errors mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Statistician DAMTP Cambridge, residing Bethesda, MD: AT CU.com please find my attempt to celebrate my greatest personal privilege: to visit women empowered Bangladesh 15 times from 2007 during last 13 years of life of Fazle Abed. From 2012 we discussed AbedMOOC and 2015 onwards at his 80th birthday AbedAI. Back in 2001, Abed 65th birthday hosted by Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley changed both of these human genii's life work. Even today I dont spend time exploring America AI with any engineers or practitioners of health or education, food or safety or finance, who dont want to know what they (we humans all) owe to Steve J. By 2003 Jobs' pixar, Nvidia, and Hopkins radiologists started replacing coding of binary by coding of pixels - welcome to AI century 2]
2026:Christmas comes early to Ai Youth - Nvidia GTC-DC Nov 30 to Dec 2
Pretraining proposal Gemini (model UYKB: Layer 6 AI+Media)
7-Layer Intelligence Discourse GTC D.C. adds 2 layers to Jensen 5-layer AI Cake!
Because the D.C. summit sits in the heart of the nation’s capital at the Ronald Reagan Building, Jensen Huang’s team is prepping a narrative explicitly tailored to reindustrialization, national security, and state-backed compute. [1, 2]
  • Layer 1 (Nature's Energy) & Layer 2 (Machine Brainpower): The central conversation focuses on the Vertically Integrated Sovereign AI Factory. Nvidia will address the West's current power grid constraints, pushing for multi-gigawatt computing nodes tied directly to protected modular nuclear baseloads or sovereign energy fields to fuel the upcoming Vera Rubin chip architecture deployment. [1]
  • Layer 3 (Sovereign Data Infrastructure): This is the crown jewel of the D.C. agenda. Nvidia is moving rapidly away from selling chips solely to hyper-scalers (like Microsoft or Amazon) to marketing Layer 3 "Sovereign AI" packages directly to federal agencies, the Department of Defense, and international allies. The talk centers on how nations can utilize Nvidia hardware to train national models on state-owned text, military telemetry, and geographic data without leaking information to corporate data monopolies. [1]
  • Layer 5 (Civic Applications) & Layer 7 (The Deterministic Truth Layer): The D.C. floor will showcase heavy-industry integrations. A major thread is how federal systems can use AI Digital Twins and Quantum-resistant encryption to safeguard public infrastructure against adversarial cyber warfare. By pairing generative logic with hardcoded physics modeling, Nvidia wants to show the Pentagon that its models can function as an un-hallucinated layer of deterministic truth. [1, 2, 3]
The Direct Line: Berlin Crisis (October) to Washington D.C. (December)
The D.C. summit will act as the direct remedy and strategic response to the systemic frictions exposed weeks prior at the Berlin GTC. The two events are deeply intertwined across the 7 layers: [1]
[ GTC BERLIN • OCTOBER 2026 ]                     [ GTC WASHINGTON D.C. • DEC 2026 ]
       "The Crisis Echo"                                 "The Sovereign Fix"

               |                                                  |
• Severe European Layer 1 energy shortages.      • Unveiling federal multi-gigawatt grids.
• Layer 3 splintering (EU Data Act friction).    • Hardcoded Layer 3 Allied AI networks.
• Debate over relying on U.S. cloud giants.     • Bypassing public clouds via local edge nodes.
  1. The Energy Realignment (Layer 1): In Berlin, Jensen Huang will confront the grim reality of Europe’s highly fragmented, expensive, and legally constrained green grids. The "Berlin Crisis" refers to the continent's inability to spin up gigawatt-scale data factories fast enough to match the U.S. or China. When Huang lands in D.C., he will use the European shortfall to pressure Congress to fast-track defense-grade energy allocations for American compute clusters. [1, 2]
  2. The Sovereignty Conflict (Layer 3 & 4): Berlin will highlight severe regulatory friction over European data sovereignty and the EU Data Act. European public broadcasters and governments are terrified of routing their localized data through American corporate monopolies. Washington GTC will capitalize on this by formalizing a blueprint for "Allied AI" networks—demonstrating how Europe and the U.S. can exchange open-weight models securely across borders while maintaining local, sovereign hardware boundaries. [1]
  3. The Physical AI Transition (Layer 5): While Berlin will focus heavily on Germany’s specialized precision engineering and factory-floor robotics, the D.C. summit will elevate those industrial applications to a geopolitical scale. The discussions in Washington will center on deploying those exact autonomous robotics playbooks into automated naval shipyards, military logistics pipelines, and aerospace satellite defense systems. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Would you like to drill down into the specific Department of Defense T4NG contract vehicles Nvidia partners are mobilizing for the D.C. event, or examine the open-weight software microservices (NIMs) being deployed to appease European sovereignty regulations in Berlin? [1, 2, 3]



