions of dollars in damages in 2021.  The most recent incarnation of these street mobs is the anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian demonstrations now taking place in our cities.  It is inconceivable that millennials and gen-z young people are demonstrating to support the Palestinians and the Hamas butchers, and not the Israelis who were raped and butchered on October 7th.

 Another manifestation of Biden style Marxism and appeasement is what has happened to our country in the last three years.  Whereas, we were historically politically, militarily, and economically strong before Biden, we are now pretty much a weak, vacillating laughingstock.

 There was continuing peace before Biden. Now there are now two wars raging and mainland China is greedily eying Taiwan.  Because of the hesitation and weakness that we have projected internationally, we are closer to World War III than we have ever been.  Our forces in the middle East are attacked by Iranian proxy rockets with impunity.  Aid to Ukraine faces continuing delays and Israel is admonished to enact “cease fires” which help Hamas to regroup.

 Biden and his amateur Marxist advisors have also pretty much done away with our southern border.  Literally millions of undocumented and unvetted aliens and billions of dollars of drugs have flooded into the country.  This includes Fentanyl, which is killing our young people.

 Our economy is in a shambles.  No need to elaborate.  Just buy groceries or gasoline, or any other commodity. What once cost $100, pre-Biden, now costs close to $150.

 Crime is rampant in our streets, particularly in democrat run cities.  Extremist, Soros backed DA’s and prosecutors like George Gascon in Los Angeles, Larry Krasner in Philadelphia and Kim Foxx in Chicago don’t prosecute criminals and have established a “revolving door” for most crimes.  The public either arms themselves or shivers in fear.

 “Queer is better” seems to be the preferential theme for choosing administration officials and other functionaries.  And, we no longer have just male and female.  We have an increasing panoply of ill-defined genders, each seeking some degree of hegemony over the others.  We increasingly teach gender diversity and fragmentation in our schools.

 The Biden administration has used two unconstitutional tools to retain young voters and women in recent elections.  The first is their rhetoric supporting abortion as if it were a constitutional right rather than a legalistic aberration.  The second is Biden’s unconstitutional promise to young gen-z graduates to eliminate their student loans.  Both of these lies have allowed Biden and his extreme leftist cabal to retain control of the senate, and only yield a few votes majority in the house, in spite of all of the negative issues caused by Biden’s inept administration.

 One can hardly define the ethical and moral degradation that this corrupt and incompetent Biden administration has caused.  Biden has enriched himself and his family through corruption and kickbacks.  Yet, he struts around (when not falling), like the corrupt Tammany-style politician that he really is.

 One can argue that Biden should not be there, and he would not be if not for Covid.  It would indeed have been a different world with no China-developed Covid, and Trump’s world peace and his economic principles still in effect.  (And his tweets, too.)

 Can we stop the rot and weakness and degradation that four years of a destructive Biden regime would have enhanced?  Not easy, because our very moral and ethical fiber has been damaged.  Our young people have absorbed the Marxist ideology of oppressed versus oppressor, and violently demonstrate in the streets in favor of the Hamas butchers and rapists because of some twisted view of the Palestinians as the “oppressed”.  How can we reverse this twisted Marxist ideology being taught in our colleges and universities?

 Look at the election choices we have for 2024.  We have Trump again.  Leading all other republicans by over 40 points and leading Biden by 6 points. But Trump has 4 indictments and 91 charges against him.  Biden is 81 years old.  Stumbling, mumbling, incoherent.  Inconceivable that he would run again.  Kamala, and her confused word salads?  And there’s a pretty boy socialist Gavin, ready to turn the country into a San Francisco or California style dystopia.

 Ray Gruszecki

December 5, 2023

Israeli – Hamas War

 Israeli – Hamas War

 Forgotten, it seems, except by Israel, are the atrocities committed by Hamas during their attack on Southern Israel on Saturday, October 7^th, the Jewish sabbath.  Instead now, we have the Hamas cowards using hospitals or civilians as shields, and hiding in tunnels under hospitals in Gaza, or in little girl’s bedrooms.

 Lest the world forget, Hamas launched an unprovoked attack on Israel, and butchered upwards of 1400 unarmed civilian men, women, children and infants.  The pictures of burned and mutilated Israeli babies in their cribs make one’s stomach turn.

 But, in this upside-down, Marxist inspired world of oppressed and oppressor and residual anti-Semitism, the Israelis in Gaza reacting to the Hamas atrocities are the bad guys (the oppressors), and the Hamas butchers somehow became the good guys (the oppressed).

 Benjamin Netanyahu is no Moses or David, but he is a strong leader.

Educated in both Israel and the U.S. (MBA from MIT), Netanyahu has been a major figure in Israeli politics for nearly half a century.

He has coalesced Israel on a war footing, and is determined to eliminate Hamas as a military and political force in Gaza.

Any rational-thinking honest person will wish him and the Israelis “Godspeed”, and success against the Hamas butchers in Gaza.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 13, 2023

Protests and Anti-Semitism

 Protests and Anti-Semitism

 I am reasonably intelligent and politically astute and therefore normally aware of what is happening in the world, and why.

 I was a little taken aback to see massive anti-Semitic demonstrations and protests at universities and on city streets which were pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian, and anti-Israel.  After the October 7 torture and butchery by Hamas of innocent Israeli men, women, children and infants; and the resultant Israeli reprisals against Hamas in Gaza, one would think that the world’s sympathies would be with Israel, rather than with their Hamas attackers.

 So, I set out to research and analyze what was happening.

