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"Fear" A Review

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This review may or may not be published by Amazon for an interesting reason: The book is an instant best-seller. I don't think I'm the only one who read it straight through as soon as I could get my hands on it. Amazingly, it seems that Amazon is being swamped with reviews ! For what it's worth, here's my take ... Portrait of a Malignant Narcissist Woodwards's book comes as no surprise for those who have been watching this sick man spiral dangerously into a fantasy world as he violently casts off all who attempt to challenge his delusions.  Woodward provides dozens of examples of this, along with the assessment of those closest to Trump: that he his a professional liar and a moron. Nothing new here. What we need to notice is how crazy and detached from reality this man really is. He is perfectly willing to explicitly risk World War III because he is unhappy with the real estate South Korea has granted to the US MIlitary.  It's all about money and projection of

AIVA - the Intelligent Composer

See this TED talk about AIDA We saw this kind of program back in the 1960's. It pumped out endless Bach fugues. Nobody claimed it to be intelligent. It was clever. The cleverness belonged to a human programmer, not a machine. AIVA is a musical instrument being presented by a musician and a guy who sells musical instruments. It's more like a piano than a Beethoven. Speaking of it as somehow being "creative" is a serious error logical error. It's a sales pitch by a thief who wants to sell you the work of other human beings. Anyone who plays a musical instrument knows how they seem to have a "life of their own", but nobody seriously thinks of a Stratovarius violin as being creative or alive in its own right. We know that a composer can be sued for copying a single phrase or chord progression from another composer and claiming it as his own. But if the composer copies hundreds of thousands of pieces, has he created a creative MIND? Or just a big pile of loot