Due to the general busyness I have recently made these posts about my reading slip. What I want to do at night or lunch is to sit more on my screen, especially in lovely sunny weather like this. Still, it’s time to return with a great memoir recommendation. the Turn left by Illah nourbakhshProfessor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.
This book is not about computers or AI, and is very few. It is the story of immigration from Iran to the US at an early age, and the book begins with how interesting his former nationality – interesting, and it begins with what comes to go in and out of the US (this was written well before Trump). In many ways, the classic immigration story, namely the voyage between two cultures, striving for success and accomplishing. And it’s a beautifully written story. Nourbakhsh wrote: “All the migrants who have lived here for decades spend a lot of time on self-building bubbles with friends and collaghs who barely raise the whole immigrant, but the boundary moment is the exception.
However, the book ends with Carnegie Mellon’s work in Create Lab. His motivation is explained as follows: [in this case about autonomous vehicles] And what I saw as an engineer Achilles heel: a complete lack of reflection on system-level changes and unintended consequences. ” Create a lab It was established for the community to counter this kind of technological optimism. They take on technology projects that have been co-produced with the community, but as he points out, funders tend to want large, shiny technology projects rather than projects of community scale.
One example is a community project to measure illegal emissions of pollutants from factories. Data were collected through sensor systems and analysis, linking plants to local asthma and cardiovascular disease, ultimately leading to their closure. Nourbakhsh wrote: “This is a story of community empowerment, a story of realigning the broken power structure of society. It provides businesses and governments with privilege, expertise and faithability. Such inequality is absolutely unacceptable that university technology labs require years of work and foundation funding.
They cheer loudly. I thoroughly enjoyed reading This book. I love the author’s philosophy of life. It ends with the idea of a “left turn,” an unexpected change in direction in your career or life. Or, it’s essential to “moving at a speed of trust” without breaking things. I certified the book last fall and read it. It is now an emotional reading, with rich and powerful people now balanced in America with their own favor. But it’s even more important to remind people of these reminders in the right direction.