 One thing that was immediately clear was the left-wing, activist nature of our colleges and universities, and even some of our secondary schools.  Tracking the history, this leftist cult of “oppressed and oppressor” derives from the Soviet communism that effectively died out in its original form, in much of the western world in the early 1990’s.  But Marxism did not disappear.  It morphed, gained philosophical respectability, and found a home in academia throughout many universities in the world.

 Much of the world’s activism emanates from this “oppressed vs oppressor” theme.  Feminism, race, gender, LGBTQ++, and a plethora of social issues relate to this “oppressed” mantra, including Israel as oppressor in Gaza, and Hamas as the oppressed.

 The other piece fueling these anti-Semitic protests, and any populist protest, is social media and the “follow the crowd” mentality of young people.  The “anti-something” or “pro-something” idea appears on Tik-Tok or Instagram or other social media (or is planted by Soros types), and we are “off to the races”.  The word spreads like wild fire, flash mobs are formed, and young people from New York to London to Tokyo are demonstrating at colleges, or in the streets.  

 So, it’s as simple as that.  Pretty much any idea can be transformed into massive populist protests using social media and taking advantage of “follow the herd” mentality.

 In this case, it is good to know about historical anti-Semitism, and about how Sykes-Picot defined the Middle East, and how Theodor Herzl founded and advanced Zionism, but this knowledge does not really explain why millions of young people throughout the world are demonstrating for Hamas, and against Israel.

 If I were a psychologist, I would probably diagnose a general societal malaise and proneness to gullibility.  Many people, including voters that define our country are ill-informed and easily led, even more so now with social media.  And, the “opinionators” know it and take advantage.

 In addition to the Israel-Hamas distortion being perpetrated on society, we have the myths that abortion and free college tuition are rights that somehow derive from the constitution.  Elections have, and will continue to reflect these lies and distortions.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 12, 2023

 

 

 

Antisemitism

 Antisemitism

 Why are there antisemitic demonstrations, not only at our brainless colleges, but also in streets across the world?  Were there not enough Jews killed by Hitler and the Nazis?  Rather than supporting the 1400 Israeli civilian men, women and children  tortured and butchered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, these deranged idiots are rallying in support of the terrorist butchers.

 I have lived and worked in Southern Lebanon in the mid 1960’s, in what eventually became “Hezbollah country”, after anyone in the Middle East who had a fight came to beautiful Lebanon and destroyed it.

 I worked with Lebanese Christians, Lebanese Moslems and Palestinians who were displaced when Israel was formed in 1948. 

I picked up some conversational Levantine Arabic from my time in Lebanon, which was interrupted by the 1967, Six Day War.

 Coincidently, my brother-in-law’s Ernie’s father, Karem, was born in Lebanon and came to America as a child.  Karem was like an uncle with whom I could practice my few words of Arabic, and Ernie was like a brother.

 So, my background with the Middle East is probably more complete than most Americans.  I have seen the poverty at the camps South of Beirut resulting from the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes.  I have also seen the anger, even back then, at Israelis and the westerners supporting them.

 I have also seen the results of antisemitism in the death camps of Dachau in South Germany, and Auschwitz in Southeastern Poland.  These reminders of how a modern Christian country can turn to unspeakable barbarity should never be forgotten.

 And yet, we have antisemitic demonstrations, renewing this ancient prejudice, across the world, and ostensibly across our institutions of higher learning.  It makes one wonder will humanity ever learn?

 Ray Gruszecki

November 4, 2023

Anti-Semitism and the Left Wing

 Anti-Semitism and the Left Wing

 Left-wing students and young people have been holding anti-Semitic demonstrations all over the world, and particularly at colleges and on the streets of U.S. cities.  (And in our congressional hearings).  These demonstrations are not only ant-Semitic, they are anti-Israel and pro the Hamas terrorists that butchered 1400+ innocent Israeli civilian men, women and children on October 7.

 In modern times, how did anti-Semitism migrate from tiki and AR carrying right wing extremists, ala Charlottesville, to mousy, purple-haired college student liberal coeds?  I embarked on some research to find out.

 There has been an undercurrent of anti-Semitism and persecution of Jews in the world since the biblical diaspora.  It has been prevalent throughout history.  This timeline refers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_antisemitism

 The referenced excellent article on the topic is from “The Conversation”, which I vetted to be an honest, balanced source.  It confirms that left-wing activists all over the world have become decidedly anti- Israeli and pro Hamas.  The article explains how this happened, but is a little light on elucidating why it happened.

 Quoting a few paragraphs:

 “Traditionally, antisemitism in the United States was promoted by far-right organizations and movements, such as the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups and skinheads. Such groups focused on propagating traditional antisemitic narratives alleging Jews’ racial inferiority, their control of the financial sector and their role in global cabals aiming to undermine America and Western civilization.

 More recently, progressive and left-leaning movements that are critical of Israel’s policies – especially with regard to the Palestinian population in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 – have become linked to antisemitic practices, too.

 In the U.S., our data shows that 95% of antisemitic incidents motivated by Israel’s policies were perpetrated by far-left or unidentified activists. Just 5% were perpetrated by known far-right activists.

 Thus, it is not surprising that following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, Jewish organizations on American campuses became the main targets of violent activism by Palestinian rights supporters.

 We find that antisemitic hate crimes are occurring especially in politically progressive areas of the country. The New York metropolitan area and the Northeast in general, and urban centers in Florida, California, the Northwest and the Midwest are experiencing the majority of antisemitic incidents.”

 https://theconversation.com/antisemitism-has-moved-from-the-right-to-the-left-in-the-us-and-falls-back-on-long-standing-stereotypes-215760

 Ray Gruszecki

October 31, 2023