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Beyond the Blue: How SpaceX and Reusable Rockets Are Fuelling a New Space Economy
Commentary The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Elon Musk invites argument. The Tesla and SpaceX founder’s changing promises, his ventures beyond rockets, and SpaceX’s record-shattering initial public offering in June, whose filing reads like a funky marriage between Isaac Azimov’s and Enron’s financial audits, are all fair game for scrutiny.
Beyond the Blue: How SpaceX and Reusable Rockets Are Fuelling a New Space Economy
Editor’s Introduction by George Koch: When Nasdaq stock exchange officials in New York City at 9:50 am EDT on June 12 released the shares of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of Starbase, Texas – known universally simply as SpaceX – it became the largest initial public offering (IPO) in business history. Valued at a staggering US$85.7 billion including over-allotments, it dwarfed the previous record of US$19 billion set in 2019 by the state-owned oil producerSaudi Aramco.
Le vide intérieur : pourquoi les grands modèles de langage sont incapables de penser - et ne le seront jamais
Les premières tentatives d’intelligence artificielle (IA) ont été ridiculisées pour leurs réponses à la fois assurées, fausses et souvent surréalistes – l’équivalent intellectuel de demander à un perroquet ivre d’expliquer Kant.
The Emptiness Inside: Why Large Language Models Can’t Think-and Never Will
The Emptiness Inside: Why Large Language Models Can’t Think—and Never Will The hype that modern AI systems based on large language models are on the brink of ’true intelligence' mistakes fluency for thought. Artificial Intelligence signage is displayed during the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile technology trade show, in Barcelona on March 3, 2025.
The Emptiness Inside: Why Large Language Models Can’t Think - and Never Will
By Gleb Lisikh Early attempts at artificial intelligence (AI) were ridiculed for giving answers that were confident, wrong and often surreal – the intellectual equivalent of asking a drunken parrot to explain Kant. But modern AIs based on large language models (LLMs) are so polished, articulate and eerily competent at generating answers that many people assume they can know and, even better, can independently reason their way to knowing. This confidence is misplaced.
AI, Huh, Yeah! What is it Good for? Absolutely Nothin’
This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: Climate-obsessed politicians – Justin Trudeau in the vanguard – nearly destroyed the Canadian economy chasing emissions targets that are both unrealistic and pointless. Ottawa and the four biggest provinces have squandered $158 billion to create just 68,000 “clean” jobs. Meanwhile, fossil fuels are supplying a bigger share of Canada’s energy needs than ever.
Why Large Language Models Can’t Think – and Never Will
‘The Answer to the Great Question…Of Life, the Universe and Everything…Is…Forty-two,’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
Le mensonge responsable : comment l’IA vend des convictions sans vérité | Epoch Times
L’enthousiasme généralisé autour de l’IA générative, en particulier les grands modèles linguistiques (LLMs : large language models) comme ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok et DeepSeek, repose sur un malentendu fondamental. Alors que ces systèmes impressionnent les utilisateurs par des réponses articulées et des arguments apparemment raisonnés, la vérité est que ce qui semble être un « raisonnement » n’est rien de plus qu’une forme sophistiquée de mimétisme.
The Responsible Lie: How AI Sells Conviction Without Truth
Commentary The widespread excitement around generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek, is built on a fundamental misunderstanding. While these systems impress users with articulate responses and seemingly reasoned arguments, the truth is that what appears to be “reasoning” is nothing more than a sophisticated form of mimicry.
Lies Our Machines Tell Us: Why the New Generation of “Reasoning” AIs Can’t be Trusted
We clear the battlefield For steel machines, chilled by cold calculus, To clash with Mongol horde aflame with savage passion! – Alexander Blok, The Scythians, 1918 In an uncanny coincidence occurring on Donald Trump’s Inauguration and just a day before the new president announced his commitment for America to lead the way in artificial intelligence (AI), a bold new entrant from China burst onto the generative AI market challenging the established players in both performance and costs.
