Syria: Assad Is The Culprit, Putin The Enabler

Extremely tragic: Syria is a live example of how the internal differences, inept leadership and external invasions can destroy a country in no time.

Posted by Jay Nishaant on Thursday, February 4, 2016

These images are heart breaking. Assad is the culprit. Putin has been the enabler. And now looks like Putin might fall before Assad does. Not pulling a Libya in Syria might have been Obama's gift to the people of Russia. As in, you can't fight Putin inside Russia. But you can fight him in Syria. A democratically elected leader would never have bombed his own people like this. This is insane. This is criminal.

India's 21st Century

English: Ginni Rometty of IBM in 2011 during "One on One: Ginni Rometty" at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Laguna Niguel, CA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

21st century will be India's, says IBM chairman Rometty

IBM has its biggest employee base in India, estimated to be well over 1,00,000: at least a fourth of its global workforce. ........ Rometty , on a visit for the second time in six months, said India would be at the centre of the fourth technology shift that she refers to as the cognitive era. India will not be at the centre; it will be the centre of this fourth technology shift. Remember we started with cloud, big data, and mobility, and now we have cognitive. It's going to be the most disruptive and the most transformative one," she said. IBM has invested significantly in the cognitive space, most prominently in its Watson technology . ......... dialogue framing, knowledge validation, voice synthesis, language modelling and visual analysis. .....

Rometty believes that cognitive provides "the best chance to solve a lot of humanities big problems."

21st century will be India's: Virginia Rometty, IBM

During a visit to Bengaluru, Rometty also spoke about the potential of IBM's critical cognitive computing system, Watson, and how it had the potential to completely disrupt and transform industries. ..... This century, the 21st century, will be the Indian century - and I really believe that ..... India would "be the centre of the cognitive shift". ..... the evolving technology landscape globally that is increasingly being shaped by artificially intelligent systems such as Watson. ..... "Today Watson has been broken up into a platform of 32 different capabilities, with 50 technologies under it that you can access." ..... "We are today mostly a software and services company. But we have to transform - in this transformation, we will emerge as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. And I say that because everything we do is part of that strategy," said Rometty. .... "an ability to help Watson see".

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Creativity

the most creative children are the least likely to become the teacher’s pet, and in response, many learn to keep their original ideas to themselves. In the language of the critic William Deresiewicz, they become the excellent sheep........ Most prodigies never make that leap. They apply their extraordinary abilities by shining in their jobs without making waves. They become doctors who heal their patients without fighting to fix the broken medical system or lawyers who defend clients on unfair charges but do not try to transform the laws themselves. ......

The parents of ordinary children had an average of six rules, like specific schedules for homework and bedtime. Parents of highly creative children had an average of fewer than one rule.

...... Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it’s easy to thwart. ...... the early roots of world-class musicians, artists, athletes and scientists, he learned that their parents didn’t dream of raising superstar kids. They weren’t drill sergeants or slave drivers. ...... Top concert pianists didn’t have elite teachers from the time they could walk; their first lessons came from instructors who happened to live nearby and made learning fun. Mozart showed interest in music before taking lessons, not the other way around. Mary Lou Williams learned to play the piano on her own; Itzhak Perlman began teaching himself the violin after being rejected from music school. ........ Even the best athletes didn’t start out any better than their peers. ...... A majority of the tennis stars remembered one thing about their first coaches: They made tennis enjoyable. ..... Expert bridge players struggled more than novices to adapt when the rules were changed; expert accountants were worse than novices at applying a new tax law. ...... In fashion, the most original collections come from directors who spend the most time working abroad. In science, winning a Nobel Prize is less about being a single-minded genius and more about being interested in many things. Relative to typical scientists, Nobel Prize winners are 22 times more likely to perform as actors, dancers or magicians; 12 times more likely to write poetry, plays or novels; seven times more likely to dabble in arts and crafts; and twice as likely to play an instrument or compose music. ........ “The theory of relativity occurred to me by intuition, and music is the driving force behind this intuition,” Albert Einstein reflected. ..... If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.