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_drafts/inbetween-posts/2015-10-09-karma-and-merit-they-deserve-it.md

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-title: "Karma and merit: They deserve it"
-date: "2015-10-09"
-categories: 
-  - "politics-and-opinions"
-tags: 
-  - "guilt"
-  - "karma"
+title: "Karma and merit"
+subtitle: "They deserve it"
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+permalink: /karma-and-merit/
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-Do you suffer from a heavy conscience? Are there burdens of the modern world that weigh you down? Do you feel as though the suffering of others anchors you to the ground, shackling your freedom? Do you feel guilty when you could help someone, but choose not to?
+I think that both Karma and a Meritism common view both have a sort of moral elitism, where the unfortunate deserve the little they have and the fortunate are deserving.
+I dislike both.
 
-Do we have the solution for you!!!
+I define _Meritism_ as the belief that if you are bright, honest and work hard then you will live a successful and happy life.
 
-Aaron, a 26 year old homeless person in New York. Who spent the majority of available money on cigarettes. He was severely malnourished and generally close to starving. He froze to death in his home, under the Manhattan bridge.
+And I define _Karma_ as the view that people deserve what they get because of their past actions.
 
-Karma. (_he was a selfish English Lord in his previous life_)
+***
 
-Anu, a 14 year old girl in India, who was caught robbing a house by the owners who then sold her into bonded labor and has now been a sex slave for the past 3 years.
+Imagine;
 
-Karma. (_she stole_)
+__Aaron__, a 26 year old homeless person in New York. Who spent the majority of available money on cigarettes. He was severely malnourished and generally close to starving. He froze to death in his home, under the Manhattan bridge.
 
-Amir, an extremist who recently graduated Tehran university. He who was caught attempting to blow up a local bus. He is sentenced to death and hung.
+- Karma. (_he was a selfish English Lord in his previous life_)
+- Meritism. (_he was lazy and should have worked harder_)
 
-Karma. (_he was an extremist in this life_)
+__Anu__, a 14 year old girl in India, was caught robbing a house by the owners. The owners her into bonded labor and has now been a sex slave for the past 3 years.
 
-They deserve what they get because they are being punished for their wrong doings in this life and/or their past lives.
+- Karma. (_she stole_)
+- Meritism. (_
 
-But wait a minute;
+__Amir__, an 33 year old extremist who recently graduated Tehran university. He who was caught attempting to blow up a local bus. He is sentenced to death and hung.
 
-Amir is in that position because of the levels of destitution and violence around him. He wanted to make a difference and change the status quo, so he turned to the only group still around that was trying to change things... (extremist cell) - (_this is a theory of mine and possibly others - that the poor conditions and lack of hope has pushed many people toward extremist views_). And why was he in such a poor and violent state? Because his country had more oil then it knew what to do with, which many militia groups sought to control, thus there was constant civil war, with no stable government  - thus letting infrastructure decay. This suited America and it's petrochemical companies as they preferred favourable trade agreements over worrying about local conditions.
+- Karma. (_he was an extremist in this life_)
+- Meritism. (_he was an extremist in this life_)
 
-Anu is one of millions of orphans in India. There is no one coming to help her, she is a dalit. As she has not been graced with beauty it is unlikely anyone will notice her plight. She has to steal from local markets and scavenge rubbish to stave off starvation. She has lived like this for 3 years since her parents abandoned her. Her parents, like many others, realise that they cannot afford to take care of their daughter (in favour of their sons) so they abandon (or sell) them. She decided to steal money, possessions and whatever else she could find so that she could support herself and possibly even go to school.
+They deserve what they get because they are being punished for their wrong doings in this life and/or their past lives.
 
-Aaron is just a product of a poor house hold environment and lack of education. When Arron was in his mothers womb she drank heavily, smoked and did some hard drugs, while also suffering from acute malnutrition. (_If there are not enough resources/nutrients during growth in the placenta the fetus will cut corners starting with mental faculties._) This meant that Aaron had an IQ of 94. His father was lazy and always bought takeaways, (McDonalds and KFC were his favorites) ensuring that Aaron was overweight for much of his childhood, this led to bullying during school and psychological disorders to haunt him. Now who would want to hire a stupid mentally unstable person? Arron didn't have any family or friends who cared or wanted to help.
+But wait a minute;
 
-How can we blame these people for who they are, when the problem is clearly their environment. I imagine that I would have turned out almost exactly the same if I had similar experiences to these examples, but instead I was raised in a middle class household in a developed country with loving and responsible parents. No expense was spared for my eduction ... etc
+__Aaron__ was a product of his environment. When Arron was in his mothers womb she drank heavily and smoked crack, while also suffering from acute malnutrition. (_If there are not enough resources/nutrients during growth in the placenta the fetus will cut corners starting with mental faculties._) This meant that Aaron had an IQ of 94. His father was lazy and always bought takeaways, (McDonalds and KFC were his favorites) ensuring that Aaron was overweight for much of his childhood, this led to bullying during school and psychological disorders to haunt him. Now who would want to hire a stupid mentally unstable person? Arron didn't have any family or friends who cared or wanted to help.
 
