Politicus USA has the article This Is Why Donald Trump Sounds and Acts Like Adolf Hitler.

The not surprising revelation is that prior to becoming a World Wrestling Entertainment or reality show celebrity, Trump kept a volume of Hitler’s speeches close at hand. Donald Trump’s ex-wife Ivana related in a 1990 interview with Vanity Fair that “from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.” Trump confirmed that the former Mrs. Trump’s 1990 assertion is true.

The Hitler volume, “My New Order” not only contains 23 years’ worth of Hitler’s speeches, “it is profusely indexed and filled with details about the speeches’ impact on the media and the political establishment.” According to a literary periodical, Kirkus Review, Trump’s collection of Hitler speeches contains “actual quotations from Hitler’s own utterances, including corresponding data showing the effect on the world press. Section after section follows pattern-background, speech, press;” and Donald Trump faithfully follows Hitler’s model.

I had no idea how true our suspicions of Donald Trump were. If you have ever wondered how the German people could have been taken in by Adolf Hitler, just watch the reaction to Donald Trump.

Plagiarizing other people’s speeches was enough to knock Joe Biden out of the presidential race when he was found out. Could the same thing happen to Donald Trump?

Naked Capitalism has the article Debunking “The Big Short”: How Michael Lewis Turned the Real Villains of the Crisis into Heros by Yves Smith.

I hate to give any attention to Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, since the wildly popular book told a fundamentally misleading story of the crisis which sadly has become conventional wisdom. And it wasn’t just harmlessly inaccurate; it directed public and even lawmaker attention away from the real drivers of this debacle.

If you are going to see the movie, you can read this article first to inoculate yourself from falling for the “heroes”, or you can watch the movie without reading the article to see if you can figure out for yourself that the “heroes” were really just as vallainous as the “villains” of the movie.

Maybe I am giving myself more credit than I deserve, but I remember coming away from the book with the thought, “Wait a minute, those guys that made out like bandits by taking down the insurance companies really were bandits. Had poetic justice been served, they would have walked away with nothing, too.”

You can see in just what way Michael Hudson’s explanation Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be. It is the classic case of the 1% rigging the system so that they avoid being left holding the bag. It could have been handled so that the 1% were left holding the bag they created, and the taxpayers were left with whatever real assets there were. In a true democracy, the 99% would have won.

Motherboard has the article A New Object-Recognition Algorithm Could Change the Face of Machine Learning.

The report, which comes courtesy of researchers at NYU and MIT, introduces the Bayesian program learning (BPL) framework, a new machine learning model capable of mimicking the human mind’s capacity for generalizing from single examples. It’s a model that “learns to learn.”

I am always interested in possible breakthroughs that might lead to being able to do things that we didn’t think were possible before. I have heard of Bayesian probability before, but since I have always had troubles understanding some aspects of probability, it does not surprise me that I am having trouble coming to terms with Bayesian probability. My learning experience tells me that the more times I read about a topic, the more I come to understand it. That is why I find it useful to read things that I do not understand.