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Hospitals in Europe – healthcare data

Pascal Garel and Isabella Notarangelo
14 May, 2015

Data from the Health for All Database provides the most up‑to‑date picture of the status of European hospital healthcare

Pascal Garel

Chief Executive

Isabella Notarangelo

Health Economist

HOPE, the European Hospital and

Healthcare Federation

For several years, hospitals have been required to act more efficiently and to increase productivity. Increased performance is indeed possible. Yet today healthcare systems are facing conflicting trends: short- and long-term impact of an economic and financial crisis; increasing demand of an ever-expanding and ageing population; increasing request and availability of technological innovations.

To adapt to this situation, the role of hospitals is further evolving. Most health systems have already moved from a traditional hospital-centric and doctor-centric pattern of care to integrated models in which hospitals work closely with primary care, community care and home care.

The figures given in the present document provide the most updated comparative picture of the situation of healthcare and hospitals, compared to the situation at the beginning of the 21st Century. They aim to increase awareness of what has changed in hospital capacity and more generally in secondary care provision within European Union Member States, generating questions, stimulating debate and in this way fostering information exchange and knowledge sharing.

The source of data and figures are the Health for All Database from the World Health Organization (WHO/Europe, European HFA-DB, April 2014) and the European database on human and technical resources for health (WHO/Europe, HlthRes-DB, September 2014). All European Union Member States are considered, plus Switzerland and the Republic of Serbia (as both countries are HOPE members). Whenever considered appropriate, two groups have been differentiated and compared: EU15, for the countries that joined the EU before 2004 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK) and EU13, for the countries that joined the EU after 2004 (Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia). The considered trends normally refer to the years 2000–2012. When data from 2012 are not available, or they have not been gathered for a sufficient number of countries, the closest year is considered. Some figures are disputed for not being precise enough but at least they give a good indication of the diversity.

Financial resources in healthcare

From 2000 to 2012, the total health expenditure expressed in purchasing power parity (PPP$) per capita increased on average by 83% in the EU, with effects on inpatient care, out-of-pocket payments and pharmaceutical expenditure. These three figures are characterised by a growing and positive trend in the considered years.

The amount of total health expenditure per capita in 2012 was 3,346 PPP$ in the EU, with wide variations around this average value: 3,852 PPP$ in EU15 and 1,463 PPP$ in EU13.

Compared to 2000, the total health expenditure per capita in 2012 has increased in all European countries. In most of them it has more than doubled, but major increases can be highlighted in Serbia (+299%), Romania (+252%), Slovakia (+227%) and Bulgaria (+206%), where it has tripled or more.

Public sector health expenditure includes outlays for health maintenance, restoration or enhancement paid by government entities, such as the Ministry of Health, other ministries and parastatal organisations, or by social security agencies. It includes transfer payments to households to offset medical care costs and extra-budgetary funds to finance health. The revenue base of these entities may comprise of multiple sources, including external funds.

In 2012, the percentage of public sector health expenditure of the total health expenditure was higher than 64% in most countries, with the exception of Cyprus, Bulgaria, Latvia, Portugal and Hungary and outside the EU, the Republic of Serbia and Switzerland.

Between 2000 and 2012, the public health expenditure more than doubled in many EU13 countries such as Cyprus, Poland, Slovakia, the three Baltic countries, Bulgaria and Romania and also in Finland, Spain and The Netherlands, belonging to EU15. While on average, the public health expenditure increase was 67% from 2000 to 2008, it was only 10% from 2008 to 2012 for the EU. This difference is of course due to the financial and economic crisis.

The chart below shows the last 12 years’ trends concerning the share of government expenditure on health. It presents the aggregated data concerning the EU, EU15 and EU13 and the figures of the three countries having the higher and the lower values in the year 2012, Switzerland included.

In 2012, the percentages of government expenditure devoted to health differed by five percentage points (p.p.) between EU15 (16.07%) and EU13 (11.83%); Switzerland shows a percentage close to 20.62%, which is higher but also growing faster compared to the EU Member States.

The chart also illustrates trends. They are generally positive between 2000 and 2006 with an average increase of percentage of government outlays devoted to health by 0.2 p.p. per year. Yet, from 2006 onwards, this way of development tapered off in many countries. The percentage of government outlays devoted to health increased on average by 0.04 p.p. per year. The reasons can be found in the economic difficulties starting or in the shift of interest and priorities to other sectors.

In 2012 the private households’ out-of-pocket payment in the EU accounted for 16.3% of total health expenditure.

Private households’ out-of-pocket payment on health are the direct outlays of households, including gratuities and payments in kind made to health practitioners and suppliers of pharmaceuticals, therapeutic appliances and other goods and services. They include household payments to public services, non-profit institutions or non-governmental organisations, non-reimbursable cost-sharing, deductibles, co-payments and fee-for-service.

In 2012, the private contribution to healthcare spending was around 14% in EU15 and 24% in EU13. It was higher than 30% in Portugal, Malta, Serbia, Latvia, Bulgaria and Cyprus and lower than 10% only in The Netherlands, France and the UK.

Between 2000 and 2012 the percentage of private households’ out-of-pocket payment to total health expenditure has steadily declined in the majority of European countries. It decreased by one p.p. in the EU, 0.9 p.p. in EU15 and by 0.8 p.p. and in EU13. The most relevant rates of reduction were registered in Poland (from 30% to 23%), Latvia (from 44% to 37%), Cyprus (from 56% to 49%), Switzerland (from 33% to 28%), Italy (from 25% to 20%) and Greece (from 34% to 30%). Nonetheless, the total out-of-pocket payments in PPP$ per capita continued to increase, as the total health expenditure did.

Chart 3 illustrates the trend in 2000–2012 of both the total per capita health expenditure and the private households’ out-of-pocket payments on health. These values present a correlation (R²=0.6463) showing that there is dependence between the two indicators.

The chart highlights the fast growth of both expenses in most countries of EU13 (graphically this phenomenon corresponds to the fact that these countries are located in the upper-right part of the graph) and a low increase of out-of pocket payment in some countries despite an average increase in total health spending of about 76% in EU15.

 A third of health payments finances running expenses (excluding investments and capital outlays) of inpatient institutions for acute, chronic and convalescent care. The funds allocated to outpatient institutions or outpatient hospitals are excluded from this computation because they are included in the ambulatory care expenses. This separation is sometimes not statistically possible for some countries; hence a quote of overlap must always be assumed.

In 2011, expenditure on inpatient care represented on average 34.1% of overall healthcare spending, ranging respectively from 19.8% and 21.0% in Portugal and Slovakia, to 45.2% in Switzerland, 46.1% in Italy and 46.4% in The Netherlands.

In all countries, even if a part of the total health expenditure is always funded by private insurances and out-of-pocket payments, almost the entire amount of inpatient health expenditure is publicly financed.

The last data available on expenditure on inpatient care PPP$ per capita refers to year 2011 and is available for 68% of EU countries, Switzerland included. For those countries, the total expenditure on inpatient care (PPP$ per capita) follows, on average, a growing positive trend. The exception is represented by Greece where from 2000 to 2011 this indicator varies negatively (–20%). In Italy, in the same period, the expenditure on inpatient care, PPP$ per capita was stable.