IT Disaster Recovery: Lessons from the CrowdStrike Incident
On July 19, 2024, an American cybersecurity company named CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software, which led to widespread system crashes affecting approximately 8.5 million Windows devices. This caused the cancellation of over 5,000 flights and impacted various sectors such as healthcare, banking, and retail.
One Flew Over the Kangaroo Court, Part II: The System Invents its Own Jurisprudence
This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The rupture of Calgary’s biggest water main revealed more than the problems of aging infrastructure. It showed a civic bureaucracy unable to provide basic services or fix things when they break, and a mayor eager to blame others and scold citizens for their selfishness in wanting city services in return for their tax dollars.
How to Estimate ERP Costs at the Start of Your Journey
IT leaders exploring and justifying the need for a new enterprise application (i.e., ERP) Business managers learning about and understanding true investment scope to deploy an ERP Reach confidence in estimating the costs of a prospective application Determine steps needed to achieve a workable ERP investment estimate Articulate inputs required to answer ERP pricing questions and defend those answers One of my friends owns a relatively small tile distribution and installation business in...
Hush Money: The Untold Dangers and Delusions of Central Bank Digital Currency
If you read the label “buffalo” on an elephant’s cage, don’t believe your eyes. — Kozma Prutkov It may be because the eyes of the world are focused on more disturbing and violent international affairs, but it’s still odd that so little attention is being paid to an issue happening in uncanny synchronicity among well over 100 countries. That issue is the development and implementation of central bank digital currency (CBDC), something holding the potential for economic and financial havoc.
OP-ED: What 100 million “unbanked” Nigerians can teach Canadians about Central Bank Digital Currency
Despite credit cards, e-transfers and online banking having already made money go pretty much digital, the Bank of Canada is busily working on a much bigger transformation. Canada is one of about 100 countries that – in uncanny synchronicity – several years ago joined the race toward retail central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Hush Money: The Untold Dangers and Delusions of Central Bank Digital Currency
If you read the label “buffalo” on an elephant’s cage, don’t believe your eyes. — Kozma Prutkov It may be because the eyes of the world are focused on more disturbing and violent international affairs, but it’s still odd that so little attention is being paid to an issue happening in uncanny synchronicity among well over 100 countries. That issue is the development and implementation of central bank digital currency (CBDC), something holding the potential for economic and financial havoc.
La monnaie numérique des banques centrales canadiennes : Inutile, indésirable et probablement désastreuse
Au milieu de l’essor des crypto-monnaies et des innovations apportées par la technologie blockchain, les gouvernements se sont montrés très intéressés par la création de leur propre empreinte monétaire numérique via ce que l’on appelle une monnaie numérique de banque centrale (CBDC : central bank digital currency). Selon l’Atlantic Council, un groupe de réflexion aligné sur l’OTAN, le nombre de pays investiguant une CBDC a explosé, passant de 35 avant le Covid-19 à 130 aujourd’hui.
Calculating the total cost of implementing Odoo ERP
If you are an IT leader exploring and justifying Odoo ERP implementation, or a business manager trying to understand the costs of deploying Odoo ERP for a small business This article will help you to have a material perspective on what the deployment and usage costs are for Odoo understand Odoo licensing and its costs gain an understanding of costs for implementing Odoo at a small company Note, in this article, when we refer to a "small company," we are specifically addressing companies with...
The Promises and Pitfalls of Bitcoin
In January 2022 a small convoy of trucks left Prince Rupert, B.C. for Ottawa. They were upset about Covid-19 vaccine mandates the federal government had recently imposed on cross-border long-haul truckers and wanted to make sure the country’s politicians understood their concerns. By the end of the month about 3,000 trucks and cars and over 15,000 protesters had converged on Canada’s capital under the “Freedom Convoy” banner.
OP-ED: ChatGPT - Can it be “Red-Pilled” or is its Worldview Baked in for Life?
