[Breitbart] Thursday on CNN, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said the reactions on the left to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris agreement on climate change were "alarmist" and "ridiculous."
Paul said, "We should try to constrain pollution. We should try to control pollution. I think we’ve been doing that for 50 or 60 years. And I think we should continue. But your previous guest sounded like, my goodness, the sky is falling, mass extinction. Really? I don’t think we should be alarmists about this. The planet is 4.5 billion years old. We have gone through great extremes of climate change natural and now we may have man-made influence as well."
"But these people, the question I always ask the alarmists is how much is nature and how much is man?" he continued. "They act as if it’s a given that man is the only source of climate change. My goodness, the great climate changes in our history happened before the industrial revolution. So is there climate change could man have an impact? Yes, but let’s not be such alarmists that if we don’t sign the Paris accord that there’s going to be mass extinction? That’s a ridiculous statement."
[DAWN] WHEN violence is justified in the name of religion, it is best countered with the language of religion. Last Saturday, 31 prominent scholars from all Moslem schools of thought issued a unanimous fatwa condemning extremism and terrorism. Declaring the supporters of suicide kaboom as traitors, the religious decree defined jihad as being the purview of the state and disallowed the use of force to compel obedience to Islamic laws. The fatwa came at the conclusion of a national seminar organised by the International Islamic University in Islamabad to discuss the reconstruction of Pak society in the light of the Madina Charter. This document, often described as the oldest written constitution in the world, places emphasis on -- aside from various other issues -- peaceful resolution of disputes between people of different faiths, and the right of non-Moslems to autonomy and freedom of religion.
Granted, the fatwa contains little that is original: the Learned Elders of Islam have issued decrees along similar lines several times. There has been, in particular, a general consensus among them against suicide kaboom -- even if it has not always been unequivocal -- in which they have also been targeted. For instance, in 2009, Mufti Sarfaraz Ahmed Naeemi paid with his life for his robust condemnation of suicide kaboom in precisely such an attack. More recently, the JUI-F’s Maulana Ghafoor Haideri was injured when a jacket wallah struck his convoy, killing 27 people. The stance pertaining to jihad in the recently issued fatwa, however, is comparatively unusual. It harks back to the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , Maulana Maudoodi, not to mention other religious scholars of yore, who held that only a state can declare jihad and no individual or group has the right to wage a private jihad of its own.
The eminently sensible, if obvious, assertions in the decree have been met with disapproval by Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... , who heads his own faction of the JUI. Known as the ’father of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’ because his madressah in Akora Khattak, KP, is the alma mater of several senior Afghan Taliban -- including their late leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... -- the maulana has long been among the most strident supporters of militancy. Expressing concern over the fatwa, he contended that the rulers of the Moslem world were puppets of the West and could not therefore declare jihad against their masters. This is a perverse argument that has never lost currency among the ultra right and has been used to advocate armed struggle against the state. Certainly, resistance against the excesses of undemocratic or dictatorial regimes is morally justifiable, but its objective must be clear and violence should never be used to achieve it. Now, more than ever at this juncture, when various purveyors of violent extremism are creating mayhem in Pakistain and the region, it is important once again for religious leaders to reiterate the principles of peaceful coexistence.
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The Medina Charter referred to in the 1st para was, per Islamic history, issued in 620. It gave equal rights to non Muslims, including the Jewish tribes living near Medina.
By 627, Mohammud had found reasons to war against the Jewish tribes and they were wiped out (men killed, women enslaved).
a great treaty to use as an example
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Lord Gath,
You just described the colonization process of Islam the world over.
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I'm skeptical that the "Martin Luther" reformation moment has come to Islam. Meanwhile, we will be tasked with whack-a-death-eater. The task activity seems to have been upped a few notches under Trump and Mattis.
[MIT] Google CEO Sundar Pichai was obviously excited when he spoke to developers about a blockbuster result from his machine-learning lab earlier this month. Researchers had figured out how to automate some of the work of crafting machine-learning software, something that could make it much easier to deploy the technology in new situations and industries.
But the project had already gained a reputation among AI researchers for another reason: the way it illustrated the vast computing resources needed to compete at the cutting edge of machine learning.
A paper from Google’s researchers says they simultaneously used as many as 800 of the powerful and expensive graphics processors that have been crucial to the recent uptick in the power of machine learning (see "10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013: Deep Learning"). They told MIT Technology Review that the project had tied up hundreds of the chips for two weeks solid--making the technique too resource-intensive to be more than a research project even at Google.
A coder without ready access to a giant collection of GPUs would need deep pockets to replicate the experiment. Renting 800 GPUs from Amazon’s cloud computing service for just a week would cost around $120,000 at the listed prices.
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The electrical engineer and billionaire businessman, Gordon Moore, founder of “Intel Corporation” is the man who first observed in 1965 that the amount of transistors in a printed circuit board would double roughly every two years and predicted that it would carry on like that for at least another ten years or so. 50 years later his prediction is still happening. Therefore, it is called Moore’s Law
Now it doesn’t take much to figure out that this cannot carry on indefinitely. Somewhere along the line there MUST be a stop, a ceiling of some sorts, a saturation point if you will.
For instance, Moore’s prediction has become a target for miniaturization in the semiconductor industry, but components cannot be made smaller and smaller all the time, because somewhere along the line you cannot make it smaller than the atom.
Over the years lots of people have predicted the death of Moore’s Law, yet it is still alive. It carries on, and on, and advances technology to the benefit of the human race. However, every time someone says, this is now definitely the end of Moore’s Law, it is not.
Some sources say we will have tri-gate transistors, perhaps around 2020. After that there will be "gate all around" transistors and nanowires. The mid-2020s could bring monolithic 3D chips, where a single piece of silicon has multiple layers of components that are built up on a single die, but still…every two years we see Moore’s Law in action. …In other words, Moore’s Law, although being 50 years old already, is still alive as you are reading this and there are no signs that it will be letting up anytime soon despite predictions.
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Now it doesn’t take much to figure out that this cannot carry on indefinitely. Somewhere along the line there MUST be a stop, a ceiling of some sorts, a saturation point if you will.
And then at some point there will be another paradigm shift.
The longer term one is new chip architectures based on neural connections similar to those in mammal brains. Such chips have been demonstrated in early prototypes by IBM and others.
The shorter term shift is already in place in 'deep learning' based on nested neural nets.
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We are crossing a big paradigm shift now as the industry shifts from Deep Ultraviolet (DUV) to Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lasers. One of the challenges to Moore's law was the wavelength of the Deep Ultraviolet beam was too fat and double-patterning the waffers was sloppy. EUV solves that.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[MIT] Google CEO Sundar Pichai was obviously excited when he spoke to developers about a blockbuster result from his machine-learning lab earlier this month. Researchers had figured out how to automate some of the work of crafting machine-learning software, something that could make it much easier to deploy the technology in new situations and industries.
The electrical engineer and billionaire businessman, Gordon Moore, founder of “Intel Corporation” is the man who first observed in 1965 that the amount of transistors in a printed circuit board would double roughly every two years and predicted that it would carry on like that for at least another ten years or so. 50 years later his prediction is still happening. Therefore, it is called Moore’s Law