Pharmaceutical expenditure includes the consumption of pharmaceutical products supplied on prescriptions and obtained for self-medication (often referred to as over-the-counter products), as well as pharmaceuticals consumed in hospitals.

In 2012 about 18.6% of the European health expenditure went to pharmaceuticals. The highest rates were registered in Hungary (33.4%), Serbia (31.3%), Greece (28.5%) and Malta (28.3%); the lowest rates were in Denmark (6.8%), The Netherlands (9.4%), Switzerland (9.4%), the UK (11.4%) and Austria (11.7%).

Between 2000 and 2012 the percentage of pharmaceutical expenditure as a percentage of total health expenditure has generally declined in all of Europe. In 2012, the total pharmaceutical expenditure was encompassed between 280 PPP$ per capita in Estonia and 673 PPP$ per capita in Greece. At least half of it was held by the public sector in all countries except Denmark and Hungary (49.2%), Estonia (49.0%), Italy (45.5%), Serbia (44.7%), Malta (41.2%), Poland (39.4%), Latvia (38.4%) and Lithuania (34.2%). The highest values in 2011 were The Netherlands (78.4%) and Ireland (78.0%) while in 2012 were in the UK (84.7%) and Luxembourg (84.0%).

In 2012, the public pharmaceutical expenditure was encompassed between 129 PPP$ per capita in Poland and 505 PPP$ per capita in Ireland.

Chart 5 explores the relationship between the trend of the total and the public pharmaceutical expenditure between 2000 and 2012. In this period of time the average increase in the total pharmaceutical expenditure was 70%; the average increase in public pharmaceutical expenditure was 76%. In a group of outlier countries including Ireland, Greece, Estonia and Slovakia both the public and the total spending more than doubled. Only in Italy, Belgium, Slovenia, Luxembourg and Denmark were the rates of growth of total spending lower than 40%. In Italy, Slovenia and Sweden, the rate of growth of public outlays was lower than 30%.

In Europe, both the total pharmaceutical expenditure and the public pharmaceutical expenditure PPP$ per capita increased from 2000 to 2009 and decreased from 2009 to 2012. In almost all the Member States, the total pharmaceutical expenditure decreased more slowly than the public pharmaceutical expenditure. This suggests that a progressively larger part of the total pharmaceutical expenditure pertains to the private sector. This shift may also indicate that the “willingness to pay” and the consumption of pharmaceuticals by private owners are increasing.

Hospital capacity and delivery of care

In the last 12 years healthcare reforms implemented all over Europe aimed at rationalising the use and provision of hospital care, improving its quality and appropriateness and reducing its costs. The number of hospital facilities as well as the number of hospital beds dropped off. But these reforms also resulted in a broad reduction of acute care admissions and length of stay, as well as improvements in the occupancy rate of acute care beds.

During these years almost all European countries made changes in their hospital provision patterns, major efforts were made to delivering better services, increasing quality, improving efficiency and productivity. The streamlining of care delivery started from a sharp reduction in the size of secondary care institutions and moved towards more integrated and efficient patterns of care, which might result in the complete overcoming of the hospital-centric model of care in the future.

This was possible thanks to a package of financial and organisational measures addressed to improve coordination and integration between the different levels of care, increase the use of day-hospital and day-surgery and introduce new and more efficient methodologies of hospital financing in order to incentivise appropriateness (for example, the replacement of daily payments, known to encourage longer hospitalisation, with prospective payment).

In more or less all European countries these policies led to changes in the management of patients within hospitals and offered a possibility for reducing the number of acute care hospital beds. Only the bed occupancy rates registered more disparate trends across Europe, depending also on the demographic and epidemiological structure of population and from the specific organisation of local, social and healthcare systems, that is, the structure of primary care, the presence and the efficiency of a gate-keeping system, the modality of access to secondary care, availability of home care and development of community care.

In 2012, there were on average 2.8 hospitals for 100,000 inhabitants, ranging from 1.4 in Slovenia to 4.9 in Finland. The only European Member State excluded from this range is Cyprus, where the value is around 9.8.

Moreover, there were on average 530 hospital beds every 100,000 inhabitants, ranging from 262 in Sweden to 818 in Germany.

Between 2000 and 2012 little changes in the number of hospitals were registered in Slovakia (–3), Luxembourg (–1), Malta (–1), Hungary (+1), Serbia (+2) and Slovenia (+2). In Latvia the rate of decrease was higher than 50%.

In the same period, the total number of hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants decreased by about 17.5%. The only countertrend was registered in Greece, whose hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants increased by 2.8%, which means 13 new beds per 100,000 inhabitants.

In several countries, the decrease in the total number of beds was accompanied by a slight increase in the number of private inpatient beds, which are inpatient beds owned by not-for-profit and for-profit private institutions. But the share of private hospital beds, where figures are available, was still quite low in most countries, with percentages higher than 30% only in Germany, Cyprus, France, Italy and Spain.

Between 2000 and 2011 the number of acute hospitals decreased significantly all over Europe. A total of 296 acute care hospitals were closed in France, 267 in Germany, 125 in Italy and 110 in Switzerland.

The rate of acute care hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants in 2012 in Europe was 358. The highest figures were observable in Austria (547), Lithuania (538), Germany (528) and Bulgaria (511); the lowest figures were in Sweden (195), Ireland (209); Spain (230) and the UK (234).

Between 2000 and 2012, the number of acute care hospital beds per 100,000 populations registered an average reduction by 19% in the EU, 19% in the EU15 and 21% in the EU13. The most significant decreases were in Latvia (–41%), Estonia (–34%), Italy (–33%), Malta (–32%) and Hungary (–31%). The only exceptions were Greece and The Netherlands whose value increased by 8% and 9%, respectively.

The most relevant bed reductions, according to the last available data corresponding to the year 2007, happened in the surgical and in the medical groups of specialties, which together represent far more than half of acute care beds. The reduction in the surgical specialties was around 9%, the reduction in the medical specialties was around 11%, however it was particularly high, between –20% and –40%, in the three Baltic countries and in Hungary.

The number of acute care admissions involves the entire pathway of hospitalisation of a patient, who normally stays in hospital for at least 24 hours and then is discharged, returning home, being transferred to another facility or dying. The last data available for this figure refers to 2011. The rates of acute care hospital admissions in the European countries were quite dissimilar, ranging from 9.0% in Cyprus to 25.9% in Austria.

The average length of stay measures the total number of occupied hospital bed days, divided by the total number of admissions or discharges. In 2011, the average length of stay in acute care hospitals ranged from 5.1 bed days in France to 7.9 bed days in Germany.

Between 2000 and 2011 almost all countries reduced their rate of admissions or at least stabilised it. Many of them were also able to reduce the length of stay in acute care hospitals; the EU average improved, decreasing from 7.6 bed days in 2000 to 6.4. bed days in 2011, the EU15 average improved by 1.1 bed days and the EU13 average improved by 1.3 bed days.

