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True, but there is a fine line between friendly advice and #Information #Warfare. My friends advise me privately and politely, not criticise me on social media, or give me advice on TV interviews! Those who did the latter are no longer my friends 🤡.
#PIP says: “We 😍🥰😘🐕🐩🦮”
3/pip #PIP: “The concept of “Friendship” in IR has been the bane of Indian foreign policy; Indians get emotionally committed to it, while great powers use it as an instrument of moral/intellectual coercion!” Asymmetric tests of “logical consistency” are another tool of coercion
Limitations of an Optimized Mindset
A thread 🧵on the problem of optimization!
A thread 🧵on the problem of optimization!
1/ Finding an optimal solution through an efficient algorithm is how a trained technologist looks at any computational problem.
But as soon as this mindset is extended to real-world problems, the majority of inefficiencies become annoying.
#solutions #efficiency #productivity
But as soon as this mindset is extended to real-world problems, the majority of inefficiencies become annoying.
#solutions #efficiency #productivity
2/ In fact, the real problem starts when everything in life becomes an optimization problem.
So much so that eventually, it becomes a defining orientation to life as well.
#problem #life #problemsolving
So much so that eventually, it becomes a defining orientation to life as well.
#problem #life #problemsolving
Normatively Atheist: in this article I hope to describe (and provide links to) what is meant by normative, and how this can apply to our reasoning to what is considered the #normative or most #logical #definition of #atheist answers-in-reason.com/philosophy/nor…
I've said language is descriptive and people are free to identify how they like a number of times, but when discussing definitions I speak of the normative (answers-in-reason.com/philosophy/epi…) or most logical.
This can be met with some hostility, with people often telling me I am the one being illogical or that I don't understand what normative means, with some rejecting how normative is used in philosophy with a preference to a colloquial use.
So let's unpack this.
We hear a lot about "#dashboards"; we were even promised sight of one, back in March* - though we've not seen it yet.
But what are they, in reality?
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*healthtech.blog.gov.uk/2020/03/28/the…
We hear a lot about "#dashboards"; we were even promised sight of one, back in March* - though we've not seen it yet.
But what are they, in reality?
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*healthtech.blog.gov.uk/2020/03/28/the…
Well, for starters, we know quite a bit about @NHSEngland's 'dashboard(s)': back in March, @MattHancock gave it powers to DEMAND confidential patient information from care providers*, for (broadly defined) "#COVID19 purposes"...
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Under the #COPInotices:
gov.uk/government/pub…
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Under the #COPInotices:
gov.uk/government/pub…
...and we know @NHSEngland's hoovering up *at least* 70 different datasets into its #DataStore (the list at data.england.nhs.uk/covid-19/ is no longer comprehensive due to the controversial contents of some of the datasets).
As its "#PrivacyNotice" points out,
england.nhs.uk/contact-us/pri…
As its "#PrivacyNotice" points out,
england.nhs.uk/contact-us/pri…
These are the #stories of #math that we celebrate, amplify and make central to the idea of #maths as a #objective #neutral #culture-free subject. #Math can do no #harm, and the #logical “pure math” thinking of #Mathematicians is worthy of emulation. But... 1/x
2/x ... "What about pure mathematics and mathematicians who merely prove theorems? Is there any #ethical component comparable to what you find in other fields of #science?" - R. Hersh in Experiencing #Mathematics
3/x One point of view: "there's no need for #mathematicians to have a code of #ethics, because what we do matters so little that we can do whatever we like."
🔴⏬ Here I start a thread about some Oracle Database concepts. We will see how far it goes - all questions/comments welcome.
🔴⏬ A database (or DBMS - database management system) stores (for short and long term) and manipulates (from many concurrent users/devices) your #data.
Been holding off on posting this #Thread regarding the #LocalElection2019 going on in England and Northern Ireland, but the results are fascinating to me here in Scotland for sure. There is a clear #RemainBacklash going on and this is HUGE, shall go into more detail on why.
Clearly, the #LocalElections2019 is one of the biggest elections in history for the Lib Dems and the biggest night for the Green Party, there is been a massive shift towards these two parties over the usual Tories and Labour, but why is that? Clearly, #Brexit is a big part of why
How the Tories and Labour have handled #Brexit is nothing short of embarrassing, both these parties have refused to support a #PeoplesVote and give us a second say on leaving the EU. Yet Lib Dems and Green Party have been consistent since the get-go as remain parties.
Thread: The slippery slope of undercover atheists
I begin with the Name of Allaah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
“Were they created by nothing? Or were they the creators (of themselves)?” Qur’an 52:35
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @BrightonSurvivorsNET “In the light of a highly disturbing increase of #transphobia locally & nationally…” IF everything anybody says or does is #transphobia, of course you can say it is rising. Any reputable statistics?
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK “…so the date @Womans_Place_UK event feels like a concerted effort to make #trans ppl, & particularly #transwomen, feel #intimidated and #invalidated” Is it the position of SN that the sensitivities of #transwomen mean that #democracy should be suspended any time they say so?
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @Womans_Place_UK #Transwomen do face special challenges but they remain #bio #logical #males but it is fine for them #Gender express as ‘women’ but with the best will in the world, they remain #bio #logically #male @WomenEqualities @Commonswomequ @PennyMordaunt @MariaMillerUK @LesleySemmens
