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  1. Kushner, Egypt’s Sissi discuss Israel-Palestinian peace process     Egyptian president calls for a two-state solution, with East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital

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    US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner and his special envoy Jason Greenblatt met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi on Thursday to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

    Sissi told the US diplomats, who are touring the region in a bid to revive long-stalled talks, that Egypt supports a “just and comprehensive settlement” to the conflict.

    He argued in favor of a “two-state solution on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Palestine,” the presidency said in a statement.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/kushner-egypts-sissi-discuss-israel-palestinian-peace-process/

     

  2. Own fundraising mechanism likely refers to the CIA running the drug trade. 

    We are so fucked. 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye

     

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    Medal of Honor citation[edit]

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    President Clinton presenting the Medal of Honor to Senator Inouye on June 21, 2000

    Second Lieutenant Daniel K. Inouye distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 21 April 1945, in the vicinity of San Terenzo, Italy. While attacking a defended ridge guarding an important road junction, Second Lieutenant Inouye skillfully directed his platoon through a hail of automatic weapon and small arms fire, in a swift enveloping movement that resulted in the capture of an artillery and mortar post and brought his men to within 40 yards of the hostile force. Emplaced in bunkers and rock formations, the enemy halted the advance with crossfire from three machine guns. With complete disregard for his personal safety, Second Lieutenant Inouye crawled up the treacherous slope to within five yards of the nearest machine gun and hurled two grenades, destroying the emplacement. Before the enemy could retaliate, he stood up and neutralized a second machine gun nest. Although wounded by a sniper’s bullet, he continued to engage other hostile positions at close range until an exploding grenade shattered his right arm. Despite the intense pain, he refused evacuation and continued to direct his platoon until enemy resistance was broken and his men were again deployed in defensive positions. In the attack, 25 enemy soldiers were killed and eight others captured. By his gallant, aggressive tactics and by his indomitable leadership, Second Lieutenant Inouye enabled his platoon to advance through formidable resistance, and was instrumental in the capture of the ridge. Second Lieutenant Inouye’s extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.

     

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    "The memex (originally coined "at random",[1] though sometimes said to be a portmanteau of "memory" and "index"[2]) is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility." The memex would provide an "enlarged intimate supplement to one's memory".[3] The concept of the memex influenced the development of early hypertext systems (eventually leading to the creation of the World Wide Web) and personal knowledge base software.[4] The hypothetical implementation depicted by Bush for the purpose of concrete illustration was based upon a document bookmark list of static microfilm pages, and lacked a true hypertext system where parts of pages would have internal structure beyond the common textual format. Early electronic hypertext systems were thus inspired by memex rather than modeled directly upon it."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

     

    Vannevar Bush: I never knew what a genius he was. 

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    Vannevar Bush (/væˈnvɑːr/ van-NEE-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. He is also known in engineering for his work on analog computers, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, a hypothetical adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of hypertext. In 1945, Bush published the essay "As We May Think" in which he predicted that "wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified".[2] The memex influenced generations of computer scientists, who drew inspiration from its vision of the future. He was chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation.

    Memex as DARPA project:

    https://www.wired.com/2015/02/darpa-memex-dark-web/

    https://www.darpa.mil/program/memex

    https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/memex

    I came across MEMEX some time ago but didn't really know the context to create a topic about it until today when I read the below that must have come from the work sponsored by DARPA.

    Google Is Training Machines to Predict When a Patient Will Die

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    (Bloomberg) -- A woman with late-stage breast cancer came to a city hospital, fluids already flooding her lungs. She saw two doctors and got a radiology scan. The hospital’s computers read her vital signs and estimated a 9.3 percent chance she would die during her stay.

    Then came Google’s turn. An new type of algorithm created by the company read up on the woman -- 175,639 data points -- and rendered its assessment of her death risk: 19.9 percent. She passed away in a matter of days.

    The harrowing account of the unidentified woman’s death was published by Google in May in research highlighting the health-care potential of neural networks, a form of artificial intelligence software that’s particularly good at using data to automatically learn and improve. Google had created a tool that could forecast a host of patient outcomes, including how long people may stay in hospitals, their odds of re-admission and chances they will soon die.

    What impressed medical experts most was Google’s ability to sift through data previously out of reach: notes buried in PDFs or scribbled on old charts. The neural net gobbled up all this unruly information then spat out predictions. And it did it far faster and more accurately than existing techniques. Google’s system even showed which records led it to conclusions.

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    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/06/18/google-is-training-machines-to-predict-when-a-patient-will-die

  4. 3 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Yeah thanks, forgot about that.  Yeah still not supposed to, but at least it was his own troops.....  Trumps move ??  bizarre.

    Trumps learned everything about the military from Hogans Heros. 

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  5. 9 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Well I'm definitely not in favor of it, and wonder why a civilian would salute a military official, but a salute is not really the same as bowing to someone.  

    "You salute the rank not the man", I'm sure I've heard that somewhere before.  Seriously though, Presidents/civilians aren't supposed to salute military personnel, 

    A bow is typically perceived as an act of subservience.

    But don't let me stand in your way at being pissed at Trump.

    I think Reagan started the tradition of saluting. 

  6. 8 hours ago, woohorn said:

    Kinda serious q- does the world still let these guys step down and live in "exile"?

    Who was the last leader "exiled"?

    There is no one to take KJU's place. All the generals are old and have no birthright. Had their been others available to take over this would be a different situation.

    KJU is only 34, and while he has done some things, most of the heavy lifting on the evil end was done by his father and grandfather. 

     

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