Majid Iqbal

Industrial engineer and management consultant. @carnegie_mellon alum.
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[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

Check out "Factors and Frames: Analysing the Designs of Things and Framing Arguments"

It's a new course I'll be teaching that will delight you with the nifty new skills you will acquire. New knowledge that came out of several cool projects.
https://t.co/4IkzLCqeit @Eventbrite

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Very unsurprising to see yesterday's school shooting being instantly exploited by an Israeli "special ops veteran" to justify the imposition of "Israel-grade" AI mass surveillance of the internet.

This is how 9/11 was exploited to implement NSA mass surveillance of Americans.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

Availability as experienced by users, is the tip of the ice cube. The way some services fail, the incident is changing even as you're trying to resolve it. The problems are "open, complex, dynamic and networked" (Kees Dorst). Why need #systemsengineering for #servicedesign.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

As a Democrat I'm finding it *extremely* hard to oppose the idea of the United States, Russia and China agreeing to cut their military budgets by half. Imagine just how much of our tax money we will save!

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

Also a best answer.

[YGMaerz @YGMaerz]

They tackle the most common IT problem for traditional businesses: the ontological truth of an entity isn’t the same schema that you implement in your data engineering, and this slows down development.

Think of a bank having a customer table. In the ideal world they would have a single table with 500 columns. Every developer would easily know where to get which data attributes.

However, due to IT constrains, data engineering will break down that table horizontally and vertically. Each project requiring customer data from that moment on will explode into a giant planning project.

Palantir is a bit like a GraphQL on steroids:
It allows you to map your “ideal ontology” (a set of schema files) to your IT backend. From there it will translate your write/reads - so you can focus on working on business requirements; and abstract data engineering and orchestration to another team in IT.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

Best answer!

[l_m @l_meyer_]

@shauseth Imagine Cambridge analytica but with hellfire missiles and reaper drones

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

Those of us who fiercely oppose Trump should also strongly support his move to end the tax break that has long benefited PE and Wall Street firms. Otherwise we lose all credibility!

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

We reject sober things, because they narrow hope. --- Francis Bacon in Novum Organum.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@nothervois programming, prejudice

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@oncloud_e That feeling seems widespread.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@BarrettYouTube Trump dialing Meloni to help craft a false narrative. It's shameful what we've seen in the past few weeks and months. First TikTok which was a total sham, and now Deepseek. As if it's not enough that my government wages wars in the name of national security.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@eigenrobot David Sacks lol

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@elonmusk Deportations on military aircraft may be good theatre but are as expensive as first class seats on commercial flights. Is @DOGE looking into that?

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@RnaudBertrand I thought they believed in "free market" without government interference.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

Deepseek has tapped into something deep in so many. I haven't seen so much widespread excitement and relief in a long time, just when things appeared hopelessly conflicted. I'm glad that AI solutions can now be developed with much lower carbon footprints.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@TruthorConseq12 @Villgecrazylady Dude, where have you been? Trump got reelected and fired all our inspector generals and wants to deploy the Army inside the country. Elon Musk is now Dick Cheney and is asking Trump to invade Greenland!

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@MOTP42 @caitoz Yeah man, and in our country money is constitutionally protected speech and therefore corporations spend billions to buy our government. So cool.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@Trojan_jo @clownworld She'll sue the court of course.

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

@JohannaKukka 😂😂😂😂

[Majid Iqbal @mxiqbal]

Every state should be a swing state. Then we'll have the 'greatest democracy'.

#Election2024