The link between the rate of admissions and the length of stay can be a very sensitive issue for hospitals, since it is commonly acknowledged that the length of stay being too short may increase the risk of re-admission with a consequent waste of resources both for the hospital and for the patients and their carers. At the same time, staying in a hospital for too long may indicate inappropriate settlements of patients, causing similar waste of resources as described above.

Chart 11 compares the rate of hospital admissions and the average length of stay in 2011. The average European figures indicate a mean rate of admissions of 17.3% and a mean length of stay of 9 days for all hospitals. The foremost variations between countries concern the admissions ranging from 9.0 in Cyprus to 27.5 in Austria. A cluster of countries mainly encompassing EU13, present a number of admissions per 100 equal to 19.2 and slightly higher than the EU average (17.3). The smallest countries seem to be more successful in finding a good balance between these two indicators.

The bed occupancy rate represents the average number of days when hospital beds are occupied during the whole year and generally mirrors how intensively the hospital capacity is used.

In 2011, the average acute care occupancy rate in Europe was equal to 75.9%, but the gap between the highest and the lowest rate was 43 percentage points. Between 2000 and 2011 there were no consistent trends in Europe, the average rate of acute bed occupancy in EU decreased by one percentage point, the other values were encompassed between +9.5 p.p. and +7.4 p.p. respectively in Cyprus and Ireland and –9.6 p.p. and –6.0 p.p. in Croatia and Latvia. In The Netherlands, the decrease in p.p. was about 17.1. These large variations are usually due to changes in the number of admissions, average length of stay and the extent to which alternatives to full hospitalisation have been developed in each country.

Healthcare and hospital workforce

In 2013, the share of employment in the human health and social work sector on total employment in the 28 European Member States is in average 10.5%, according to the European Commission quarterly review on “Health and social services from an employment and economic perspective” (December, 2014). Furthermore, the health and social services sector, composed of human health, residential care and social work, has an important economic weight as it generates around 7% of the total economic output in the EU28 and appears to have suffered from the crisis. The review also underlines that the health and social services sector is facing several challenges due to the fact that the workforce is ageing faster than in other sectors. Also, there are large imbalances in skills level and working patterns, and recruitment and retention are conditioned by demanding working conditions.

The financial constraints are leading to a decrease in the resources available for healthcare professionals in most European countries, thus reducing the possibilities of hiring new staff. Additionally, several countries, especially in central and Eastern Europe, are experiencing migrations of their healthcare workforce.

These trends are likely to have a major impact on the hospital sector, since inpatient care alone absorbs about a third of the healthcare resources and hospital sector gives work to half of active physicians. The total hospital employment in 2012, per 100,000 inhabitants in EU28 was 1502 people in general and speciality hospitals. European countries, European organisations and EU institutions are discussing possible impacts and achievable solutions to these issues. Interestingly, several countries are shifting competences from doctors to nurses, creating new educational pathways and bachelor degrees addressed to nurses. In many cases nurses and general practitioners acquire new skills and competences relieving the burden of hospital care by enforcing primary care institutions and community services.

An overview of the composition of the European healthcare workforce in 2011 highlights the presence of about 1,640,000 doctors and 3,770,000 nurses, with an average rate of about 2.3 nurses per doctor.

In 2012, EU15 had around 351 practicing physicians and 922 practicing nurses per 100,000 inhabitants and EU13 had 277 physicians and 588 nurses per 100,000 inhabitants. Almost all the EU13 Member States had a share of practicing physicians lower than the EU average (334), with the only exceptions of Estonia (337), Czech Republic (368), Bulgaria (391) and Lithuania (422). The share of practicing nurses per 100,000 in EU is on average about 808. Almost all the countries are characterised by lower rates with the only exceptions of Luxembourg, Belgium, United Kingdom and Slovenia, whose values are 1192; 952; 832 and 817, respectively. Between 2000 and 2012, the number of physicians per 100,000 inhabitants increased by 15.8% in EU15 and by 9.7% in EU13.

Generally, these figures seem to provide evidence of the policies implemented, or at least the trends for the management of healthcare professionals, especially concerning the allocation of resources and responsibilities between doctors and nurses. In EU the average rate of nurses per doctor is about 2.3 points. In 2011 the highest values are in Ireland (4.6), Switzerland (4.4) and Luxembourg (4.2). In these countries there is a high shift of competencies from doctors to nurses. Conversely, countries where the values are lower are Bulgaria (1.2) and Spain (1.4). In Portugal, Italy, Austria and Latvia, the rate of nurses per doctor is equal to 1.6.

In 2012, doctors working in hospitals were around 50–60% of the total, with the highest rates registered in France (82.0%) and in Denmark (71.5%). On the other side, the lowest values regard Cyprus (25.6) and Belgium (25.8). Even if complete data for nurses are not available for many countries, figures suggest that in 2011 nurses working in hospital were on average 64%, this value being encompassed between 41.9% in Ireland and the totality of nurses in Austria and in Greece.

Relevant variations did not happen between 2000 and 2012, except in Portugal and in Greece that registered a significant reduction in the percentage of physicians working in hospitals (respectively –12.9 and –10.0 p.p.) and in Lithuania (+14.1 p.p.), Malta (+10.7 p.p.) and Hungary (+10.0 p.p.) that had a considerable increase.

In 2012, about 11.5 physicians and 35.4 nurses graduated every 100,000 inhabitants. However, the values across countries were quite different. The number of physicians graduated per 100,000 inhabitants ranged from 8.6 in Sweden to 19.7 in Austria. The number of nurses graduated per 100,000 inhabitants ranged from 3.9 in Bulgaria to 89.4 in Croatia.

Compared to 2000, the average number of physicians graduated in the EU per 100,000 inhabitants increased by 20.2%, while the number of nurses graduated per 100,000 inhabitants increased by 36.0%, with a rate particularly high in EU13 where this figure is 53.2% on average. In EU15 the increase rate is lower than in the EU and equal to 30.8%. The increase in the number of physicians graduated per 100,000 was very high in Latvia, Slovenia, Portugal, Estonia and Denmark (on average 142.4%). The number of nurses graduated grew especially in Poland, Italy, Latvia and Malta. These rates mirror the introduction and extension of the University level education for nurses.


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Knowledge: Good or Evil?

This is a question I thought about from a while back. During our readings on knowledge, it seemed to me that the ancient philosophers liked to write about how they would educate their citizens in order to reach their ideal worlds, while the Enlightenment philosophers taught about how they believed the process of knowledge works without setting up definitive restrictions of how people should be controlled. For instance, Plato talks about the Myth of the Metals as a means to maintain order in The Republic while Hegel writes about the didactic method of obtaining knowledge. This makes me question as whether knowledge is a means or an ends. Is the use of false knowledge (Myth of Metals) morally corrupt if it accomplishes the goal of a peaceful city? Continue reading

Is it Necessary?

I was laying in my bed, wide awake Saturday night, not wanting to get out, lying to myself that Spring Break would never end. I scrolled through the internet, looking through articles that seemed interesting. One of the articles, you can read here, was especially enticing. It explained the story of the alleged roommate of one of the internet’s most notorious owner of drug-trafficking. He lived essentially a double-life: he was a normal guy, graduated from UT Austin, lived comfortably in his house in San Francisco; but when he was behind the computer, he went took on the role of the DreadPIrateRoberts, founder and admin of Silk Road, an underground black-market that oversaw the exchange of illicit drugs and other paraphernalia. Ultimately, he was figured out and is under control by the FBI.  As stated in the article, it came as a shock to his roommate, his parents and now ex-girlfriend.

