Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Floods, storms, loss of life and communities but no funding to fix it this

We gotta save the planet.  Escape to Mars to Nuke it, makes sense.  Not.

" Globally, the question of equity is even more acute, with cities in developed nations far better able to fund climate change adaptation projects than in developing countries. “In an environment of scarce resources for local authorities, especially in poor countries, mobilizing such resources will be a real political and institutional challenge,” according to a World Bank study."

" There is no coordinated strategy nationally, there is not enough money, states are not moving, and this loose talk of resilience bonds in the private sector is not a reality yet,” Stiles says."

The Cost of Rising Seas: More Than $400 Billion

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Finland flexible work


My company,  Pagarba,  believes in the philosophy of remote work, respect and as much flexibility as possible. Just get work done when you need to. If you need to drop kids off at school, take college classes, go surfing , go the gym, whatever it's all about flexibility and creating an environment where you get your work and life in order.   I guess you could call it  the work life balance to the extreme philosophy.

" Employees will be able to decide when and where they work for at least half of their hours. As well as fitting their job around childcare commitments or exercise sessions, most full-time workers will be able to “bank” time off and use it to take extended holidays.

Daily treks into the city could become unnecessary as the new rules facilitate a choice of working remotely."

Finland is about to take flexible working a step further

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Bring on qutrits... because Quantum physicists successfully teleported qutrits

What’s a qutrit?

It’s like a qubit. A qunit is an entangled pair of particles used to carry info in a quantum computing system. Qubits are sort of similar to bits, the binary units of information used by computers we use today. 

Bits can be represented by the numbers 0 and 1, qubits can be 0, 1, or both at the same time.
Trits, used in classical tenary systems , add a 2 into the mix. And qutrits are the quantum version of trits, capable of carrying even more  information than their qubit counterparts.

Cool stuff quantum computing..
https://thenextweb.com/science/2019/08/08/forget-qubits-quantum-physicists-successfully-teleported-qutrits-in-breakthrough-experiments/

Sunday, August 4, 2019

Blockchain for counterfeit

https://www.crypto-news.net/blockchains-use-in-fighting-counterfeiting-is-growing-rapidly/

Blockchain for counterfeit goods is a ioT and a blockchain use case. 

High rental costs create most expensive cities in USA




Housing was the biggest expense for those living in the top 5 cities, forming 29.34% of the overall composite index of the cost of living.

A  one bedroom apartment in  Manhattan goes for $3,100 a month now. The Median annual household income was around $75,400 in NYC.   

The average rent in San Francisco is around $3,600 for an apartment now.  But median income is a little higher so events it out and why NYC,  statistically speaking, is the most expensive. 


Fortifying the Cyber Frontier: Safeguarding LLMs, GenAI, and Beyond

In the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity and infosec, the convergence of cutting-edge emerging technologies like Large Language Models (L...