After decades in relative obscurity – the domain of mathematicians, computer experts, futurists and military researchers – artificial intelligence has been creeping into public consciousness. More and more products and processes boast of being “AI-enabled.” Reports seep out of China of entire factories and seaports being “run by AI.” Although it all sounds very promising – if slightly menacing – much of the AI discussion has remained vague and confusing to people not of a technical bent.
LISIKH: Can you red-pill ChatGPT?
The appearance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT (generative AI based on the GPT-3 Large Language Model) quickly captivated millions of people. Besides amazement, it caused a resurgence of concerns regarding AI’s endangering employment in various fields and its abuse in the creation of fake news for propaganda or deep fakes for deception and manipulation.
ChatGPT: Can it be “Red-Pilled” or is its Worldview Baked in for Life?
Some commentators have already noted the apparent left-wing biases of ChatGPT. But it’s early days in this discussion. Such commentators might be wrong or simply got unlucky. Clearly it’s worth learning more about ChatGPT. What if further poking reveals a particular AI model doesn’t just “lean a bit to the left” but actually lives in a digital “chimera” that’s incompatible with human values?
OP-ED: Making a Pandemic: A Simple Meat & Potato Recipe
If a new global viral outbreak is declared – and judging by some credible warnings, this is not too far off – its official status as “pandemic” will be determined through metrics and tools very similar to those used for Covid-19. Now that we have sufficient data available, especially data from 2020 uncluttered by the effects of vaccines, we should evaluate those metrics and tools to see how well they served us and whether they should be reused, adjusted or possibly abandoned.
Creating Pandemic Panic: A Simple Meat-and-Potatoes
Commentary While many things elevated the COVID-19 pandemic from mere disease into a world-altering narrative—statistics, media hype, the visuals of masking, lock-downs, etc.—the saga essentially rested on two basic metrics: Determining the scale of the outbreak measured predominantly by PCR tests and “COVID deaths” driving understanding of the disease’s severity as captured through death certificates.
OP-ED: One Flew Over the Kangaroo Court: My Fight Against Human Rights Tyranny
This is personal, and I allow myself to be slightly emotional here, unlike when I write on professional matters. If my readers sense any sarcasm, satire or disrespect toward government institutions or their individual representatives, however, they probably underestimate the editorial effort that went into toning down this article. It all started as a kneejerk reaction to the time my son wasted applying for a Java Programming course offered to high school students over the summer of 2021.
Making a Pandemic: A Simple Meat & Potato Recipe
If a new global viral outbreak is declared – and judging by some credible warnings, this is not too far off – its official status as “pandemic” will be determined through metrics and tools very similar to those used for Covid-19. Now that we have sufficient data available, especially data from 2020 uncluttered by the effects of vaccines, we should evaluate those metrics and tools to see how well they served us and whether they should be reused, adjusted or possibly abandoned.
Total costs of ownership (TCO): How to Get a Real Total Cost for any ERP system
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One Flew Over the Kangaroo Court: My Close Encounter With Ontario’s Human Rights Bureaucracy
Commentary In Summer 2021, my son was disqualified from applying for a free computer programming course because of his race. With my curiosity sparked by his frustration, I have experienced an ongoing series of bureaucratic burlesques while arguing against such obvious racial discrimination.
One Flew Over the Kangaroo Court: My Fight Against Human Rights Tyranny
This is personal, and I allow myself to be slightly emotional here, unlike when I write on professional matters. If my readers sense any sarcasm, satire or disrespect toward government institutions or their individual representatives, however, they probably underestimate the editorial effort that went into toning down this article. It all started as a kneejerk reaction to the time my son wasted applying for a Java Programming course offered to high school students over the summer of 2021.
Is there a billionaire space race? Not really...
Is there a billionaire space race? Not really... Gleb Lisikh Gleb Lisikh Will do any work for SpaceX for free Published Aug 17, 2021 Since few weeks ago when Richard Branson and then Jeff Bezos succeeded in their respective Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin flights, the media of all types and sides exploded with "billionaire space race" headlines applauding, criticizing and comparing the aforementioned with Elon Musk's SpaceX enterprise. There is even a wiki site devoted to such headline.
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