What I want to know is was it right for him to conceal, or lie in order for him to run his website? Since he was the head of the organization, I feel that he should take full blame for what he did, although lucrative, it was still illegal. I thought of Plato’s Republic, in which Plato described to Glaucon the Noble Lie, and that it was okay for government to lie to the people. In a way, I feel this might be the same case. He was the head of an organization, and in order to keep order in his life, created two identities for himself, one that he showed to the public, and the other behind the glow of the computer screen.

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The Mentality of Education

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The New School

The conventional school is a dictatorship. Students enter their classrooms, sit in their assigned seats, obey the teacher, memorize a bunch of facts, and take exams testing their knowledge of those facts. This model of schooling has been used for centuries now. This model produces children who are capable of following and obeying rules; however, the children do not develop sufficient creativity and problem-solving skills to make the world a better place. True democracy can only exist when the people are active, collaborative, confident, and creative citizens. The conventional model does not offer that; however, Escuela Nueva may provide a better schooling model.

The Escuela Nueva (New School) model, first adopted in rural Colombia, employs a different approach to education. Students actively shape their own curriculum, work on their own projects, gain hands-on experience, and participate in class-wide discussions. In Escuela Nueva, students are no longer passive learners. They become active learners applying the concepts they learn in the real world. In his NY Times article Make School a Democracy, David Kirp argues that the Escuela Nueva model of schooling can help foster democracy in a country. This is because kids are taught to become active and participating students. These attributes are necessary for the success of democracy. Studies have shown that students who go through the Escuela Nueva model are more likely to be active members of their communities.

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that experience is extremely important in the education process. Escuela Nueva takes that into account. Students do not just learn abstract concepts; they apply them in their everyday lives. Students learn to write short stories, grow and garden plants, run their own experiments to explore their early scientific enquiries. This way school appears to be more relevant rather than a tedious and forced process. The conventional model for schooling is ancient; it is time for a drastic reform that adopts the Escuela Nueva style.

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Education in Forrest Gump

In the movie Forrest Gump, the titular character gets labeled as stupid because he was born with a mental disability. When he goes to register for grade school, his mom has to use her “feminine influence” just so he could get a proper education. Society misunderstands his disability and he gets taken advantage of multiple times throughout the movie. He goes along with his catchphrase “stupid is as stupid does” whenever someone verbally attacks him with a remark reminding him that he has a disability. Even though his book smarts are not very sharp, his street smarts and his friendly personality provide him with what he needs to succeed in life.

Despite the discrimination Forrest faces in the movie, many philosophers would be even more critical towards his mental abilities. In a different historical context, Aristotle would not allow Forrest to live independently in his ideal city. According to Aristotle, Forrest would be considered a “natural slave” who is destined to serve the needs of the intellectuals. He also states that “the citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives … The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy” (Politics 1337a). In this case, Forrest Gump would only learn how to be a servant and nothing else. Even though Aristotle generally supported education for all the citizens, women and the mentally disabled were not considered worthy to be taught.

Another interesting thought about Forrest Gump is how he was able to learn street smarts and politeness. In Plato’s Meno, Plato exclaims that education was just a recollection of experiences from past lives (Meno 81d). I wonder what Forrest Gump’s past life would have been if Plato’s theory holds true. Would he have also been mentally disabled in his past life? Did his personality carry over from the experiences of his immortal soul? While Plato’s theory has some holes in it, it does ask important question of how knowledge is obtained. If Forrest Gump could learn despite his disability, it gives me hope that people can change their personalities for the better through experience.Gump

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Perception of a Dress

A recent picture of a dress has taken the internet by storm. Someone posted a picture of a dress online and many people view the dress as blue and gold and a comparable amount of people view the dress as white and black. This simple dress sparked hot disputes all over the world. Although this discussion of the optical illusion dress seems totally irrelevant to our discussion of knowledge, as Megan Garber points out in her article in the Atlantic, it creates a point of discussion where people discuss where they fit into the world.  Continue reading

Hegel and Sense-certainty

The Here and Now

In Phenomenology of Spirit, G.W.F. Hegel discusses the meaning of “here” and “now” to determine how they relate to truth and “universality” (95, 96). Hegel indicates that at the exact moment of “now,” that is the “truest knowledge” because at that exact moment it is true that we are in the “now,” but he goes on to indicate how “now” simultaneously lacks all aspects of truth (91).  Continue reading

Construction of Perception

In Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant discusses how people are able to perceive different objects and determine how those objects exist relative to other objects. Kant determines that in order to truly perceive that an object exists, one must synthesize their different presentations to create a more holistic perception.  Continue reading

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Episode 110: Detroit, Petoskey

"Farewell to Arms" When you sit at the same bar as Ernest Hemingway, you start to think you hear ghosts. You’re occupying the same space in time as one of the greats. It’s a weird feeling. And it was a great way to wrap up this show, with Papa’s favorite martini in hand, sitting at his seat at the bar.


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Multidimensional Magick - Chakra We used to call the multidimensional Magick section Tesseract Magick, after the first of the major innovations in Magick developed by Hawk Jackal

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  • Multidimensional Magick

    by Fra. 137

    copyright, Cabal of the Hawk and Jackal

    93 AN; 1997 E.V

  • IntroductionWe used to call the multidimensional Magick section Tesseract Magick, after the first of the major innovations in Magick developed by Hawk & Jackal. Since then we have begun doing work in dimensions beyond the fourth.

    Few people that practice Ceremonial Magick use the Pythagorean solids1, and fewer still use the Hyper solids. Most people use only the plane symbols most commonly associated with Magick. The Pentagram ritual uses a plane figure to represent, invoke, or banish the elements and their power. So has the Pyramid also been used. The Hexagram, and sometimes the Septagram, has also been used for the technology of invoking or banishing the planets.

    The hyper solid of the Tesseract is used to invoke or banish the power of the dimensions, and they relate to the four elements of the ancients.

    The visualization of the hypersphere is used in the same way as the visualization of the circle or the sphere have always been used. To enclose space, differentiate between the within and the without. As a protective device.

    The triangle, tetrahedron, and hypertetrahedron, are used to contain certain forces in their evocation, to contain the crystal in scrying, or in certain circumstances to hold the Cup itself.

    These are the principle geometric forms that we have worked with extensively, although you may be able to extend the other Pythagorean solids2 to higher space.

    The Tesseract Working, which is a Mystic working leading to Magical effects, is a group meditation. Usually one or more persons assist in the rituals preceding the Working. A Star Ruby, Star Sapphire, and then The Adorations, and then finally a Tesseract are done. This adjustment of the Elements, Planets, Stars, and Time is necessary to insure the safety and focus of the Group. The Tesseract could be the Tesseract Ritual or the Tesseract Working depending on circumstancesThe first three workings are described elsewhere but the Tesseract Working itself is not. Each letter of the 22 letters that represent Spirit, as well as some of its correspondences and its placement among the Trumps of the Tarot, are called out. Each is related in a sort of free-form story to its correspondences. Its place in the progression of dimensions is stated, so that the unconscious mind is led to think of a very difficult thing to visualize, a Tesseract. These stories vary between workings, the most coherent of them have the most power.

