GORBACHEV DEAD…Helped end Cold War…Last leader of USSR… 50,000 flood affectees arrive in Karachi; housed in relief camps…Maryam Nawaz called out for ‘attempting to channel’ Angelina Jolie… Iran sends drones to Moscow…VIDEO: Navy Blocks Iran Attempt to Steal U.S. Drone… Khan collects over Rs5bn for flood victims…Willing to ‘take back’ controversial remarks against judge… TRUMPContinue reading “AUG 2022 News, Views of Interest That You Might Have Missed…”
Monthly Archives: August 2022
One Man’s Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense
Artificial intelligence systems can process vast amounts of data in seconds, but they can’t make sense of the world or explain their decisions. David Ferrucci wants to change that. Steve Lohr in the New York Times: David Ferrucci, who led the team that built IBM’s famed Watson computer, was elated when it beat the best-everContinue reading “One Man’s Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense”
WATCH Some ‘Floating’ Ideas: A Hospital in Pakistan, A City in the Pacific, Iqbal Solar Park, Water From Ocean, Etc.
Curated by Irshad Salim (2020~) Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas, Arif Mirza, Aziz Ahmed, Bawar Tawfik, Dr. Razzak Ladha, G. R. Baloch, Jamil Usman, Jawed Ahmed, Ishaq Saqi, Khalid Sharif, Masroor Ali, Md. Ahmed, Md. Najibullah, Shahbaz Ali, Shahid Nayeem, Syed Hamza Gilani
UPDATE on Pakistan Floods 2022: Apathy vs. Sensibility, Proactiveness (Videos)
AUG. 31, 2022: Sindh PPP leader Manzoor Wassan hand signals some of the flood effected and stranded one’s to stay away from the boat he’s on. “It indicates the haplessness (helplessness) of Sindh’s ruling elite,” an observer tells DesPardes as he shared the clip: On Tuesday, the PPP leader faced strong backlash on social mediaContinue reading “UPDATE on Pakistan Floods 2022: Apathy vs. Sensibility, Proactiveness (Videos)”
COMMENT: ‘International Relations Theory Suggests Great-Power War Is Coming’
According to IR textbooks, the United States, Russia, and China are on a collision course, writes Matthew Kroenig in the Foreign Policy. He’s deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. “A preventative war initiated by a primate fearful of losing its primacy is very probable,” an Asia Pacific-based defense, securityContinue reading “COMMENT: ‘International Relations Theory Suggests Great-Power War Is Coming’”
Pakistani Politicians Ride the Merry-Go-Round
by Abdul Moiz Jaferii in the Dawn: When the British created the penal code and the criminal laws and procedures through which they controlled the Indian subcontinent, they did so with the preservation of the colonial order in mind. After all, there were a few thousand of them lording over hundreds of millions of us.Continue reading “Pakistani Politicians Ride the Merry-Go-Round”
WATCH: Traffic in San Francisco. Traffic in Karachi. (Video)
USA started maturing in the 18th century. Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, etc. in So.. Asia are working their way up after getting independence in the 20th century (2 centuries later). The differential is not bad. “So, there is hope that one day we may also become (like) San Francisco,” a Tropic of Cancer region observer says.Continue reading “WATCH: Traffic in San Francisco. Traffic in Karachi. (Video)”
Floods in Pakistan: Rare View, Rear Window (Video)
Nowshera remains safe during the floods except few property damages and no casualties — only because of this lady Ms. Qurat ul Ain Wazir and her team. She is the Additional Deputy Commissioner Nowshera in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The lady did whatsoever was possible in her power (including walking tall!) to evacuate the residents ofContinue reading “Floods in Pakistan: Rare View, Rear Window (Video)”
How Arab Filmmakers Investigate the Desert and the Peninsula
Film curator, writer and academic Roisin Tapponi looks at how contemporary Arabic filmmakers use thirst to inspire their practices: Thirst is political; Thirst in economic; Thirst is cultural tradition, Thirst is social. Roisin Tapponi at The Frieze: In the gulf, thirst is a paradigm: it is impossible to think about the desert without thinking aboutContinue reading “How Arab Filmmakers Investigate the Desert and the Peninsula”