Key Events of 2022

• Russia-Ukraine War
• Covid-19 Pandemic and Vaccines
• Turmoil in British Politics
• Turmoil in Pakistan Politics
• Iranian Protests
• Global Inflationary Movements
• Energy Prices
• Climate Change Movements Intensify
• US-China Tensions
• Football World Cup
• Overturn of Abortion Rights in USA
• Queen Elizabeth II dies
• Prince Charles becomes King
• Kurdish Protests in France
• Elon Musk takes over Twitter
• UK Gets a First Indian PM
• Record breaking Heatwaves
• Droughts around the World
• Floods in Pakistan
• Cop27

Hypocrisy of Climate Change Activists

Climate change activists alert the world of the effects of having a high carbon footprint. However, one only needs to look at these activists and realize how hypocritical they really are in their own lives. Take for example Greta Thunberg. She talks about climate change and yet uses a plane, lives in a house, consumes electricity, produces waste, celebrates xmas, lights up a tree, receives gifts that use wrapping paper, while complaining on the world stage as how everyone has ruined her childhood. And, all her supporting crew had to be just as hypocritical in building their own carbon footprint just to enable her to travel via a zero-emissions sailboat and jet set around the world, provide for freeze dried meals that use plastic wrapping, the use of train, and the amount of water needed to grow cotton for t-shirts. Most climate change activists can't live without electronics and internet. She even seems to have a social media presence. One generally has to use the internet to be active on social media. According to estimates, all the gadgets, the internet, and systems we use today equate to 3.7% of the global greenhouse emissions. And, when one looks at it in realistic terms, her complete carbon footprint is greater than an average individual on the planet. And, in the time that she has taken center stage, has she provided any quantifiable and qualitative evidence with a set of constructive solutions? During conferences and summits one can see her ranting to the audience but passing on technical questions for other people to answer. Is this an indication of her being totally out of touch with reality? People that posture and rant to others while not practicing what they preach makes them rather hypocritical as they appear to have lived in a very protected environment of self-entitlement and don't seem to understand the complex social constructs and the global dynamics of the world.

How To Identify A Racist Company

• They will reject your CV even if you are appropriate for the job
• They will keep talking about skills shortage even though they keep rejecting good candidate CVs for the job
• They seem to want to give you an interview invite if the name is not disclosed but not when the name is disclosed
• They don't want to shake your hand after an interview
• They isolate you from communications so it prevents you from doing your job
• They block your bonus or pay increments
• You have to work harder than everyone else to prove your worth
• They incessantly talk about your background like you don't belong
• They try to talk to you like you have entered civilization for the first time
• They avoid going to lunch with you
• They look at you differently
• You get stared at work
• When you raise issues of racism with the company HR they deflect the topic or brush it aside
• They block you from contributing to any technical project work
• They try to put you on the spot as a scapegoat for all their politics
• They will try to blame you for all their wrongs and mistakes
• You will likely be the first person they will consider to make redundant
• They will racially profile you in the workplace
• They will talk to you like you don't understand their language
• They will talk to you like you are beneath them
• They will even talk about how they feel about 'your kind' in the workplace and you may have to put up with it as the HR don't want to do anything about it
• They will try to harass and bully you in the workplace so you end up leaving the organization
• They may expect you to put up with their verbal abuse and hostile intimidations
• They may even overly criticise you for your lack of abilities
• You might have to put up with microaggressions
• You might have to put up with your complaints being dismissed
• You might see it in the hiring and interview process
• You might see it in the lack of diversity in both the management as well as in the general workplace
• You might hear the term 'cultural fit' being used a lot by people that are mostly similar to each other
• Your ideas for change and opinions will get dismissed without much thought
• They may even try to take credit for your work
• They will avoid having a desk next to you
• They will constantly complain about you behind your back and keep tabs of your work
• You will be expected to work harder for the same level of work and put in more hours
• They will treat you like someone that doesn't have a voice in the organization
• They will avoid giving you access to things to be able to do your job
• They will overlook you from attending organizational events
• They will not be willing to pay you the same level of compensation but expect to pay you less
• They will put you in the hiring process for diversity but will not consider you for the interview or have any intention of hiring you
• They will go out of their way to keep tabs of your whereabouts and have a heightened sense of distrust for you than is normal - what time you go to lunch, what time you leave office, how much time you spend at the desk, how long you spend time in the restroom, what you are doing on the computer, what time you get into work, checks and balances for everything that you produce
• They will scrutinize your background alot more than is typical for their candidates in an interview process and likely will give you more tests to do
• They will likely consider you an outsider and not part of the team
• During the breakout periods in an organizational induction you will typically see the first signs of racist employees where they openly talk about how they hate a particular group of people, religion, etc
• Their organizational culture, marketing, and advertising campaigns are not considerate towards the protected characteristics
• The managers, co-workers, and colleagues are generally rude, unapproachable, and hostile towards you
• Many times the security will block you from entering the building and likely also do more random searches on you
• The receptionists will generally have a rude and hostile demeanor with which they greet you and how they interact with you 
• They will excessively question and scrutinize your right to work in the country even though you might have been born there, are a citizen of that country, or have already shown proof of id
• The contract will at times display signs of it in the wording and particular sections
• They make bigoted and inappropriate jokes and comments about race, color, nationality, ethnicity and other cultures
• They show favorable preference for people of a specific nationality, race, color, ethnicity, or culture
• They refuse to do business with companies that are run by minorities 
• They play down acts like slavery, human rights, affirmative action, and equality
• They use offensive terms to describe people of certain race, color, nationality, ethnicity, or culture 

Statistics is Pointless in AI

One can blame all of complexity in AI to statistics. The main reason why AI is going no where is because of statistics. Machines have no understanding of what they are learning in a statistical model. There is no formal method of testing statistical models that work in a blackbox. So, why bother working through something that can't be fixed? To explain the model, one will have to build an explainability model - uncertainty to explain the uncertainty. One is going from complexity to another form of complexity. As the old adage goes - 'keep things simple, stupid'. Even the machine needs an interpretation device to work out the statistical model which may be provided in form of a codified language. When one codifies a model they are right back to using logics and an instruction set that a machine can then understand and process. So, why not reduce the process to logical set of representations and let the machine figure out the rest of the statistical invariance through axiomatizations? After all, even when one builds a statistical model, it will eventually reduce to logic anyway. 

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Resting Bitch Face

An interesting area to tackle with deep learning for computer vision is in psychology to discover human state of emotions. One such area is RBF - Resting Bitch Face. This facial expression is often characterised with commonality between males and females where they appear unintentionally to display feelings of anger, despair, grumpiness, annoyance, or irritability. However, the state of the individual is likely confused for relaxation or resting. There are often more underlining psychological aspects at play here both from the on looker standpoint as well as from the one projecting such a state of emotion. The phenomenon seems to be fairly a common condition. It often also gets used in fashion and lifestyle photography. Such applications can use methods of stable diffusion either to enhance the condition or further to distort such an appearance. Furthermore, one could develop an emotion model for psychology to study the various facial expressions to understand the mental state of an individual.

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