    In another place I may recount one that I have used more extensively, but each person may work out one or several on their own. When the coherence is grasped the kingdom is complete. The unconscious will inform the conscious when it is ready. The Tesseract will turn and fold into a Universe.

    1 The Tetrahedron, Hexahedron (Cube), Octahedron, Dodecahedron, and Icosahedron.2 You may of course also use hyperdimensional forms that are other than the regular ones, such as the equivalent of a pyramid in Hyper-space. This is formed of 6 Tetrahedra upon a Cubic base, and arrayed around that base in 4 space. Difficult but not impossible to visualize.

  • We do not attempt to empower the conscious mind so much as we seek to empower the unconscious, which contains within itself the Superconscious and the Subconscious.

    Understand that some people are afraid of the deep portions of their mind. Make sure you let them leave before they learn the key to the performance.3

    Most of the mischief that I have seen done in this practice is caused by the warfare between these forces in an individual. Make your peace within before giving both sides this much power. Remember we evolve by moving forward rather than up from down. Each aspect whether Demonic or Angelic is devoted to this cause, personal evolution. Do not fight your demons and your angels, its bad for them, and rather stupid to be caught in the crossfire. You are a demon to your Angel, an Angel to your demons.

    As the Tesseract is being performed by the Orator, all present concentrate their mind on the symbols being recited, and the dimensional progression building. When at the letter Tau is stated at the end, the letter that represents this Tesseract folded, the persons present shift their point of view from the Universe that they were in, to another parallel universe that they have now arrived in. This jump is spoken of repeatedly in the Dialogs .There are phenomenon that we should warn you of. Time will sometimes be perceived in a different way immediately before, during, or after a Tesseract. This increases in the practice though the fear and uneasy feelings concerning it go away in time and experience, rather like fear of flying.

    Precursor effects on reality are usually balanced by after-Tesseract events, and are often symmetrical with them. The effect can be sudden shifts in time or space. Driving a hundred miles in less than 20 minutes. Going through the same stop twice in the same direction on a public transit system. Losing the entire day, someone once skipped their birthday. Distortions in space. Being able to perceive beyond a closed door to the extent that you walk into it. A universe where the sky is red and has green cracks in it. Universes where there is no radio or TV on the air, and there is a smell of ozone in the air (jump again immediately!) People can change eye color, hair color, height, weight, or personality. Only those that jump with you can be counted on. Everyone around you and every social circumstance can change rather dramatically in the most highly vectored jumps.

    Some say that Tesseract jumping is a better version of suicide, and should only be undertaken in the same circumstances. Some say it is habit forming and leads to permanent tourist syndrome toward any universe one finds oneself in.

    This is one reason that the people doing this kind of Magick tend to form circles. To keep a support group, train new people, and pass on the Tradition. Once you take a single step in higher space you can never be as you were, and you can never go back to the universe you came from. If you dont care to explore in this way, and would rather be flat, dont take up this form of travel. It really isnt suited to everyone. Only the very few. And for those few there is really no option.

    Usually in a few minutes, though it may sometimes take a few weeks, your new universe begins to harden and become more cohesive. You quit being able to see through walls 3 (Well maybe this warning is not being given anymore, after all I publish.) Personally I feel that this is a dangerous thing to do. But I have been instructed by those who are above me to do so.

  • and time-space distortions become more manageable. Hey dont try to drive until you get used to these effects. Cars have been wrecked. But again lives have been saved as well. I remember an emergency jump when I was in a car wreck on a skyway, I must have fallen 5 or 6 stories before I felt the jump, and then instantly I was back on the roadway sliding upside down toward the opposite guard rail. I had a broken shoulder but was otherwise all right.

    Dont try to manipulate your new universe too much. Micromanagement can really screw things up. Think about it, what if you tried to consciously control your adrenals or the production of endorphins, or every other hormone or drug made in your body, it can be fun but do you really understand how every thing about how you works.

    When you are God, and you are when you create a universe, let the automatic systems function normally unless there is a abiding need to interfere, then be prepared for much more than you predicted. Usually the bane of trying for too many specifics is the insanity or death of the practitioner. It is true that its not exactly casual, your not changing something by your magick, you are simply jumping to the place where the change naturally occurred, but none the less there is Karma. Many things depend in complex ways on other things, if you attempt conscious manipulation of this process of creation you will evoke your fate, and much depends on exactly how Deific your perspective at the time of the change.

    After learning the technology either your subconscious, or your superconscious, can rip you out of one universe in your dreams, and low and behold, you wake up in a different one.

    Once more I warn you, make peace between yourself, your angel, and your demon. Do not and you will find your self rather unpleasantly unstuck in time.

  • The Tesseract WorkingIn the following papers I will describe some of the uses of a particular arrangement of the cards of the Tarot and of the classical Hebrew Alphabet.

    This arrangement, called the Tesseract Arrangement, is not only for use in the Mystic but a most powerful tool in the Magick as well. In these there is danger for those who have not formed a sound prerequisite practice in the elementary, planetary, and astral realms.

    The letters used are not the modern, or even the medieval, Hebrew letters of the flame alphabet; but are the classical letters used between the time of David and the time of Jeremiah.

    These letters may be fruitfully compared, for understanding of their progressive development, with the ancient Sianitic script which was brought out of Egypt, and these many later versions. Canaanite of the 13th Century BC, Phoenician of the 8th Century BC, and old Greek of the 8th Century BC.

    I use the complete Hebrew cursive of later centuries mentioned above, from the period around 600 BC. Compare however the script from these artifacts: The Stele of Mesha, King of Moab, 835 BC, any one of a number of Hebrew ostrica4 from Samaria. The Sumarian Ivories, Gezer Calendar, Kilamuwa Inscription, Bar Rakab Inscription, Siloa


What are Refrigerated Lockers?

Refrigerated lockers are one way that emergent technology is turning the grocery industry on its head. Although refrigerated lockers will be commonplace within a few years, at the moment they remain largely unknown to the majority of people. There are many different ways that the grocery industry is changing. Some of these changes have been occurring for some time, such as an increasing emphasis on organic and health foods driven by a growing awareness of the importance that nutrition plays in our overall health. Other changes are fairly recent. For example, an increasing portion of the population is beginning to rely on grocery delivery to complete their weekly grocery shopping. The advent of refrigerated grocery lockers is an outgrowth of this trend.

Since most people are still in the dark about refrigerated lockers, this article will serve as an introduction to the topic. We’ll examine what exactly refrigerated lockers are and what they are used for. We’ll break down the common areas where refrigerated lockers are utilized, and explore how this use will capitalize on growth that is already occurring in these sectors. Lastly, we’ll touch on the types of industries that refrigerated lockers can be used for. While refrigeration is most commonly needed for perishable items such as groceries, there is a wide range of uses for refrigeration for temporary storage, including for pharmaceuticals and other industries where temperature regulation is essential.

