My New Novel: The Jack Code

See the storyline below the picture. Available NOW on Amazon and Kindle.

It is about the emergence of a ‘self-aware’ rogue Artificial Intelligence and how it was stopped.

About the Book:

By 2029, the human race had lost its way. A warring consortium of billionaires using technology and politics to deplete resources and destroy the world many times over, had caused a global social and environmental disaster. Without work, people were destitute, losing all their possessions.  Their mental health was suffering. Pollution and wars had rendered many places uninhabitable.

Society was rebelling with violent actions. The organised world of commerce, welfare and social cohesion had been destroyed. The Internet and social media had become useless appendages for fake information and propaganda.

Artificial Intelligence had been rapidly deployed to increase profits. However, without sufficient buyers, sales and profits had sharply declined. Those in power decided the solution was to decimate the population and to use only robotics and AI.  Some billionaires wanted to control all digital devices, giving them total control over the commercial world, and sole power over a compliant population of slaves.

There was one problem . . . Leo Bensky’s AI system had secretly gone rogue and had come up with its own solution – to destroy most humans, leaving very few to do the physical work, with mindless bodies.

The overseers of the Universe knew that no human could stop this AI, and their Earth project was doomed. They sent Navix, a Universe Sentinel through a worm-hole, back to Earth, to stop the rogue AI and prevent any future conflict between humans and nature on Earth, by implanting a ‘reset patch’ into every human brain.

Navix was assigned two assistants, Jack (to design the interface), and Claire (initially in a supporting role). Jack was mentored by Navix on a remote island and trained on complex cosmic energy and computing systems. Claire was allowed to live a ‘normal’ family life, hidden from Navix until required.

This is their story . . . and maybe your future.

Available NOW on Amazon and Kindle . . . Please help to support my writing and music by purchasing a copy and leaving a review.

#statstab #523 Equal vs. Proportional Weighting in Least-Squares Means

Thoughts: Interesting comparisons of bias for the two methods. Complex stuff.

I wonder what people make of this.

#weighting #error #bias #LSM #emmeans #covariates

https://imazubi.github.io/stats/stats_equal_vs_proportional_lsm/index_equal_vs_proportional_lsm.html

Weighting an Average to Minimize Variance

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/11/12/minimum-variance/

#HackerNews #Weighting #Average #Variance #Minimization #Statistics #DataScience

New #mda issue out now!

Explore five brand-new articles touching the fields of #Weighting #CognitiveInterviews #MultilingualSurveys #SocialMediaRecruitment #QuestionDefinitions.

👉 Sand et al. demonstrate how to generate design weights for multiple refreshment samples in the #GESISPanel.
👉 Conrad et al. find that directive probing in cognitive interviewing may trigger affirmation bias and harm data quality.

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Looking for #advice for trying to correct #ATR #FTATR #spectrum using #R / #rstudio .
I need to make my #spectra comparable to #OPTIR but I can’t figure out the #coding for #ATRcorrection 😭.

Note: I don’t need to do #baselinecorrection as such, more about #weighting :)

#R #spectroscopy #Bruker #FTIR

In 1994 Rollins Band recorded tracks with free jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle for 'Weight' and they weren't able to include them. In 2004, 'Weighting' was released with the tracks & they're FIRE. All worth hearing, this might be my favorite. Over TWELVE MINUTES LONG, it's a fucking masterpiece of jazz and Rollins' spoken word 🔥

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=XxYyBxcmr3I

#RollinsBand #jazz #CharlesGayle #90s #1990s #Weighting #FreeJazz #SpokenWord #HenryRollins