Reflections of an Old Man

Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more Globe and Mail exposes collusion with Australian coal grubbers by Alberta Energy Regulator CEO Rob Morgan AER chief executive plotted by email with Valory Resources executives to suppress public hearing over Grand Cache coal mine David Thomas Nov 6   READ IN APP   Trust me. The Australian coal grubbers do, so you should too. The Globe and Mail’s energy reporter Emma Graney reveals today an exchange of highly irregular emails between Alberta Energy Regulator CEO Rob Morgan and Valory Resources’ head of corporate finance Glenn Vassallo: A series of e-mails between the head of the Alberta Energy Regulator, a coal-mining company and the Energy Minister’s office about a mine application has raised questions about the independence of the province’s energy watchdog. At the heart of the e-mails is an application for an underground mine for steelmaking coal near Grande Cache, about 430 kilometres west of Edmonton. The project is...

Op Ed by  Helge Nome Those who read this blog are fully aware of the extent to which I use  AI  to to investigate questions that pop into my head during the day (and night). It is like having a team of reporters at your fingertips 24/7 going out, checking sources and providing requested reports at a snap. A  quantum leap  up from doing manual web searches and providing reports in the old fashion way. As a frequent user of this new technology, I am becoming increasingly aware of its power  and  limitations: The popular hype is well ahead of reality. On the positive side, the volume of information that can be usefully exposed for examination over a given period of time is greatly increased, facilitating rapid digestion of new concepts, etc. As an old professional computer guy from the 1960ies, I have taken an interest in poking my nose into  quantum computing  and its implications. And have come to question some of the hype associated with this...