There are many layers to the growing incorporation of refrigerated lockers into our residential and retail spaces. At a core level, an increasing need for secure, temperature controlled storage is driving innovation. More broadly, this demand stems from changing consumption patterns that have shifted how we purchase products, and how we use technology to interact with the world around us. The use of refrigerated grocery lockers for picking up groceries purchased online would have been unthinkable two decades ago when the internet was in its infancy.

Today, we live in an increasingly technologically integrated and driven world. This integration is causing us to look at existing technologies in new ways. For example, grocery stores are now looking for ways to use technology to bring groceries to the customer, rather than have the customer come to them. The use of refrigerated lockers stems from this change, but in its own way is disrupting the way retailers and shippers bring products to our doors. Beyond even this, the use of refrigerated lockers may revolutionize how we interact with our environment in multifamily home environments, including the types of services and amenities we expect in the coming years.

So, while refrigerated grocery lockers themselves are an outgrowth of the increasing viability of online grocery shopping and grocery delivery, the use of temperature controlled parcel lockers is disrupting a wide range of industries and fields in interesting ways.

What is a Refrigerated Locker?

Before talking about the impact that refrigerated lockers are having and how you might use them, let’s take a moment to get a better understanding of what refrigerated lockers are. A refrigerated locker is a smart parcel locker that is temperature controlled. The purpose of refrigerated lockers is to store perishable items for a short period of time. At the same time, refrigerated lockers integrate the same beneficial properties that parcel lockers bring to the table. That is, refrigerated lockers offer the security and convenience of a parcel locker, along with a temperature control component that allows for cold storage or warm storage.

Why Refrigerated Lockers?

If you aren’t deeply connected with the forefront of the grocery delivery industry or how the retail landscape is changing, you might be wondering why refrigerated lockers are appearing now. First, let’s start with the basics. Online grocery sales are a booming industry that is only in the nascent stages of growth. While today’s online grocery sales, including for pickup and delivery, are only a small portion of the total grocery retail market, they are expected to grow up to 20% of the total grocery retail market by 2025. This would make online grocery sales a market worth $100 billion dollars within the next six years.

According to a recent Gallup poll, roughly 9% of Americans order groceries online. 4% order groceries online once a week. This number is only expected to grow in coming years as the technology supporting grocery delivery matures. Alongside grocery delivery is a rise in Americans ordering meal prep kits, which offer a fusion of fresh groceries with convenience. The polling provided by Gallup illustrates that use of online grocery purchases and meal kit orders are predominantly the realm of the busiest among us: parents. As more millennials begin to become parents and settle into careers, the use of services that offer convenience, like online grocery shopping, will continue to grow. Read more in our related blog article about the future of grocery retail.

BOPIS for Groceries

The use of buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS) services is becoming increasingly commonplace in retail environments of all kinds, including within the grocery industry. What is BOPIS in retail? BOPIS for groceries works by having in-store pickup as a shipping option for grocery purchases made online. For example, you have a grocery retailer that has an online store. The customer goes to the online storefront, selects all of the grocery items they need, and completes the purchase choosing in-store pickup.

Once an order is received, a store associate will go out onto the store floor and collect each of the items on the list. Once the order is assembled, a notification will go out to the customer letting them know their order is ready for pickup. When the customer arrives at the grocery store they will work with a store associate who will verify the order and retrieve the items for them.

BOPIS for groceries capitalizes on the convenience that in-store pickup options have for online shopping. For groceries, in-store pickup makes total sense. Groceries are a perishable item that must be consumed within a short period of time after purchase. On top of that, visiting a grocery store is something that most people do on a weekly basis. BOPIS for grocery allows individuals to add items to their cart throughout their week, or quickly re-purchase staples that they use every week. They can then place the order on a day they are available to run by the grocery store, without having to worry about spending time going through the actual grocery shopping process.

How Lockers Improve Grocery Pickup

Although the current way that BOPIS systems function in the grocery industry has been designed to enhance convenience for regular grocery shoppers, there are some fundamental drawbacks that must be addressed. Foremost among these is the pickup process itself. How BOPIS currently works is an individual picking up an online order must either go to a sales associate or the customer service desk to actually pick up the order. The store associate must then go in the back to a refrigerated compartment reserved for online orders, retrieve the order, and hand it over the customer. Related to this is the amount of time it takes for the employee to notify the customer that their order is ready for pickup, store the order, and retrieve it once the customer has arrived.

The use of refrigerated lockers addresses each of these deficiencies in turn. Refrigerated lockers make the pickup process more seamless, resulting in a shopping process that is largely frictionless from beginning to end. When a customer is picking up an order that is stored in a locker, they simply arrive at the store, go to the locker, enter the verification information, and retrieve their groceries from the locker that opens. It’s that simple. For the employee, using a refrigerated locker system simplifies the process as well. Their role in the process begins when an order is placed and ends when an order is entered into the locker system. At that point, the locker itself notifies the customer that their order is processed, verifies the purchase when the customer arrives and facilitates the handoff of groceries to the customer.

What About Grocery Delivery?

So, refrigerated storage lockers sound great for in-store pickup of groceries, but what about grocery delivery? After all, grocery delivery is one area that is steadily growing. One concern that many people have with grocery delivery services is how to keep perishable items fresh between the time that the order is delivered and the time they get home to retrieve it. On top of this, there is a very real concern over security. Whereas package security is important for all orders, grocery orders, in particular, must be secured against tampering and theft.

One way that both of these issues are being addressed is through the use of refrigerated lockers in multifamily homes. Property managers have recently begun incorporating parcel lockers for all shipments into their facilities, in an effort to improve security for their tenants and reduce the workload for front-office staff. The use of refrigerated lockers within a residential environment is a natural outgrowth of this, especially in light of the rising number of grocery deliveries occurring today.

The use of refrigerated lockers in multifamily residences has numerous benefits for both the end recipient and property managers themselves. For the customer placing an order, refrigerated lockers offer an added layer of convenience and security. Lockers are convenient because they allow the customer to choose when they retrieve their delivery. No longer will a customer have to rush home early to be sure they are home when the grocery delivery arrives. At the same time, customers will be assured that their perishable delivery is secured, intact, and hasn’t been tampered with.

For property managers, the use of a refrigerated locker system to handle grocery delivery streamlines front office operations by reducing the amount of time front office staff must take time out of their normal tasks to handle and route deliveries. This is no small task in today’s day and age, where any given individual may receive one or more packages a week. Security is improved for both the tenant receiving the package and the residence as a whole.

Thieves are less likely to target a residential complex where packages are secured immediately upon delivery. Additionally, the staff doesn’t need to directly input packages into the system. The carrier themselves can enter packages into the system, making the process hands-free from end-to-end for front office staff. Learn more about the benefits of parcel lockers for multifamily homes and innovative property management solutions in our related posts.

Not Just for Grocery

While grocery pickup and delivery have been a central focus of this article, it is important to keep in mind that refrigerated locker systems have been flexibly designed to accommodate the needs of a variety of different industries. The fact is, any delivery that has temperature controlled considerations can be entered into a refrigerated package locker. Common industries where this applies are pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, florals, and beverages. Each of these industries has certain products that require specific environmental considerations. Product spoilage can be especially problematic for pharmaceuticals, as it introduces a health and safety consideration. The same goes for certain beverages, which, if they aren’t kept at or below a specific temperature, may pose a health concern.