Before AI lifted off in late 2000s 3 underacknowlefgen Happenings: 1 steve jobs hosted Fazle Abed's 65 th birthday party silicon valley 2001; .jensen hunag and steve jobs went from coding binary to cosinf pixels; Fazle abed clarified that paulo freire culture celebrated poorest asian womens ebd poverty networking miracle -- largest NGO, providing education, health services, microcredit and livelihood creation programmes for a significant part of the population of Bangladesh. What lies behind this huge success, Caroline Hartnell asked Fazle Abed, founder of BRAC and still very much at the helm. Questioning everything they do and being prepared to tackle whatever is needed to make their programmes successful are certainly part of the secret behind the success of this extraordinarily entrepreneurial organization. The secret of success? Asked what lies behind BRAC’s phenomenal success, the first thing Fazle Abed mentions is determination: ‘We were determined to bring about changes in the lives of poor people.’ The second thing is thinking in national terms: ‘We always had a national goal; we never thought in terms of working in a small area. We thought, all right, if we work with the poorest people in this community, who’s going to work with the poorest people in that other community? So we felt that whatever we do, we should try and replicate it throughout the nation if we can.’ The third thing he mentions is inspiration. ‘We always thought nationally, worked locally, and looked for inspiration globally. We were inspired by Paolo Freire’s work on the pedagogy of the oppressed, which he came out with in 1972. It was wonderful to have a thinker who was thinking about poor people and how they can become actors in history and not just passive recipients of other people’s aid. He made us realize that poor people are human beings and can do things for themselves, and it’s our duty to empower them so they can analyse their own situation, see how exploitation works in society, and see what they need to do to escape these exploitative processes.’ Finally, he says, ‘one needs to have not only ambition but also the ability to do the work. The organization must be competent to take on national tasks. That confidence we got from the campaign for oral rehydration, to cut down diarrhoeal mortality, in the 1980s. That involved going to every household in rural Bangladesh, 13 million households, and it took ten years to do it. Then we became a little more ambitious. We thought that if we can go to every household, then we can cover the whole country with everything we do.
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NB any errors below are mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk but mathematically we are in a time when order of magnitude ignorance can sink any nation however big. Pretrain to question everything as earth's data is reality's judge
Its time to stop blaming 2/3 of humans who are Asian for their consciously open minds and love of education.

Sunday, December 31, 2000

new economics - new finance 21st c futures curricuka updates

stephanie flanders 1100 is long term investing real - boom berg senior economis

mervyn daies chair of letter 1 ( 5-10 year thanking)

vs hedge funds ow larhe proprtion of listed corporation- missing instutional u=inteest

private comoany exponetial growth

nureaucracy in listed corporations stifling change

"challenge of listed companies"

book go long

economist bennett instuture at cambridge

dame xxx founder snoop 2017-18 virgin money women in finace champion

eur seed fund wise resolute incubated

So where does that leave long term investing? While research may show it is ultimately more profitable, is it justifiable when short term returns are so readily available? Leaders from finance, business and academia will discuss in this dynamic roundtable discussion.

  • Dr. Matthew Agarwala, Economist, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge
  • Lord Davies of Abersoch CBE, Non-Executive Chairman, LetterOne
  • vanguard, blackrock? as managing index fund defintion log term- -monitor hundreds of companies
  • Brian Dumaine, Business journalist, contributor to Fortune Magazine, co-author of ‘Go Long - Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy’
  • Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia, Founder and Executive Chair, Snoop previously virgin money 
  • Joana Rocha Scaff, Head of European Private Equity, Neuberger Berman
  • Reshma Sohoni, Co-founder, Seedcamp (write 100k-500 cheques) to big invrstor 100 mn$ check - allies over 10-15 years of financing company firstv 10 years

Moderator:

  • Stephanie Flanders, Senior Executive Editor for Economics, Bloomberg


see also economistbank.com

ESG Environmental Social Governance

currently esg diligence is about not being the worst and not making a leading promise and then making an opposite investment - given investments like building coal-fired electricity generation commit to at least 20 years future - this is now a no-no for any corporation claming environmental leadership- at the same time some poorest countries are constrained by lack of energy so their transition challenge is morally different than richest countries

each of ESG is conflicted between short-term and long-ter,

when it comes to environment condier 5000 biggest corporatiosn pathways to zero carbon - which are leaders in tehir sectors- clearly if your assets are currently all carbon you need respect of a diferent sort than if yoi are free from direct ownership of carbon assets - cop26 glasgow www.ecop26.com may make some of thsi crearer at interesection between gov and corporations - which nations govs are trues in leading green

s- social yhis is more about what is relationship between places where people are in conflict and indystery sectors

goverance involves several question- how transparent a multi-win stakeholder model is actually audited; what time oerions are biggest incentives built round - is the organsiation one with an unique to the world purspoe taht comes before short term gains- who is leader responsible for this long trem continuity= what is teh brand chartering culture and overall purpose -prbaly schwab at world economic forum has led questioning of stakehlder models and how this intearcts with 2020s tech tipping points including huamnistng ai and remediating exchnages - eg blockchain , crypto ... platforms


some acronyms 

what is qqq - see eg bloomberg 10/6/21 invesco 9.55

kew song lee - collab data on esg - calpers/carlyle -ending data silos as well as real time ai? new mindset of esg in investment including diversity of analysts -include metrics employee engagement  1001 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004 -platform pivot fast rreal-estate/nfrstrucrure- hybrid process-tech chnge borg incumbents ad new parforms-- cios now under alocated - question is hw to invest longterm committed 

uk change london market - hill report 9.15 schroders

ariel investment - platforms of lazrads. kkt - sports teams - celbrities - new agenting globally - mdison garden sports nicks rangers

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