The ability to handle hypotheticals, to expand our mental model space far beyond what we can experience directly, in a word, to perform abstraction and reasoning, is arguably the defining characteristic of human cognition. – Francois Chollet Source : https://hackernoon.com/what-educators-must-learn-from-ibms-betrayal-of-science-10126d988655
My Mom’s Heritage
My mom recently traced her heritage through Ancestry DNA sequencing company. https://www.ancestry.com The results show she is : 47% Western European 13% Scandinavian 11% Irish 9% Italian/Greek 7% from Spain 5% Eastearn European 4% Great Britain 1% Finland 1% European Jewish 1% Africa 1% Asia See attached map for a graphic representation. Europe West Primarily Continue Reading
Quest for Peace
This year, I want to find a clue towards peace. I will look inwards and outside to find any hints towards what peace is. Find what hurts us : https://umairhaque.com/making-peace-68d7c9af0437#.x7ke5fjd2 There will be many articles written and photos taken. Be Held : https://umairhaque.com/to-be-held-d02718e379d9#.51604ds4p
Rear Drive Shaft
My Jeep is a never ending project. It gives me quality ‘man’ time in the garage. Things may not be broken, but there is always a list of items to work on. My Rear Drive Shaft is a custom shaft from Woody’swho was recommended for setting up custom shafts for Jeeps with lifts. The shaft is solid, but Continue Reading
Tree Hair Gallery
I started losing my hair after college. It’s a normal process that many men have gone through. The hair wasn’t a huge part of my life. To some degree it was a task I’m glad I no longer need to deal with. I grew it long for a while and it was difficult to maintain. Continue Reading
Syllogism
deductive – take a bit of knowledge and another bit of knowledge to make a truth. modus ponen – always true contrapositive – always true converse – never true Inverse – never true inductive – take some truth to identify a bit of knowledge abduction – take observations and guesses to for a theory that Continue Reading
Top Things from 2016
2016 was a year. Not all good, not all bad. It just was. Here are 25 of the most memorable: charlie died I got laid off lisa’s skin cancer hanging with terry/keri sarah and paul’s wedding bahn mis and grub burger new couch sort of finished the porch drupalcon new orleans learned how to replace Continue Reading
Kaizen
…Japanese for continuous improvement. “When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement Continue Reading