Final Thoughts

Refrigerated locker systems allow for frictionless delivery of a wide array of products. Although the predominant focus within the grocery delivery industry has been the application of refrigerated parcel lockers to grocery pickup and delivery, a number of industries can benefit from temperature controlled lockers. Refrigerated locker systems offer a number of tangible benefits for consumers. These benefits include enhanced convenience, security, and efficiency, regardless of whether an order is picked up in-store or delivered to a locker.

For grocery retailers, refrigerated locker systems and smart lockers just make sense. They streamline the entire in-store pickup process by eliminating the need for staff to handle everything from the notification to order verification and retrieval. For grocery delivery, refrigerated lockers eliminate the need for redeliveries, while ensuring that products are delivered fresh and in the same condition they were when they left the store. As online grocery shopping continues to grow, keep an eye out for refrigerated lockers in stores and multifamily residences near you.

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  1. David Norriss December 16, 2019 at 11:28 am - Reply

    I like how you said that any product that needs to be kept at a certain temperature during delivery can be held inside of a refrigerated package locker. I have never had groceries delivered to my house because I didn’t know that they have ways of keeping it refrigerated. Now that I know that they have refrigerated lockers I will talk to my wife about having our groceries delivered instead of us picking them up.

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When you think of the data Displayed by the scanner it is a bit of a misnomer
unless you are doing an invasive scan.
The displayed information is is more accurately just the Mode S data
being transmitted by the other vehicle

Invasive scans are EXTREMELY short range (under half a km typically)
and use Ultrasound or Gamma Radiation. People look down on you trying to radiate them.

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Year 6 Caesar Shifts

This week Year 6 have been using mathematical skills to look at coding and how we can represent numbers and code. Most recently we have been looking at 'Caesar Shifts' which are codes where you replace one letter for another. The skills learnt and applied doing this could end up ensuring our maths geniuses go far with maths!


By Professor Barry Eichengreen, guest writer for the July 2019 Coroconnect

With what consequences for the economy, one might ask? Mainstream analyses suggest that the macroeconomic effects of a US-China trade war are likely to be small. US-China trade is less than 1% of global GDP. Even in a full-scale trade war between the two countries, most of their previous imports from one another would simply be sourced from third countries. To the extent that there is nevertheless a negative impact on aggregate demand, this would be offset by appropriate adjustments of monetary and fiscal policies. Or so mainstream economic models suggest.Thus, three economists at the Dutch Central Bank have used a global macroeconomic model to estimate the effects of a 10% US tariff on imports from China, together with tit-for-tat Chinese retaliation. They find that these policies will depress global GDP by just 0.1% after one year and 0.5% after three to four years. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development similarly estimates, using its in-house model, that if the US and China imposed 25% tariffs on each other’s exports, global GDP will be just 0.7% lower by 2021 than otherwise. Three   European   Central   Bank   economists,   assuming a 10% increase in US and Chinese tariff and nontariff barriers on imports from one another and simulating a suite of multicountry econometric models, conclude that global GDP will be just 0.8% lower after a year.But the sharp negative reaction of stock markets to Trump’s tariff tweets is hard to reconcile with these sanguine conclusions. Moreover, many economists instinctively feel that a trade war would inflict significant damage on the economy and the prospects for growth and profitability. They are just unable to back up this intuition using standard models.

So, what do these models miss? First, they miss uncertainty and its impact on investment. If the trade war persists, it will make sense for US firms building productive capacity in China or purchasing inputs from Chinese suppliers to shift their capacity and sourcing to marginally higher cost locations, be these Vietnam, Mexico or the US itself. Likewise, Chinese companies that previously contemplated expanding their domestic assembly operations with exports to the US in mind may have reason to invest abroad even though overseas costs of production are marginally higher. But if the threatened tariffs never come into effect or turn out to be ephemeral, then relocating production will have been a costly mistake, given sunk costs and irreversibilities. The Baker-Bloom-Davis Index of trade-policy uncertainty for the US shows major spikes around each of Trump’s trade policy statements and tweets. In these circumstances, it clearly pays to wait. Hence, even if the trade war has very limited implica-tions for capital accumulation in the long run, it can still have a large impact in the short run, as uncertain investors hold off making commitments. The consequent sharp fall in investment will then be amplified by multiplier effects familiar from standard business-cycle models, with a large short-run impact on GDP.Second, standard models miss the negative impact of the trade war on global supply chains. A trade restriction that raises the cost or reduces the availability of imported inputs essential to production in a first sector, by reducing that sector’s output, can have a magnified impact on the output of a second downstream sector that uses the output of the first sector intensively in production. As these supply-chain disruptions ramify through the economy, their aggregate impact can be greatly amplified. This kind of nonlinear propagation is not something that is captured by conven-tional macroeconomic models.As a case in point, economists have studied the 2011 Fukushima earthquake,   Fukushima   being   an   important   supplier   of   electronic components and auto parts. While the earthquake was immediately responsible for a 3% decline in output in a region comprising 5% of the Japanese economy – and hen for just one-fifteenth of a percent decline in Japanese GDP – the aggregate effect resulting from propagation and amplifi-cation via supply chains was fully eight times as large.Finally, standard models miss the impact of trade restrictions on the intensity of competition. The importance of import competition in applying pressure for domestic firms to maximise efficiency has been invoked in a variety of contexts. For example, the economic historians Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts attribute the slow growth of productivity in the UK in the third quarter of the 20th century to the anti-competitive effects of the tariffs put in place in the 1930s and then to postwar Britain’s failure to join the European Economic Community. A large body of literature criticises import substi-tution in Latin America in this same period owing to its tendency to suppress the chill winds of competition. Thus, a tariff meant to “make America great again” may only make America fat and lazy again. This should especially be a concern when there already are worries about dominant firms, in high tech and elsewhere, facing limited domestic competition. There are multiple reasons, then, for thinking that the negative effects of President Trump’s trade war will be greater than suggested by textbook macroeconomics.

This returns us to the question: is there any prospect of a trade truce between the US and China that might avoid these   damaging   consequences?   One   possibility   is   the   inauguration in 2021 of a new US President who lacks Trump’s antipathy toward trade and fear of China. But few of Trump’s prospective general-election rivals are free traders themselves, to put an understated gloss on the point. The most we can hope for is that the next US President will seek to build a coalition of like-minded countries to push for reform of China’s policies toward intellectual property and forced technology transfer, and that (s)he will seek to influence that country’s behaviour by strengthening rather than destroying the rules-based trading system. But the notion that the US and China are now in a struggle for geopolitical supremacy that revolves around technology, and whose outcome will be shaped by trade, is here to stay, regardless of who occupies the Oval Office. The controversy over Huawei and 5G is just the canary in the coalmine. This reality does not bode well for US-China trade relations, for the global trading system, or for the global macroeconomy.


