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Peertopeer lending. There are some credit qualifications on both sides. The bank that provides the credit evaluation is out of the mix. Is that a good thing or a bad thing . Society started off with the barter system before. The first bank was formed i think it is great. System,on, the payment these are all innovations. If there is a market for it and they can do it efficiently and manage the credit risk, god bless them. It going to end in tears . With a set of problems emerging . Nothing is ris...

Peertopeer lending. There are some credit qualifications on both sides. The bank that provides the credit evaluation is out of the mix. Is that a good thing or a bad thing . Society started off with the barter system before. The first bank was formed i think it is great. Innovation, the payment system, these are all innovations. If there is a market for it and they can do it efficiently and manage the credit risk, god bless them. Is it going to end in tears . With a set of problems emerging . No...

There are great quotes from now the cost talking about these mystical chess grandmasters. Once computers got better, we looked in the rearview window and said, this is just pattern matching. I had the chance to talk to gary and he was the world chess champion. Between intelligence. There are great quotes from now when he first became world champion, he played 32 simultaneous matches against the best chess playing computers and he won 320. 10 years later, ibm beat him in a pretty close match and ...

Book about economics and then somebody shows you what that actually means. Machines dont think. In the same way, there is a great pioneer of Artificial Intelligence that said airplanes dont flap their wings. We see cool stuff going on in nature and we build machines that get there. When i talk to these uber geeks and i say, are you building artificial brains, they generally say i have no idea how the brain works. I am solving an engineering problem. There are guys who are trying to reverse engin...

Im going to give you another question to avoid. Lets start to where the crisis hit the fan. Bear stearns has been saved. Lehman brothers was the next one up. We can talk about whether they could or couldnt but in your mind, was that the right decision as when liam fell and well leave the discussion to go for a briefing with the spokesman, rear admiral john kirby. [captioning performed by National Captioning Institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] captioned by the Nati...

Somebody drill on with a powerpoint, but much more interactive and engaging session. Ive been to the last two of these conferences. Theyve been pretty high energy and pretty lively so i encourage folks to consider attending nacto. Org is where anybody can find more information. It should be a great opportunity for the sfmta to showcase what some of what weve been achieving here in San Francisco. And finally somewhat along those lines we have similar of a safety theme today. Tomorrow is walk and ...

Rubke present. Directors please be advised directors brinkman and malcolm are absent in todays meeting however you do have a quorum. Item 3 announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. Please be advised the ripping big of and cell phones pager and similar sound producing Electronic Device are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. Please be advised that cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interf...

Commuter network and maintenance services. Good morning, miss wong. This is a routine administration item. Its a contract for Transportation Authoritys Computer Network and maintenance and services which include Desktop Computers hardware, software, our computers, our phones, our servers and data backup and retrievals and Disaster Recovery preparation. The current it provider right now is onsite at least once a week and comes as necessary when issues come up. When we do have smaller issues we tr...

Face Similar Health and safety risk every day at schools like this. Thus perpetuating lower Graduation Rates and difficulties retaining qualified teachers. In fact, chairman kline and i applaud him for it himself called for action on Tribal School construction in a letter to the bureau of Indian Education just last week, and again mr. Chairman, i applaud you for that. Regarding the school, the chairman said, and i quote, this appalling situation not only adversely affects the quality of educatio...

The more we worked with this, the more we ended up with a puzzle, that i have to say having cowritten this book, im so not remotely sure i know the answer to, which is you know how do you govern the world in which so many of our working assumptions about why we have governance, how it works and what the role of the state in it is . Another going to sit here and say these arent true anymore. I think a lot of people have spent a lot of time saying the state is over. Theyve all been wrong. A lot of...