-I think that both Karma (which tells us that these people deserve what they get because of their past actions) and a common view, which is a mix of merit based views and the ignorance of luck, which tells us that;
+__Anu__ is one of millions of orphans in India. There is no one coming to help her, she is a dalit. As she has not been graced with beauty it is unlikely anyone will notice her plight. She has to steal from local markets and scavenge rubbish, else she will starve. She has lived like this for 3 years since her parents abandoned her. Her parents, like many others, realise that they cannot afford to take care of their daughter (in favour of their sons) so they abandon (or sell) them. She decided to steal money, possessions and whatever else she could find so that she could support herself and possibly even go to school.
 
-- people are successful because they are smart and work hard
-- people who are not capable are not deserving, and that the incapable should just work harder.
+__Amir__ turned to violence as it seemed the only option. His life, and that of his family and friends, was not safe or happy. He wanted to make a difference and change the status quo, so he turned to the only group still around that was trying to change things... an extremist cell. And why was he in such a poor and violent state? His country has oil! Oil which many militia groups sought to control, leading to constant civil war, with no stable government. Thus, no reliable public infrastructure; education, healthcare, ... and no reliable police force. The extrenist cell promised to change all this, and Amir believed them.
 
-Both have some sort of moral elitism, where unfortunate people seem to deserve the little they get and the fortunate tell themselves they are better.
+How can we blame these people for who they are, when the problem is clearly their environment. I imagine that I would have turned out almost exactly the same if I had similar experiences to these examples, but instead I was raised in a middle class household in a developed country with loving and responsible parents. No expense was spared for my eduction ... etc
 
-I dislike both.

_drafts/inbetween-posts/2022-10-20-iffs.md

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 ### The Arms Trade and Conflict Financing {#arms-trade-and-conflict-financing}
 
-The flow of illicit funds often fuels conflicts around the world. Investigations into arms dealers like Viktor Bout, nicknamed the "Merchant of Death," revealed complex networks used to circumvent sanctions and supply weapons to war zones, highlighting the human cost of IFFs. (References: UN Security Council, The New York Times)
+Money laundering often fuels conflicts around the world. Investigations into arms dealers like Viktor Bout, nicknamed the "Merchant of Death," revealed complex networks used to circumvent sanctions and supply weapons to war zones, highlighting the human cost of IFFs. (References: UN Security Council, The New York Times)
 
 And there are many more...
 

_drafts/technical-posts/2018-11-24-exploration-energy.md → _drafts/technical-posts/2018-11-24-exploration-complexity.md

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-title: The complexity of exploration
+title: Exploration and experiments
+subtitle: Viewed as a computational resource
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 This setting is inspired by the problems faced in science, especially economics and medicine. There are some experiments that are not feasible, or legal, or would take extraordinary amounts of organisation and energy. For example, a randomised controlled trial of the unconditional benefit would require: many countries to spend $$$ on an unconditional benefit, which they may be unwilling to do (and obviously there is no way of running is as a blinded experiment).
 
-At some point we will want to automate the application of statistics to economics and healthcare. Unsupervised (machine) learning is to pattern recognitio, as supervised (machine) learning is to predictive intelligence, as reinforcement (machine) learning is to actionable intelligence. We will want this automated statistics to be able to find algorithms that explore and do experiments! But... This has two problems. Safety, which is considered here. Want to build AI with a bias to simple cheap experiments.
+At some point we will want to automate the application of statistics to economics and healthcare. Unsupervised (machine) learning is to pattern recognition, as supervised (machine) learning is to predictive intelligence, as reinforcement (machine) learning is to actionable intelligence. We will want this automated statistics to be able to find algorithms that explore and do experiments! But... This has two problems. Safety, which is considered here. Want to build AI with a bias to simple cheap experiments.
+
+<!-- 
+exploration complexity. 
+a computational resource!
+find a simple anaylsable model of exploration
+ -->
 
 ## Examples
 

_drafts/technical-posts/2022-10-12-molecule-generation.md

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-title: Molecule generation
-subtitle: Generating small molecules
+title: Structure elucidation
+subtitle: COnstrained generation of small molecules
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 Small molecules can be represented as graphs, where the nodes are atoms and the edges are bonds.
 Thus we needed to support colored nodes with degree constraints and colored edges.
 
-![](assets/graph_enum/c-2-h-2-O-1.png)
-*For example, if we start with 2 carbons, 2 hydrogrens and an oxygen. We can ask to generate all possible unique molecules.*
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/graph_enum/c-2-h-2-O-1.png" alt="drawing" width="200"/>
+<figcaption>For example, if we start with 2 carbons, 2 hydrogrens and an oxygen. We can ask to generate all possible unique molecules.</figcaption>
 
-![](assets/graph_enum/ch-2-ch2-2-O-2.png)
-*I also added support for 
+<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/graph_enum/ch-2-ch2-2-O-2.png" alt="drawing" width="200"/>
+<figcaption>I also added support ....</figcaption>

_drafts/technical-posts/2022-10-13-autoint.md

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+---
+title: "AutoInt: Automatic integration"
+subtitle: "Where is it?"
+---
+
+I work in machine learning, and everyday I see the awesome utility of automatic differentiation.
+However, as far as I know, there is no analog for automatic integration.
+Why not?
+
+The key to automatic differentiation is the chain rule.
+It allows us to compute the derivative of a function by breaking it down into a sequence of elementary operations.
+Calculating their derivatives independently, we can then combine them to get the derivative of the original function.
+