Google realize systems of artificial intelligence to solve problems in a human manner

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Researchers at the corporation deb of Maine DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google training machine learning systems to pass IQ tests IQ which is designed to measure a number of thinking skills, in order to prove their ability to think in abstract concepts, thus becoming the systems of artificial intelligence capable of abstract thinking like humans and it can interact and develop solutions to the problems.

Using models based on neural networks in achieving amazing results in solving the problems of machine learning, as proof of their ability to think in abstract concepts has proved to be difficult days, but today has exceeded the artificial intelligence this problem through the training on intelligence tests IQ.

Researchers published a research paper titled “measuring the inference of the Council in neural networks”, explain in detail their attempt to measure the ability of understanding abstract various systems of artificial intelligence based on IQ tests IQ is used to measure the capacity of abstract thinking in humans, which revealed some insights important.

Includes puzzles existing in the test series of random shapes, which participants need to study them to determine the rules that complement this pattern, once the rules are put the puzzle should be able to choose the shape, following strictly in the registry.

Hoped researchers deep mine in that the development of artificial intelligence capable of thinking outside the box can lead to to become machines able to create new solutions to problems that you never think of humans.

Have been used researchers deb Mayne puzzles known as a matrices test. raven cascading Raven Progressive Matrices, the phase of these tests primarily by John C. raven, John C. Raven in 1936, where participants are asked in the test to identify the missing element that completes a pattern, and show a lot of styles in forms of matrices, and the matrices measuring the ability of participants to understand the meaning of complex data or confusing.

Researchers were able to develop a software system designed specifically for this task and is capable of generating matrix of the unique development of this test on artificial intelligence systems, then trained artificial intelligence systems to solve this test, with the result that the artificial intelligence systems achieved a rate of accuracy of up to 63 per cent in solving puzzles test IQ IQ-style puzzles.

As they they were testing the ability of systems to recognize patterns and new relationships forming the structure of the non-verbal to a large extent make it easy to handle complexity.

Said David Barrett, of deb of Maine: “the reasoning of the Council is important in areas such as scientific discoveries where we need to impose new hypotheses, and then use these hypotheses to solve problems, it is important to note that the goal of this work is to develop neural network that can pass IQ tests only”.

Can humans who sit in the tests to give themselves a boost through the intense preparation later, they learn the type of rules used in the control patterns used in the matrix, this means instead of using the abstract idea that they use the knowledge they have learned instead.

While artificial intelligence systems that use neural networks feeder in huge quantities of data to move, can easily be related only to pick up these patterns without the need to use abstract thinking.

So the researchers tested a group of neural networks the standard on one property inside the matrix but not all the characteristics, and found that they perform quite bad performance where the ratio of the precision to 22% only, however the neural network specially designed which can conclude the relationships between different parts of the puzzle recorded the highest accuracy by 63 per cent.

Due to the design of the tests, it was not possible to compare these scores directly with the people because the systems of artificial intelligence have prior training on how to solution, but the researchers found that the participants who have a lot of experience in tests and who could compare them with machinery, can record the rate of accuracy of more than 80 per cent, while it often fails newcomers to the tests in answer to all the questions.

Refers this test to artificial intelligence systems currently existing will not be able to solve the task and not trained to solve, this means that they need more time and observation to get to it.

While in recent weeks it was revealed that the artificial intelligence of Google can now exposed to the surrounding environment based on a single image, through training systems to professional visual and using large data sets of annotated images produced by humans, where the intelligent system that has been developed as part of the deep mine trained himself to visualize any distance in a static image, which dubbed the network the query experimental Generative Query Network, It is the framework through which education systems perceive their surroundings through training only to data which is obtained from themselves during their movement in the place, where the system GQN through the development of his remarks to understand the world around him. And to do so with respect to system GQN identify the scenes and properties of Engineering without the development of any signs of human on the contents of these scenes.

The system gives the GQN machine “silhouette similar to the human being”, that allows the algorithm to generate the impression of three-dimensional spaces that haven’t seen her at all in Flat images two-dimensional.

This was announced Demi photo ass CEO deep mine of the boom achieved by artificial intelligence systems, with the system GQN tried Dr easy and his team replicate the way the brain learns the human to its surrounding environment when you look at it, this is a completely different approach to most projects where the researchers say naming the data manually and enter them slowly to artificial intelligence systems, and to train neural networks, a subsidiary of deb of Maine, the panel view still images taken from different views on the same scene on the systems of artificial intelligence, Using these images enables the algorithm to teach itself how to predict the emergence of something in a new point of view is not included in the photo, and quickly learn the systems perception of three-dimensional images of the entire scene.

Consequently, becoming intelligent machines able to move in the That you imagine, but during the move it must be that the algorithm predictions are constantly about the place of things that are shared in the beginning in the photo and what they look like from the perspective of lasting change.

Researchers published a research paper describes their findings, said researcher Ali Islamic: “it wasn’t at all clear that the neural network can learn to never invent images in a precise manner and controlled like this, however we found that networks deep can you learn about the product general manager of closure and lighting, without any engineering and human, this was the result of a very spectacular”.

To create these scenes the full use of the system component, the first component treats the representation and job codes for the three-dimensional still image and convert it into the form of a mathematical complex, and this is what is known as the vector vector.

The second place is called generative, which uses the first component of vector vectors to guess what’s different in this scene – meaning identify the parts of gas embedded in the original image – building have become the artificial intelligence systems able to ascertain the spatial relationships within the scene, using the data collected from the initial images.

How can systems of artificial intelligence evolving from Google also control the things inside this virtual space imagined through the application of their understanding of the spatial relationships of the scenario.

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The introduction of characters enhances gameplay strategy among players, creating a more
intense atmosphere where a twist on decision-making becomes a new and crucial part of the game. Each character comes with their own perks, and players are designated with an individual responsibility to help the team Novus Escape Room. Character abilities can also be paired strategically to form the perfect team to tackle different game cubes so that players can achieve minimal completion time and emerge as the winner of the week.

Light Bringer

A Torchlight will be granted to this play as a light source. Torchlight could be used as often as possible during the gameplay or could be exchanged to obtain hint

Scholar is given the ability to look into the room and know the level of difficulty and physical requirement of the puzzles is given to this player. It’s also including the total number puzzles to be solved.

The Oracle is given the privilege of taking a glance of the game room as if they can see the future. There are roughly 10 photos are shown to this player before the start of the game, all pointing to the important aspects of the gameplay. Therefore, his/her duty is to help the team to stay focused during the game and pinpoint the decisive objects for solving the corresponding puzzles.

Lock Master

A Passcode will be given to this player to unlock a specific lock in the room. The passcode can be exchanged to obtain a hint if unutilized.

Time Bender

Additional 5 minutes will be given to this player and it can be exchanged for a hint. Should this extra 5 minutes not being utilized a hint then it will be added to the time after the initial 45 minutes is over.

This player is given the ability to duplicate all the characters except the Assassin and Lockmaster.

This player is given the ability to kill a teammate to obtain an answer for the current puzzle. The killed teammate will be handcuffed at the entrance of the game room for 8 minutes. It is only applied to characters that have not been used.

This player is given the ability to revive the character that has killed by Assassin along with their abilities. The healer is only allowed to save 1 person and its ability can only be used once.


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