Mahdi Abdulrazak

Searching for the right Wonderbox hole. Philosophy, mathematics, science, technology and almost everything else. I think and write. 0x977A43DC

[Mahdi Abdulrazak @mahdiab]

It's better to have no manners and to be ethical than to have manners but to be unethical. (We have too much of the latter in this world.)

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Last month I gave my first lecture (cyber security / secure software development) at the local university of applied sciences. I enjoyed the whole proces as a side activity and look foward to the new class in September.

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@AriDavidPaul Accepting that there is no holy grail, we are for now indeed left with a healthy dose of paranoid about things one can reasonably control.

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@AriDavidPaul Nevertheless,beginning of a positive change,forced by law and increasing security/privacy awareness of all actors, is observable. Journey ahead, eg cryptographic and minimal data sys and zero-knowledge proofs, is long though because of network effect and new business models needs

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@AriDavidPaul Realistic sentiment. In today's network there will, by design, always be a weak link. Very hard to control ones agency in it, let alone impossible task of controlling propagation of yr info through whole network. Mainly because of human nature and functional and technical reasons

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The Limitations of Machine Learning in Finding the Laws of Nature https://t.co/etK0Upk3Hc by @EmanuelDerman

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Simple artificial-intelligence problem puts researchers up against a logical paradox discovered by famed mathematician Kurt Gödel https://t.co/88LOVu5t2F

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@naval Infinite potential in a complex system/network thrives on consistency with its limits. Incorporating limits by design in technology, like in a simple system as Blockchain, is the way forward to get more complex creations like nanotechonolgy networked and materialize.

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@barbarikon @amayor @GuyChamberland Yes, I noticed too that it is a very unlikely use. One another possibility would be NR being initials or some other acronym.

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Perhaps because the explicit "imaginary" forces students into a higher and disconnected abstract realm where it's harder and confusing for them to develop intuition for the relations with other mathematical objects and concept.

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@amayor @barbarikon @GuyChamberland Shenner is a family name. "A Shenner male" makes sense in context of an ownership tag.

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Without pattern recognition this sentence would make no sense.

[Deniz Akyildiz @odakyildiz]

Wrong. Pattern recognition is as central as it gets to intelligence, just not all of it. Machine learning is on the right track. https://t.co/DqmdsuOhqp

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The optimality of a process, be it computing or any other process, is relative to its correspondence with physical laws and emergent natural mechanisms.

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@EmanuelDerman @FT I grew up with mostly having homemade fat/creamy yoghurt with bread as breakfast. Perhaps try making your own, it seems not that difficult.

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It seems to me that figures are concepts too. While all concepts arise from the same plane rooted in the comprehension seeking subject, what sets them apart from others is their precise logical denoting, justification and operations.

[Grant Maxwell @grantmaxwell]

“Figures are projections on the plane, which implies something vertical or transcendent. Concepts, on the other hand, imply only neighborhoods and connections on the horizon.” Deleuze and Guattari

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@julian0liver Heh, I like it :-)

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@julian0liver Everytime I see the Critical Engineering logo I'm reminded of Conformité Européenne. Is there a specific idea behind the choice? Good luck with the courses.

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@johncarlosbaez @davidsuculum @Tom_Ruen @panlepan "Never memorize something that you can look up." - Someone before the internet

[Adrienne Mayor @amayor]

#Mithradates knew 25 languages
for sure Greek Latin Persian Aramaic Parthian Armenian Phrygian Cappadocian Gaulish
maybe Avestan Sanskrit Egyptian Celtic Carian Mysian Isaurian Lydian Lycian Syriac Elamite Sumerian Marsic Thracian Oscan Umbrian Getic Sarmatian
#PoisonKing

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@naval The social branches of an identity are authentically strong and valuable if grown out of deep roots in the self.

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@PeterVeep Yes. It's elementary and intrinsic to human being and functioning.

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IMO classification is useful monkish work. If ones imagination allows one should definitely go for new abstractions and constructs that can help reveal more fundamental elementary connections.