Burt Janz, Author at Granite Grok

Burt Janz

Context is… Nothing.

The current in-vogue spin-room phrase is “context is everything.”  That phrase is used to provide an excuse for every unethical action, from teachers who are caught reading pornography to grade-school children, to politicians who vote to support “gender-affirming” surgery without their parent’s permission or knowledge.

Harvard

Academic Fraud is Now APPROVED at Harvard

Here’s what we know so far: Harvard President Claudine Gay has been accused of plagiarism by copying the work of others, inserting it into her Ph.D. thesis, and not acknowledging it.

Uman Brain Original Photo by Fakurian Design on Unsplash

It Ain’t AI if it Don’t Learn.

You read that right: you can’t call it Artificial Intelligence if it doesn’t fully imitate Human Intelligence. I used to teach this stuff at a local college in their 400-level computer science curriculum. The book was Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. It’s considered the book to teach first-level concepts …

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From the Halls of…

Ya gotta wonder why there are so many Americans siding with Muslim extremists and why the Biden administration is deeply bowing both to them and massive numbers of Palestinian “supporters” here in the US.

Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS – there IS a common factor

Let’s think about the attacks in Israel for a moment.  If we look around, we see that it isn’t just Israel that’s being attacked.  Have we forgotten about “no-go zones” in France, Germany, England, and other European cities?  Or the surge in Muslim attacks in Algeria, Mali, Tunisia, et al?  Or the longstanding hatred and …

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Israel Israeli Flag Photo by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash

Stand Your Ground, Israel

Before beginning, this needs to be said: the reasons Hamas has control of Palestinian areas are that it has terrorized Palestinians into voting for it in “fair elections,” and it has been “educating” children into a deep hatred of Israel from the time they were born.

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How To Fix the “Student Loan” Problem

One only needs to check the news occasionally to know that there is at least a half-trillion dollars of noncollectable student loan debt out there.  Those loans, a huge percentage of them being owed to non-government entities, may never be fully repaid.

Yes, We NEED to Teach Cursive Writing

There’s something at stake in education that most people are ignoring.  Schools are drifting away (sometimes running away) from teaching cursive writing.  All sorts of excuses have been given: “It’s old.” “It’s hard to teach.” “We don’t need it any more.”

Status Quo by Charlie Wollborg at Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

Welcome to (blue) New Hampshire

So, the 2022 elections are over, and NH decided that it had no intention of bringing about a change in political direction in Washington, DC.

Red vs Blue by Counties

When Life Imitates Art

I’m not one to compare a movie to life, but I remember one movie that seemed to foreshadow what we’re seeing today. The story is about a man who is accused of a crime without knowing what crime he has been accused of committing.